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6.3 Winner Takes All
The Caterpillar culture is built on the use of "winner takes all" style competitions as the engine for progress.
...7. The Butterfly Culture
Since around 1960, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project has been scanning the electromagnetic spectrum using radio telescopes, looking for signatures of intelligent alien Life from elsewhere in the cosmos
...7.1 Regenerating Life
In an inspiring lecture at TEDx Amazonia in Nov. 2010, Prof. Antonio Donato Nobre was explaining the "Biotic Moisture Pump" that keeps the Amazon rainforest so lush.
...7.2 Conscious Consumption
As someone living in an urban area and as a conscious consumer, I consider the most important thing that I can do to promote a Butterfly culture is to consume an Organic, plant-based Vegan diet and I have been quite vocal about my reasons for...
7.3 The Creation of Abundance
The second most effective step is to go local, to strengthen local communities, to build up the Transition Towns and to grow our organic produce locally.
...8. Climate Healers
Tell them and they will forget. Show them and they may remember. Involve them and they will understand
...8.1 The Lighting Project
The Lighting Project was started to address just the lighting energy needs of the rural poor in a distributed manner so that they don't have to depend upon kerosene and other fuels for that purpose.
...8.2 The “Namaste” Solar Cook Stove
Worldwide, nearly 3 billion people use some form of biomass for cooking, burning up an estimated 1.5 billion tons of firewood annually
...8.3 Miglets to the Rescue
In a small village called Karech in Rajasthan, India, Rayakbai walks 3 kilometers uphill every day to collect firewood for her family.
...9. The Metamorphosis
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning. But anybody can start today and make a new ending
...9.1 Miglets and the Corporations
Cultural transformations are primarily led by youth, since adults and senior citizens are usually too habituated to change easily.
...9.2 Awakening through Awareness
In the Vedic view, our sense of oneness with the whole can occur through four main pathways: through our intellect via reasoning (Gnana Yoga), through our emotions, primarily in the form of love and devotion (Bhakti Yoga), through our actions (Karma Yoga) and through meditation...
9.3 Call to Action
It would be amazing if we all awakened and the whole world suddenly became enlightened.
...Epilogue
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident
...Acknowledgements
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
...Interesting Facts and References
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep
...Society will collapse by 2040 due to catastrophic food shortages, says study
A scientific model has suggested that society will collapse in less than three decades due to catastrophic food shortages if policies do not change...
Update on The Mewar Angithi: Amazing Cook Stove Testing Results
A Government of India approved Cook Stove Testing Center has confirmed that the Mewar Angithi, a $1 device, really does turn a traditional stove (chula) into one of the best high efficiency cook stoves on the market.
...The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
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