agriculture, collaboration, Sustainability
In Sustainability on 04/30/2010 at 12:00 PM
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In our ever-expanding global economy, we are witnessing the ramifications of what Henry Wendell calls a total economy, where “significant and sometimes critical choices that once belonged to individuals or communities become the property of corporations.”
As we wake up to the consequences of a global total economy on our health, environment, livelihoods and lifestyles, many of us are creating new, local economies that put choice back in the hands of the people who are directly affected by those choices.
The Local Revolution
Increased access to information is exposing the perils behind our societal addiction to cheap imports and hyper-convenience (see The Story of Stuff & The History of Bottled Water) and more and more consumers are re-thinking their spending choices. read more…
storytelling, thought, video
In Storytelling & Communications on 03/02/2010 at 12:00 PM
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Story. It is a simple word, but conjures up different meaning and implications for different people.
Whether fact or fiction, stories are simply a narrative account of incidents, events, or circumstances.
In our previous post, If You Want People to Learn, Tell Them a Story we explored the brain’s dependence on story to process information, but now let’s explore how stories are told and which forms of storytelling are most effective in helping our brains learn and remember.
How we deliver a story determines how likely people are to remember it. read more…
innovation, storytelling, thought
In Human Development, Storytelling & Communications on 02/16/2010 at 8:26 PM
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Human beings are natural meaning makers. Like it or not, we simply can’t help but create connections and make meaning of our experiences.
Story is a fundamental component of the human meaning making process. Having narrative brains, we are predisposed to use elements of story to organize and store information.
By employing even simple nouns and verbs, humans communicate meaning in a nutshell and create a sort of mini-story, which Dr. Renée Fuller identifies as a basic unit for organizing information. She calls this organizing unit a story-engram and points out that, “bits of information cannot function as thinking units unless we make story-engrams with them.” read more…
