SmartPlanet: Staggering Costs of Fukushima Clean Up (Never Mind Toxicity Blowing East) + Fukushima RECAP

The staggering costs to clean up Fukushima More than two years since the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the Fukushima power plant meltdown is still a major, global environmental problem. And the staggering price tag for cleaning it up continues to rise. The Japanese government just announced that it’s borrowing about $30 billion more to …

4th Media: Looting the Pension Funds: Wall Street is Grabbing Money Meant for Public Workers + Pensions Lost RECAP

Looting the Pension Funds: Wall Street is Grabbing Money Meant for Public Workers Oct 21st, 2013 @ 10:13 pm › Kiyul Chung In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state …

Jean Lievens: The Sharing Economy – Sharing Space with Capitalism

The Sharing Economy Isn’t Quite a Kick to Capitalism’s Crotch Joshua Brustein Bloomberg Businessweek, 18 October 2013 I was invited to a potluck dinner on Wednesday to meet a bunch of strangers and discuss the importance of sharing. Well, kind of. Our hosts were looking to bolster the so-called sharing economy, which, depending on who …

Robin Good: Online Fact Checking with Verification Junkie

Verification Junkie is an excellent free online resource curating the most relevant tools for fact-checking and verification of online content. “A growing directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content.” For each tool collected, Josh Stearns has provided a detailed description, and relevant links. My …