The 15 Global Challenges from t he Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank. 1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? 2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? 3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? 4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? 5. How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change? 6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? 7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? 8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? 9. How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges? 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts,...
Novelists, brings up thoughts of sitting by a warm fire, pen flashing across paper. It’s a romantic notion and is probably no longer valid. Most novels are now written on the cold glowing screen of a computer. Don’t get me wrong, that’s great because now everyone has the chance to be an author. I am an avid reader and after some books I think to myself wouldn’t it be great if I could write my own. An epic tale woven with nothing but my imagination! But reality soon kicks in and I am too busy to follow up. This has been frustrating me a number of times and I think I may have stumbled upon a solution or rather a formula for the solution. The main difficulty is simply getting words on the paper, sitting down and writing. Now motivation for this can wax and wane and this causes many people to simply give up. Well this time I am going to try something different. National novel writing month or NaNoWriMo is a community of people who aim to complete a novel of 50,000 words in the mo...