“We all know this is an illusion but it feels pretty real”

ALEX STEFFEN, co-founder & editor of WorldChanging.com talks about creating what we all want – GUILT-FREE Affluence!

World-changing is about expanding our definition of what sustainability could be

The value of de-materialization

How connectivity via technology makes it easier to share products & the services they provide (think ZIP CAR!)

Or the soon to be popular, brilliant idea: Tool Libraries – how many drills sit on shelves, a wasted resource when, really it’s the hole we want. Yet still we have status and identity wrapped up in owning objects.

See what free inspired minds widely connected can create together….things like; a water pump that doubles as a playground – as the children spin they pump the water!  A brilliant yet simple design!

We’re all in this together & One-Planet-Prosperity becomes the platform from which we can build a future worth living

The biggest barriers to building a sustainable planet are political, not technological. – Alex Steffen

For more inspiration visit the WORLDCHANGING website

http://www.worldchanging.com/

” It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it”

It’s a simple message, expressing the urgency we now face to unite together….

War, children, it’s just a shot away….Love, sister it’s just a kiss away

It’s in the shelter of each other that people live

“What plants offer us is insight into how we might create workable liquid fuel. The MIT swimming pool contains 3.2 million liters of water; that pool could store 43 TW of energy, if we take the water down to hydrogen and oxygen. That’s assuming 100% efficiency in the water conversion process, but even if we assume 50% efficiency, we could generate the world’s energy needs with 2/3 of that pool. “The bottom line is, I’m talking about solving the energy problem with an Olympic-sized pool of water. We could be doing that globally, per second. That’s the hope, because there’s so much energy density in that fuel.”

“Marx says, each age asks only such questions as it can answer …
So why do we limit ourselves?”

From a BBC series called “The Atheism Tapes” – Sir Miller also interviews: playwright-Arthur Miller, Nobel-Prize-Winning physicist-Steven Weinberg, and Richard Dawkins among others.

Here are some great places to spread the love!
Karma Currency
Kickstarter – the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world

Inventing his own form, “Shannon Technique”….”Performance art became a tool for me”

www.whatiswhat.com

In her inimitable style, she portrays the people she’s interviewed which includes;
the late Ann Richards-former Governer of Texas, Lance Armstrong, Elizabeth Steb-choreographer, Associate Dean of Yale School of Medicine-Ruth Katz, and a captivating bull-rider, Brent Williams; ”What keeps ya on top tha bull is sheer determination!”

I’m in pursuit of the “spooky truth…I simply begin by asking, what happened?”

What’s revealed are fascinating stories about the struggle with illness, pain and the healthcare system…. Asking where is care in our society? We have all this technology but do we know how to heal? Do healthcare professionals know how to listen?

When asked what the play’s title means, she says, ultimately the title is about a call for grace and kindness, in a world that often lacks that. We want to distance ourselves from these realities, because we’re afraid. But can we morally afford to deal with people this way?

“The medicine I take from the show is how to treat other people”

The New York run was sold-out – maybe HBO will present this brilliant work? Meanwhile, here’s a chance to get a glimpse of her amazing ability to channel the soul of others, as she illuminates her process in conversation with Bill Moyers.

Her genius lies in her ability to acutely listen and re-create the persona, their words become her text. Her technique was derived from a philosophy she inherited from her father, “if you say a word often enough – it becomes you.”

In her book, “Talk to Me,” she says acting is about as far from lying as anything because of the vulnerability of the actor.  If you think about it we are going in there and putting our identity for rent, we’re giving it up for periods of time. We are trained to feel deeply for an imagined other -that’s not lying, that’s the pursuit of another kind of truth.

“Courage is the enabling virtue for any human; courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope…”

“Can’t talk abut Truth without talking about learning how to die, because there is no transformation without death”

Julia Sweeney gives a hilarious account of explaining the birds & bees to her 8-year-old

http://youtu.be/Ry-LwxR746s

Now playing at the reliably cheeky–Drama Desk, Obie award-winning-Flea Theater until May 26th.

Jim Simpson directs Laurel Haines’ FUTURE ANXIETY – a fiercely intelligent (sort of Noah’s Ark) dark comedy about our present day fears run amok in a wildly conceivable future

Described as a comedic panic attack, in the play, China calls in its debt, taking humans in lieu of cash for work in labor camps… (Hey somebody’s gotta rebuild after the latest tsumami/earthquake) –  also, strawberries are extinct and toilet paper is rationed to one square per person….oh yes, and the folks just thawing out from having themselves cryonically frozen back in 2011 are in for a big surprise!

So when Karl, (and his mate from the institution) build a homemade spaceship to escape the planet, everyone wants to get on board!

All is not bleak-says Carol Ostrow, the Flea’s Producing Director, “This is a wonderful paradigm for the future….a brilliant playwright and a diverse, multi-talented company of actors.”

The New York Times agrees, read the review “No Shades Needed in Not-So-Bright Future”

Tickets and information

http://www.theflea.org/show_detail.php?page_type=0&show_id=81

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/theater/reviews/future-anxiety-by-laurel-haines-at-flea-theater-review.html

If everything exists as God or Divine Intelligence – there are no victims - only a story of disempowerment that we can consciously re-write and transform.