Month: November 2012

Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services

This is a big (albeit totally expected) deal. Sit up and pay attention if you aren’t already. As Chris Anderson (Mr TED talks / Wired) recently said: 3D printing is going to be bigger than the internet. Mcor and Staples announced today a deal in which Mcor will supply their paper-based 3D printers to Staples ...

Humanity has never faced such a bigger series of challenges….Just start

On Global Entrepreneurship Week: A bit about Ed and Sustaination He likes to solve problems and finds the 21st century a very exciting time to be alive since there are lots of big problems to solve. Food is the biggest which joins all the others together, and that’s why he started Sustaination. Before this he co-created the ...

The value in being together

I’ve got issues. Anyone who knows me will tell you that. Why? The gist of it is that I’m rather disappointed by humanity’s reluctance to improve upon our collective situation. But recently I’ve had a few realisations which are helping me make peace with this which I’d like to share. They’re important, so I’m going ...

“Why Socialism” by Albert Einstein

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption. http://pocket.co/sd_Yq

“Somebody thought of it, and someone believed it” – a generation steps forward at London Sustainability Jam

The room is dark. About fifty people sit with silent and energetic expectation. The screen shows a sky full of bright stars. A couple walk arm in arm, and as their faces are lit by the projected starlight, a voice comes through the darkness: “Imagine it’s 2015, and you’re taking an evening stroll down a ...