Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible?
-Change money, change the world
-Social enterprise stock market receives funding
-‘Just-in-time’ business models put UK at greater risk in event of disasters, warns thinktank
-How We Got Here With the Economy and How to Get Out
The U.S. Congress refused to extend the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff levied against imported ethanol. By opening up the American market to imports as of January 1, 2012, the geopolitical impacts of this decision promise to be profound.
There’s room in the movement for everyone who cares, whether their bent is for deadly serious de-industrialization, “fun and sexy” protests, technological innovation, or even, yes, going out walking.
Don’t stand there asking what to do! Look around, roll up your sleeves and get busy! Offer your talents to the task. If you can write, start writing and share your thoughts with ever wider circles of readers. If you can farm, start an organic CSA. If you are an engineer, you should be focusing on renewable energy.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in a pile of texts on what actuaries, physicists, and mathematicians have to say about the relationship between the economy and energy. [My homework is a talk I’m giving in Philly at the end of the month at a seminar about architecture and energy.] I haven’t finished the talk yet but I thought, as an exercise, that I’d share with you (and Mr Monti) the ten best writers of my reading list.
– Seniors in Walkers Shut Down Local Bank of America
– ‘Occupy’ Protesters in New Hampshire Seek Visibility Ahead of Primary
– NY Times reporters look back at OWS (video)
– First Feature Doc About Occupy Movement
– What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going
– What OWS can Learn from South Africa’s United Democratic Front
– Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy
– The Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance
– Exxon ‘loses’ Venezuela nationalisation case
– Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq
– The US-Iran Economic War
– Japan to Express Concerns to U.S. Over Possible Iranian Oil Ban
– Foreign Affairs: Globalization and the Threat to the West (an elite change in direction?)
– Republican Climate Hawks Sighted in New Hampshire (video)
– Matt Taibbi: Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins
– Obama’s Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire
– Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
Fortuna was the Roman goddess of chance and thus entreaties to her were an attempt to insure good luck in any venture….Acknowledging Fortuna means acknowledging that luck is partly responsible for my station in life. It means I’m obliged to help my fellow citizens who’ve been hurt by nothing other than misfortune. And, it means that I’ll be entitled to help if misfortune lays me so low that I cannot get back up without some assistance.
“Farmers need a shitload of support,” says Amy Lounder, an organic farmer who runs Avon River CSA (community-shared, or community-supported, agriculture) in Centre Burlington, N ova Scotia. “And not just financial support but support in a lot of different ways, like support in information, of learning how to problem solve.”
– Complete with Threats and Astroturf, Big Oil Preps for Election Year Push
– TV: I Vote 4 Energy (spoof of API ad)
– Canada: Climate Criminal
– Why is an oil stock owning Congress member pushing to end EV tax credits?
– The end of the U.S. ethanol tariff
– Building a better suntrap
– Storehouses for Solar Energy Can Step In When the Sun Goes Down
