User: Booboo, Degrowth Defined →: Sustainability
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Is Our Fear of Death Destroying the Planet?
So much good stuff on this blog. Not Trading, but Living related.
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We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People - BillMoyers.com
"A remarkable essay by Bill Moyers on how we became a 1% society + why democracy+plutocracy don’t mix"
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" Values must change to base one’s self-worth on the quality of one’s relationships and experiences instead of...
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. - T.S. Eliot
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One World Trade Center is seen behind U.S flags on the morning o...
A lingering question in my mind finally answered.
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I still really like the New Pope.
Sixth mass extinction
Experts purport that biodiversity and ecosystem services are worth $145 trillion globally.
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How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world?
Capitalis...
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Selfie sticks come with a convenient vanity mirror
Poor me, pour me, another one.
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"Sunday Night Humor" during Mondays open market.
Before civilization on this planet eventually collapses, it will...
G. Wally
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Transformational Development in northern Uganda.
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West...keeping the world in chains...
This is not a democracy: How the 1 percent rigged the game
I just liked the picture, good read though.
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Polar bear / air pollution
Lot's of links to lots of climate stuff.
Bill Moyers on The Lives of the Very Very Rich | naked capitalism
Do not read if you are rich !
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1st good report I have seen on 60minutes in a while. Lesley Stahl
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Banned chemical emissions mar ozone treaty's success story
Found; another good treehugger website.
Five Threats More Terrifying Than Ebola Arriving in the U.S. - B...
Have we set ourselves up for a great fall like Humpty Dumpty ?
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Our Dysfunctional National Government Is Incapable of Building a...
Weird Al's new song "FOIL"
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The yellow areas show high and medium priority groundwater basin...
Best piece I have read so far about CA drought ramifications.
Colin Gordon? is a professor of history at the University of Iowa.
Our Inequality: An Introduction | Dissent Magazine
"It is not just (or even) about negative economic growth, as the English word might imply, but rather represents a complex paradigm shift away from our current indu...
An introduction to convivial degrowth | Degrowth / Decroissance Canada
"It is not just (or even) about negative economic growth, as the English word might imply, but rather represents a...
Human Civilization Could Become Quasi-Immortal, Astrobiologist Says
Good Luck Children of the Earth
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Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays - Bloomberg
A historical perspective on inequality.
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Signing of the Constitution
Inequality vs a New Capitalism.
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Forget Creative Growth. Remember Creative Living.
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The Danger of Sleepwalking Towards Environmental Crises | Julia...
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This is a fairly new offering of Sustainability News.
Home | Sustainability | Thomson Reuters
This is a fairly new offering of Sustainability News.
Livevol Options Blog: Op-Ed: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - The Li...
The best write up I have seen on Fukushima Disaster.
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“What’s more important: polar bears or another decade of oil?” asks Raymond Pierrehumbert
Alaska Hunts Oil as Arctic Damage Shows Most Change From Climate...
This illustration is by Paul Lachine and comes from <a href="http:/...
I knew it !
Isn't it time to make finance serve society?
Cycle page one | Finance Watch
Isn't it time to make finance serve society?
Nobody seemed to pay attention when I linked it the 1st time. The 10pg PDF has Charts !
elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/sa...omes-2012.pdf
Nobody seemed to pay attention when I linked it the 1st time. The 10pg PDF has Charts !
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A Bloomberg Special Report: Farming Subsidies
Bubonic plague outbreak feared in central Asia
Chrystia Freeland retweeted
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Chinese beachgoers walk by an algae-covered public beach in Qing...
Found this Godzilla story at desdemonadespair.net
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Thanks To ZeroHedge for pointing this article out to me.
The Battle for Water by Brahma Chellaney - Project Syndicate
Thanks To ZeroHedge for pointing this article out to me.
There are many better ideas than living in a 2x4 tissue box.
Monolithic Dome homes, schools, churches, storages, gyms and mor...
There are many better ideas than living in a 2x4 tissue box.
Cumulative percentage of U.S. citizens facing economic insecurit...
Has to add at least one link in my Sustainability Stack to desdemonadespair
Can one navigate through propaganda to find truth anymore ?
Sustainability at Bloomberg | Bloomberg L.P.
Can one navigate through propaganda to find truth anymore ?
Perhaps the invisible hand will solve this problem.
EconoMonitor : EconoMonitor » It’s Been a Hot July …
Perhaps the invisible hand will solve this problem.
Interesting Show I saw on PBS .
Global Energy and Carbon: Tracking Our Footprint - YouTube
Interesting Show I saw on PBS .
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The median U.S. household income in 2009 totaled $49,777, according to Census data.
Income Inequality | Inequality.org
The median U.S. household income in 2009 totaled $49,777, according to Census data.
Extreme Whale Watching
But unlike Captain Ahab, we are not doomed to a life of insane purpose.
PDF file of "The Bigger Picture" - by Finance Innovation Lab
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PDF file of "The Bigger Picture" - by Finance Innovation Lab
FIGURE 15.1 Various geoengineering options, including both solar...
500 scientific pages about Climate Change.
State of Kansas: Policy Jokers Plot Course for Self Destruction
Over the last several decades, sustainable human development has been conceived largely as the outcome of balanced work on three “pillars” — economic and social development and environmental protection. The authors, building on arg...
Scientists Propose a New Architecture for Sustainable Developmen...
Alfred Hitchcock
I just liked this. By Robert R. McCammon
Quote by Robert R. McCammon: You know, I do believe in magic. I...
I just liked this. By Robert R. McCammon
Reforested mine in Minas Gerais
Read for free: Brazil is in the throes of a green revolution. Sustainability, not exploitation, is now the key.
Aon Benfield uses "Pear Shaped Phenomena" to refer to low probability high consequence events that pose substantial risks to industry and the economy. PDF
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Aon Benfield uses "Pear Shaped Phenomena" to refer to low probability high consequence events that pose substantia...
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu during an online town hall t...
There is an ancient Native American saying: “We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from ou...
AL Gore vs ManBearPig
The Future by Al Gore - former Vice President and winner of the...
AL Gore vs ManBearPig
"This idea that somehow growing GDP is going to solve these problems and yield results in these areas is simply nonsense. "
Charting a New Course for The U.S. and the Environment by Roger...
"This idea that somehow growing GDP is going to solve these problems and yield results in these areas is simply no...
Worldwide sources of mercury pollution
Mercury Rising
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" The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis are all a reflection of an outmoded and fossilize...
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Ransquawk says this is a nice, "what if", piece.
Migrant labourers work at a demolished residential site in downtown...
Link to Global Trends 2030:Alternative World report inside .
Drought in China , artificial rains in Wuhan
"Global Trends 2030 report " link is embedded in the article if your looking for some light reading.
1968's Non-Proliferation Treaty Signing
Interesting that we now have a "Global Economy" but still do not know how to conduct Global interests. Where is th...
The short-term financial orientation of the investment
community is one of the greatest barriers we face to creating a sustainable
society.The corporate community has made significant progress since
2000 in planning for the long term....
Vast Pools of Money Still Ignore Sustainable Investing - Bloomberg
Fracking Our Food Supply | The Nation
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Pollution effects are more than just hot air.
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Welcome to the MAHB | MAHB
Scientists and Sustainablity
Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply.? With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what’s being done to ensure an abundant food supply th...
Field to Fork: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems | UCTV Blog
Sustainable living
The BBC has an entire sustainability category .
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"But surely such an intelligent, problem-solving species is capable of managing these things?"
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Hand Pollination is not a viable option imo.
Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, has traveled the world to speak out against environmental destruction and other wrongs committed in the name of "progress." Lyons' message draws upon the traditions of the Haudenosaunee...
Oren R Lyons, University of Buffalo, Business as usual is over -...
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Why Your Car Isn’t Electric - NYTimes.com
Invisible, with Liberty and Justice for all ?
From Earth Focus/LinkTV: Honeybees, the essential pollinators of many of our major crops have been dying of in massive numbers since 2006. This threatens the US agricultural system and the one in twelve American jobs that depends on i...
Killing Bees: Are Government and Industry Responsible? - YouTube
Good Growth Bad Growth Richard Douthwaite
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
What The Drought Of 2012 Tells Us About Industrial Agriculture |...
Ethanol or Bacon ?
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What Debt Really Matters ?
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It is a chart of sea ice, no ticker symbol.
California Hit With Hottest Rain in Recorded History : TreeHugger
Treehugger.com ? You have to laugh. Taking Hot showers in the desert ? You have to laugh.
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Graph of land use as a quantification of a potential planetary s...
Those in charge will not speak about things that do not support their staying in charge.
A boy walks on the Trans-Amazonian highway in Itaituba, in the s...
Economic Growth at any cost is very expensive.