Open IDEO: Ideas shaped together to improve the world

New ideas by the bucketful on Open IDEO  with a unique format. 

Open IDEO is a place to share good ideas and make them better.  Imagination, technology and a community based platform to let people work together for a better world

It is exciting to see so much enthusiasm and thoughtfulness.

As Bono from U2 said the other day:  It is critical to tell success stories so people know we can change the world for the better and reduce poverty, improve health care, stop wars, cut carbon and solve these big problems together.

Hope in a stalk of grain

NYT story on adapting grains for a warming climate.  Hope in a stalk of grain to bring more food to poor people around the world.  I read the story for the shifting narrative we're beginning to get as mainstream media led by the New York Times starts to cover climate crisis as a front page rather than just a science niche story that Andrew Revkin has beat the drum on for year.

Maude Barlow

Speech given in Fall 2010:  Solid as a rock.  More pithy quote to follow.  This is a bookmark for Maude's powerful voice.  

Raymond Williams: To be truly radical is to make hope possible..."

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." - Raymond Williams

Thanks to Casper ter Kuile 

Connector, Creator, Campaigner. Lover of kale and polyphonic folk singing from Twitter

Alan Atkisson: Hope springs from history

The main thing that gives me hope for the future is looking back at the past. I know, intimately, how very, very far along the sustainability movement has come since its early days. I remember when corporations scoffed at anything remotely like "corporate sustainability," which is now standard practice. I remember when collections of Nobel Prize winners were signing statements warning us about the danger to the planet from the way we were trashing up the atmosphere ... and they weren't talking about global warming. They didn't even mention global warming (1992, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity"). They were talking about the ozone hole, which is now considered a "fixed" problem. By looking backward, and reminding myself of the momentous changes that *have* occurred, I get more hope about the changes we still need to make, no matter how daunting they are.


Alan Atkisson

Marianne Williamson: Hope is borne...

“Hope is borne of participating in hopeful solutions.”  — Marianne Williamson.





(Thanks to friend Joelle Robinson @ Climate Solutions for her favorite quote, and these good words to live by.)

Al Gore: We can solve the climate crisis.

From Al Gore's new book:  "Our Choice"