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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and James Lovelock

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and James Lovelock pionneered the vision of an integrated world where the planet Earth and the human specie form a unified organism (see Gaia Hypothesis) and from which emerges a new sphere of global consciousness (see Noosphere).

These enlightened men are more than scientists of their time. Because of their profound spirituality, they are able to understand, to foresee the /futurs.

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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.

When web interfaces are conceived to enable collective interaction on a specific focus, like this Global Ideas Bank, the result is a ready-to-browse self-growing on-line database that can become a resourceful inspiration for other related works.

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