For Immediate Release December 19, 2013 Verizon to Publish Reports on Government Requests for Data; Shareholders Call on AT&T to Follow Suit In a victory for shareholders concerned about the role of telecommunications companies in government surveillance programs, Verizon Communications announced that it will begin to publish regular reports on …
ASBC Launches Companies for Safer Chemicals Coalition & Other Updates
Urgent Campaign Actions Companies for Safer Chemicals Coalition A group of leading consumer brands, led by asbc and Seventh Generation, announced the creation of a coalition to ensure Congress modernizes the nation’s out-of-date chemical laws, and to counter the narrative that businesses desire a weakreform bill. The story has …
Take Back the Tech to End Violence Against Women!
TAKE BACK THE TECH! Violence against women has directly impacted more than 1 in every 3 women worldwide. You may have heard this shocking statistic before, but have you thought about how the technology we use every day can empower us to turn the tables? November 25 begins 16 Days …
As MOOCs Move Mainstream Universities Must Pay to Play
In less than a year MOOCs have gone from a geeky idea known mainly to a few professors at Stanford and a group of ted talk addicts to the center piece of a bank commercial appearing on network television. Like it or not, virtually every university is now considering whether …
Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model
Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-known Model Posted on November 11, 2013 by Ellen Brown In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa …
SmartPlanet Daily: Will future college degrees be based more on experience than classroom time?
Manage my newsletters | Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online. | Previous Edition SmartPlanet Daily November 07, 2013 Your must-read morning briefing from SmartPlanet, delivered five days a week. From the Desk of … Think MOOCs are disruptive? What if students could obtain degrees just by passing a series of …
OTHER NEWS: Brazilian president: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’
Brazilian president: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’ Julian Borger – The Guardian.com Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian …
Schumacher Center Post Lindisfarne Tapes: “at the intersection of Culture and Economics”
In 1972 William Irwin Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association as an alternative way for the humanities to develop in a scientific and technical civilization. Lindisfarne became an association of scientists, artists, scholars, and contemplatives devoted to the study and realization of a new planetary culture. Lindisfarne began its activities in Southampton, New …
The Media Fix: The U.S. Government Has Betrayed the Internet: We Need to Take It Back
Read these three things. The U.S. Government Has Betrayed the Internet: We Need to Take It Back Bruce Schneier, Guardian Keeping the Net Neutral Los Angeles Times NSA Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson and Scott …
Global mobile penetration: near 96% | SmartPlanet Daily
SmartPlanet Daily A daily briefing of the newest stories on SmartPlanet, five days a week. From the Desk of … In a world with 7 billion people, there will be 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions by the end of this year. Could there soon be more subscriptions than …