Good News for Kermit - It's Getting Easier to be Green

So, creative thinking is now moving beyond the arts and various forms of engineering.

Ecological-socio-economic creativity is here!

For me, this is the ultimate creativity. I find creativity to be the most stimulating when it is working within constraints, or problem solving. Although this pertains to the traditional realms of creativity that I mentioned above, we are now at a time when creative problem solving is critical to our survival. Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems (Harper One 2008), and founding president of GreenForAll.org, has found a better solution to our current major problems (global warming and the economy, as well as social equality) by combining the problems first, and then finding a solution. A SuperSolution! As in "The whole is more than the sum of its parts".

Please check out Van Jones book, the GreenForAll.org website, and his interview with Gavin Newson, mayor of San Francisco:

Perpetually Recycling Our Planet

The topic discussed in this video is much more serious that I intended to get with this blog. I thought I would just be showing interesting design and great creative writing, that sort of thing. This cleverness is much more important. It is complex and incredible. It is the way we would like all movers and shakers to think.

William McDonough is not entertaining, but what he has to say is not only highly creative and forward thinking, and it is probably very important for the future of our world. The beginning of his discussion may seem like random bits of information. Be patient. Near the end, when he talks about his project in China, is where you will find yourself saying "wow!".



By the way, Ted.com is cool in general. There are many highly interesting discussions. Check it out!