Journal: Pentagon Salad to Go With the Spagetti

Phi Beta Iota: Our newest Contributing Editor, Defense Dog (DefDog), thought to add to Chuck Spinney’s earlier sharing of the Pentagon spagetti charts by adding a touch of colorful salad–such good salad it has even been covered by WIRED Magazine. Read ‘Em All: Pentagon’s 193 Mind-Numbing Cybersecurity Regs NOTE:  The version at WIRED is High …

Journal: Solar Power for Africa…One Option

Micro Scaled Concentrated Solar Power units , Clean Energy to Power a Multi-biulding Health Clinic Sopogy, Inc., manufacturer of the proprietary micro-scaled concentrating solar power (MicroCSP) system, is demonstrating its SopoNova™ solar panels at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. The project developed by STG International (previously known as Solar Turbine Group) is designed to …

Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton is one of just two speakers demanded by the international audience attending the annual conference on National Security & National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions.  The other was Stephen E. Arnold.  RYP is the single most sensible, qualified, courageous, and plain honest journalist we know, across the creative and investigative spectrum. See Also: …

Worth a Look: Citizens, Banks, and Coal Mining

Phi Beta Iota: We decided to post a long email about helping a major international bank decide not to fund mountaintop removal coal projects for the following reasons: 1)  It illustrates the emergent power of focused citizen advocacy. 2)  It documents the modified behavior of select major banks. 3)  It highlights the complete fragmentation of …

Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP

Updated 1 November 2012 to add core graphic: Graphic: Ethical Evidence-Based Decisions.  Updated 13 April 2012 to add new book: THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust.  Updated 8 March 2012 to add underlying philosophical reference: 2012-03-08 GOD MAN INTERVAL Reformatted & Linked.  Updated 6 December 2011 to add this seminal reference: Journal: …