HANDBOOK FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE
This handbook was created to address the principle challenge for good governance — waste — and the stink that accompanies waste. The solutions in this handbook will, in our view, scale.
Sepp Hasslberger: Renewable Source Electricity To Exceed Gas and Nuclear by 2016
It is good to see there’s progress towards getting off fossil fuels, but we still have a ways to go … and there are new free energy technologies being developed that may bring us there even faster. Energy Revolution Mark Dansie Revolution-Green.com, 28 June 2013 Electricity generation from renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from …
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Graphic: Gas Exporting Countries — the Twin to OPEC
Source Phi Beta Iota: The next big leap is going to be the combination of solar power, water desalination, hydroponics agriculture and fisheries, and free wireless mesh that provides cellular, Internet access, and education to communities that are totally self-sufficient from centralized anything. Lacking to date has been a single major investor focused on seeding …
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John Robb: The Produce It Yourself (PiY) Revolution – A World of Abundance
The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance. Here’s some advice you don’t hear often: Use all the energy, water, and food you desire. No really. Do it. However, there is one catch. In order to follow this advice, you will need to Produce it Yourself (PiY). Produce it where you live. Grow the food. Generate …
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Jean Lievins: The Networked Society — DISRUPTIVE Technology Rules — and the Most Disruptive of All Technologies is C4ISR Technology that is Also Open Source
It’s about doing the impossible – faster Technology is transforming how everybody builds solutions and faster access to the latest technology gives you an unfair advantage. I work in Silicon Valley and we benefit from that unfair advantage. This is because the technology being invented here is not incremental but disruptive. EXTRACT: You will notice …
Berto Jongman: How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab
How geospatial analytics is helping hunt the LRA and al-Shabaab Liat Clark Wired UK, 24 June 2013 In May 2012 Caesar Acellam, a commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and military strategist for the extremist group’s leader Joseph Kony, was captured by the Ugandan army. The act appeared to be a coup for local …
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Berto Jongman: Why Is Barrett Brown in Jail? What Does It Tell Us About Corporate-Government Conspiracies to Repress Free Speech and the Media?
The Strange Case of Barrett Brown Amid the outrage over the NSA’s spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem. Peter Ludlow The Nation, 18 June 2013 In early 2010, journalist and satirist Barrett Brown was working on a book on political pundits, when the hacktivist collective …
