Feeding The Planet - George Washington University

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Feeding The Planet - George Washington University

Changing to "Living" Economies necessitates the normal evolution to advanced energy systems http://exploringenergyevolution.blogspot.com/. The 'freedom' to lie about energy evolution, suppressed since the 1940s, is NOT freedom, especially when LIFE/SURVIVAL is at stake.

5 Key Takeaways from “Feeding the Planet” | Planet Forward

www.planetforward.org

Right now, one in eight people go to bed hungry and our population is projected to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050. The big question is: How are we going to feed our growing planet?

STAND FOR THE WARRIORS STANDING FOR YOU – STOP AMERICA’S RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Stand for the warriors standing for you – stop America’s race to the bottom


Merry Xmass - http://www.facebook.com/ads/adboard/?type=normal#!/ucubed

 

 

 

On a much wider note, beyond the Pachamama scene reflected in Ecuador (video below), only a paradigm shift toward an economy for life, and an energy science of intelligence and wisdom, will continue to support LIFE. 

 

We can continue to be accomplices in the slow murder of billions through poverty, by supporting the utmost in wide open gluttony, greed, and debt creation - this in no less than an infinite, unlimited Universe - or begin to grow up and evolve toward the infinite bounty and prosperity for all, that defines our spiritual/energy/material Universe. Nothing can blind intelligent life so thoroughly to perpetuate and support the destruction of life, but for the stagnation in the science of ENERGY evolution, over 100 years stale in the concept of E=MC2.

Stand for the Warriors Standing for You

 

http://www.pachamama.org/  

 

WHY BAD SCIENCE IS LIKE BAD RELIGION Dr Rupert Sheldrake  

“I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science. But I am more and more convinced that that the spirit of free inquiry is being repressed within the scientific community by fear-based conformity. Institutional science is being crippled by dogmas and taboos. Increasingly expensive research is yielding diminishing returns.”  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-rupert-sheldrake/why-bad-science-is-like-bad-religion_b_2200597.html

AMERICA’S RACE TO THE BOTTOM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/opinion/race-to-the-bottom.html?hp&_r=0

Competition among states and cities to lure businesses in hopes of creating jobs is not new, but it has become more fierce in recent years. An investigation by The Times found that state and local governments are giving out $80 billion a year in tax breaks and other subsidies in a foolhardy, shortsighted race to attract companies. That money could go a long way to improving education, transportation and other public services that would have a far better shot at promoting real economic growth.

Instead, with these giveaways, politicians and officials are trying to pick winners and losers, almost exclusively to the benefit of big corporations (aided by highly paid lobbyists) at the expense of small businesses. Though they promise that the subsidies are smart investments, far too often the jobs either don’t materialize or are short-lived, leaving the communities no better off.

 

 

Dare if you will, watch “OWNED AND OPERATED
 

 http://www.trueactivist.com/owned-operated

Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system… and fear in those who are pampered by it.

This documentary attempts to present these events using the video, audio and written content uploaded to the internet by the collective human consciousness comprised of every individual participant

 

 

All will be accountable, responsible for Choosing Between an Economy for Life, or the Dragon Eating its Own Tail.

 

A United Front Creating:

The Energy and Economy Paradigm Shift

Poverty is not a game to be played forever. The complete eradication of poverty was possible in mid-20th century. With 21st century science, it defies intelligence why poverty still exists. Our stagnant views of Energy and the Economy require a dramatic UPGRADE.

 

The following links present an excellent synopsis of the issues and solutions that we all must address. The “need to know”, the “right to know” remains the most basic, fundamental right of FREEDOM and SURVIVAL.

The Promise of Energy for Everyone Video The George Washington University’s Planet Forward http://planetforward.org/idea/looking-to-nature-for-a-new-take-on-energy

 

 

THRIVE THE MOVIE: What on earth will it take ? (GATV Preview)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGwCOTMh6s

Voices of the Breakthrough Energy Movement - Fernando Vossa  http://vimeo.com/46175246

 

Living Economies

http://www.neweconomyworkinggroup.org/blog-tags-taxonomy/new-economy-20
https://vimeo.com/48970043




The Venus Project   
http://www.thevenusproject.com  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KphWsnhZ4Ag
 

 

 

Zeitgiest  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w&feature=player_detailpage

  

 

 

The Stagnant Energy Equation Pushes the Blossoming Tower of Babble toward Dark Ages2

Energy Evolution and Human Evolution have truly become modern day Taboos.

The Stagnant Energy Equation Pushes the Blossoming Tower of Babble toward Dark Ages2

Revisiting a Tony Robins video “Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better - to contribute, to do something beyond ourselves to achieve fulfillment”, reflects degrees of progress in the arena of “self interest”, when isolated and taken out of context.

By contrast, it is amazing to observe the mushrooming consequences deriving from the continuous, ever growing, disconnect and lack of comprehension of “community interest”, (the latter part of Tony Robin’s video) the disassociation between “I, Me,” and “We, Community”.

• Evidenced by the popular support (namely by ignoring) of the Major Trends threatening Human Survival and Sustainability…. All directly or indirectly related to the staggering, stagnant energy concept.

• This In spite of decades of self improvement gurus, going way back before Nightingale-Conant.

The comment posted on CBS News 11/24/10 “Hunger in America” echoes the growing ‘street’ perception of research derived causal factors of hunger throughout the world by IISD, Global Research, U.N., etc…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpc-t-Uwv1I

I note neither Michael Murphy’s Future of the Body, nor The Possible Human have generated educational research on human evolution, beyond Maslow's hierarchy of needs or Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development. Energy Evolution and Human Evolution have truly become modern day Taboos.

Record Profits, But Still No Jobs

Companies made more money Q3 This year than in the 60 Years the Commerce Department Has Been Tracking the Data

@katiecouric: Hunger in America November 23, 2010 9:17 AM
Millions of Americans struggle to put food on the table every day, and the number is growing. Katie Couric talks to two leading advocates who are trying to bring an end to hunger in the United States.
Comment: by skepticalJM November 23, 2010 5:58 PM EST
Hunger, or for that matter poverty, will never be cured with charity and handouts. If we want to do away with the so-called "inevitable", we must look to a new paradigm in economics; a paradigm that that doesn't create a small class of "haves" at one end, and a large class of "have nots" at the other. Wealth is not something tangible; WE DEFINE IT. We can define it as a greedy history has, in the days of the Monarchies and the Noblesse Oblige, and their offspring the capitalists; or we can define it as the democratic society we love so dearly must define it: as an unlimited source which springs from the labor, both current and future, of all free and equal human beings cooperating together to produce a society that allows ALL to work together, again cooperatively, not competitively. A mere idle fantasy, I hear you say? No, a reality we can have, if we forget our greedy self-interest, and realize that we can create whatever we want, if we work together to achieve it. Total employment is not a fantasy it is a right that we created a free society to achieve, not to banish. Poverty is not inevitable, it is the side effect of greed and the stupidity of competition. We created society to provide us with the benefits that social creatures need to survive; we created it to beat the downside of fate, and the hardships that limited lifespan brings to all. Instead we have created a society of predators and parasites; of rackets and the racketeers that are killing the society they feed on; that is the reality of capitalism; the reality of institutionalized greed. We can change it; no, we must change it. We must see that wealth is a standard we create and fashion to be what we want it to be. We must change it to make all prosper; just as we created this society for that very reason. How? Create one worldwide bank with branches in every country; create one currency for the world, and do away with all currency markets; let the government of each country print all the money needed to allow a minimum prosperity for all citizens of that country and to create total employment for all citizens who cannot find jobs in the private sector. Only governments will be the source of all money, and it will be given out under strict rules that will be determined to benefit society. Under this system no taxes will be needed and all private property can still be held. We must start to see that WE make the rules for the economy, they are not given, like the rules of a geometry. Will it be easy? No. But we must begin to realize that Capitalism is a contradiction to the democratic society we have made; it forgets that ALL we created it to serve. A freedom without that ALL is a freedom that we wanted to do away with, not institutionalize as we have done.

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Living Off Toxic Trash in the Philippines
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$14 Trillion in Debt - Why You Should Care

CBS News In Focus: The Impact of

Deficits and Debt on our Lives and our Future

World's Lakes Getting Hotter, More Than The Air

Nice Cool Lakes Getting Less So; NASA Finds World's Lakes Warming Up Twice As Much As Air

Meeting American Decline Face to Face
CBS News by “Juan R. I. Cole who is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan “

'We are destroying life on Earth'
U.N. environment chief: World is facing worst extinction rate since dinosaurs vanished, body says

Iraq's Power Grid Near Collapse

Spreading smart bomb liberation everywhere - that's 98% surf-like poverty freedumb with 2% golden greedy guts freedom ... as the priority one subheadings below remain in LIMBO
Priority One A: energy evolution - stagnant and dead with a 100 year old equation, E=MC2, unexpanded, unevolved, petrified as in stone
Priority One B: Survival Criteria for increasingly complex, energy intensive 'holistic' global systems - nonexistent. (these criteria are derived directly from evolving energy stages beyond the caveman approach to nuclear energies - but then, that's The Trouble With Physics and pending trouble with civilization's future survival)

Iraq's Power Grid Near Collapse
NYT BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 5, 2007
(AP) Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces that are unplugging local power stations from the national grid, officials said Saturday. Electricity Ministry spokesman Aziz al-Shimari said power generation nationally is only meeting half the demand, and there had been four nationwide blackouts over the past two days. The shortages across the country are the worst since the summer of 2003, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, he said. Power supplies in Baghdad have been sporadic all summer and now are down to just a few hours a day, if that. The water supply in the capital has also been severely curtailed by power blackouts and cuts that have affected pumping and filtration stations. Karbala province south of Baghdad has been without power for three days, causing water mains to go dry in the provincial capital, the Shiite holy city of Karbala. "We no longer need television documentaries about the Stone Age. We are actually living in it. We are in constant danger because of the filthy water and rotten food we are having," ...full text

Putin Considers Ties With Iran on Gas Sales

"but Putin's remarks underscored a widening rift with the United States"

Somewhere evolution and education got cooked in the squat. Nuclear tools, much less more advanced energy concepts required for survival, just do not mix well with contemporary skewed & limited beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral stages that humanity is being shaped towards (as Hawkin pointed out, Nuclear war still greatest threat to humanity). The "Trouble With Physics" poses Big Trouble indeed!

NYT February 1, 2007
Putin Considers Ties With Iran on Gas Sales
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
MOSCOW, Feb. 1 — Even as the United States intensifies its efforts to isolate Iran, President Vladimir V. Putin said Thursday that Russia would consider OPEC-like cooperation with Tehran on sales of natural gas. He stopped short of endorsing price-fixing, however, saying he was concerned only with insuring stable supplies for consuming nations.
Mr. Putin reiterated Russia’s opposition to Iran’s acquiring nuclear weapons, but his remarks underscored a widening rift with the United States and its allies over how to force Tehran to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions.
“We think that the people of Iran should have access to modern technologies, including nuclear ones,” he said, adding that “they should choose a variant that will guarantee Iran access to nuclear energy” while complying with Tehran’s commitment not to build weapons under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Mr. Putin’s remarks were delivered as part of his annual winter news conference, an affair that offers journalists an exhaustive, unconstrained opportunity to press him on the issues of the day. He answered 66 questions over the course of ... full text