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The Next Steps for Moving from Vision to Action
Planning is now full speed ahead for the World Future Society’s next annual conference, WorldFuture 2012: Dream. Design. Develop. Deliver, to be held July 27-29 in Toronto. We’re especially excited about the 2012 program, which will follow up on the work we began in Vancouver at the 2011 conference, “Moving from Vision to Action.” Our [...]
A Brief Overview of Why You May not be Able to Resist Advertising with Children and Puppies
The Current State of Ethical Advertising by Maria O. Pinochet, Ethical Markets Research Advisory Board Historically, the role of advertising has been to communicate the offer of a service or product in order to inform audiences about the details of place and price. In turn, the viewers, listeners and readers who need the product or service [...]
Polly Higgins – Lawyer for the Earth. Taking Ecocide to the ICC
Polly is on the course of making environmental destruction history – through law. While this idea may seem a hopeless dream to most, Polly’s proposition is already on its way to the International criminal court, adding to their list of … genocide, human rights abuses… and … the magical word: Ecocide. Read more...
How (Not) to Decommission a Nuclear Power Plant
How (not) to decommission a nuclear power plant The German decision to phase out nuclear power has focused attention on a special aspect of nuclear energy, namely the decommissioning of nuclear power plants (npp's). Of course even without Angela Merkel's nuclear bombshell, German and other nuclear power plants would sooner or later have to be [...]
North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil
Ellen Brown, http:/WebofDebt.com/articles, August 31, 2011 North Dakota has had the nation's lowest unemployment ever since the economy tanked. What's its secret? In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The North Dakota Miracle,” Catherine Rampell writes: Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North [...]
Airlines & the carbon market – who will be hardest hit?
The EU’s decision to regulate all airlines flying into or out of the 27-nation bloc under its Emissions Trading System (ETS) from January next year has met fierce opposition from many airlines. They warn of a substantial additional cost burden, a loss of competitiveness, and even a trade war with China. Other observers say the initial cost [...]
Climate engineering: Technical status, future directions, and potential responses
There are two new reports out on geoengineering that we would like to bring to your attention. First of all the long-awaited “technology assessment” done by the US Government Accountability Office has just been released in Washington – as hundreds of protestors continue to be arrested for opposing the Keystone pipeline that will carry [...]
The Coming Robot Evolution Race
By Steven M. Shaker Homo sapiens may have “won” the evolutionary race to perfect humankind, but artificial intelligence and robotics will evolve faster and farther. Rather than compete with them, we may do well to make them our allies and co-evolve, suggests a technology trend analyst. Read more headlines from The Futurist Update
Energy & Capital: Chinese Vampire Squid
By Christian A. DeHaemer | Thursday, August 18th, 2011 "The Independence of South Sudan has set the stage for a scramble for land in eastern and northern Kenya, including the northern Coast." — The East African, August 14, 2011 The night was cool. A billion stars shone like diamonds. The giraffe lay sprawled in a mess of blood and [...]
Earth Policy Release — Raging Storms and Rising Seas Swelling the Ranks of Climate Refugees
www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2011/wotech6_ss1 By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Book Byte August 15, 2011 In late August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, more than 1 million people were evacuated from New Orleans and the small towns and rural communities along the coast. Once the storm passed, it [...]
