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MEGALOPOLIS

Megalopolis
Il 2007 rimarrà una data importante nella storia dell’umanità: per la prima volta la popolazione
che vive nelle città ha superato quella insediata nelle campagne.
Un secolo fa, solo il 14% della popolazione della terra viveva nelle città.
Megalopolis Videos
Los Angeles, San Paolo, Il Cairo, Shenzen, Karachi, Tokyo.
Francesco Conversano
Il cinema di realtà.
Why Democracy?
Collection of short films made by emerging filmmakers across the planet.

Did you know 2.0

Gapminder [Hans Roslings presentation at the TED-conference]
GeoStrategies [EcoInformatics International]
Inflation's Little Parts [NY Times]
Very Interesting Infographics [Randy Krum]
Kinetic Sculptures [Theo Jansen]
An Inconvenient Truth [Al Gore]
Think MTV [Your cause - Your effect]
Sir Ken Robinson on creativity [TED Talks]
The 21st Century: What will it look like? [Peter Pesti]
Shift Happens [Karl Fisch - Scott McLeod]
2020 Vision [Karl Fisch]
Jeff Han 01 [TedTalks]
Jeff Han 02 [Perceptive Pixel]
Web 2.0 ... the Machine is Us/ing Us [Michael Wesch]
Medieval Helpdesk [Øystein & Meg]

2007 Best Books

The Future Survey "Top 30"
Selected by Michael Marien (FS editor)
The Change Handbook
This book is about effective change. It describes methods for changing "whole systems," that is,
change based on two powerful foundation assumptions: high involvement and a systemic approach to improvement.

EARTH CLOCK by Poodwaddle.com

WORLD CLOCK by Poodwaddle.com

FOOD CLOCK by Poodwaddle.com

Reality Mining

Unprecedented data sets about continuous human behaviour. We are collectively annotating the planet.

Global Incident Map
BirdFlu Incident Map
Breathing Earth
Project Vulcan
Vulcan aims to quantify North American carbon emmissions. Longer term goal is the world and down to the building level.
Panoramio
Geobloggers
Google Earth
Zoom to street level :) Google Earth (once Keyhole.com) represents the largest commercial imagery database online in 3D today.
Covering over 80+ major metropolitan areas and thousands of individual cities. With Google Earth, you can fly like a superhero
from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world.

Sustainable Future

Nearly all of the 70 million people being added to world population each year are born in countries
where natural support systems are already deteriorating in the face of excessive population pressure.

Earth Policy Institute
Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Plan B 3.0
WorldChanging
Change your Thinking
Solarray
George Mokray