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[P2P Foundation] P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » 15 reasons why the commons are ...: is concerned: Nobel Price laureate Elinor Ostrom advises: “It is better to induce cooperation with institutional arrangements fitted to local ecosystems than to try to command from afar.“ At the same time “the systems from above“

[The Urban Vision] The Urban Vision | Why Mumbai Needs a Strategic Urban Design ...: What is critical for such an evolution to start now is that the various citizen and advocacy groups, the academia, the private development sector, and the political and government leaders come together in a broad-based coalition to initiate a process of creating a Mumbai 2040 Vision. Such a future vision will need a supportive Strategic Urban Design/Ecological Master Plan that identifies the necessary implementation strategies, including the coordinated roles to be played by various sectors and agencies to achieve the vision.

[how to save the world] Links and Tweets of the Week/Month: February 11, 2010 « how to ...: This does not mean that every man facing a transition into a poorer, less energy rich world is doomed to crisis.  But I think it is important to talk about - because just as I’ve written many times about the changes that peak oil and climate change and their economic consequences are likely to bring about for women, the ones that come for men are important and real.  All men, and all  of us who love husbands, fathers, brothers, friends, sons need to be aware of these  issues - to be aware of the degree to which watching your world unravel seems to engender different responses.  Women who turn to each other, who talk, whose identities may be more complexly built on a mix of personal and professional identities may not grasp how hard this is for the men in our lives to face unemployment and shifts in everything they’ve known. I think this is an important thing to be able to be open about, for both men and women, and also and important thing to be conscious of.

[Your Story] The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test ...: The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF®) has taken an unprecedented step toward the restoration of the American chestnut tree by offering a limited number of its most advanced and potentially blight-resistant seeds to both new and existing sponsor members for planting and testing. This is the very first time any of these seeds have been made widely available to members and it comes on the heels of over 26 years of intense evaluation by scientists throughout the natural range of the chestnut.

[Home] La Via Campesina: The Evolution of a Transnational Movement: According to Varese, the 'ecological cosmology of rural communities, based essentially on the notion and practice of individual usufruct of collective property and the primacy of use value, resisted (with different degrees of success) the intrusion of a cosmology based on exchange value that corresponded to the capitalist market economy' (Varese 1996, 62). Harkening back to the 'moral economy' of James Scott (1977), Varese argues that even while indigenous and peasant families participate in capitalist market relations that are external to their communities, they maintain and reproduce non-capitalist relations on the inside.

[EarthPortal] EarthPortal » Archive » Green Economy: It’s as if the natural resources will now have their very own balance sheet, which will become an automatically incorporated into international economics as no company or indeed citizen can afford to go Environmentally Bankrupt. As a result the logical response for society as a collective will be to ensure that all such companies etc operate in the most efficient way possible in terms of energy, resources and with an accurate consideration for all the overheads used in conducting business.

[Watershed NOLA] Watershed - Watershed NOLA: He is a member of the US Green Building Council Louisiana Advocacy Committee and is a Parkway Partners/Louisiana Urban Forestry Council certified Citizen Forester. Steve is a graduate of the University of New Orleans and a Fellow of the Loyola University of New Orleans Institute of Politics.

[The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty] The Personal Is the Political | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty: As government spends more and more on health care, the number of personal decisions second-guessed by the political authorities will expand as well.  When health care spending is private, personal decisions are not political.  If I eat poorly, I pay the price at the doctor’s office.  However, once we socialize that spending, my decision to eat fatty, salty foods could cause me to use scarce resources from the collective pot.  The guardians of that pot — the politicians and bureaucrats —

[Pinoy Shouts!] Tagum City Hall close to becoming billionaire, says official ...: He added that the Uy administration has managed to introduce “new local taxes and fees” that “substantially” increased local sources of city’s income such as the annual road maintenance fee, drainage maintenance fee, reforestation, conservation and ecological protection fee, and education support program fee.

[Top 10 Costa Rica] Top 10 Costa Rica » Blog Archive » Does Laura have a Lock on the ...: 1 last year in a “Happy Planet” Index, or HPI, published by a British think tank that combines measures of a country's ecological footprint with citizen happiness and life expectancy. Costa Rica avoided the bloody cold war-era strife that .

[Car Advice | News Blog] Honda Insight a finalist in 2010 World Green Car Awards : Car ...: Other technology incorporated into the car is Honda's proprietary Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) and Ecological Drive Assist System. Honda's Insight has won other awards including the 2009 UK Environmental Transport Association (ETA), .

[Wizbang] An Early Look at 2012 (Wizbang): But there could be a grassroots movement among Democrats to offer a real candidate, and if that happens we should see tremors of the approaching shift late this year, as happened to LBJ in 1966. If he should fail to claim his party's nomination for re-election, we may see Obama blame George W Bush one last time in public - one imagines an elderly Obama blaming W for his bad back and failing vision years from now, as well as the cancellation of his favorite TV shows and the changes in pop music.

[Brightfire Blog] Ethical Consumerism in the current UK adverse economic climate ...: Brightfire Blog ... economic troubles have bounced back onto the radar of the consumer-citizen • ecological concerns rose in importance for many people during 2006 and 2007 - before the credit crunch subsumed global financial markets and inflation headed alarmingly upwards ... until we know whether the public sees the present economic downturn as a blip or a more permanent shift in the global economy, it may be hard to say whether the consumer is becoming less green ...

[Stray Casts] Asian carp: Feds lock in the boondoggle - Stray Casts: Several research efforts will receive significant funding in the coming months to help inform decision makers of additional tools that might be available for Asian carp management, including development of biological controls like Asian carp-specific poisons, methods to disrupt spawning and egg viability, sonic barriers, and assessment of food sources and potential habitats.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12160.org] What Is A Truth Emergency? Are We In One?: The text in the MCA allows for the institution of a military alternative to the constitutional justice system for “any person” regardless of American citizenship. The MCA effectively does away with habeas corpus rights for all people .

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