Let’s talk about what we can and should do. Democrats such as Bernie Sanders have been fighting for truth, such as Single Payer being the only honest way to offer more affordable, comprehensive and just plain better healthcare for all, from the start. So let’s keep it simple and straightforward. Stop filling/overflowing the bathtub (our atmosphere) especially when we have …
Health and wellbeing, economy and society, infrastructure and ecosystems, affordability of transport, amount of green space add up to resilience in 156 questions
By Nick Van Mead, Originally posted in The Guardian The Rockefeller Foundation launched the City Resilience Index (CRI) today, by engineering consultancy Arup. For example, “Concepción had done all the things you’d expect an earthquake-prone city to do in terms of building codes and emergency management, but the weakness that emerged [from the CRI assessment] was that their telecommunications systems were all …
Building the commons, new ways of structuring the economy and society that are empowering and more just and sustainable
This article initially appeared in the book “Moving Beyond Capitalism,” published in September 2016 by Ashgate Publishing Limited. The book was edited by Cliff DuRand of the Center for Global Justice. We participated in a week-long conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico during the summer of 2014. The book came out of that conference. We thought it would be …
Global movement promises to fight inequality
Press release from GreenPeace and Fight Inequality Alliance, The Philippines and SE Asia, 22 February 2017 Manila, Philippines – Civil society and grassroots organizations from across Asia gathered in Manila on February 21-22 for a strategy meeting to discuss a global campaign against inequality. Calling themselves the Fight Inequality Alliance, the group believes that a global movement is needed to address …
AI: Replacing managers with automated decision-making saves time and eliminates emotional volatility says world’s largest hedge fund
Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional volatility. See article in The Guardian, below. This has an interesting connection to the weather and also air pollution. The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and medical researchers had already previous reported that air pollution from fossil fuel …
Pence took part in crafting post-Katrina “Shock Doctrine” reducing rights and privatizing services
By Naomi Klein in The Intercept, 24 Jan 2017 Here’s a lot of recovery and adaptation work:”After all the layers of subcontractors had taken their cut, there was next to nothing left for the people doing the work. For instance, the author Mike Davis tracked the way FEMA paid Shaw $175 a square foot to install blue tarps on damaged roofs, even though …