Alert: Guterres in Davos: ‘Dysfunctional’ response to common problems, shows need for effective multilateralism

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen

Instant Alert 24 January 2019 Guterres in Davos: ‘Dysfunctional’ response to common problems, shows need for effective multilateralism The world’s problems are “more and more integrated” but the response to them is increasingly “fragmented” and “dysfunctional”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday, in an appeal for governments and other …

The Daily 202: 10 sobering quotes from the new National Intelligence Strategy

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen, Trendspotting

10 sobering quotes from the new National Intelligence Strategy Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats listens to President Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House last July. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Every four years, the National Intelligence Strategy attempts …

Simple Living Works! eNews

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

SLW! eNews #88 In This Issue–FREE Daily NUDGE // First-Hand Podcast on Immigration // Jerry’s Top 10 Progressive Podcasts // What to Expect Here in 2019 // Will the New Tax Laws Affect Our Charitable Giving? // Much More! # # # Simpler OneEarth Living Episode 01/19–Immigration and Borders: Horrors, …

Eat Plants, Save the Planet

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News, Earth Systems Science

“This new report from Lancet Commission’s large group of scientists corroborates the importance of shifting from raising livestock  for meat diets, which is proven injurious to both human and planetary health, that we clearly demonstrated in our Green Transition Scoreboard®  for 2018: “CAPTURING CO2 WHILE IMPROVING HUMAN NUTRITION & HEALTH“ …

UNEP GEO Bulletin – Vol. 182 No. 5 – Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the 6th Global Environment Outlook – Issue #1

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Earth Systems Science

“Ethical Markets follows closely the crucial work of UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) scientific research on the conditions of our planet, and all the risks and opportunities for long-term human survival and sustainable development, as we re-focus our societies from steering by money-based GDP measures to the holistic longer term …

New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Earth Systems Science

“Ethical Markets welcomes this well-documented, full report for the Lancet Commissions “Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets  from sustainable food systems“, (Jan 16, 2019), accessible from this article in The Guardian. I studied the entire 47-page report, with its hundreds of footnotes, since this subject was …

New Scientist: “Call AI By a Better Name”

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical Markets agrees with New Scientist!  I proposed re-naming so-called “AI” (which is just an advertising slogan):  “Human -Trained Machine Learning”, because there’s nothing artificial about it!  See my  “Let’s Teach Humans…Before We Teach Machines”. Also  see my “The Idiocy of Things “ and  “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the …