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There seems to be a prevalent trend in media and political commentary about the Canadian province of New Brunswick where I live and am from; that the province is falling behind, in decline. 
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In his talk last July at Open Government Melbourne Meetup, Donnie Maclurcan explains why Not for profits will take over For profits and change the game. To relate to Michel’s notion of ‘For benefit’, and the recent post on cooperative accumulation. These are the highlights of the talk:
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A new study shows it takes less energy to print many household items at home than to manufacture them en masse.
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Our friends at Shareable recently published Policies for Shareable Cities - a report on how urban leaders can encourage a shareable economy through policy changes. We got the chance to put a few questions via email to Shareable co-founder and report co-author Neal Gorenflo about the project, and how embracing the sharing economy is a logical next step for cities.
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Despite the stubborn resistance of skeptics, the overwhelming majority of scientists, whether they be geologists, climatologists, atmospheric scientists, chemists or biologists, believe we are experiencing – right now – human-induced climate change.
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Across the world, innovative solutions to urban needs are emerging from new uses for existing structures and systems. Officials are joining hands with engineers and corporate R&D teams to improve access to essential resources like water, energy and sunlight, and increase social and environmental wellbeing by reimagining the potential of the resources they already have. They are reprogramming the city.
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October 9, 2013 5:08 AM
Take Lima. For those living on the edges of Peru’s capital, access to clean drinking water is a problem. Small wells supply most of the water, which one resident describes as “unpleasant and polluted,” and in the summer “there isn’t much available.” Engineers at the local University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) decided to tackle the issue by making innovative use of two of the city’s more abundant resources: its humid air (which can reach 98 percent humidity), and the billboards that reach into it. They installed a humidity collector and water purifier into the top of one advertising structure in the village of Bujama, creating the UTEC Water Billboard. It can produce 96 liters of clean drinking water a day for local residents, which flows down a pipe to a tap at the base of the structure. Resident Francisco Quilca says it has provided him and his neighbors with a new, pure water source, and wishes it could exist “on the door of every house, in every village.”
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Shareable and the Sustainable Economies Law Center have released a fantastic new report surveying the ways in which cities can adopt policies to promote “sharing” in a range of areas -- food, housing, transportation and jobs. The landmark report, “Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders,” pulls together “scores of innovative, high impact policies that US city governments have put in place to help citizens share resources, co-produce, and create their own jobs.”
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Ricardo Radulovich is building cheap, sustainable sea-farms that could revolutionize agriculture, clean our oceans, and feed millions.
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The contribution of this paper is to explain how to achieve a universally prosperous environmentally sustainable global society. This objective is incompatible with traditional economic policies dependent on environmentally exploitive growth in the population and/or full employment to generate prosperity. Politically attractive incentives of smaller taxes and government are identified as a way of changing the way an economy operates so that prosperity can be increased even with a declining and aging population. Localising the ownership and control of the means of production and exchange with individuals creates a way to create a universal minimum social dividend to replace the need for full employment, welfare, pensions, and big government. Local democracy is enriched with the power to nurture their host environment. The introduction of ecological forms of cost carrying money redeemable into local services of nature allows market forces to encourage production techniques that reduce their environmental impact. Increased life expectancy with depopulation is already occurring in twenty countries and this is expected to spread globally in the current century. This phenomenon with current environmental pressures create an imperative for achieving environmentally sustainable prosperity sooner rather than later.
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The sustainability movement faces extinction – what could save it?
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October 19, 2013 4:31 AM
We are in time. Una acción por pequeña que sea contribuye a mejorar la vida de todos y todas.
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An ecovillage is a community committed to becoming more sustainable. The resources needed for life are sourced locally in a way that allows nature to continually supply humans. Ecovillages are also designed to maximize quality of life.
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The full Story of Solutions is coming October 1st! http://bit.ly/solveforbetter ;
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First International Workshop on "Low-cost 3D Printing for Science, Education and Sustainable Development"
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These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part series. These tapes bear many viewings and will benefit anyone who wants to learn how to help regenerate the earth - from back yard to bio-region. Teachers of permaculture have found these tapes to be a valuable coaching tool - edited to one hour.
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A third of UK investors (34%) want their savings and investments to help create a more sustainable economy, according to a YouGov survey conducted for National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW).
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Shareable and the Sustainable Economies Law Center have released a fantastic new report surveying the ways in which cities can adopt policies to promote “sharing” in a range of areas -- food, housing, transportation and jobs. The landmark report, “Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders,” pulls together “scores of innovative, high impact policies that US city governments have put in place to help citizens share resources, co-produce, and create their own jobs.”
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David Bollier is among the foremost global thinkers and advocates for the commons.
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Annie Leonard from The Story of Stuff Project talks to supporters about how we are building the movement to change the way we make, use and throw away Stuff: autumn 2013.
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The Rhinebeck, NY-based Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) this past weekend hosted "Where We Go From Here: Opportunities & Solutions for an Interdependent World," a conference aimed at addressing sustainability issues from a "holistic perspective based on the interconnection between human behavior, economic and social systems, and the environment."
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Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having enough, of contests over who gets the most of the scarce resources available, then aiming for sustainability is not enough. We should instead aim for abundance.
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24 amazing events to connect the dots, meld minds, and build bridges to a new economy where people and the planet matter.
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The Story of Stuff Project founder talks about her new video on the biggest obstacles to change and how we overcome them.
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Evidence shows that without more land under local control, our ability to tackle climate change, fight poverty, increase food availability, and preserve cultural and biological diversity will be seriously impaired, said Andy White of the Rights and Resources Initiative at the opening of the Community Land and Resource Rights conference on September 19 and 20.
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"This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them," Paul Hawken said in an often-referenced graduation speech at the University of Portland in 2009. "Civilization needs a new operating system. You are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades."
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Forget Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of expansion (“growth”) or recession—what really matters is the social recession, which continues to deepen in America.
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