Jeremy Rifkin Discusses The Empathic Civilization
“The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.” Jeremy Rifkin In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the [...]
Help Crowdfund The Future & Create a Thirst for Change.
321 Water Crowdfunding 2.0 View more webinars from Half A Teaspoon Pty Ltd. Gretha Oost doesn’t believe there are any problems too big to solve. Her high ideals and big ideas mean that if she sees something that needs to change in the world, she figures out a way to do it. Running a small [...]
Bottled Water is a Symbol of Modern Day Consumerism. A Symbol we Don’t Need.
Bottled water is simply an indulgence for western culture, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. The USA alone are moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks. Picture this, that is the same as 37,800 full size trucks delivering water a week. [...]
The Conspiracy for Good and Social Benefit Storytelling.
The Conspiracy For Good is the pilot project for a first-of-its-kind, interactive story, that empowers its audience to take real-life action and create positive change in the world. Call it Social Benefit Storytelling. As part of the Conspiracy For Good you will join a collective of thinkers, artists, musicians and causes, creating a unified voice [...]
Is $48,500 a year enough to follow your passion? What would you do?
If you were able to make $48,500 a year by following your passion, would you do it? That number comes from 279 Days to Overnight Success, an e-book by writer and world traveler Chris Guillebeau that outlines how he became a full-time writer/blogger in less than a year. Depending on who you are and where you [...]
Sir Ken Robinson on Creating an Education System that Nurtures Creativity.
Lets go back to 2006 and where Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. [...]
People for Bikes | A Movement to Make Our World More Bike Friendly
People for Bikes is a movement to make our world more bike friendly- to build more trails, paths and bike lanes, to make riding safer and more accessible for all. Colle + McVoy have created a great campiagn for the new Bikes Belong initiative. The goal of peopleforbikes.org is to gather a million names of [...]
FROM THE BULL | I’ve lost my job. What do I do?
Economists believe we are currently in the worst global economic times of the past 70 years. World growth rates are low or negative and unemployment has increased significantly. Some sectors have been hit harder than most with massive job losses in the finance and manufacturing sectors. The once-revered USA car makers have been fighting for [...]
The Women Of Brooklyn’s Homage & Bustin Boards
Micku Murgolo, Bustin Boards When it comes to skate, Brooklyn has been recognized for having some of the most creative and driven women on the planet. Brooklyn’s Homage, independently co-owned by female boarder Michelle Sauer, and Bustin Boards are good examples, with a strong female presence on their team rosters. Transworld business has interviewed some [...]
The TED Fellows Program Continues to Empower Visionaries
The TED Fellows program continues to empower visionary makers and doers from around the world (with a specific focus on Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East). With 23 new TED Global Fellows, who join 20 exceptional Senior Fellows. The fellows span a wide spectrum of disciplines—from photojournalism to biotechnology to digital choreography. —and makes for [...]
The Sustainable Future in Sydney | 5 days to go.
On the 14th of July, uncluttered white spaces is hoster a talk in Sydney on the Sustainable Future. As our environment is currently facing huge obstacles that have the potential to seriously disrupt our future and the future of our shared environment. Whilst there is speculation, the current apocalyptic predictions for our planet tend to paralyze people [...]
Noah Abrams Skateistan. An Inspiring Journey through Pictures.
For long time readers of uncluttered white spaces, you will know skateboarding is very close to my heart. Stumbling upon Skateistan by Noah Abrams was an amazing way to start my week this week and the images of Afghanistan’s emerging skateboarding scene is more than inspiring. In a war torn nation where what I can [...]
Announcing new IF talk on The Sustainable Future and Pure Living
In the fourth installment of the uncluttered white spaces IF talks, we have curated a panel of experts to discuss sustainability and pure living with a diverse panel of 7 experts. This IF talk with be hosted by Matt Perry from Republic of everyone. As our environment is currently facing huge obstacles that have the [...]
Some Amazing Thoughts from Inspiring Thought Leaders
“Today, what defines the most innovative, and the most successful, people is their willingness to fail. And, that’s especially true in journalism, media and advertising… This is the key to the future for all of us. It’s not how we deal with success but how we embrace and learn from failure that will define all of [...]
Lessons on Creating a Social Impact
Designers tend to fall prey to ideas that are too attractive and don’t generally have the patience for the lengthy process to see initiatives through to the point of meaningful results. Robert Fabricant recently gave a talk in NYC discussing some of the challenges designers face, he highlighted eight lessons learned from his experience on Project Masiluleke and other [...]
Design |The Worlds Largest Glass Table Built from Optical Glass
Tokujin Yoshioka has sent along another piece he’ll be exhibiting next month in a tantalizing exhibition in Seoul, titled MUSEUM. beyond museum. Yoshioka will also show Waterfall, the world’s largest table made of optical-quality glass. Almost 15 feet long, this is the first time the table will be seen in public, after having been created for a [...]
Kate Kendall Joins the Discussion on the Future of Media
On the 11th of May, uncluttered white spaces will be hosting IF SYDNEY | THE FUTURE OF MEDIA. Our 3rd Innovation Forum (IF) and our first on a subject specific to Innovation in Media. To add to the already extensive panel of experts(Galvin Scott Davis, Pip Jamieson, Ian Lyons, Richard Bradley, Johannes Weissenbaeck and David [...]
Redesigning Education & The Corridor
“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder how we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” – John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, “No Easy Victories” (1968) TRUNG LE from Fast Company covers the redesigning [...]
Seth Godin talking Linchpin with uncluttered white spaces
] Yesterday morning we had the absolute privilege of speaking with Seth Godin in regards to the release of his new book LINCHPIN. For those of you who are Seth Godin fans, you will enjoy this discussion, for those of you who are not familiar (the very few left), you will be converted. It was [...]
From the Bull:: What happens when you give more than you take?
Recently, I was chatting with a great friend of mine who runs his own successful business. He’s a fantastic guy who is loved by everyone. His network of friends, business contacts and acquaintances is huge. He is smart, pragmatic and has the best “bull-sh*t detector” on the planet. He can be gruff at times and [...]
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures.
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures. Today, key climate scientists withdrew their predictions. of a metre sea-level rise by 2100. Other scientists meanwhile claimed the 1m figure was way too conservative anyway. They predict anything up to 2m sea level rises over the next century. It’s difficult to keep track of all this [...]
We think you should visit:: Fear.less
fear.less is a free online magazine that empowers people through unique stories of overcoming fear. From entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists and scientists to survivors of extreme experiences, these stories demonstrate the hidden potential we have to confront our fears and come out victorious. Co-founded by Ishita Gupta and Clay Hebert, fear.less is their answer to [...]
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. TED has pointed us towards JK Rowlands 2008, Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” Please, grab a [...]
Introducing: Melanie Mueller to uncluttered white spaces
uncluttered white spaces would like to introduce our latest member. Communication and Media student Melanie Mueller from Germany has joined our team as our Trends Analyst. We read with interest in an annual student survey that said that only 20% of 2009 college grads have a job. Pretty amazing. So our new intern, to ensure [...]
