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The science of happiness

Gapminder

Gapminderis unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.

Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. Watch the one-hour long documentary.

Or see for yourself by using this amazing software to crack tons of data ... thank you Gapminder.org

How Nuru Works

Be Hope, Be light, Be Nuru. Get inspired: How Nuru Works on Vimeo.

The Secret - Planet Earth HD

You know THE SECRET? If you don't you have to spend some bucks on the book or the movie because you have to know the essence of the secret, which is not a secret at all but very helpful to bring you the sense and inspiration that will be rewarded by fulfillment.
So far so good. BUT: I have a sincere objection against the good feeling gift that comes with the secret: The wonderful Planet earth movie that's also released on Youtube. If you study my earlier blogs you will understand that pure beauty is only half the message about earth these days. Specially believers of the secret should become aware of the other half. Please find out what that is ... HERE.

The Story of Stuff

Bringing sustainability and ecological awareness to a next level is what Annie Leonard tries with the website The Story of Stuff.

Het project includes an astonishing effective movie and a book that will be released one of these days. 

Here the full movie in the youtube version:

HOME, another inconvenient truth

Nature and the decline of it as never seen before. Heartbreaking beautiful and sad at the same time ... Watch the trailer. Make time to see the movie on line. Than draw your conclusions and act accordingly.

See the whole story HERE. 

Al Gore's movie "An inconvenient truth" (see trailer HERE) might cause more fear. "Home" hammers with the most beautiful pictures on the holistic nature of our habitat and tries at the end to turn pessimism into enthusiasm to do something substantial now.

Center for Human Emergence

Center for Human Emergence ... Je voelt dat het idee erachter goed is, maar is het nodig daarbij te gaan "synnerveren", al dan niet geïnspireerd door een "organisational spaceholder"?

One laptop per child

Great initiative based on a clear vision:

For more info see: OLPC France wiki.

Question left: Is this a realistic goal? Or maybe better: Is this a success when 100.000 kids are served? Or 10.000? What's needed to get enough momentum to get things rolling (software/networks/connections/educative content in different languages)? 

Liever dit

Heel apart die website van Liever. Mooi gemaakt. Maar nog mooier is het idee dat erachter zit. En het mooiste is het beeld van een aantal "Right brainers" in hartje Amsterdam die elkaar hebben gevonden en besloten om samen iets leuks te gaan doen met mooie dingen. En aan het menu te zien hebben ze plannen genoeg om hun systeem verder uit te rollen. 

Gekker kunnen we het niet maken

Het toppunt van persoonlijke bescherming? Magnetron aan boord? Geen probleem!