Phi Beta Iota: This is our preliminary construct for creating a global multinational, multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain information-sharing and sense-making (M4IS2) architecture for the Health portion of the World Brain and Global Game.
Graphic: Principles of War versus Principles of Peace
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Capabilities-Force Structure, Leadership-Integrity, Political, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Threats, Tribes, True Cost
As published in Robert D. Steele, HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (Strategic Studies Institute, May 2010).
Also used in 2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile).
Infographic: The Effects of Coal on Water in the US
03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 12 Water, info-graphics/data-visualization, True Cost, True Cost
August 16, 2010
The contest between coal-fired energy production and water demand is a mismatch. Mining and burning coal accounts for half of all water withdrawals in the United States, which is the same amount of water that pours over Niagara Falls in five months. Burning coal in power plants also is the source of more climate-changing carbon emissions than any other industrial sector. Here’s a look at the economically essential and ecologically damaging accord between coal and water.
Video: “Twinkie Deconstructed” Author Shows Strange Origins & Nexus of Ingredients
07 Health, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Graphics, True Cost, True Cost, Videos/Movies/DocumentariesIn this fascinating exploration into the curious world of packaged foods, Twinkie, Deconstructed takes us from phosphate mines in Idaho to corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to oil fields in China, to demystify some of America’s most common processed food ingredients—where they come from, how they are made, how they are used—and why. Beginning at the source (hint: they’re often more closely linked to rocks and petroleum than any of the four food groups), Steve Ettlinger reveals how each Twinkie ingredient goes through the process of being crushed, baked, fermented, refined, and/or reacted into a totally unrecognizable goo or powder with a strange name—all for the sake of creating a simple snack cake.
Graphic: “The True Cost of Coal”
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 07 Health, 10 Security, 12 Water, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Graphics, Peace Intelligence, True Cost, True Cost
After two years of collaborative research, storysharing, metaphor crafting, and meticulous illustrating, the bees have completed an epic illustration about mountaintop removal coal mining.
Related:
+ True Cost Meme
+ True Cost T-Shirt