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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Sex, privacy and media ethics
Sex sells. And sex really sells in the media business. With their profitability in free-fall, newspaper businesses especially are always on the look out for a salacious front page story to help them grab some precious market share. Unfaithful soccer stars …
OS Homo Sapiens 2.0: New human software coming soon?
The core vision of the United Nations Our World 2.0 research community is simple and brimming with hope. If we are to successfully overcome the potentially catastrophic consequences posed by the simultaneous threats of climate, oil, food and biodiversity crises, …
How to Start a Workplace Garden
Although you may have never heard of it, workplace gardening has become increasingly popular over the past decade or so. Establishing a garden that employers and employees collectively tend to can promote new relationships and strengthen teamwork within a company. …
Tim Horton’s Drive-Thru Coffee Brought to You by Coca-Cola©
Last year I found myself sitting in a Tim Horton’s drive-thru in Gravenhurst Ontario; a town of about 11,000 people located 100 miles north of Toronto, Canada.Not one who is privy to these sorts of experiences, I was somewhat in …
Smart and just grids: Options for sub-Saharan Africa
In 2009, an estimated 585 million people had no access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Energy Outlook 2010 by the International Energy Agency. Unlike many other regions of the world, under current assumptions, that figure is expected …
New U.K. Report Gives Cautious Green Light to Shale Gas Development
The rapid development of shale gas in the U.S. has inspired a good deal of speculation about whether, when and how the so-called shale gas revolution will go global. In a report released earlier this week, the UK House of Commons …
NJ Governor Christie Takes All Sides on Climate Change
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tried to take all sides of the climate change debate yesterday by acknowledging that climate change is real, agreeing that human activity contributes to it, and then withdrawing New Jersey from the Regional Greenhouse Gas …
Back to Basics: Wicked Problems (Property 5)
Almost half way through the list of 10 properties of wicked problems. The next is 5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a “one-shot operation”; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial-and-error, every attempt counts significantly. This gets …
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