Those are some great links Kimberly. Another example of how we can pull together ideas across domains and visualize a different future. That is similar to what I was trying to do with the links following The Story.

As I look at each of those organizations - and lots of others - I think that they have placed themselves in the trap of institutional imperatives. Once they set set up a structure and fund its work, the needs of the organization take precedence no matter that the idea they are promoting is noble or timely or important. Each of them becomes "just another organization" competing with all the other organizations for the attention of the public. I think it is that competition that builds the walls of our silos - there is so much focus on getting a share of the available attention that we cannot see how what we do "fits" with what others are doing.

The idea of the global commons could go that way, or, representatives from lots of different organizations could agree to drop their competition and use the global commons to explore their complementarities - how things might fit together in a different future. I still don't think we will make that determination and implement it at the planetary level - so I am talking about a microcosm of that in every community and sharing results from that level on a planetary scale.