Z+Blog!Pointers and commentary on the future of design, branding, innovation, new media, sustainability and other emerging issues.Brainstorm's Best Quotes- June 29, 2006 At the 2006 Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen, CO, corporate approaches to climate change, ecological sustainability and carbon neutrality are all at the forefront of the conversation. Here are the two best quotes from the meeting:"Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth."- Legendary environmental thinker Lester Brown, of the Earth Policy Institute and the WorldWatch InstituteAnd in response to a...http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_06_29_zblogarchive.html#115159912248873877 A Gamer's Guild Self-Trademarks- June 21, 2006 Game designer Ralph Koster provides the latest indication that the metaverse and meatspace are being ground into indisinguishable pulp. A group of gamers (collectively known as a guild) who are currently playing World of Warcraft and Ultima Online, have decided to trademark their guild The Syndicate "with regards to all things online gaming related". If you and your friends want to call play by that name, you could presumably find yourself forking over more than gold pieces.Of course, this...http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_06_20_zblogarchive.html#115086296272607883 Biodiversity on Ice- June 5, 2006 We've written previously about efforts to catalogue the world's genetic biodiveristy. Now Reuters is reporting on a remarkble effort to create a frozen "Noah's Ark" seed vault to safeguard a vital part of that biodiversity -- the the world's crop seeds -- from cataclyms, climate change, bioengineering and unchecked human expansion. Construction of the Global Seed Vault, which will built beneath a mountain on the remote, frozen island of Svalbard 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, will..http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2006_06_04_zblogarchive.html#114948030313825410 |