GUEST ARTICLES The SDGs and Paris Agreement: Why One Cannot Succeed Without the Other Marion Verles, Chief Executive Officer, Gold Standard? For some, it might be hard to believe that just 20 years ago, during the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, world leaders needed to be reassured that climate action would not …
Trump’s New USA = United Soviet(!) of America | As Romania Battles Corruption
Global Challenges Trump’s Plan for the United Soviet(!) of America Trump is determined to “make the USA great again” — the United Soviet of America, that is | By Jean-Francois Boittin As Romania Battles Corruption Corruption is the most underrated international security threat of our time. | By Valbona Zeneli …
Renewable news: Tapping deep-heat geothermal
Global Wind Energy Insight: Strong Year Ahead Steve Sawyer | February 16, 2017 Overall, the wind industry globally begins 2017 in good shape, with good prospects for 2017 and beyond. Read more » Update: Virginia Senate Passes Pumped Storage Bill, Moves to Governor for Signature Elizabeth Ingram | February 16, 2017 As …
Citizen Science in the City
Urban Citizen Science Do you live or work in a city? Well, have we got the projects for YOU! Below, we highlight research projects in need of your help in cities. Find more projects on SciStarter to do now or bookmark your favorites for later! Cheers! The SciStarter Team Snow Tweets It’s easy …
FINALLY SOME MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DO THEIR PATRIOTIC DUTY BY DECLARING TRUMP EMOTIONALLY ILL
At long last thirty-three (#33) mental health professionals ,including several eminent Psychiatrists, co-signed a Letter-to-Editor to The New York Times dated 13 Feb 2017 stating that despite the APA’s 1973 “Goldwater Rule” they can no longer remain silent about the mental health of President Donald Trump. Here is the letter and its …
The Washington Post: Forget the ring: Lab-grown diamonds are a scientist’s best friend
At a drab office park in a Washington suburb, in an unmarked building’s windowless lab, Yarden Tsach is growing diamonds. Not rhinestones or cubic zirconia. Diamonds. Real ones. In a matter of eight weeks, inside a gas-filled chamber, he replicates a process that usually takes billions of years in the bowels …
Trojan horse tries to breach Trump’s resistance to climate action
Trojan horse tries to breach Trump’s resistance to climate action A stream of emissaries—in person and via letters with hundreds of lofty signatories from various sectors—have tried to win President Donald Trump’s heart and mind for climate action. If nothing else, they may have staved off a “Day One” executive …
Victory! Court Rebukes Trump’s Immigration Ban
Score one for our democracy. We applaud the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that President Trump’s Executive Order is ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ and the ‘Muslim ban’ creates harm to our economy and families. We call upon President Trump to respect the judgement of our courts and withdraw his ban. …
A Better World TV: Hazel Henderson & Nikos Avlonas Monday at 7PM
Please tune in to A Better World TV with Mitchell Rabin Monday February 5th, 2017 7:00pm (login 3 minutes prior) A Better World TV: Futurist & Evolutionary Economist Hazel Henderson Radio: Nikos Avlanos, Center for Sustainability 2-5-2017
Millennium Project Newsletter 1.0
Newsletter 1.0 1. Future Work/Tech 2050 Global Scenarios 2. Workshops to address issues in the Work/Tech 2050 Scenarios 3. NATO workshop on future terrorism and book 4. Pakistan State of the Future Index 5. New Nodes in Portugal and Georgia 6. New website under …