In June 2012 Google breathed new life into its Google+ social initiative by rolling its Google Places business listings into Google+ to create Google+ Local Pages. If you aren’t familiar with Google Places listings, they were the local business listings …

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The biggest problem in the world today — at the root of so much suffering, ecological devastation, terrorism and global insecurity — is the absolute appalling distribution of wealth and resources across the Planet. As you can observe for yourself …

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The ability to use social media to engage people, build a following and express your personality is becoming an essential digital skill for everyone. It is not only important as a skill for helping businesses and organizations spread their message …

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This hard-hitting documentary questions conventional wisdom that a college education is the key to the prosperity and the American dream. It was made in 2010 by the NIA (National Inflation Association), an organization of precious metal advocates (i.e. gold and …

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Another gem on creativity and reform of the educational industrial complex by Sir Ken Robinson:

“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this …

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The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. – Herbert Spencer

Knowledge without action breeds dullness, comformity and pestilence in our minds. Action, practical application and execution is everything.…

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Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. – Theodore Levitt

Everyone is born creative. But the innovative skill we need to cultivate is not simply coming up with great ideas but applying them to make the …

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Schooling The World is a thought-provoking documentary about how Western-style education is creating a human monoculture across the world. It is systemically destroying cultural diversity and alienating people from their natural environment, history and ultimately, from themselves. What it’s replacing …

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It’s absolutely awe-inspiring what computers and the Internet have done for our lives. Technology can be a double-edged sword — used for great distraction or interested learning — regardless it is transforming the way we live, work and learn anyway.…

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Let’s redesign and reinvent the world we live in based on natural laws and the interconnectedness of all life.

“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: revolution by design and invention.” – Buckminister …

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