Light Posting from 18th November to 8th December
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from 18th November to 8th December. Regular posting will resume on 9th December.
After 40 Years of Government Inaction on Climate, Have We Finally Turned a Corner?
By Gus Speth, Fran Korten, YES! magazine
We’re up against the huge power of the fossil fuel industry; the extraordinary ideological opposition to the federal government doing anything important; money going into disinformation campaigns that people readily bought into. And it’s still going on.
Meet the Guy Corralling Billionaires to Fight Inequality
By Fran Korten, Chuck Collins, YES! magazine
In 1986, at the age of 26, Chuck Collins, the great-grandson of meatpacking giant Oscar Mayer, gave away his trust fund.
Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense
By Fran Korten, YES! magazine
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. is in political science, not economics (though she minored in economics, collaborates with many economists, and considers herself a political economist). But what makes this award particularly special is that her work is about cooperation, while standard economics focuses on competition.