The following article, written by Patrick Noble and published in Feasta’s website is a very good summary of the ecological indictment of our current societies, I highly recommend it.
Patrick Noble: What spoils economies?
Firstly, their size – do they exceed the limits of their ecological supply. That is – is the mass and diversity of an economic terrain maintained? Does the economy cycle within its terrestrial limits?
I have this idea for a while now and after my first interaction with the sustainability startup accelerator Climate KIC in Milan yesterday I decided to use the time on the train back to Berlin to finally share it. It starts with the question: How to make quicker progress with sustainability in the world of Startups? Here is an answer:
It's not every day that a 30-something former Oxford academic disrupts the plans of the world's biggest disruptor.
The article by Surabhi Agarwal and Samanwaya Rautray was published in Economic Times on January 4, 2018.
Chun-Yin San at Nesta: “In 2011, Lord Martin Rees, the British Astronomer-Royal, launched a scathing critique on the UK Government’s long-term thinking capabilities. “It is depressing,” he argued, “that long-term global issues of energy, food, health and climate get trumped on the political agenda by the short term”.
Thomas Kingsley at the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP): “Thanks to IndyVitals – an award-winning online data tool – residents and organizations can actively contribute to continued planning to achieve Marion County’s vision for 2020.
Are digital platforms the new ‘iron cages’ of society? Will Big-Data-based nudging lead us into a technocratic future of cyber-social control? Is China’s Social Credit System but the forerunner of... MORE
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O curso é gratuito e as inscrições devem ser feitas até 22 de janeiroA Cátedra Jean Monnet da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio) recebe inscrições para a próxima edição do curso de Regionalismo Comparado. Essa edição terá como convidados professores de renome nacional e internacional, em especial, da Universidade Livre de Bruxelas (Bélgica), Anne Weyembergh e Ramona Coman.
Con las exposiciones de la comisión Proyección de la Universidad del Senado Universitario, la comisión redactora Vinculación con el Medio de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, y el informe ¿Qué nos hace diferentes?
El Rector Ennio Vivaldi y el ministro del Deporte, Pablo Squella, lideraron este 19 de diciembre la inauguración del Campo Deportivo JGM, complejo que cuenta con una infraestructura de punta, adaptada para personas con discapacidad física y ceguera, y que será sede de los Juegos Panamericanos 2023. En la oportunidad, además, las autoridades firmaron un convenio de colaboración con el fin de contribuir al desarrollo y fomento de la actividad física en el país.
Una escultura y una placa ubicadas en el SEMDA Central son el testimonio de las y los estudiantes, académicos y funcionarios de las carreras de la salud que fueron ejecutados o hechos desaparecer por razones políticas durante la dictadura civil-militar, liderada por Augusto Pinochet a partir de 1973.
El Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) junto a Laspau, institución afiliada a Harvard University, lanzaron la serie publicaciones "Innovando en la educación superior: experiencias claves en américa latina 2016-2017", textos que reúnen más de 50 casos relevantes al respecto de Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panamá, Perú y Uruguay. Los volúmenes se encuentran disponibles en línea para todo público.
1 de cada 4 estudiantes que ingresaron a la U. de Chile en 2017 proviene desde regiones, y pensando especialmente en ellos el servicio "Futuro Mechón", que orienta e informa a los futuros postulantes sobre los detalles del acceso a la educación superior, carreras y vida universitaria -no sólo de la Casa de Bello-, funcionará en esta "Semana del Postulante" que se realizará entre el 26 y 29 de diciembre, en horario extendido entre las 9 y 24 hrs.
Hannelore Hollinetz and Martin Hollinetz: The development of the Otelos – the international network of open technology labs – is the story of a group bringing together creative people in rural areas and forging a new culture of innovation with them. The idea for Otelos began in 2009 as Martin Hollinetz, then Director of Regional Management in the Upper Austrian districts of Vöcklabruck and Gmunden, contemplated with dismay the regional development strategies of the EU, the Austrian federal government, and the Austrian states.
Reposted from Rosalux-nyc, check out Vicente Rubio-Pueyo‘s new study on Spain’s municipalist coalitions.
Gillian Tett at the Financial Times: “…This month, Hernando de Soto, an acclaimed development economist from Peru, joined forces with Patrick Byrne, a controversial American luminary of the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem, to launch an unusual project to fight poverty.
James Davison Hunter in The Hedgehog Review: “…while institutions tend to be stable and enduring, even as they evolve, no institution is permanent or indefinitely fixable. The question now is whether contemporary American democracy can even be fixed. What if the political problems we are rightly worried about are actually symptoms of a deeper problem for which there is no easy or obvious remedy?
Sean Thornton at Data-Smart City Solutions: “The 606, Chicago’s rails-to-trails project that stretches for 4.2 miles on the city’s northwest side, has been popular with residents and visitors ever since its launch last year. The trail recently added a new art inst
The Economist: “…Citizen science has been around for ages—professional astronomers, geologists and archaeologists have long had their work supplemented by enthusiastic amateurs—and new cheap instruments can usefully spread the movement’s reach. What is more striking about bGeigie and its like, though, is that citizens and communities can use such instruments to inform decisions on which science would otherwise be silent—or mistrusted.
María Victoria Angulo in The Guardian: “On a typical school day in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, about a million pupils, from four to 18 years old, will sit down for a meal at one of our 384 public schools.