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Revolutionary 3D Printer Can Build 10 Houses In 24 Hours For Only $5,000 Each

To remedy the housing crisis, as well as the increasing demand for economical and sustainably-produced living spaces, many architects are experimenting with 3D printing. One such designer is Ma Yihe, the owner of the private firm WinSun. According to BBC News, WinSun managed to produce 10 full-sized, detached single-story houses in just ONE day – a monumental achievement. Based in China, the company used four 10m x 6.6m printers to spray a mixture of cement and construction waste to build the walls, layer by layer. The energy-efficient buildings, as reported by Xinhua news agency, can be produced for as little as $5,000 due to the lack of manual labor and cheap (as well as recycled) materials.

2015/09/222015/09/21

JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this. Learn more.

2015/09/102015/09/09

Sepp Hasslberger: Vimeo (7:38) Flaw in Monetary System

03 Economy, 11 Society, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Thomas H Greco says: This is an excellent video—clear, concise and accurate.

The new film ‘A Flaw in the Monetary System?’ depicts in 7 ½ minutes consequences of interest and compound interest in the financial world in descriptive graphics. It illustrates the systematic redistribution of money from the majority to the wealthy.

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2015/09/052015/09/04

Sepp Hasslberger: Kenyan Community Currencies

03 Economy

A paper describing an alternative view on money for a UN initiative…

Re-imagining Money to Broaden the Future of Development Finance: What Kenyan Community Currencies Reveal is Possible for Financing Development

Grassroots economics, in a context of a community of micro-entrepreneurs, uses a Collaborative Credit System (CCS) in which members issue interest free credit to each other. This is similar to how most national currencies are created, yet it is done peer-to-peer, without the involvement of banks.

2015/09/022015/09/01

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Enables the Next Wave of US Job Layoffs is in Banking and Information Technology

03 Economy

Bank Exports IT to India

Despite falling out of interest with the mainstream media, jobs are still being outsourced to Asia. Citizens Bank is having their current IT employees train their replacements in a “knowledge transfer” and they will be terminated come December. . . . Citizens Bank signed a five-year services contract with IBM for IT services. IBM owns a large scale IT services company in India, which pays its workers a fraction of the current Citizens Bank IT workers.

2015/08/262015/08/24

JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence

There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only necessary, but affordable.

2015/08/252015/08/23

Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost

The vision is one where we can do, with direct collaboration, much of what corporations and governments do today, and we can do it better.

Backfeed wants to decentralize the Internet and help you earn what you deserve

The blockchain makes the local to global egalitarian economy possible.

Category: 03 Economy

Jean Lievens: Chinese 3D Printer Builds 10 Houses in 24 Hours for Only $5,000 Each