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“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community – a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist teacher

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Un projet en béta est toujours une bonne nouvelle et une source d’excitation pour l’amoureux et professionnel de l’innovation que je suis. [AgoraVox] fait donc partie de ces signes encourageants que la France n’est pas à court de porteurs de projets ambitieux.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

We now understand that our survival is a collective issue. We are now looking for ways to be more intelligent, more creative and more efficient together. We should ask ourselves about the true nature of human relationship.

« Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. »
Krishnamurti - statement made in 1929

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Noonghaburra Path to Knowledge - Tex Skuthorpe

While searching the web for Aboriginal paintings, I found this story about the aboriginal people Noonghaburra, told by finnish KM specialist Karl-Erik Sveiby.

Sveiby asked Tex Skuthorpe what was the aboriginal word for knowledge. The artist consultant couldn’t find any.

« Our land is our knowledge, we walk on the knowledge, we dwell in the knowledge, we live in our thesaurus, we walk in our Bible every day of our lives. Everything is knowledge. »

Aboriginal wisdom is deep and universal.

Paradigm shift.
The territory is the map.

Creativity is a fractal flower

We are entering an unprecedented era of creativity.
All over the globe, hundreds of thousands of initiatives, alliances, networks, agencies, ngos are contributing to the global brainstorming, setting up charters and recommandations, building out innovative projects.

That’s the good news : you are not alone in your virtuous fight against violence, selfishness and entropy.

I am happy to share with you the following links, miscellaneous of local and global, institutional and individual initiatives that might matter in the next few years.

• The Earth Charter ;
• Stanford Social Innovation Review ;
• Global Ressource Bank Project ;
• Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives ;
• Another on-line idea bank : Idébanken ;
• Buckminster Fuller disciples from Ecotopia ;
• The edifying Venus Project ;
• Norbert’s bookmarks for a Better World ;
• You help India ;
• Gaiaship Project.