The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Water is destiny. Here is a glimpse of what lies ahead for California. It is going to be a very different world.
How to Survive a Future Without Water
HENRY GRABAR
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Here is what I think is the truth. We could make the conversion to non-carbon energy within a generation if we could muster the political and social will to do so. Sadly, I am afraid the secret government within the government that is controlled in large measure by carbon energy intere! sts, combined with the almost grotesque ignorance of the American electorate will not allow it to happen. But it could be done, and it would be significantly cheaper for customers, would create tens of thousands of jobs, as weel as improving the economy.
Running It All On Clean Energy: ‘A Question Of Social And Political Will”
CleanTechnica
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow Mark Jacobson says the United States has the technology and logistical ability to convert to all-renewable energy sources by 2050-if we can manage to exercise the social and political will to do so. He’s the guy who told David Letterman we already have enough wind to power the entire world ‘seven times over.” Now he has proven his point with a groundbreaking roadmap to clean energy for all 50 U.S. states.
With colleagues from academia and industry, Jacobson-a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy-recently developed detailed plans that three states (New York, 2/18/13; Washington, 1/14/14; and California, yesterday-2/22/14) could use to switch over their energy infrastructures from conventional fuels to 100% renewable resources by 2050. As Jacobson uses the term, ‘infrastructure” includes electric power, transportation, heating/cooling, and industry uses. ‘Renewable power” is derived primarily from wind, water, and sunlight (WWS), generating electricity and electrolytic hydrogen.
Some findings of research behind the plans:
This is a fascinating story about the interconnected nature of the Earth's biosphere. There is so much we don't know, but one thing becomes clearer and clearer: The only way we are going to save ourselves is by working with nature, not trying to dominate nature. Frankly, though, I think the greed and stupidity greed creates are still too powerful to allow us to save ourselves. From everything I can see the rest of this century is going to b! e a debacle with hundreds of millions of people dying. All completely unnecessary but, when profit is the only social priority, inevitable.
Smell of Forest Pine Can Limit Climate Change – Researchers
MATT MCGRATH – BBC News (U.K.)
New research suggests a strong link between the powerful smell of pine trees and climate change.
Scientists say they've found a mechanism by which these scented vapours turn into aerosols above boreal forests.
These particles promote cooling by reflecting sunlight back into space and helping clouds to form.
SOLIDARIA – Platform, Marketplace & Seed of a Network of Cooperatives
Building the infrastructure for a global community of a commons-based peer society
Realizing, merging, funding, organizing & expanding the global commons – knowledge, culture, means of production and land property.
Solidaria will open up a space where all our activity is aimed towards extending the commons – open knowledge and freeculture as well as the material commons like housing, property and means of production!
It enables you to work in cooperatives of the commons based peer-to-peer economy, no matter if you’re working in the knowledge economy or in a classical field. And it enables you to work for the commons even in projects that normally wouldn’t be economically viable – and still make a living off it! The decision which project you want to work on does not depend on the question if it is convertible into something commercial – all that matters is that you are contributing to the commons.
And it gives you back the power over how the economy works by opening up economic and environmental decisions to all stakeholders – it’s not the capitalist elite deciding anymore, but also not only the people inside the cooperatives, it’s everyone!
It gives you the opportunity to consume inside the commons-based economy wherever possible. It also opens up powerful ways of collaborative consumption or producing things yourself.
And last but not least it even gives you the possibility to financially support the extension of the commons even with the big part of consumption that is not possible inside of it yet.
MIT scientists show tree branch to be effective water purifier
A suitable water filter is already growing in most forests.
Dirty, contaminated water is a problem for many developing nations. But water filters are relatively expensive and not something easily assembled in the shed, garage or backyard — unless, of course, the water filter is already assembled and growing in the backyard.New research by scientists at MIT proves that a water filter made out of a small piece of sapwood from a white pine tree can rid contaminated water of 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli, producing up to four liters of clean, potable water a day.
They say the small pores of a sapwood branch or section of trunk — tissue that's designed to transport sap throughout the tree — works to trap and block most types of bacteria as water filters through.
The details of the researchers' discovery was recently published in Plos One.
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Encycling Problematic Wickedness for Potential Humanity
Imagining a future Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Introduction
Learnings from the past?
Requisite craziness?
Problems, problematique and wickedness?
Ensuring identity through property and possession?
Global “world”, or requisite topology of higher dimensionality?
Human potential vs. Potential humanity?
Encycling rather than Encyclopedia: dynamic vs. static?
Questing for an imaginal episystemic container: embodying self-reflexivity?
Mankind 2000 and Union of International Associations — “reloaded”?
Engendering engaging manageable “content”?
Encycling Problematic Wickedness and Potential Humanity?
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