Eagle: CDC Declares “Hood Disease” — Growing Up Colored, Poor, in the Inner City Form of Trauma and Stress Disorder

Living in the ‘hood now a disease, says CDC: ‘Hood Disease’ caused by urban stress (NaturalNews) Is it real or is it another politically correct attempt by a federal government entity to provide an excuse for poor choices, poor performances or poor government education practices and standards? It’s hard to say at this stage, but …

Yoda: True Cost Economics Model from Foundation Earth

Toward A True-Cost Economic Model: Cheater Economics, Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival Over the next century communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather instability. Extreme weather events are ecological spasms often driving economic spasms and regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasms proliferate. Far from being prepared, …

Worth a Look: Dharma Cafe

Our Mission DharmaCafé begins from two very simple premises: That there actually is a numinous, luminous, spiritual, transcendent, and irreducibly conscious Reality (what we shall here call “the sacred”) and that our own participation in this Reality is the most vital, passionate, interesting, and important aspect of our individual and collective lives. Instead of expending …

Berto Jongman: 2014 State of the Future

The “State of the Future” is a comprehensive annual overview of the present global situation and prospects for humanity. It integrates forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world, sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. Led by Jerome Glenn, the Millenium Project sponsors this collective intelligence endeavor. Good …

Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Reflections for Consideration This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England. Download this document as a PDF. New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together …

Review (Guest): How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World? A Scorecard From 1900 to 2050

Bjorn Lomberg et al 2.0 out of 5 stars It just gets better and better!, November 15, 2013 By David Wineberg “David Wineberg” (New York, NY USA) – See all my reviews  (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) Milton Berle once appeared for an interview on a morning TV show in New York. After, his interviewer threw to …