GeoParadise Blog

As usual, TED is a great source of inspiration for GeoParadise. We share here Rachel Botsman´s talk, which we really liked, about the dramatic increase in collaborative behaviors in different bits of our lives. We found it very encouraging regarding the future of human kind and planet Earth and opens a whole array of possibilities for GeoParadise projects.

Have a look and enjoy witnessing the times of change we are living through these days.

Economic damage from climate change will hit Southeast Asia harder than other regions and seriously jeopardize production of rice, the world's most important food crop, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank.

There’s scepticism about companies going “carbon neutral” — particularly if firms rely on Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), which at best is controversial and hard to verify.
(RECs)= Tax cuts and a clean public image.

A community vote is now underway, hopefully one of the final steps in the process the migration of Wikipedia (actually Wikipedias, as each language is its own site, and also other Wikimedia Foundation sites) to using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as its primary content license.
The vote is one of the most historic decisions by the Wikimedia Foundation regarding its future orientation.