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Jean Lievens: Factory of the Future – Internet of Things (Not Yet Rooted in Open Source Everything, True Cost Economics, or Holistic Analytics)

The Factory of the Future Will Be Shaped by the Internet of Things Andrew Dugenske, Alain Louchez Manufacturing.net, August 2014 Around the globe, intelligent and pervasive industrial automation has been catapulted in recent years to a top national or regional priority. Known by different names, e.g., “Advanced Manufacturing”, “Smart Manufacturing”, “Industry 4.0” or “Factories of …

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Robert Steele: Plant Language, Plant Consciousness, True Cost Economics, Big Data and the Coming Bio-Mimicry Revolution

I’ve known for decades that plants can see and hear and sense and communicate feelings —  the 1970’s experiment with plants witnessing an individual “murdering” on of their own, and then the plants reacting on a polygraph machine when  the one individual out of a line of many individuals came back into the room, was …

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Worth a Look: Fusion Economics by Laurence Brahm

AMAZON PAGE: Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the World Hardcover Pre-Order Now for 21 October 2014 Delivery Phi Beta Iota: Below is Robert Steele’s jacket blurb: Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics …

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Yoda: Are Islamic Finance and Ethical Economics the Same?

Think, we do. How Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand In first place, the most-read article on the Guardian Social Enterprise Network for 2013, was Sheeza Ahmad’s thoughts on how Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand. As the founder of social enterprise HelpingB, he argued that the Qur’an’s teachings …

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SchwartzReport: Loss of Wildlife Increases Child Slavery – Holistic Analytics and True Cost Economics Absent

This report illustrates that all life is interconnected and interdependent. How Loss of Wildlife Leads to Child Slavery NIINA HEIKKINEN and CLIMATEWIRE – Scientific American What do child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal global ivory trade have in common? Their root causes can all be traced back to declining wildlife populations. At …

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