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Nexushaus is an amazing and cheap solar living home that is water independent

This one story, energy positive house comes from designers from Technische Universität München (TUM) and the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Made with almost entirely sustainable materials, a self-reliant water capture and treatment system and solar panels, Nexushaus is currently being constructed and tested in Austin, Texas. It's a response to a rise in the cost of housing, relative to all the new people moving to the city and an opportunity to build a house that will feed electricity back into the system. The solar panels are enough to power the lighting, air conditioning, household appliances, and an electric car.

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2015/07/23

SchwartzReport: Dutch Create Plastic Roads

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, Earth Intelligence

Here is a potential game changing infrastructure technology, once again from the Dutch. And very good news. Road construction and maintenance using recycled plastic is a brilliant idea.

Netherlands Company Introduces Plastic Roads That Are More Durable, Climate Friendly Than Asphalt

2015/07/222015/07/22

African Governments Sell Out Farmers on Seeds

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, Corruption, Government

African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal

African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive ‘plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations. The Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants regional legal framework gives intellectual property rights to breeders while restricting the age-old practices of African farmers to freely save, use, share and sell seeds and/or propagating material.

2015/07/212015/07/20

Berto Jongman: 24 Countries Bankrupt, 14 More Soon…

03 Economy

The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates – 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis

There has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which threatens to explode at any moment.

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2015/07/202015/07/19

Sepp Hasslberger: Is the Economy About Finance for the 1% or Bien Estar (Well-Being) for the 99%?

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

What's the economy all about … is it people, or finance?

Because You're Worthless – Challenging The Current Economic System in 3 Minutes

Poem by Agnes Török on the news of a new Conservative budget. Based on experiences of living in Britain under austerity as a young, queer, unemployed, female immigrant student – and not taking it any more.

Phi Beta Iota: Art trumps corruption in 3 minutes. YouTube (3:12) top stuff.

2015/07/192015/07/18

Mongoose: El Chapo a Hero in Mexico — Say What?

02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 08 Immigration, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement, Military

The next attache from DHS will have their work cut out for them.

In Mexico, escaped ‘El Chapo’ is folk hero no. 1

For many Mexicans, he is an unusual combination of Robin Hood and billionaire.

He fought the law, and he won. He beat what many Mexicans see as a corrupt and feckless governing class.

2015/07/182015/07/17

SchwartzReport: Lobbying for War — and How Cheaply US Politicians Sell For….

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society

The level of American corruption is breath-taking.

Koch, Exxon And Other Big Oil Spend $141 Million Lobbying Washington For More War

Phi Beta Iota: $141M is chump change. Beyond that are the tens of billions paid in fines for violating laws — e.g. $5B for manipulating the multi-trillion foreign exchange markets with tens of billions in illicit profit that also bankrupts the unwitting. What we have are politicians guilty of treason who sell out for chump change, while continuously legalizing high crimes against the public interest.