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Sphere: Related ContentFriday, March 14, 2008
Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown is out
I posted on Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown over a year ago, and now 3.0 is out. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but this series of books tends to be the best guide out there for focusing on solutions, and they're freely available. And as Janet Larsen of the Earth Policy Institute states in her interview with Celsius, the solutions are already technologically possible, and in most cases already in action somewhere around the globe, now it's just a matter of spread, and speed of spread. This is important to remember, because I often hear from my friends and family that we need to develop more technology, don't we? No, we don't.
Finding Peace by Tapping into the Brain's Right Hemisphere
Here's a new TED Talk that may seem a little out there, unless you can relate to what the speaker is talking about. Jill Bolte Taylor is someone who had worked researching the brain. She then woke up one day to find herself in the midst of a stroke. Her central point is that the brain's hemispheres are two very different places, and that by giving oneself over to the right hemisphere more often, as a group, humanity would be much better off.
I've never had a stroke, but I wasn't exactly shocked by anything she said. For whatever reason, I've spontaneously had the sense of well-being and connectedness she talks about, to lesser and greater extents over the course of my life. I don't know exactly how you turn it off and on, but she's no doubt right that it's something useful to tap into from time to time.
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