Posts Tagged ‘climate science’

David Korten: Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy, part 2 (video)

David Korten, author, and co-founder of Yes! magazine shares his views on the importance of building local, community-based economies.

David Korten: Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy (video)

Korten, minces no words about the dangers our capitalist system poses to democracy.

The Climate Reality Project: a Live, 24 Hours of Environmental Reality

What do you say to a sizable population of Americans that believe climate change is not for real?

Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling- New Report Concludes

What a difference 38 million years makes. Cornfields of the midwestern United States were a tropical region

David Korten: Agenda for a New Economy 4 (video)

“If we have a need in society, and we have unutilized labor, land, technology— the other real resources required to address it— money alone should never be the deciding constraint.”—David Korten In part 4, David Korten concludes his talk on transforming the destructive, (and corrupt) Wall Street driven financial system to one centered around meeting [...]

David Korten: Agenda For a New Economy 3 (video)

“…Earth’s bounty, on which all of life depends, is the shared birth right of all living beings; none of us created it, and none of us has a right to monopolize it.”—David Korten In this third installment, David Korten, author of Agenda For a New Economy, outlines the steps necessary to create an economy that [...]

David Korten: Agenda for a New Economy (video)

The 2010 mid-term election results have produced a substantial political shift in the house of representatives, and state legislatures throughout the country. No where across the political landscape—where the mood of the electorate is variously described as angry, fearful, frustrated—have the deepest issues of our time been openly discussed, let alone carefully examined. Indeed, one [...]

A Conversation with Anna Lappé on Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, and Conversion to a Climate Friendly Food System (video)

The first thing one notices about Anna Lappé, author of the new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It, she knows how to focus abstract, interrelated concepts, such as industrial agriculture, and food system, into concrete terms as they relate [...]