In order to support and strengthen the recent American and Chinese commitments to the concept of Low Carbon Economies, perhaps these policy guide lines and goals could be incorporated into the Waxman Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 [H.R. 2454].
1. Sequester additional carbon in the soils and forests in a sustainable [...]

Posted by: Jock Gill
Robert David Steele has posted a free book: Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig.
Author’s Preface
The financial fraud now capturing the attention of all who focus on the pathologies of both Wall Street and Washington is NOT our Nation’s greatest threat. While the proposed bail‐out is both unconstitutional (seeking to negate [...]

Over the past few days, I’ve been getting into discussions with various conservatives comparing their concern about big government with liberals about their concern about big business. My primary concern is that centralized power, whether it be with big government or big businesses is not the best way of addressing the issues we face. [...]

Could a President Obama set us free?
What is the “The Trap“?
It is a three part film by Adam Curtis, broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.
Curtis’s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. [...]

Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy [...]

In this weeks Green Grapevine, published weekly in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, and Brattleboro Reformer, Daniel Hecht writes a review of James Howard Kunstler’s 2004 – 2005 book The Long Emergency.
The Long Emergency Predicts a Dire Future
James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is something like required reading among peak oil activists, and it’s a [...]

As we know, the voting and polling so far show that we want a new narrative and we want change. But where is the new narrative? And change to what, at how much pain?
How about a new narrative that incorporates thermodynamics into accepted economic theory; that addresses the demand side as rigorously as the [...]

On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
Cambridge, Mass.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design [...]

Gangs of America by Ted Nace – the rise of Corporate Power and the disabling of democracy:
Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out [...]

Thanks to Peter Coyote:
A must read on our current economics
“It is through the newspapers and TV channels that the
socially destructive notions of a small group of
extremists have come to look like common sense.”
The Guardian UK
By George Monbiot
Tuesday 28 August 2007
A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the
economic debate, and [...]