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Latest blog posts from Flowers on the Wayside

The Business Model of Giving Things for Free
I just read the latest issue of the Swiss “NZZ-folio” magazine the topic of which is “For Free - Business Model of the Future?“. Some articles show how people get blinded when they hear that they can get something for free - they forget that normally there is a catch in it. Free... Read more...
Published 10 hours ago

The 12 Keys of Spiritual Activism
Today I came across a beautiful video on YouTube about “The 12 Keys of Spiritual Activism” by Humanity Healing Network. You find the text of the 12 Keys also on their site. The purpose of their activities is: Humanity Healing was started to combine Healing with Spiritual growth to offer a... Read more...
Published 21 hours ago

The Earth Seen from Above
A friend from Canada sent me today a link to a page of The Boston Globe with 38 beautiful photos of an exposition called Earth from Above, by the photographer Yann Arhus-Bertrand. With his pictures he wants to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living. Next year May 1 to June 28... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

How the largest movement of the world came into being and why no one saw it coming
I yesterday saw a small video with a talk by Paul Hawken about his book “Blessed Unrest. How the largest movement of the world came into being and why no one saw it coming.” I was deeply touched by the way he presents the global development of hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

The “Thinking Cap” - A Scientist’s Dream of a Magic Wand for Transformation
Some days ago I came across a news about a brain stimulating thinking cap. I first thought it was a hoax, for there were so many quotes in blogs and online magazines of the gossip type. And when I found the website of the scientist of Sydney university (Center for the Mind), it still didn’t... Read more...
Published a week ago

Innovative Solutions for Energy and Farming
For most of us it is so normal to have electricity coming out of the wall outlet that we hardly can imagine living without. But for people living far away from the network of technical industrialization it does not at all go without saying. In third world countries, especially in rural areas,... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Humanoid Robots: Making Forms in the Image and Likeness
Some days ago I came across a video of National Geographics about a new generation of robots which “express themselves”: Developers have created robots that appear to make human expressions and show human-like emotions. There is a mechanism imitating the muscle movements of the human face -... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Quick Clicks to Change the World?
The present US finance crisis also spills over into e-mail requests to sign petitions like that of AVAAZ making a call to act now.  A friend asked me what I think of such initiatives. AVAAZ says: “The global financial crisis is spilling over into our lives, threatening jobs, savings, pensions... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

The Universal Nation
Yesterday I got an e-mail from an Argentinean friend living in Southern Spain. He announced that he had just started a bi-lingual blog called “The Universal Nation - La Nación Universal“. His keynote starts with the words: “The abolition of the system of nations as independent sovereign... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Insight into Decision Making
An Indian friend forwarded me today the following text with an interesting story about decision making. How would you decide? “A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the  rest on the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago