An interesting initiative to move things forward
Open State
▻http://www.openstate.cc
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http://www.openstate.cc/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/opener.jpg Global warming, loss of species. Poverty and boat people. Oppression and surveillance. Isolation and burnout.
We sign petitions, eat organic, recycle and retreat – and yet the overall negative trends keep accelerating. Science calls us the peak society, stumbling in a perfect storm of combined crises.
This is an emergency. #Open State is an exit.
They organize this event:
POC21 is open sourcing Sustainability
▻http://poc21.cc
After decades of talks on climate change and resource depletion, little has changed. Political leaders seem to be going in circles, and protest culture lacks a blueprint for the future. In 2015, it is time to move from protests to prototypes.
Instead of a Conference Of Parties, we propose a Proof Of Concept.