Timothy Wilken In 1992, a remarkable speech was made by a 12 year old child at the United Nations Earth Summit. It was mostly overlooked or forgotten, but recently her […]
Continue readingChildhood’s End
Does the concept of race have any value in a positive future? As a physician and scientist, I have a deep training in biology. It has amazed me that we […]
Continue readingThe Big Takeover
Matt Taibbi It’s over—we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who […]
Continue readingSynergic Conversion by 2030
Working together! Humanity will require a Synergic Conversion by 2030. … BBC Future Science — Growing world population will cause a “perfect storm” of food, energy and water shortages by […]
Continue readingTime for Less Selfish Capitalism
Richard Layard What is progress? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been asking this question for some time and the current crisis makes it imperative to find an […]
Continue readingAdvancing the Cause of Science in America
It is wonderful to have a President who is sensitive to the value of science to human welfare. Reposted from the New York Times. President Barack Obama Today, with the […]
Continue readingWhat’s Wrong with America?
Deepak Chopra When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh’s style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But […]
Continue readingFeeding Humanity
Phil Harris While there has never been more food around, modern production is not really a ‘success’ story. In the face of a long term decline in fossil energy, there […]
Continue readingHow $30,000 Can be More Than $300,000
Nate Hagens In interviews, speeches and in writing on this blog, I often point out that financial capital is just a marker for real capital, which is comprised of natural, […]
Continue readingToward a Bill of Rights for All Humanity
Timothy Wilken A long time reader, Dexter Graphic, recently forwarded me an article about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal for a Second Bill of Rights, which was initially suggested during his […]
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