August 2013 • Volume 14, No. 8 In this issue: · Curbing the Decline of Chinese Manufacturing · Smart Glasses for Teachers Can “See” Students’ Questions · Even Regulated Pesticide Use Is Deadly to Aquatic Ecosystems · WorldFuture 2013 Recaps · Set of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Is Threatened by Sand …
Other News – Snowden, NSA and ever-changing US narrative
Snowden, NSA and ever-changing US narrative By Chakravarthi Raghavan* – SUNS It is now just over five weeks since the English daily ‘The Guardian’ and its columnist Glenn Greenwald began publishing the series of news reports and analysis on the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying activities across the …
Publisher’s Column: Taibbi Vanquishes Vampire Squid
Publisher’s Column: Taibbi Vanquishes Vampire Squid This and other highlights of the Public Banking 2013 Conference now available for free viewing on the Public Banking Institute’s website here. As one of the many people producing the Public Banking 2013 Conference, Conversation and TPP Forum, it was satisfying beyond measure to …
May – Thriving in the Midst of Climate Change – other Updates from ILSR
Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend First Broadband Technology Opportunities Project Transforms Rural Georgia Communities When the North Georgia Network was constructed the community was searching for a strategy to grow as agriculture and manufacturing opportunities slowly left the region. In this episode of ILSR’s Community …
Stakeholder Forum Network News: Engagement in post-Rio+20 and post-2015 processes
www.stakeholderforum.org Stakeholder Engagement in post-Rio+20 and post-2015 processes Participatory democracy is the idea that involving all stakeholders, at every level, will result in better informed, and more thoroughly deliberated, decisions being taken. It means that all stakeholders will thereby take greater ownership of the outcome …
Scolding with One Hand and Bribing with the Other
Scolding with One Hand and Bribing with the Other By Thalif Deen May 8 2013 (IPS) – When a Southeast Asian country was riddled with corruption in a bygone era, there were rumours that government officials routinely offered receipts every time they accepted a bribe. Last week, Hamid Karzai, the …
BANKING VS DEMOCRACY: how power shifted from parliament to the banking sector
EXECUtIVE SUMMARY This report asks if power has shifted from Westminster down the river to the City of London. What we find is a banking system that has more ‘spending power’ than the democratically elected government, no accountability to the people, and massive concentration of power in the hands of …
The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy
by Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, 2012, ISBN: 9780865717077 Review by Shann Turnbull, EMM Advisory Board member and source of some of the ideas cited in the book. The Resilience Imperative is a must read for both leaders and followers seeking survival of society. The book …
Discovering the New America by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D.
Discovering the New America by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D. “Curl up with Discovering the New America for an inspiring, wonderful read about your own friends and neighbors and how they are getting together and building positive solutions that work for our future!”—Dr. Hazel Henderson “Francis P. Koster has undertaken a complex challenge—to …