Yoda: Afghan’s Rural Green Project

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 …

Pope Francis: A Conservative Interpretation

Pope and change: How Francis visit is disrupting U.S. politics Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 13 September 2015 Phi Beta Iota: Read it! The Pope has the power to mobilize a margin of victory for a Democratic or Independent candidate committed to addressing the top three threats to humanity (poverty, disease, and environmental degradation). The …

JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only …

Patrick L. Smith: US & NATO Restart Cold War + NATO RECAP

We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you Our leaders and media push time-worn nonsense about American innocence, while taking aggressive moves. Look out EXTRACT As of this week, leaders who know nothing about leading, thinkers who do not think and opinion-shaping poseurs …