Animation with narration: Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
Short Videos – Eye-opening, heart-opening, mind-opening, amazing
Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Reviews (DVD Only), TED Videos, YouTube
Dear friends,
Sometimes when this work seems too hard, someone will send me a video link… and I'll suddenly find myself bathed in one more reason why it is worth pouring so much of life into creating a decent, joyful, healthy society.
There is so much going on in the world that is worth preserving, so much worth celebrating, so much worth nurturing. And, of course, most of it is not on videos.
But a lot of it is…
I thought I'd take a moment to share some of my favorites. Most of them are 2-10 minutes long. I've marked the longer ones.
Coheartedly,
Tom
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Public Health Advocates Pressure on EPA Flouride Reduction
01 Agriculture, 04 Education, 07 Health, 12 Water, Corporations
EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
Decision aims to protect children’s health
- CONTACT: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982 leeann@ewg.org; Beyond Pesticides: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450; Fluoride Action Network: Ellen Connett, 315-379-9200
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 2011
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end the use of sulfuryl fluoride, an insecticide and food fumigant manufactured by Dow AgroSciences.
The Dow product, approved by EPA as an alternative to methyl bromide, is used on hundreds of food commodities.
Citing concerns about children’s health and noting their current overexposure to fluoride through tap water, EPA’s decision is the second major federal action in three days to address the safety of fluoride for children. On January 7, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed to reduce its recommended maximum level of fluoride in tap water from 1.2 to 0.7 parts per million (ppm), a 42 percent decrease.
In 2004, Fluoride Action Network, Environmental Working Group, and Beyond Pesticides challenged EPA’s risk assessment of the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride under the Food Quality and Protection Act of 1996, which regulates pesticide safety. The groups objected that EPA’s methodology relied on an outdated health risk assessment and significantly underestimated children’s exposures to fluoride from all sources.
With today’s announcement, the EPA Office of Pesticide Program has concluded that the current legal limit of the pesticide residue on food does not adequately protect children from aggregate fluoride exposures, such as drinking water and toothpaste.
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Building Democracy Amongst Corporate Personhood Rights, Powers, and Legal Fictions
04 Education, 09 Justice, Civil Society, Commerce, Corporations, Government, Videos/Movies/DocumentariesWomens International League for Peace and Freedom is pushing to turn back the Supreme Court ruling that gives corporations personhood and the freedom to spend unlimited money in political ads under freedom of speech. See Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers from 1772-1996 (pdf)
Related:
+ Video: Transpartisan dialog on corporate power (Jan 21, 2011 on CSPAN3)
+ Resolution Calling to Amend the Constitution Banning Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont (Jan 22, 2011)
+ Following the Money a Year After Citizens United (Jan 19, 2011)
+ Video: The Corporation (23 parts on YouTube)
+ Links on a Smart Nation for Reform @PhiBetaIota
Where Does the Money Go?
01 Brazil, 02 China, 03 Economy, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, Budgets & Funding, Government, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
The Top Ten Foreign Holders of U.s. Debt in November 2009:
Country Amount
China, Mainland $789.6 billion
Japan $757.3 billion
U.K. $277.5 billion
Oil Exporters $187.7 billion
(including Ecuador,
Venezuela, Indonesia,
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates,
Algeria, Gabon, Libya,
and Nigeria)
Caribbean Banking Centers $179.8 billion
(includes the Bahamas,
Bermuda, Cayman Islands,
Netherlands Antilles,
Panama, and British Virgin Islands)
Brazil $157.1 billion
Hong Kong $146.2 billion
Russia $128.1 billion
Luxembourg $91.7 billion
Taiwan $78.4 billion
Source: Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board as reported in CRS report The Federal Government Debt: Its Size and Economic Signifcance, Feb. 3, 2010. http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL31590_20100203.pdf.
Reference: Advanced Cyber-IO (First Cut)
Advanced Cyber/IO, Computer/online security, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, DoD, Government, Military, Monographs, Officers Call, Policies, Real Time, ThreatsThe below was inspired by a close look at the evolving concept of cyber-commands. In our judgment, LtGen Keith Alexander, USA and those in charge of the various service cyber-commands are headed for spectacularly expensive failure, minor operational successes not-with-standing. The officers concerned are well-intentioned, precisely like their predecessors who chose to ignore precisely the same insights published in 1994–they simply lack the intestinal fortitude to break with the past and get it right for a change. What they plan is the cyber equivalent of “clear, hold, build,” and just as mis-guided. They are out of touch with reality and will remain so. They will all be happily retired long before the predictable recognition of their failure occurs, and the next generation of young flags will make the same mistakes again…and again…until we get an honest President with an honest Office of Management and Budget (OMB) able to demand and enforce integrity across the board.
Draft Monograph on Cyber-Command
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Diversity Magic–Breakthrough Possible
About the Idea, Communities of Practice, Cultural IntelligenceDiversity, like fire, is a powerful part of life. Let us use it well on our shared journey, weaving our unique stories into new possibilities around the great shared fire of life.
DIVERSITY IS AS BIG AS THE UNIVERSE
by Tom Atlee
SUMMARY
Our use of the word “diversity” primarily to address issues of
racism, classism, sexism, and other oppressive isms has blinded us to the fact that diversity is a vast fact of life, deeply embedded not only in humanity but in natural systems and in the very fabric of the universe.
Diversity, like fire and genius, can be problematic. And like
fire and genius, diversity has creative power we can use to
make life better.
