The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Low carbon cities are US$17 trillion opportunity, says New Climate Economy
The steps that cities take to shrink their carbon footprints also reduce their energy costs, improve public health, and help them attract new residents and businesses.
Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change
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How Blockchain Technology Might Decentralise Everything (Not Just Currency!)
Do you know that blockchain technology could decentralise everything and not just currency? Do you even know what Blockchain is? One example that you just might have heard of is Bitcoin, the online currency. That in itself may not enlighten you to what blockchain is, however. According to Pearl Chan (2015) reporting for Venture Beat, a blockchain is:
“A transaction database shared by all nodes participating in a system. In essence it is a distributed method of tracking and transferring assets online without need for a trusted party.”
What's this message is about: Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a countrywide general strike. An ad agency that identified with the revolution (and needed the country to get back to work in order to sell its clients’ products!) decided to get all of Tunisia vividly imagining a better future. They convinced six brands and five major Tunisian media to spend one day together carrying nothing but stories as if it were three years later and Tunisia had become a prosperous, modern, democratic country. By the evening of that day people all over the country were imagining and debating the destiny of Tunisia on Twitter, on a special website, and in streets, homes, and media across the land. Suddenly returning to work became a revolutionary act. This post explores the implications of that remarkable event for the rest of us, and for democracy itself.
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You say that humanity “is a fresher at the University of Life”. How important do you think it is to decode nature before coding technology?
In my experience, a sizeable quantity of that which is positioned as a ‘solution’ to a current or anticipated future problem is flawed, and sometimes deeply so. Often the flaws are technical, as for example with a great many ‘green building’ proposals that involve sticking trees on balconies and roofs. . . . Five decades later and the same mistakes are being made. Not only that, but we’re arguably seeing even greater levels of ignore in regard of science.
Unthinkable: Brazilian Journalist Mulls Soviet-Style Collapse of US
Citing a series of geopolitical, economic and social setbacks faced by the United States since the turn of the century, geopolitical analyst and Sao Paulo Business School Professor Antonio Gelis-Filho argues that global policy planners must prepare to deal with the “improbable, but by all means possible, Soviet-style collapse of the United States.”
10 Open Source Policies for a Commons-Based Society
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1 Education 2 Research 3 Purchasing 4 Patents 5 Data 6 Collaboration 7 Commons 8 Health 9 Economy 10 Systemic Change
Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens.
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