The social media landscape as shown in a great diagram that is in fact 10 months old. What has changed since then?

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That makes clear that as measures to protect the environment get more and more concrete fewer and fewer people are agreeing to support them. One the one hand, we’re having a communication problem here. Think of Germany’s most chauvinist automobile club, the ADAC, acting like the “car driver’s party” and consistently rejecting more drastic measures that would make the polluters (aka: car drivers) pay.

On the other I believe this also highlights the gap between our scientifically-minded world that is much more focused on understanding complex issues through advanced analysis than it is on actually solving them through practical action. Thus, you could easily say that we are also having an “action problem” here. We may be increasingly paralyzing ourselves by focusing on the analytic part of the equation only.

Triodos Bank, Europeans first sustainable bank that was recognized as “Sustainable Bank of the Year” by Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation, has published a series of 8 videos thus making available key footage from their “1. Triodos Bank Dialogue” event online using YouTube.

The event that was held in Frankfurt am Main on 2 December 2009, features such renowned speakers as Claus-Otto Scharmer from the MIT who gave a speech on the “7 Acupuncture Points of Capitalism”.

Scharmer’s speech is worth watching as his work borrows heavily from less recognized voices critical about capitalism from the early 20th century such as Rudolf Steiner and later Josef Beuys. Scharmers takes specifically the latter’s “artistic approach” to economics as a basis for much of his work on organizational development.

Brandoscope have opened the doors to their self-titled new website. The site is an offer by a Berlin-based firm and available in multiple European languages. It offers a directory of organic production standards and firms and links both: while searching for a standard, the user is presented with direct links to firms adhering to it. Vice versa, a visitor looking for a specific brand will be presented with the standards the respective firm is publicly abiding by.

While the site’s directories are still incomplete with icons and logos missing and only a limited number of (German) firms being available for research, the goal is clear. It is considered to be beneficial to the individual customer to clearly communicate which brands obey to which standardized regulations in the production of foodstuffs or other goods.

350org has encouraged people all over the world to contribute pictures for this great slideshow on Flickr.com. In the show, kids tell us what we need: 350!

I think that’s a great way to communicate the message through faces and personalities. Every picture tells a story, every face is an appeal to our humanity. (WGD8YXP3J63P)