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Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — a Nordic Manifesto

This is what I am taking to the Nordics. Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) Robert D. Steele, Earth Intelligence Network Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) is affordable, inter-operable, and scalable to the five billion poor now neglected by industrial-era engineers. Data-driven, a design revolution could enable the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within …

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2016 Robert Steele: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) – Creating the Academy, Economy, Government, and Society of the Future

Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE): Creating the Academy, Economy, Government, and Society of the Future Robert Steele ABSTRACT I have decided to focus on the possibilities of integrating True Cost Economics, Holistic Analytics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE). This concept is human-centric, rooted in advanced digital information management including new concepts for embedded intelligence …

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Frances Moore Lappe: Farming for a Small Planet – Agroecology Now

Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now Frances Moore Lappé April 2016 The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. Industrial agriculture is characterized by …

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Mongoose: China Watch — HORRORS

23 Shocking Photos Reveal How Bad China’s Pollution Problem Has Become Pollution In China Phi Beta Iota: America the Beautiful is in the dumps right now, but these photographs put our national well-being in sharp relief compared to the horrors being endured by the Chinese people.

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Jean Lievens: David Bollier on Dangers of Proprietary Code – the Volkswagen Example

Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code There is one notable aspect to the Volkswagen emission-cheating scandal that few commentators have mentioned:  It would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source. Volkswagen knew it could defraud consumers and deceive regulators precisely because its software was closed, proprietary …

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Mongoose: Industrial Scale Cheating with Software — The Volkswagen Case Study

How it happpened, how we finally caught it. Volkswagen’s appalling clean diesel scandal, explained EXTRACT In other words, Volkswagen wasn’t able to produce diesel cars that had the ideal mix of performance, fuel economy, and low pollution. (Or, at least, they couldn’t do this profitably.) So they “solved” this trade-off by sacrificing cleanliness and loosening …

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Review: Base Nation – How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World

David Vine Fundamental Work, Narrow, Understates Total True Cost This is a five-star academic work, a superb up-to-date compilation of what can be known legally and ethically about US military bases in all forms from the formal to the undeclared and covert, around the world. It’s inclusion in the American Empire Project puts the author …

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