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Event: 1 March DC Perspectives on Limits to Growth – Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet

Permanent Record Podcast: http://www.si.edu/consortia/limitstogrowth2012 JORGEN RANDERS:  Decision delays killing us.  Have all the technology we need to address all these problems.  Economists killing us by not factoring in true costs over time.  Mention Norwegian citizen council, decision to use roughly 1% of Norwegian GNP to solve all these problems, citizens agree. Citing Jeff Immelt, CEO …

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Event: AM 31 Mar Washington Panel on Complexity & Reflexivity, Washington Academy of Sciences + Meta-RECAP

Complexity and Reflexivity Papers presented at the Washington Academy of Sciences Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012 UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to …

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Reference: World Development Reform 2011 – Conflict, Security, & Development

More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Developmentexamines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond …

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