The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Neither. Publishers Straddle the Apple-Google, App-Web Divide SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the web for most things.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing “While western science and educastion tend to emphasize compartmentalized knowledge which is often de-contextualized and taugh in the detached setting of a classroom or laboratory, indigenous people have traditionally acquired their knowledge through direct experience in the natural world. For them, the particulars come to be …
Corruption costs…. $47b? Indonesia counts costs of haze Besides financial setback, its reputation and relations with neighbours are also at risk Phi Beta Iota: This is what happens when both governments and corporations lose sight of true cost economics and holistic analytics.
Learn, grasshopper. The Atlantic has published Ta-Nehisi Coates in two world-class articles, “The Case For Reparations,” which investigates the damage dealt to blacks through this country’s long tradition of housing discrimination; and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which examines the toll of white supremacy as American policy on black life in the …
Useful onventional wisdom. Cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals $1.3 trillion a year or 11% of GDP in international dollars. This assumes conventional financing and conventional technologies and conventional processes.
One of the poorest regions in Afghanistan is teaching the world about sustainability The Rural Green Environment Organization is entirely rewriting the environmental narrative for 90 villages and 40,000 people in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The region has endured decades of conflict, insecurity and the overharvesting of natural resources. What was once a region battered by conflict …
Think, we should — with faith. Major Shifts in Science Challenge Religions, and Especially Their Activists “Pope Francis’ May 24, 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, on the state of the earth’s environment and humanity’s responsibility for action, represents a growing transformational shift in the relationship between science, social justice, progressive secularism, and religious consciousness.
