The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again Oracle tried to kill it, but the former Sun project has emerged from the ashes, nurtured by a crowd of innovative startups Airlines should work together on open source apps Computerworld: Virgin Atlantic’s IT director, David Bulman, has called upon the airline industry to work collaboratively on open source applications …
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Emerging Economics #3: The Sharing Economy Dear friends One of the key features of “the new economy” is sharing. More and more people are sharing housing, cars, bikes, tools, meals, skills, money, books, ideas, music, energy, recreation, projects, transportation, knowledge, problem-solving, visions, jobs, ownership, clothes, stories, time… Sharing is a resource in hard times as …
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The Rise of the New Economy Movement By Gar Alperovitz, AlterNet, 23 May 12 s our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In ‘New Economic Visions’, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by Economics Editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz …
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EMERGING ECONOMICS #1 DIY “MAKERS” AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES by Tom Atlee So we find ourselves in the midst of economic disruptions that may well foreshadow long-term, whole-system economic breakdowns fed by a full spectrum of emerging dynamics – from resource depletion (especially peak oil and loss of fresh water and topsoil) to climate change, with …
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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 …
French company uses wind turbine to create fresh water (Phys.org) — French company Eole Water has announced that they have developed and are now in the process of selling wind turbines that have been modified to produce fresh drinking water. “The turbines work by combining two current types of technology; traditional generation of electricity …
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. …
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