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| AIDS: Exposes Realities of Human Sexuality & Indiscretions |
There are clear patterns emerging in the AIDS pandemic that throw light on human sexuality and promiscuity. Because AIDS is such an honest mirror into human activity (you can only catch it through the exchange of bodily fluids and not from sneezing) it is as effective as pregnancy for proving something happened.
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| Technocrats Taking On Sustainability |
Subscribing to news bulletins can bring up the quirkiest of articles. For example an excellent article from Engineer Live where Dr Robin Batterham considers how chemical engineering has developed as a discipline, and postulates how it will need to operate to meet the major challenges on the path to sustainability.
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| Peace Comes When You Heal Rather Than Judge |
The most profound healings often rise up from the ashes of our failures. Well known author Charles Handy often comments that success can blind us to the need to change, and that can often be the thing that leads to our failing. Confronted with an uncomfortable future, both nations and individuals can try to restore their past glory using outdated strategies based on superceded paradigms. Yet sometimes the solution is not to restore the past but to contemplate the future and the implications of choices.
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| Social Economies to Transcend Knowledge & Industrial Economies |
The size of one's economy or population or natural resources is no handicap to being able to add-value to the global community. Cultural, intellectual and spiritual resources are going to be our best weapons in the struggle to come to grips with AIDS pandemic, overdependence on violent solutions, the end of the oil age, the need to adequate provide and care for the enviroment and world's citizens.
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| AIDS: A Reformation Looking Beyond Death to Living |
"We must stop helping people to die and start helping them to live" commented Rev. J.P. Heath at this week's International AIDS conference. The long-term nature of the AIDS crisis makes religion a key player comments UN's Dr Peter Piot. He explains that because mosques, churches and temples endure for generations and address the needs of their communities over generations, this makes them the ideal institutions to take on the fight against AIDS. Some authors, such as James Pinkerton are seeing the signs of a coming Reformation that will give a second wind to the existing activists in their fight against AIDS. And the possibilties of genuine multi-disciplinary collaboration across the sciences, social sciences and politics is giving some observers hope.
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