Resource Based Economy (RBE) and The Venus Project
The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
La educación prohibida: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje.
Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. Also Responsible Subversive, a social network for people who want to connect and discuss how to change the world by changing the way we raise our children.
Positive Money: Positive Money believes that the root cause of many of our current social, economic and environmental problems lies in the way that we allow money to be created. We work to make the confusing world of money and banking much easier to understand.They made a short video on the banking system and creation of debt, proposing a solution within the monetary system.
"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."Howard Zinn
"The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote." Tom Kelley (IDEO manager)
The three most important natural motivators of human endeavor and excellence:
Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives.
Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters.
Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.
"External rewards extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, crowd out good behavior, encourage cheating, become addictive, and foster short-term thinking."
"While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night."
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement”,
"I spend most of my time changing my mind and recognizing my mistaken beliefs, not because I make more mistakes or have more beliefs than average, I don't think, but because this seems to be the only way I can contribute to human progress."