Charles Limb: Creative Wave Lengths

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Where is the Surprise in the Death of the Ocean?

I regularly read Dr. Seuse's the Lorax to my children at bedtime. The Onceler and the Lorax are at odds while water becomes fishless, the trees are harvested to the last timber, and the air is transformed into Smogular Smog. Yet as I speak with everyday people I do not excperience dispair, panic, sadness. All of these reactions are appropriate while we observe the death of the Ocean. The Seusian foreshadowing paints a picture worthy of the deepest kind of dispair.

I am left wondering if the leaders of the world are blind, corporations mindless, and individuals apathetic and selfish.

This talk offers some simple perspectives that while dire accurate many be conservitive in the urgency of the problem.

CleanTech and Smart Grids are compelling solutions and the "blue heart" of the planet dying is a dire and urgent call to action.

Inspired Thinking and Creative Expression are Powerful

Some of my earliest understandings of the influences of corporations on governments and in turn on the actions of consumers comes from author David Korten. This call to action, while tactically irrelevant to Canada uses expressive mechanisms to explan the problem that we face as Corporations influence Governments and Policies. This video is up there with Annie Leonard's the Story of Stuff in offering a picture into how the system can undermine the public interest globally.

Chamber.350.org from Hans Hansen on Vimeo.

How YouTube thinks about Copyright

Margaret Gould Stewart discusses the opportuinties for commercialization from unpland content syndication. For a great example of a viral video that was passed from my friend Frank over the holidays in 2010 search "Macabeats" at www.YouTube.com.

Trend Hunter, Innovation and Crowd Sourcing

Jeremy Gutsche offers a great narrative about failure and emotional connections in the world of business innovation.