The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
David Korten 5.0 out of 5 stars Brings Us Full Circle — Valuable as Remedial Education for All, June 27, 2015 David Korten has been one of my heroes and indirect mentors through his books for over a decade. His book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community resonated deeply with me, and I …
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Is Alaska the new Florida? Experts predict where next for America’s ‘climate refugees’ Rising temperatures could spark massive population shifts across the United States Alaskans, stay in Alaska. People in the midwest and the Pacific north-west, sit tight. Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few havens from the …
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Chinese Drought, Wheat, and the Egyptian Uprising: How a Localized Hazard became Globalized Did climate change play an indirect role in the political upheavals that rocked Egypt in 2011? Absolutely, says Troy Sternberg. As he sees it, a once-in-a-century drought in China dramatically reduced global wheat supplies and sent prices skyrocketing in the world’s largest …
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Strategic Climate Activism: Resist – and build a cooperative, democratic economy The climate crisis is far more than an environmental issue. Adequately ramping up efforts to address it will require prioritizing a climate-justice movement which taps the potent activism of struggling peoples for whom social change is and has always been a matter of survival. …
For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=65613&a… In India, climate change is forcing farmers to adapt in order to survive. While scientists race to breed a new batch of climate-resilient super seeds, locals are instead turning to the ways of their ancestors. Saltwater intrusion, flooding, droughts, rising sea levels and violent storms wreak havoc on …
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From Occupy to Climate Justice: Merging Economic Justice and Climate Activism by Wen Stephenson It’s an odd thing, really. in certain precincts of the left, especially across a broad spectrum of what could be called the economic left, our (by which I mean humanity’s) accelerating trajectory toward the climate cliff is little more popular as …
How visualising data has changed life… and saved lives From John Graunt’s ‘bills of mortality’ to Florence Nightingale’s revolutionary ‘rose charts’, the distillation of information into graphics has been a vital tool for scientists Nicola Davis The Observer, Saturday 15 February 2014 Big data, infographics, visualisations – the pop words of a modern phenomenon. But …
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