let's take learning first : two of our top 35 heroes are Taddy Blecher and the Gandhi Family og http://cmseducation.org http://valuetrue.com/home/galler y.cfm

Taddy's collaboration interview at this bookmark makes it as clear as pure water that education goes disatrously wrong where you spirally make it 10 times more costly than it needs be at the youth stage of 5 to teen to adult critical to freedoms of access to a vocation, a life of making a difefrence. Education that trains you theory without future matching to in-demand vocational work or where you have to pay more to get a job is not sustainable. Yet the US model of edu is for ever less sustainable on that as indeed is many "democracies" where education scores are run for the conveneience of politicians and nothing to do at all with the investment in kids futures.

Taddy's breakthough is to provide free universities -in a way that is repliocable wherever you will help him open source a peer to peer curricula. He has a shopping list but also invites being shown other ways to use s africa's suprplues - a sea of youth, and lots of uncultivated land. What students study at http://cidaworld.tv they go back during the vocations to ebtrepreneurially bring to life in emepowering community sustainability. Taddy is an alumni of Mandela elders newtorks - very much their most advanced entrepreneur.

What Yunus has done in offering the wotrld an open franchise map to end poverty, S Africa and India can do for education - and the connection is 100 years of whole truth currisula innovated by Gandhi, practically improved by Montessori and ranked as system transforming by Ein stein- all people who networked with gandhi in the 1930s on stage 2.1 of preparing India's freedom from the Raj - according to my grand-dad who was mentored for 25 years by Gandhi - from being responsibility for imprisoning him to helping write up the elgalese of Independence.

What the CMS family has done over 48 years in the middle size India city of Lucknow is preserve the purest Gandhi/Montessori curricula and mkodalities of peer education. This family esentialy 3 people has deveoped a school whose classes have grown with such popular flow that it now serves 31000 children across the city. It is one of the top 10 schools in all India even by odd assessment ranking tables media uses. It achieves education of 31000 on a cost base that other top 10 schools serve a few hundreds kids. More than that its inquiring youth are likely to be the ones that help develop the new educational curricula that the ex president of India Kalam launched earlier this month as youth's responsibility to take over nationally by 2020 http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/ho lnus/403200708161020.htm will education be one of the prize foci of ted2008- may your gods pray that it is becasue it is the start of all truth and encomivc growth and it comes for free. Its just a different way of spending lifetimes of childrens. According top founder vof CMS, almost all world evil has the root cause of insiginificance adult generations attach to education of youth. That is the cornerstone of Gandhian truth and entrepreneurial truth and hopefully therefore what skoll world championships connect too.

Esther Dyson told a startled Charlie Rose 2 weeks ago that most services that need not just mechanisation are now being entrepreneurially led out of India as number 1 and USA as number 100 (bottom of class). Perhaos we shounld not be surprised that all the above zero-sum econoimts I have so far found apply hadhian whole truth to their analuysis: Sir Nick Syern, Muhhamad Yunus, CK Prahalad, Muhammad SWingh. Each of their maps is not complex but very different from the kind of global aid or corporate global economics being shoved down our throats. It may seem very theiretical to demand that economics become a fun reailty tv game but back in 1984 it seemed quite simple to play wherever goodwill peoples were ready to injetract across nations http://normanmacrae.com/netfutur e.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

All four of the above sustainability crises: 10 time more costly media. education ,service truth and professional truth are embedded in US System crises. This is good and bad news. Change and we can unleash order of magnbitude of sustainabiluity productivity all over USA, all over the world.

The catch 22 is that any such change requires re-editing the competition word because real collaboration is where above zero-sum economics way ahead starts and exponentially compounds. (How would you explain that one to Bill Gates- I dont know but unless you can, don't rely on 997 n ot particulary diverse billanthropists http://billantropy.blogspot.com , let alone purveyors of pc's killer ap the spreadsheet - to be the first to save sustainability). http://valuetrue.com/home/commun ity.cfm