Fell upon this and thought you would enjoy ‘Al-Gore-ithms’ revisited – things to speed up in 2011! Posted by aheadahead on December 19, 2010 (http://aheadahead.wordpress.com) Three weeks ago I met Al Gore at a dinner meeting organized by Deloitte. He was speaking to a group of around 30 CEOs at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam. For me [...]

Yesterday I received the Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) position paper on the EC Energy Infrastructure Package of 17 November 2010 and since I find it really interesting, I decided to share. In order to launch the debate with all interested stakeholders on how such a new Supergrid could develop, be regulated and financed, FOSG [...]

What will happen? What is at stake? How can we prepare for it? This open, flexible and evolving working document sets a basis for civil society co-ordination and co-creation. You will find some history, actors and above all VISIONS for a collective participatory dynamics. Let’s be ambitious and modest; idealistic and realistic; visionary and concrete! [...]

Women are made more vulnerable to disasters through their socially constructed roles. Women have less access to resources – social networks and influence, transportation, information, skills (including literacy), control over land and other economic resources, personal mobility, secure housing and employment, freedom from violence and control over decision-making – that are essential in disaster preparedness, [...]

Everyone seems to be talking about empowerment these days, female empowerment, worker’s empowerment, and youth empowerment are just some of the phrases that are flying around. Youth empowerment has become a popular way to create effective programs and policies for youth and to help them develop leadership skills, self-esteem, and positive attachments to their communities. [...]

Today I got an old newspaper at my hostel room and automatically my eyes focused on this given picture. For a while I was thinking about it, tried to feel it

1 : a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged 3 : relative worth, utility, or importance 7 : something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable <sought material values instead of human values — W. H. Jones all the above from Merriam-Webster online dictionary. A basic premise [...]

Monetary flows are just vehicle by which resources travel from the rich world to the poor one, experts say.

Leadership starts with… connecting to oneself, understanding what we stand for why and how understanding what we want to contribute to this world, and taking responsibility for that connecting to nature, sensing the connection, learning and being inspired by nature being connected to each other Leadership is all about unleashing the potential within yourself and others, and [...]