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Review: Sacred Economics – Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein Beyond 5 Stars, an Integrative Pioneering Work,August 13, 2011 Sacred Economics is the second book in the new Evolver Editions imprint, following Jose Arguelles Manifesto for the Noosphere. Other books in the first season include What Comes After Money, The Secret Tradition of the Soul, The Four Global Truths, The Electric Jesus, Star …

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Review (Guest): Global Risks 2011 – Governance Failures & Economic Disparity (World Economic Forum)

Phi Beta Iota:  The interactive edition is well worth going through.  Below are highlights from our own review. Six Risks Stand Out:  Fiscal crisis, Geopolitical Conflict, Climate Change, Extreme Energy Price Volatility, Economic Disparity, Global Governance Failure. Risk Interconnectivity Map:  Central to the map are Economic Disparity and Global Governance Failures.  Three clusters add depth …

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Koko: Politicians, Taxes, Lies, and Corruption

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices… 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then …

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Search: “True Cost”

True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost).  Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling.  Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored.  A …

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John Robb: Resilience 101 – Close the loop…all of them

RESILIENT PRODUCTION: Close The Loop! Reslient, local production can reach amazing levels of capacity and efficiency by obsessively closing loops.  How do you close loops?  Simply: Turn the waste of one production process into the fuel/input required to operate another. Do that again and again and again until there is nothing left to reuse. All …

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Review: Global Public Policy – Governing Without Government?

Wolfgang Reinicke Pioneering Work, Missing Some Pieces,July 7, 2011 This is a pioneering work, easily a decade ahead of other world-class efforts, my favorite being that of (then) World Bank Vice President for Europe, J. F. Rischard, High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. It has been largely over-looked, but should gain …

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Robyn O’Brien’s Tedx Talk: Food’s Erin Brockovich — Allergy Kids/health care costs/global competitiveness

Robyn O¹Brien lives in the Boulder area. She is a fresh, inspiring and credible voice for the information/patterns she has assembled/synthesized about how our food ³industry² makes us sick (allergies, cancer, etc., etc.), raises our health care costs, weakens our global competitiveness, also etc. etc. and what we can do about it.  And, she brings …

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