Eagle: Beyond Downsizing — Small Homes That Harvest Rain and Generate Power

Beyond Downsizing. How Baby Boomers Can Avoid a Failed Retirement Here’s a little bit of a twist on some conventional analysis. Let’s start with a trend.  The baby boomers are getting older.  Their kids have departed (most of them).  It’s time to downshift towards prepare for 20-30 years of “active retirement.” How?  They need to get their …

Winslow Wheeler: Stop the Assassination of the A-10

Usually ignored by the press as insufficiently interesting to technology dazzled editors and reviled by the civilian and military leadership of the Air Force as not what they think they should spend money and careers on, the A-10 “Warthog” has broken through into Washington DC’s consciousness.  Interestingly, the attention was provoked by a heavy handed …

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

Posted by Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. By Naomi Klein NewStatesman, 29 October 2013 In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems …

4th Media: What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO?

What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO? Peter Koenig, a former World Bank economist and a Voice of Russia regular, outlines one of the scenarios in which America’s plans for a New World Order are broken. Part I For several decades, we’ve been told by the mainstream media …