Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

#OSE Open Source Everything, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Sources (Info/Intel)

yoda with light saberGoogle and Facebook as the dark force…

Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund

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The Guardian

EXTRACT

Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

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Joe Brewer: Ethical Sourcing App & Database

Economics/True Cost
Joe Brewer
Joe Brewer

A good start on educating consumers about true costs.

GoodGuide. Receive on your handheld device safe, healthy, green, & ethical product reviews based on scientific ratings.With over 250,000 products on our site, we can help you find what you're looking for. The overall score for a product is an average of three scores: health (ingredients, health impacts, certifications), environment (resource use, environmental impact, transparency), and society (consumers, worker safety, community). Home Page

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Yoda: Sustainable Development Cost Estimates

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Threats, United Nations & NGOs

yoda with light saberUseful onventional wisdom.

Cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

$1.3 trillion a year or 11% of GDP in international dollars. This assumes conventional financing and conventional technologies and conventional processes.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

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

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.

David Bollier: Commons as Tool for Sharing Wealth

Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy
David Bollier
David Bollier

I recently spoke at a conference, “Property and Inequality in the 21st Century,” hosted by The Common Core of European Private Law, an annual gathering of legal scholars, mostly from Europe. They had asked me how the commons might be a force for reducing inequality. Below are my remarks, “The Commons as a Tool for Sharing the Wealth.” The conference was held at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, on June 12-13, 2015.

Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens

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