Dolphin: Ecological Chains Worldwide Being Damaged

Ecological Chains Worldwide Being Damaged Nathan Planet Save, 18 May 2012 Subtle ecological chains worldwide are being damaged by human influence, leading to significant losses of population in different ecosystems. One of the longest ecological chains ever found has just been discovered in the remote Palmyra Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean. This area is useful …

Top Atlee: Final Words from Ernest Callenbach the Author of Ecotopia & Ecotopia Emerging

Dear friends, Ernest Callenbach’s ECOTOPIA and its prequel ECOTOPIA EMERGING were major books in my developing thinking about how a sustainable society might evolve.  ECOTOPIA, the more famous of the two, provides Callenbach’s overall vision of what might be possible.  ECOTOPIA EMERGING – with far better characterization and more compelling plot – tells the story …

John Steiner: Japan Going Nuke Free? Will US and China Follow?

Japan May Go Nuke-Free Tomorrow…But Will the US & China Follow? NukeFree.org, May 3, 2012 Japan’s one remaining operating reactor (of 54) may go dark tomorrow.  Japan would be nuke-free for the first time in a half-century. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is desperately trying to get Osaka’s Mayor to allow the Ohi nuke to stay open. …

Mini-Me: Call to Arms Occupy 2012 Hits West Coast & Paulistas

Huh? CULTURE | A Call to Arms from the Author of ‘The Open-Source Everything Manifesto’ By  RobertSteele – April 27, 2012 North Atlantic Books Communities As much as I love all that it represents, Occupy is struggling. The dirty little secret of Occupy is that it is moderately organized in NYC, Chicago, Boston, and Oakland …

Patrick Meier: Does the Humanitarian Industry Have a Future in The Digital Age?

Does the Humanitarian Industry Have a Future in The Digital Age? I recently had the distinct honor of being on the opening plenary of the 2012 Skoll World Forum in Oxford. The panel, “Innovation in Times of Flux: Opportunities on the Heels of Crisis” was moderated by Judith Rodin, CEO of the Rockefeller Foundation. I’ve spent the …

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …