"As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health."

"Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier society. We want to see a fundamentally different way of life where people care less about what they can get for themselves and more about the happiness of others."

"A new way of living, in which access is valued over ownership, experience is valued over material possessions, and 'mine' becomes 'ours' so everyone's needs are met without waste."

Design that Matters (DtM), a 501c3 nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly.

"...the level of pay inequality was at a cooler 38, rather than where it is today, a hotter 46."

"Almost half of Americans in the Yale Project on Climate Change's new study on global warming said strong action needs to be taken. But the amount who think it's all a hoax has doubled."

"A lot of interesting new discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, child development, anthropology and more suggest that human nature might not be what Enlightenment philosophers suggested." from New Scientist.

The capacity to listen, and other crucial human attributes, are being diminished by relentless technological expansion. from The Guardian.

The Arena for Accountable Predictions. The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake.

from wired.

our production and consumption patterns.

to foster an on-going public dialogue and to create a durable record of how the rules of cyberspace are being formed.

photographic arts.

the long-term sustainability of the planet.

epistemologies, concepts, and leading metaphors of the semantic web. from readwriteweb.

from the new york review of books.

if we want to avoid a catastrophic collision with ecological reality.

assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure.

creative economy, conceptual age. from nyt.

working with your hands exercises different parts of your cerebrum than sitting and cogitating.

is web 2.0 a threat to our culture? uc berkeley podcast.

information design is critical to achieving the expectations citizens have for the civic experience.

as the toll exacted by industrial production increases and becomes increasingly visible.

the stability of nature and our psychic well-being.

higher iq and the flynn effect.

a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters, presented by Massachusetts College of Art & Philadelphia University.