SchwartzReport: Market Basket — Board Fires Progressive CEO, Boomers Go on Strike to Reinstate — Mutuality Economics from the Bottom-Up

This is a lovely story of how capitalism could be run. It illustrates very clearly the difference between the vampire capitalism that dominates our economy, and the compassionate capitalism we could have. Market Basket: The Return of Boomer Activism LAUREN STILLER RIKLEEN – Forbes Workers at the Market Basket supermarket chain just successfully undertook a …

Berto Jongman: RoboEarth, RoboBrain — ZERO True Cost Economics Included

Robotic brain ‘learns’ skills from the internet A super-intelligent robotic “brain” that can learn new skills by browsing millions of web pages has been developed by US researchers. Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube. The information it learns can then …

Jean Lievens: Factory of the Future – Internet of Things (Not Yet Rooted in Open Source Everything, True Cost Economics, or Holistic Analytics)

The Factory of the Future Will Be Shaped by the Internet of Things Andrew Dugenske, Alain Louchez Manufacturing.net, August 2014 Around the globe, intelligent and pervasive industrial automation has been catapulted in recent years to a top national or regional priority. Known by different names, e.g., “Advanced Manufacturing”, “Smart Manufacturing”, “Industry 4.0” or “Factories of …

Robert Steele: Plant Language, Plant Consciousness, True Cost Economics, Big Data and the Coming Bio-Mimicry Revolution

I’ve known for decades that plants can see and hear and sense and communicate feelings —  the 1970’s experiment with plants witnessing an individual “murdering” on of their own, and then the plants reacting on a polygraph machine when  the one individual out of a line of many individuals came back into the room, was …

Berto Jongman: The Costs of War — Human Costs, Economic Costss, Social + Political Costs with Alternatives and Recommendations

Over 350,000 Killed by Violence, $4.4 Trillion Spent and Obligated The wars begun in 2001 have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well. Each additional month and year of war adds to that toll. Moreover, the human costs of these conflicts will …

Worth a Look: Fusion Economics by Laurence Brahm

AMAZON PAGE: Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the World Hardcover Pre-Order Now for 21 October 2014 Delivery Phi Beta Iota: Below is Robert Steele’s jacket blurb: Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics …