<html><head><base href="data:"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="text-align: left; ">Hi All,</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">This Innovative Area (WR & surrounding municipalities) has to develop an Innovative Culture that is much more creative and intelligent so as to better aid especially our major hi-tech business innovators -- RIM, Open Text, ... -- in their competitive struggle with the large wealthy global giants such as Google and Apple.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The gradual adaption of a Fractal Worldview by our Region's thought leaders and organizations would be but one necessary step towards enhancing our Innovation Potential.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">This first article gives a good indication of a <b>Fractal Worldview's</b> usefulness in researching and applying the complex interrelationships between env, soc & econ:</div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Fractal Dynamics and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_FD_Narrative.pdf">http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_FD_Narrative.pdf</a></div></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Fractal dynamics provides insight into some fundamental questions about the future of CSR. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">How might the field of CSR evolve? Will there be a need for CSR? How can a progressive </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">and <b>sustainable</b> economy be established? How can corporate attention shift from current </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">compliance-based practices of establishing codes of conduct to <b>a fundamental corporate </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>repurposing based on truly addressing human, social and environmental needs</b>? </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">It is perhaps of little surprise that fractal dynamics was intuitively grasped by such effective </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">individuals as <b>Gandhi </b>and <b>Einstein</b> many decades ago. Gandhi is known to have stated, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">“Become the change that you wish to see in the world.” This statement is imbued with fractal </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">reality: by changing the base-pattern (“<b>Become the change…</b>”), the subsequent levels of an </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">organization, and its entire interaction and approach to the market, environment and </div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">society, are also fundamentally changed. </span>"</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><b>Some interesting context about the general applicability of fractal concepts:</b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Chaos Theory, Fractals and the complexity of existence…</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://skonieczna.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/chaos-theory-fractals-and-the-complexity-of-existence/">http://skonieczna.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/chaos-theory-fractals-and-the-complexity-of-existence/</a></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The chaos theory of evolution</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827821.000-the-chaos-theory-of-evolution.html">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827821.000-the-chaos-theory-of-evolution.html</a></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Fractal Evolution</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://science-art-usa.50megs.com/whats_new_2.html">http://science-art-usa.50megs.com/whats_new_2.html</a></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: left; ">SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONAL THEORY AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://critcrim.org/redfeather/chaos/ab-sit.htm">http://critcrim.org/redfeather/chaos/ab-sit.htm</a></div><div><br></div></div><div style="text-align: left; ">SEMIOTIC SEAMS: FRACTAL DYNAMICS OF REENTRY</div><a href="http://www.markstarlow.com/Events/SemioticSeamsFinal.pdf">http://www.markstarlow.com/Events/SemioticSeamsFinal.pdf</a><div><br></div><div>Vortex Basics and Fractals from the Subatomic to the Super Galactic</div><div><a href="http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm">http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>THE FRACTAL MATRIX: A PARADIGM FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY </div><div><a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/BasicModel_Part%20III.htm">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/BasicModel_Part%20III.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>What are Fractal Systems? (a limited conception)</div><div><a href="http://www.fractal.org/Fractal-systems.htm">http://www.fractal.org/Fractal-systems.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Vortex Basics and Fractals from the Subatomic to the Super Galactic </div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm">http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm</a> (<b>Wow!</b>)</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Merry Xmas & Happy New Year.</div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div>PS: For those who might be interested in the great graphics, earlier today I sent this email titled "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>Applied Vortex Mathematics</b></span>"(slight overlap)</div><div><div><a href="http://www.fantastic-fractals.com/Fractal-Vortices.html">http://www.fantastic-fractals.com/Fractal-Vortices.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3sad-vw-Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3sad-vw-Q</a></div><div><a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/BasicModel_Part%20III.htm">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/BasicModel_Part%20III.htm</a></div><div><a href="http://books.google.ca/books/about/Hidden_Nature.html?id=4DYrPjWnAywC&redir_esc=y">http://books.google.ca/books/about/Hidden_Nature.html?id=4DYrPjWnAywC&redir_esc=y</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chrb7fN2QS4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chrb7fN2QS4</a></div><div><a href="http://www.meru.org/">http://www.meru.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1117406/pg1">http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1117406/pg1</a></div><div><a href="http://teleomorph.com/2010/03/10/fractal-vortex-ring-collision/">http://teleomorph.com/2010/03/10/fractal-vortex-ring-collision/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm">http://www.feandft.com/vortex_basics.htm</a> (Wow!)</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrNdUv4fsA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrNdUv4fsA</a> (Apophysis fractal software)</div><div><a href="https://www.fractalus.com/kerry/articles/vortical_flow1.pdf">https://www.fractalus.com/kerry/articles/vortical_flow1.pdf</a> (computer modeling)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>