Posted in GardenWorld, MAHB on Mar 21st, 2010
Strong words. Lots of wisdom. Don’t make enemies out of people. Science is too ingrown. The scientific method allows for criticism..
What, I wondered, would be the great man’s view on the latest twists in the atmospheric story — the Climategate emails and the sloppy science revealed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Posted in GardenWorld, sustainability on Mar 15th, 2010
There is some real courage in this short book. The metaphor of “other worlds” is right to the core. The write, and quote
Since the Second World War, development, so-called, has been as much about power play and geo-politics as it has the improvement of people’s lives. As Chaterjee and Finger write, the Cold War underpinned [...]
Posted in GardenWorld, sustainability, tech and society on Mar 15th, 2010
Seawater Foundation – Greening Eritrea Video.
The use of seawater to grow crops, like mangrove. amazing. Please take a look.
Posted in Community, Financial system, GardenWorld on Nov 8th, 2009
We’ve all heard the hype about the economy is getting better. the NYT this morning has the following well-meaning editorial with some sense of correction of the normal upbeat forecasts.
EDITORIAL
Jobless Recovery
If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you.
After contracting for a year and [...]
Posted in GardenWorld on Sep 25th, 2009
MADRID — As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions of jobs destroyed by the Great Recession, now that the worst of the crisis has potentially passed?THIS STORYSpains Answer to Unemployment: Go GreenerFull [...]
Posted in GardenWorld, key issues on Sep 23rd, 2009
All quite vague, all hopign to hold on to existing political and commercail structures. Her we begin to see the tretch marks.
What we are seeking, after all, is not simply an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. We seek an agreement that will allow all nations to grow and raise living standards without endangering the [...]
Posted in Financial system, GardenWorld, key issues on Sep 17th, 2009
good.
A Nobelist Joins Those Pursuing Well-Being Over GrowthBy ANDREW C. REVKINA Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, has joined the circle of economists convinced that the world needs new ways of measuring progress as human numbers and appetites butt up against the planet’s limits and old economic models have hit some speed bumps.
I would only add, [...]
Posted in GardenWorld, Governance, key issues, sustainability, world stuff on Sep 7th, 2009
How do we get humanity from being expansive and exploitative and successful to some form of creativity, development without growth, still successful but more stress on gardening the environment and relationships and art, and contained by something like what farmers called “husbandry” (which comes from “house boundary” in the 1200’s?) (now to manage, esp. with [...]
Posted in Financial system, GardenWorld on Aug 31st, 2009
Building onthe previous..
The U.S. recovery is a tale of two economies.
At one extreme of Corporate America is a cadre of companies and banks, mostly big, united by an enviable access to credit. At the other end are firms, chiefly small, with slumping sales that can’t borrow or are facing stiff terms to do so.
On Main [...]
Posted in Financial system, GardenWorld, Governance on Aug 31st, 2009
On the difficult task of overcoming the corpoations and the lobbyists..
We tend to think of … a huge army of lobbyists permanently camped in the corridors of power, with corporations prepared to unleash misleading ads and organize fake grass-roots protests against any legislation that threatens their bottom line, as the way it always was. But [...]