Worth a Look: Earth Economics

Working Together To Value All Our Resources Earth Economics is a non-profit located in Tacoma, Washington, dedicated to researching and applying the economic solutions of tomorrow, today. Earth Economics provides robust, science-based, ecologically sound economic analysis, policy recommendations and tools to positively transform regional, national and international economics, and asset accounting systems. Working with leading …

Henry Giroux: The USA’s Politics and Economics of Cruelty & the Disposable Underclass

Why Don’t Americans Care About Democracy at Home? By Henry A Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed truth-out.org, Tuesday, 02 October 2012 13:47 “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”  – James Baldwin Four decades of neoliberal policies have given way to an economic Darwinism …

Michel Bauwens: Sustainable Societies, True Cost Economics, and Appropriate Governance

“The “Principled Societies” concept outlined in the book Creating Sustainable Societies is a blueprint for sustainable financial, economic, and governance systems, intended for local implementation. The book starts by pinpointing the central problems within our financial, economic, and governance systems that have lead to high unemployment, massive debt, environmental degradation, mistrust of Congress and big …

SmartPlanet: Conflict-Free Supply Chains – Tracing, Auditing, Certification – Solid Advance in True Cost Economics

The top firms that champion conflict-free supply chains Intel, HP, and Apple have received top marks for their efforts to eradicate conflict minerals from supply chains in a new report published by the Enough Project. The anti-genocide nonprofit organization’s report, dubbed “Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets” (.pdf), researched how leading technology developers and manufacturers …

Reflections on Data as the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, Machine or Man-Machine Translation, or M4IS2

It is fashionable now to talk about data as the new oil (or dirt), and to proclaim breathlessly that the ever-increasing masses of data allow for ever more wonderous things to be done including my personal favorite, situational awareness. However, no one is yet serious about holistic analytics (which also implies a holistic collection management …

Tom Atlee: Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food

  Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food Dear friends, The remarkable article below speaks for itself and, since it is long, I won’t add much except strong encouragement for you to read it and a note that you can productively and enjoyably jump around in it (as I did) if you’d rather not …

Free Online Book: Geoeconomics

Geoeconomics With the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics the focus is no longer the Heartland or the Rimland, or any coherent geographical region, but the set of all geographical locations containing economically-important natural resources, what we shall call the Nareland (Natural Resource Lands). This new logic of dispersed geographical locations marks the shift from geopolitics …