Radio interviews are now being added to the “Words” page covering the whole triple bottom line. The first covers the economic meltdown from Radio Ecoshock with “Automatic Earth” editor Illargi, and Alder Stone Fuller currently offering his website for Gaia Theory courses.
Second is the Extraenvironmentalist, 2 cool dudes begin these posts with an interview with Richard Douthewaite and the Economics of Sustainability, as practised in some Transition Towns.
Italian academic Franco Berardi Bifo gives an impassioned speech explaining the extremes of current action within society in response to the systemic failures we are facing. It is noteworthy that this is a European wide sentiment.
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and subsequent recession has provided the ONLY reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in over a decade. The following years have seen repeats of economic instability, severe social unrest and a resumption of record levels of greenhouse gas emissions. An eloquant solution has been provided by Prof Tim Jackson in “Prosperity Without Growth”
New page added with a pictorial of events on the day. Hit the October 15th button.
Delighted to see this when I woke up today, recognising some of the faces in the crowd that has added to what can now be called a global movement. With the Carbon Tax going through the Senate in November there is really something to show the world, Yes WE can.
I was in Placa Catalunya on the 15th May when this was born. I have never seen or been in a space that was packed so tight with so many people. I visited the site many times during the 6 weeks of rain, police brutality and deep deep indignation that is felt in Spain. 40% + of the youth of this country are unemployed, 2 million houses lay empty as people are being evicted I bear witness to the genuiness of this movement. A virus that has spread to the rest of Europe and America that will have it’s day.
“Our dreams cannot fit in your ballot box”
Stephane Hessel is interviewed on Democracy Now. The 94 year old born during the year of the Russian Revolution wrote a small book “Time for Outrage” last year which has sold 3.5 million copies. It is a cornerstone for protestors in Tahrir Square, Spain and now Wall St. His experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor and co author of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights give his opinions some weight, and more importantly, validity, as the democracy which we are so proud of lies in tatters. This wonderful interview, and his thoughts are inspiring many people to take back what has been lost. as he warns that indifference is our worst enemy.
I missed this last year when it first aired but after 12 months it is even more relevant than it was then. Update ; Greece’s economic situation has worsened and a 2nd bail out of 140 billion Euros has been approved. The European Financial Stability Fund has been increased to 440 billion Euros with the idea that it could be further increased to 2 trillion Euros, just to keep the markets happy !
As we put another load in the washing machine, or wonder who will be the first to be ejected from the latest “X Factor” show, other important issues enter the minds of a new global citizenry.
Clocks are stopping as another crash occurs, defining moments are now common to more and more people, as the way things have been for the last 30 years lurch towards an as yet undefined precipice. Socially, economically and environmentally the prosperity bus is finding less and less traction as the steep gradient on the Mountain of Debt slows the engines of growth. Continue reading
Placa Reial, Barcelona, Taranto’s, Energy.
Hit the “Humour” button above, it may make you smile ….
John Cooper Clarke and Little Becky added.
IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY. J Krishnamurti.
Krishnamurti speaks on the “WORDS” page ………
We the 99% will not be silent and we will not be intimidated.
In July, Spain’s Gemasolar concentrating solar power plant became the first solar power project to generate electricity for 24 hours straight. The 19.9 MW Gemasolar plant features power tower technology with molten salt storage that allows a steam turbine to run for 20 hours each day on average. The plant will generate about 110 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year — almost triple what an equivalent solar photovoltaic plant would produce. By Stephen Lacey on Oct 3, 2011 at 1:23 pm
For this and other articles go to http://thinkprogress.org/
For more than 30 years Laurie Anderson has been a consumate innovative performer, filmaker, writer, international installation artiste, inventor and wordsmith. Her latest work is always her best and her latest music on Homeland is no exception.
And you who can be silent in 4 languages, your silence will be considered your consent.
Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
Maude Barlow has been a pioneer on the fight to make access to water a human right, she asks us to regard “nature” as inalienable to our existence.and not as a commodity to be traded in the free market economy.
Naomi Klein, Journalist, Author, and Social Activist
Naomi calls for system change through a re-localizing of our economies and a fundamental shift away from capitalism’s reliance on endless economic growth.
This year’s Earth Day brought 3 women together who have destroyed many “glass ceilings” – Amy Goodman from “Democracy Now”, Dr Vandana Shiva from Navdanya & Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians. All are tireless workers for human and ecological “rights”.
Stock market trader Alessio Rastani set the world back in their lounge chairs with perhaps the most truthful statement ever explaining why global governments are impotent and unable to provide a society fit for the majority of its inhabitants. Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone journalist had detailed exactly the same thing in an long, but very readable article in April 2010 on Goldman Sachs (see link below). The bottom line – they just don’t care about anything else but money. Continue reading
As a basis for understanding the financial world and why it and the current “free market fundamentalism” is totally unsuited to the survival of the Earth as we know it, this 4 part documentary is a must see. Continue reading
We totally accept the science of the atom bomb, electricity, space travel and the science of sitting in our car, but people cannot accept the science of climate change. Why not? Continue reading
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