From The Conversation, Matthew Nisbet discusses the opposing visions of climate change embodied by Naomi Klein and Bill McGibbon on one side, and Al Gore and Nicholas Stern (UK economist) on the other side. The real distinction is a grassroots, bottom-up approach that rejects capitalism as a part of the solution (Klein and McKibbon) vs. … Read more
From Bookform‘s Omnivore blog, here is a collection of links on the topic of happiness, a meaningful life, happiness in economics and government policy. Advice for a happy life Sep 10 2014 9:00AM From the Journal of Social Research and Policy, a special issue on Between Wealth and Well-Being: Consumption, psychology and quality of life. … Read more
Halfway through the year, almost, and there have already been some seriously good books published that will appear on a lot of top-ten lists in December. Some of those books are below, but there also a lot of books below no one will have heard of about side of their respective fields, books from academic … Read more
Ed Berge has been reviewing the new book from Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, over at his Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum. All of the individual posts from that thread have been organized into a lengthy article that was posted at Integral World. … Read more
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). His previous books include The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (2009) and The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on the Thomas Piketty phenomenon, Can Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Inspire Real Change? It was a popular post. So here is more, since there seems to be no shortage of media coverage of the man and his book and the right-wing hysteria he has … Read more
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). He is also the author of The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World (2011) and The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in … Read more
Over the past few years, TED has grown into a household name due to the amazing lectures and presentations that they’ve made publicly available to the entire world. TEDTalks are presentations about ideas that are worth spreading. Well, Nick Hanauer decided to give a talk about an idea he considered worth spreading: how we’ve been … Read more