Better World Network

John Francis met up with Better World Network reporter Tom Munnecke on the beach in La Jolla, California. John tells a most amazing story of his personal “Do Something Moment” that lead to his remaining silent for 17 years while earning a PhD in Environmental Sciences. Watch this video to see his amazing lessons learned… And be on the lookout for his story to be released in a major motion picture by Universal Studios. Check out his book, How To Change Your World One Step at a Time.

Here is an interesting series on BBC’s Happiness Formula with lots of links relating to the science of happiness and Martin Seligman’s work on Positive Psychology as well as Values In Action.

This is a very interesting presentation by Frances Moore Lappé of the Small Planet Insitute entitled The Real Crisis presented at Xavier University Cincinatti, OH, 10 July 2005.

Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self Radio on KDIA 1640 AM in the San Francisco Bay area, interviewed Tom Munnecke on March 9, 2006, discussing the Uplift Academy in the context of positive psychology. Below is a transcript of the interview.

At the Accelerating Change Conference, at Stanford University in September 17, 2005, Tom Munnecke was interviewed as part of Pew’s Imagining the Internet, a History and Forecast project. An audio recording of his interview is available as a podcast below.

This is a 43 minute video of his interview:

Munnecke is also featured in this 13 minute video which includes Douglas Engelbart, George Gilder, Vernon Vinge, Tom Malone, Patrick Lincoln, David Smith, John Smart, David Swedlow. Note that he is the only person to talk about love and human virtues as factors shaping our future.