Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wolf Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason<\/p>\n
It’s easy to get stuck in the way we approach problems and problem solving.\u00a0 That famous box we all want to think outside of only illustrates the consensus that most of would not know the box we were in if we saw it.\u00a0 The web offers several different ways to jar our thinking out of its rut and onto new superhighways.<\/p>\n
In this post I want to point you toward five websites that I’ve come across in the last year that have jarred me out of old patterns and presented new, surprising paradigms.<\/p>\n
Grain<\/a><\/p>\n The new concept for me:\u00a0 agro-imperialism.<\/p>\n GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.<\/p>\n VerticalFarm<\/a><\/p>\n New concept:\u00a0 just as it seems, vertical farms for urban areas and other sites.<\/p>\n Bio-Physical Economics<\/a><\/p>\n New concept for me: \u00a0\u00a0 ” the vision of the Earth as a thermodynamically closed and nonmaterially growing system, with the human economy as a subsystem of the global ecosystem. This implies that there are limits to biophysical throughput of resources from the ecosystem, through the economic subsystem, and back to the ecosystem as wastes. ”<\/p>\n Mega-Regions<\/a><\/p>\n Not as new idea for me, but expressed in an up-to-date form, mega-regions notes that various areas of the US are joined by geography and economics into areas larger than states.\u00a0 This has implications for many of the important policy matters facing us today.<\/p>\n TED<\/a><\/p>\n Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Their tag-line says it.\u00a0 These are video clips, none more than 15 minutes long by break through thinkers in multiple fields.\u00a0 They come together at TED conferences and give these speeches, limited to 15 minutes to 6,000 or so fellow innovators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wolf Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason It’s easy to get stuck in the way we approach problems and problem solving.\u00a0 That famous box we all want to think outside of only illustrates the consensus that most of would not know the box we were in if we saw it.\u00a0 The web offers several different ways to … Continue reading The Thinker. The Box.<\/span>