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The politics of sustainable design

Daniel Montano wrote 8 months ago: Let’s face it, green design, sustainable design, ecological conscious innovations all of these … more →

Tags: Design Thinking, Green Design, Alternative Energies, Sustainable Design, sustainability, Design, \, Design Ethics, Multivalue

A syllabus for the 21st century - (01)2 comments

Daniel Montano wrote 9 months ago: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot … more →

Tags: Multispectives, Interdisciplinary education, Social ecology, Transdisciplinary Education, cultural studies, Thinking, Education, Integral intelligence, Multidisciplinary education

Ecuador's constitution grants rights to nature

Daniel Montano wrote 9 months ago: “…the most interesting aspect of the new constitution is that it grants inalienable righ … more →

Tags: \, permaculture, Social Sculpture, sustainability

Higher-order Thinking2 comments

Daniel Montano wrote 10 months ago: I added “Higher-order Thinking” to the Wikipedia List of thought processes today. The e … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Critical Thinking, intelligence, Interdisciplinary education, Multidisciplinary education, Problem-solving, Systems thinking, Thinking, Transdisciplinary Education

Assist Social Capital - A charitable organization

Daniel Montano wrote 10 months ago: A friend of mine recently pointed out that a Scottish website had quoted in full one of my old blog … more →

Tags: Social ecology, Social Entrepreneurship

Switching focus from bits to humans. How technology affects people.

Daniel Montano wrote 10 months ago: Quoting Don Norman from a recent article on CNET “…We, as people, we should not care abo … more →

Tags: Social ecology, Thinking, Sociology, Philosophy of Technology

Making Sustainable Design a Reality1 comment

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: An interesting blog posting by a civil engineer (Dana Breig Probert),  dealing with the hurdles of d … more →

Tags: sustainability, Sustainable Design

The First Pangea Day - May 10, 2008

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Pah-pah-pangea day! From their “About Us” page: “Pangea Day taps the power of film … more →

Tags: Collective problem-solving, Social Sculpture

Sustainable Societies Diagram1 comment

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: This is a work-in-progress. (You can click on the image to view it full-size). This may be another e … more →

Tags: sustainability, Sustainable Design

Going Green: the Supply Chain Dependency

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Harvard Business Review has an interesting article that begins to expose the wider dependencies invo … more →

Tags: Green Design, Sustainable Design, sustainability

Green Jobs Predicted to Become Some of the Top Jobs of 2008?

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: “While so-called “green” jobs haven’t made the BLS report to date, some care … more →

Tags: sustainability

Survival of the selfless

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: The current issue of New Scientist Magazine has an interesting article that compares selfish behavio … more →

Tags: Urban Design, Social ecology, Sociology, Social Entrepreneurship, social theory, Problem-solving

A Call for a Multidisciplinary Connection Effort

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Abstract concepts can also be understood as emergent concepts. These emergent concepts may the resu … more →

Tags: Interdisciplinary education, Transdisciplinary Education, cultural studies, Thinking, Education, Multidisciplinary education, Diagrams, New Markets

Al Gore on Current.com

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Quoting Al Gore from a blog post on the Identity unknown blog: “Current, the media company I … more →

Tags: Social ecology, cultural studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, lyrically speaking, Social Entrepreneurship, Social innovation, critical theory, Social Networks

MicroPlace

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: An interesting tool that allows users to “invest” in poor individuals from across the wo … more →

Tags: Collective problem-solving, Social ecology, Sociology, Social Entrepreneurship, Social innovation, Problem-solving, poverty

Global Energy Harvestation

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: This video shows a global-system proposal for a solution of energy issues: Related: GENI websit … more →

Tags: sustainability, self-organization, Pollution, Problem-solving

Quote of the day

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: “For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of … more →

Beyond The Either/Or Fallacy of Nature vs. Nurture: Genes, environment and Co-Causality

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Another nice move towards a more holistic systems perspective: “Among biology’s more riv … more →

Tags: Systems Theory, Innovation, Innovation History

How Crime May Affect Health Indirectly

Daniel Montano wrote 1 year ago: Somewhere among the big pile of tags I use on this blog there’s one called “social-ecolo … more →

Tags: Social ecology, Psychology, social theory


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