Websites Alert (Special Edition)

Special because bigger than average. Selections sourced from here and here - Emergent By Design posts.

The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution - Hub and blog for all things Vinay Gupta. Go check it out if you don't know who he is.


Polytopia - The human species is rapidly and indisputably moving towards the technological singularity. The cadence of the flow of information and innovation in the infoverse demands a response. As hyperconnectivity increases, our minds are becoming progressively more coupled and cybernetically joined.

Polytopia offers itself to be the virgin ground upon which the newly born Cyberculture of openness and collaboration can be extended by those in pursuit of a combined interactive intelligence.

Polytopia is a mutually supportive habitat of sorts. A mind habitat for our multidimensional co-enhancing minds, for we are infonauts in search of a home.


World Food Garden - WorldFoodGarden.org is a map-based website whose mission is to connect all of the food gardens in the world onto one map to show the world for what it has the potential to be- one giant cross-pollinating ecosystem filled up with food gardens! In addition we provide location specific gardening information, networks and get started tutorials.

The word I would use to describe that project is hella-awsome.


Collaborative Consumption Hub - Hub and blog for all things "collaborative consumption".

Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented through the latest technologies and peer-to-peer marketplaces in ways and on a scale never possible before. MORE

There are thousands of examples of Collaborative Consumption across sectors from peer-to-peer travel, to social lending to co-working to service networking. Click here for a list of examples.

Check out the latest CC hot start-ups in the skill-sharing space with our CC Antenna Top 3, updated every fortnight.

P2PU - At P2PU, a study group gathers people who work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.


Regenerative Design Institute - West Coast Permaculture school I'd never run across:

Our mission is to serve as a catalyst for a revolution in the way humans relate to the natural world. As we continue to develop Commonweal Garden into an educational center and demonstration site in permaculture and regenerative design, we serve as an inspiration of possibility for how people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the Earth. Through our programs and courses, we teach the skills and technology people need to become community leaders and create healthy solutions to the current environmental crisis.

We are centered in Bolinas California.

Blogs of untested potential:

PaulBHartzog.org - My name is Paul B. Hartzog. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. I am pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in both the School of Information as well as Political Theory. I have an NSF IGERT fellowship from the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and an M.S. in Political Science for which I wrote “Panarchy: Governance in the Network Age.” I am currently working on a book manuscript about panarchy (http://www.panarchy.com).

I blog for Howard Rheingold’s SmartMobs.com, Many-to-Many, and MindJack on occasion. I work with Howard Rheingold off and on as well as do some consulting for The Institute for the Future.

I spent years working in the internet technology arena, and I’m fascinated by the notion that network technology is reconnecting the world. After a long period of distance and separation human civilization is returning to its tribal origins. Technologies that allow us to work together in new ways make possible an era of “do it yourself” cooperation. That means people being able to help each other without relying on hierarchies do things for them. These anarchical networks are best understood within the framework of complex adaptive systems.

So, this means we have to study new phenomena like open source, wiki, and social software, but it also means that we have to look back to the roots of civilization: tribes, gift economies, communities, and political theory.

Changeist - We are a design- and innovation-focused lab, experts in creating and leading teams that make the future happen. We are fluent in the global view, supported through local insights. Together with our network, we stay on top of emerging trends and driving forces around the world, in many languages and cultures. We believe in active futuring, immersing ourselves in, capturing and delivering insights that can be used to drive change today.

We are dedicated to practicing a human-centered view of foresight and innovation. We work extensively with organizations active in social innovation and humanitarian missions to enable better futures for all.