The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jointly: Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery App My colleague Samia Kallidis is launching a brilliant self-help app to facilitate community-based disaster recovery efforts. Samia is an MFA Candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York. While her work on this peer-to-peer app began as part of her thesis, she has since been accepted to the NEA Studio …
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Community Supported Everything! By John Robb How do you build resilient infrastructure in the 21st Century? One good answer: make it opt-in. It’s already happening. Farmers are doing it with CSA programs. Businesses and artists are doing it with Kickstarter. We’re finding that once you cut out the middleman (Wall Street and Big Box Retail) …
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This is UNOFFICIAL at this time, it has NOT been validated as an official document. The depiction of most Army contractors as small to mid-size businesses with moderate to severe risk of bankruptcy if sequester cuts take place, is a useful point for investigators. What is missing is a global “picture” of what different kinds …
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Canada / Quebec 2013 Ready, not ready, independence is coming The process of disintegration of the federation is on the verge of rapid acceleration I say and repeat on all keys for three years here on Vigil, Canada is in trouble. You tell me that his situation is better or worse than many other countries, …
Farming is Becoming a Service. Here’s How to Benefit From It By John Robb Farming is increasingly becoming a service. The reasons for this are simple. People want the freshness, quality, and meaning they get from buying local food from people they know. It’s also great for the farmer, since it enables them to directly …
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Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger By Danielle Dellorto, CNN updated 5:41 AM EST, Fri December 14, 2012 Obesity is a bigger health crisis globally than hunger, and the leading cause of disabilities around the world, according to a new report published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Nearly 500 researchers …
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Q&A: Anant Agarwal, edX’s president and first professor In May, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced their joint plan to “explore the frontiers of digital education” by offering free online courses to learners around the world. As a result, their new online learning platform edX entered the burgeoning world of MOOCs …
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