First, I must preface the following by noting that I am not the author, nor do I necessarily agree or disagree with any portion of this forecast. I would simply like to open a discussion using these provocative predictions to start the comments flowing.

CHANGES ARE COMING ----

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to ( Read more... )

I enjoy the list of suggestions for What to do now? at Self Made Scholar ( Read more... )

"A few years after WWII ended, a young man working in a small restaurant in Sweden developed a new way to process bacon. By precooking it and blending it in a special way, he was able to make a fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube. Knowing he had discovered something paradigm-shifting, young Vilhelm Lillefläsk quickly ( Read more... )

And I thought the synthetic bacteria was a breakthrough event, check this out!
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/tag/science/

19 December 2009 @ 10:46 am
Eco-villages now in 70 Countries.   In 1991, Robert and Diane Gilman co-authored a seminal study called "Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities" for Gaia Trust. Today, there are ecovillages in over 70 countries on six continents.

Ecovillages (only some of which are off-grid) ( Read more... )