http://nextbyramla.com   Envisions ONE FUTURE for the emerging global human society. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:07:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can focused human intention be the true key to creating peace in the world? For a long time, peace has dodged humanity as a goal. How to create peace? Through talks? Agreements? Exchange programs? Or even through... war? The conventional wisdom is that where there is a will, there is a way. ... http://nextbyramla.com/2008/09/peace-intention-experiment/ In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities. The program takes a holistic approach to the city's challenges, integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, organic farming and nutrition.Via: The Global Oneness ProjectE-mail: nextbyramla AT gmail.com http://nextbyramla.com/2008/06/the-greenhouse-project-south-africa-a-holistic-intervention/ Jareeda first fell in my hands when, having finished my work for the day during an internship at IUCN, I decided to shuffle through the stuff on the office bookshelves. I promptly took copies of several issues home - where I keep them close to my heart six years later. Because ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/12/jareeda-pakistans-sustainability-magazine/ This is the 'golden' segment of the eye-opening, mind-expanding presentation Story of Stuff by one curious Annie Leonard. She wanted to understand the truth behind the materials economy. So she searched, and here is her knowledge, simplified.Story of Stuff is to production/ consumption line (not cycle) what An Inconvenient Truth ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/12/how-stuff-consumes-the-planet-cheaply/ Look! How happy people are when they serve!Service creates both joy -and opportunity!Credit: Kifo @ FlickrInstitutional education teaches us that we can grow up to trade our talent for goods and status from the world. We "Deserve."The products of the institutional world think too much of what they deserve from ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/08/to-de-serve-or-to-serve/ Problem:In a world of free ideas, why and how are we still needed? Mastering the Problem:Your unique reason of being today, and your "unique edge", is in the human element. Skills and technology and ideas - once the staple of competitive edge [a term outdated in a world of ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/08/the-new-world-of-power-is-humbling-%e2%80%93-and-abundant/ Everybody knows it. From programmers finding code, to ex-lovers looking up dirt on jilters, to graduate students procuring thesis - Google has it all. Google is the highway to 100-ideas-a-minute factories. So how on Google earth are we to have what is variably known as "competitive edge" or, in quaint ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/08/google-made-ideas-free-so-wheres-my-edge/ NEXTers>Comments are re-enabled. Now you don't have to take the lengthy email route.Enjoy! http://nextbyramla.com/2007/08/blog-updates-comments-re-enabled/ NEXT> by Ramla is seeking collaborations with like-purpose websites and print publications. To test-launch the idea of syndication, NEXT> and its creator, yours truly Ramla, have been publishing a carefully curated list of trends at TrendHunter.com since February 2007.I was wild with joy when Jeremy Gutsche, the visionary young owner ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/07/next-by-ramla-trendhuntercom/ Dear readers:I found out how well NEXT> by Ramla was anticipated by the readers when some promptly reported that it was "down" or "weird." While the blog was being reviewed by the Blogger Team, who were sorting the splogs (spamming blogs) from the blogs, it was taken over by ... http://nextbyramla.com/2007/07/next-by-ramla-is-back/