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,...
When I was urging Amanda to go to bed, I spotted several leaflets on the bedroom floor, and picked them up. One of these was Fairtrade. Amanda saw it too, and asked, "What can you see on Fairtrade logo?" "They looks like a Chinese Tai Chi Fishes." Fairtrade logo always looks like Taiji fishes to me, though it's a bit different, as the colors, shapes are slightly different, another dot is missing too. I have never tried to find out what it actually means. "Taiji Fish?" Amanda laughed, "it's not a fish, it's a person waving hands." "A person? I can only see a large circle, and small circle, one giant blue fish looks like a whale, and another orange fish looks like a shark." I stared at the logo, turned upside down, at a slanting angle, moved it further away at a distance and then closer to myself to examine it, I couldn't figure out a person from the picture. "The black dot or circle is the head, and th...