Anyone familiar with the LEGO Serious Play program?

Anyone familiar with the LEGO Serious Play program? It looks interesting, but it'd be useful to have a comparison between this and other innovation-inspiring corporate workshop formats that are available out there.
http://www.lego.com/en-us/seriousplay

Climate change, like so many other environmental disasters in the making, is tied to our addiction to fossil fuels.

Climate change, like so many other environmental disasters in the making, is tied to our addiction to fossil fuels.

Originally shared by Don Denton

Lesson of Santa Barbara oil spill: Leave petroleum in the ground

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-helvarg-santa-barbara-oil-spill-20150522-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-helvarg-santa-barbara-oil-spill-20150522-story.html

They're painting...wait, stop...[throws hands up and walks out]

They're painting...wait, stop...[throws hands up and walks out]

Originally shared by Lars Fosdal

Let's hope the paint is waterproof...

http://news.yahoo.com/drought-face-lift-california-paints-lawns-green-030903306.html

#mindblown   #draught  
http://news.yahoo.com/drought-face-lift-california-paints-lawns-green-030903306.html

The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit

The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit

There has always been an odd tenor to discussions among climate scientists, policy wonks, and politicians, a passive-aggressive quality, and can be traced to the fact that everyone involved has to dance around the obvious truth, at risk of losing their status and influence.

This trepidation, incipient two decades ago, has become rank and file of the climate change denialists, even in the face of escalating climate chaos and in the 21st century, replete with advanced scientific discoveries and technologies. The problem is, the denialists are our policy makers who live lives of cognitive dissonance, picking and choosing which science data fits the narrative that will garner them campaign dollars.  

The obvious truth about global warming is this: barring miracles, humanity is in for some awful shit.

The image below are a number of climate models, developed by climate scientists. The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo — a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

We recently passed 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere; the status quo will take us up to 1,000 ppm, raising global average temperature (from a pre-industrial baseline) between 3.2 and 5.4 degrees Celsius. That will mean, according to a 2012 World Bank report, "extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise," the effects of which will be "tilted against many of the world's poorest regions," stalling or reversing decades of development work. "A 4°C warmer world can, and must be, avoided," said the World Bank president.

But that's where we're headed. It will take enormous effort just to avoid that fate. Holding temperature down under 2°C — the widely agreed upon target — would require an utterly unprecedented level of global mobilization and coordination, sustained over decades. There's no sign of that happening, or reason to think it's plausible anytime soon. And so, awful shit it is.

Nobody wants to say that. Why not? It might seem obvious — no one wants to hear it! They want to hear that it is still possible to limit temperature to 2°C. Even more, they want to hear that they can do so while avoiding aggressive emission cuts in the near-term — say, until they're out of office.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change

If you like your brick-based play mostly digital and on the TV, then you're probably looking forward to the...

If you like your brick-based play mostly digital and on the TV, then you're probably looking forward to the forthcoming LEGO Dimensions line of games. They're basically like Skylanders, where you use physical toys to interact with an RFID reader that enters a digital version of the toy into the video game you're playing. It's a little gimmicky, but you can't fault them for wanting in on Skylanders' success.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/lego-dimensions-expansions

Wow! Almost 2,500 bricks in this impressive new Ferris Wheel set from LEGO​​. Experts only!

Wow! Almost 2,500 bricks in this impressive new Ferris Wheel set from LEGO​​. Experts only!
https://youtu.be/Nch-znk6DNw

Oooooh!

Oooooh!

Originally shared by Brendan “Opie” McMullan

That hunk of junk?



I want it so much.
http://lego.gizmodo.com/it-took-10-000-pieces-to-build-a-minifig-scale-lego-mil-1703579472

Joe Conte is long-time customer with apparently no few regrets about his Soylent-heavy diet.

Joe Conte is long-time customer with apparently no few regrets about his Soylent-heavy diet.

via Lars DeRuntz 
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/05/06/soylent-diet