20 red threads, 39 glass beads, a five year vector and 25 mil on the table for one Circle of Blue

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On April 20 & 21, The Value Web, together with Tomorrow Makers and J.Fairchild, put on Waves and Memes, a two-day design workshop for Circle of Blue—an "international network of leading journalists, scientists and communications designers that reports and presents the information necessary to respond to the global freshwater crisis"—and its ecosystem to prepare for upcoming presentations to some highly regarded and seriously interested investor communities. Waves and Memes marked the first time that people from each of these organizational components have come together to focus on CoB as an organization and, from this, design an engagement—content and process—to attract funding from specific, mutually selected investors. What could the time with such an audience look, sound, and feel like? What does it produce in its audience? How far up the development path could we take this in 36 hours?
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Cycles of Change

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Each of us has more personal power than any man known to history who lived prior to this century.
Each of us has before us, on a daily basis, more alternatives than any man who lived prior to 1950.
Most of us will see more change by the year 2000 than has occurred since the middle ages.
Our ability to ‘predict and control’ future events is greater now than in the past and is increasing. 
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Happiness Pandemic (HP101) Hits Worldwide

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A Worldwide Epidemic is spreading with enormous speed.

The 'WWO' (World-Wellness-Organization) foresees billions of people becoming infected within the coming decade!

Here are the most prominent symptoms of this wonderful enlivening 'disease':

1). The tendency to let yourself be guided by intuition instead of acting under pressure of fear, forced ideas and pre-conditioned behavior.

2). A total loss of interest in: - judging others, convicting yourself and preoccupation with things that create conflict.

3). A complete loss of the capacity to worry: - This is one of the most serious symptoms!

4). A continual pleasure in appreciating humans and things the way they are, which weakens one's tendency to want to 'change' others.

5). The desire to change oneself so that innate thoughts, feelings, emotions and bodily matters are managed in ways that facilitate only Health, Creativity and Love.

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