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Edgar Morin: Seven Complex Lessons in Education 2011 French with English Subtitles
Earth IntelligenceZach Stevenson: The Nuances of “Public” Land Disputes
Cultural Intelligence, Earth IntelligenceFormer Forest Supervisor: Why I Resigned Over a Public Land Dispute
Bringing the hammer down on the Bundys won't fix the much bigger problems our lands face
Gloria Flora is the Executive Director of Sustainable Obtainable Solutions, an organization ensuring the sustainability of public lands.
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Daniel West: Open Sovereignty & Walden Labs
Cultural Intelligence, Earth IntelligenceI can understand why regular people aren't interested in your vision. They're too busy making ends meet, worrying about how to pay the bills and what to eat for dinner. As HDT writes in Walden, “The necessaries of life for man…may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” Most people are still struggling to secure these necessaries.
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Robert Steele: Saving Civilization – Time & Truth Matter
#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace IntelligenceShort URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Saving
The tide has clearly turned against the techno-financial paradigm that disregards natural capital costs and exploits the 99% in favor of the 1%. Even a few billionaires have figured this out.
Time, however, is not on our side, nor is truth easy to find in today's severely corrupt information environment where all eight tribes of information — including self-absorbed “progressive” activists — operate on no more than 2% of the relevant information and ignore the three things that I consider essential to saving civilization and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all: holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering.
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Yoda: Farm from a Box
Earth IntelligenceA complete, off-grid toolkit for community farming.
Farm from a Box provides communities with the tools required to feed themselves and build a strong livelihood. Built from a modified shipping container, each unit contains a complete ecosystem of technologies required to enhance agricultural productivity; from renewable power and irrigation, to Information and Communications Technology.
Yoda: Farm in a Box (CropBox)
Earth IntelligenceFarm in a box produces an acre's worth of crops in a shipping container
Along with “exponentially higher” yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90% less water and 80% less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.
The shipping containers, which can fit 2800 planting spots in the 320 square feet (~ 30 square meters), are outfitted with grow lights, planting racks, a heating and ventilation system, all of the necessary hydroponic components (reservoir, pump, control & monitoring system), and a complete suite of 18 sensors for monitoring just about every environmental condition inside the container.