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Here is the truth about solar: The only thing blocking the transition out of the carbon age is investment not technology. No further technological advance needs occur, although many will. We have the ability to do this right now. It is a question of will and intent. The human species, expressed through national policy can condemn itself to what unremediated climate change deals us, or we can change the trend. It is about as stark a choice as one sees. I found this on a Russian website. RT seems to be the only publication covering the MIT report, which I think is very telling.

Solar panels can power the world – MIT study

2015/05/202015/05/19

SchwartzReport: Real Farmers Grow Soil

01 Agriculture

There is an alternative to corporate industrialized chemical mono-culture agriculture. Here is a description of what it would look like. This approach works with the Earth's meta-systems, instead of trying to dominate them.

Microbes Will Feed the World, or Why Real Farmers Grow Soil, Not Crops

2015/05/182015/05/17

SchwartzReport: Harvesting Water from Fog

12 Water

Here is a lovely story of a creative low tech and inexpensive solution to certain kinds of drought. It wouldn't work everywhere, but it will many places. It replicates a technology used by Egyptians 5,000 years ago.

Trapping humidity out of fog in Chile

2015/05/172015/05/16

SchwartzReport: Water Privatization — Be Very Afraid

12 Water

As I have said over and over “Water is Destiny.” Very few people have paid any attention to their water company. It's regular bill, one of those things that just is, as a part of modern life. That is about to change, as the privatization movement gains momentum. In this report you can see the emerging corporate view of the Water Privatization Trend. To me this is very scary stuff. The essential substance of life owned by a few people. Think about that.

Exclusive Dispatch: Private Water Industry Says Water Bills “Have to Go Up”

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2015/05/162015/05/15

Sepp Hasslberger: GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines Kill 14 Babies, Falsified Parental Approvals and More…

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities

Is it time to call it quits on vaccines yet?

GSK fined over vaccine trials; 14 babies reported dead

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedly killed 14 babies. Likewise, two doctors -Héctor Abate, and Miguel Tregnaghi- were fined 300,000 pesos each for irregularities during the studies. The charges included experimenting with human beings as well falsifying parental authorizations so babies could participate in the vaccine-trials conducted by the laboratory from 2007 to 2008.

2015/05/162015/05/15

SchwartzReport: Hawaii Achieving Energy Freedom

05 Energy

Here is some very exciting news about Hawaii and energy. This would make that state the leader in the U.S. in the conversion away from carbon energy, and the monopolistic centralized power model that has dominated the American market for decades.

Hawaii Is Leading the Nation on Clean Energy Goals to Become Fossil Free

2015/05/152015/05/15

Joseph Stiglitz: New New Lipstick on the Pig

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Design

Today, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia professor and former economic advisor to Bill Clinton, [published] a new report for the Roosevelt Institute entitled “Rewriting the Rules,” which is basically a roadmap for what many progressives would like to see happen policy wise over the next four years.

Eight “fixes” and PBI commentary below the fold.

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