Yoda: Low Carbon Cities = $17 Trillion Opportunity

Low carbon cities are US$17 trillion opportunity, says New Climate Economy The steps that cities take to shrink their carbon footprints also reduce their energy costs, improve public health, and help them attract new residents and businesses.  Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change

Robert Steele: What Business Is Google In? Mass Surveillance. Period.

Reflecting on Eric Schmidt’s idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities. The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, …

Richard Gage: 9/11 Letter to the Editor (Boston Globe)

Evidence still raises questions over World Trade Center collapses Alex Beam’s portrayal of “architect truthers” is yet another disappointing example of a journalist resorting to ad hominem attacks and avoiding the facts when discussing the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001 (“The ‘truthers’ and 9/11,” Opinion, Nov. 16).   . …

Jean Lievens: Jeremy Rifkin on Leapfrog Technologies

How Developing Nations Can Leapfrog Developed Countries with the Sharing Economy Electricity is now coming to remote areas in Africa, which never before had access to a centralized power grid. Not surprisingly, the introduction of cell phones has helped precipitate the development of a nascent Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure. Virtually overnight, millions of Africa’s rural …