Er zijn 66 berichten getagd als economie.
Het is een een veel gebruikte term voor het leven wat we leven als mensen in een moderne samenleving. In deze animatie even letterlijk en confronterend gevisualiseerd door Steve Cutts. Op zoek naar geluk en er slechts een surrogaat voor terugkrijgen.
De noodzaak om dit te doen is er niet meer (misschien is het er zelfs nooit geweest). Dit is één van de reden waarom ik dus ook andere keuzes maak.
Link: Happiness
Politics fractures when policy fails – as events of the last year have shown. Nine years on from the global financial crisis, policymakers are still struggling to find convincing answers to the economic problems it exposed. At the same time, the world faces many significant and complex challenges, from climate change to the problems of managing chronic health conditions, to the challenges of ageing populations, to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This special event marks the launch of a new collaboration between the RSA and UCL’s new Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose to develop mission-oriented innovation policy in practice.
Mooi openhartig gesprek van wetenschappers met een hart.
Link: Mission Oriented Innovation | Jeffrey Sachs
Cathy Newman’s full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America’s foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
Link: Noam Chomsky full length interview: Who rules the world now?
https://vimeo.com/97358756
Door: Biggest Ideas
Source: http://bit.ly/2dZUez4
Gasland Part II follows on three years later, to continue documenting how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most devastating environmental issues rapidly spreading the globe. This sequel further enriches the argument that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a lie, where in fact fracked wells inevitably leak over time, and vent exuberantly more potent greenhouse gasses such as methane in cumulative effect, not to mention the continued string of cases of severe water contamination across the United States and even cases as far away as Australia. Gasland Part II follows deeper into these happenings, revealing yet more of an entrenched corporate collusion in the pursuit of exploiting dwindling ‘natural resources’
