Men of Misplaced Faith

Recently I debated the question of valuing nature with Sir Robert Watson, FRS, a leading advocate of the need for rapid and serious reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, derived from his expertise as a climate scientist.

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USDA Certification Raises Bar for Biobased

Chart: J. Ottman Consulting, Inc.

With carbon footprint and energy independence on everyone’s minds, many marketers are looking to capitalize upon their product’s biobased content.

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Scrooge Lives

Source: John R. Ehrenfeld

The Boston Globe ran an intriguing story on February 19th, under this headline: “Why it matters that our politicians are rich?” Further is carried this subhead: “Science is finding that money actually changes how you think and act—and not for the better.”

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What ever happened to the Green New Deal?

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When the signs of economic crisis began to show in 2007–08, many citizens and politicians around the world felt that the failures of the banks, regulators, and other players in the finance industry indicated a more critical failure of the free-market fundamentalism that has been so influential since the 1980s.

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Video: The Inherent Design Flaws In The “Resource Based Economy” Model

This video is Peter Joseph’s reply to Zeitgeist’s support for a resource based economy. In this video Jospeh reviews the numerous, very real, and legitimate problems. Those problems are not minor details that can be glossed over or fixed at a later date, they are in fact inherent design flaws which render it unworkable.

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Video: The Zeitgeist Movement Explains a Resource Based Economic Model

In this video from the Zeitgeist Vancouver Lecture Series, a Resource Based Economic model is explained by Matt Berkowitz. The Zeitgeist Movement was founded in 2008, it is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions.

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Video: A Resource-Based Economy

This 18 minute video is a recording of the TEDx [Portugal] Talk by Peter Joseph. Its focus is a resource based economy which describes a post-scarcity world economy. A resource based economy supports the removal of monetary exchange and is advocated by groups like The Venus Project.

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Cheater Economics

Cheaters are lurking in the U.S. economy, corrupting what should be an honest game of production, commerce, and trade. “Cheater economics” refers to the corporate welfare system in which corporations are given special tax subsidies and granted access to loopholes for avoiding tax payments.

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