Quantum Shift TV

Visitors to the interactive Quantum Shift TV website may engage in a variety of learning and communication process related to this effort to tell stories to inspire positive action. Quantum Shift seeks to educate through games and entertainment, and to connect companies with conscious consumers.

For example, Quantum Shift TV's contest engine enables anyone to create a team to support a person's video(s), and generates points for that team from all kinds of activity on the site - e.g., watching, rating, commenting on, and forwarding videos to friends, uploading new videos, and answering trivia questions and solving the puzzles that are woven throughout the contests. Winning is based not only on how many votes a contestant receives, but on points generated by their team of supporters. One video, termed "SOIL: The Secret Solution to Global Warming", was uploaded to the website by Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, who makes the case (addressing President Bush, Prime Minister Harper, and Prime Minister Blair) that shifting existing subsidies to sustainable farming practices could offset greenhouse emissions 10% to 20%. Members of the global public were invited to vote on policy proposal via an online poll (Click here to view this video, and others.)

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This excerpt from the Quantum Shift TV website may help to explain the motivation behind the project: "A culture's behavior is based on its values and beliefs, which in turn are based on, and reinforced by, its stories. In today's world, the media is our storyteller. The way in which the media presents news stories shapes the values of our children and teenagers and reinforces those values in adults. So what happens when traditional newsrooms focus on death, catastrophe, violence, conflict and controversy rather than on the daily stories about success, breakthroughs, the perseverance of the human spirit and the caring in our communities?....Is that how we want to educate our children? Is that the world we truly want to create?"