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The pluralist commonwealth
The Next System Project has been investigating ways to address the critical systemic failure of our political-economic system for years with the intent of delivering better social, economic, and...
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Laurie Penny on five years after Occupy Wall Street
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett Worstward Ho (1983) Laurie Penny is, without doubt, one of a shy handful of...
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Solar energy costs drop by 25 percent in 5 months
Judging from two recent construction bids for large-scale solar energy projects, the cost of solar energy has dropped by a remarkable 25 percent in five months according to Dom Galeon writing for...
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Xcel wants to build four more wind farms
Xcel Energy is planning to increase its wind generation capacity by 60 percent with four new wind farms, three in Minnesota and one in North Dakota. The total output of the planned wind farms would be...
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Tesla flexes solar power ambitions
Earlier this year, Tesla made a US$2.6 billion all-stock offer to buy SolarCity. On 17 November, the shareholders of the two companies will vote on the offer. If approved, the acquisition would give...
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Andy Stern advocates a basic income guarantee
Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 1996–2010, left the union when he realized that work was changing faster than anyone could manage. Stern is,...
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Global seed diversity drastically diminished
The world’s seed stock has been irreversibly reduced — by more than 90 percent — in the last 80 years. The lack of variety of seed limits the choices available to farmers across the globe, and likely...
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Basic income guarantee test in Ontario
Earlier this year, the Canadian province of Ontario announced a basic income guarantee test project. The test, known as a “basic income pilot” was announced by former conservative senator Hugh Segal...
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Prying open the Overton window for a basic income guarantee
The idea of a basic income guarantee (BIG) — whereby every citizen is unconditionally given a guaranteed basic income, enough to get by but not enough to get rich — is far from new. While the idea...
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Inevitable climate feedback loop is here and as catastrophic as expected
Environmental scientists have been warning for years that a climate feedback loop that would force massive amounts of underground carbon and methane into the atmosphere was inevitable. A study...
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Google to reach 100 percent renewable energy in 2017
Google has announced that it will reach 100 percent renewable energy for its global operations (including its data centers) sometime in 2017. According to Urs Holzle writing for Google, the search and...
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Two-year basic income guarantee trial in US
The Economic Security Project (ESP), a US$10 million trial of a basic income guarantee over a two year period, will seek evidence that a universal basic income can help solve problems ranging from...
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US on verge of clean water crisis
If you thought the clean water crisis in the US was limited to Flint, MI, you haven’t been paying attention. On 22 March 2016 — the most recent World Water Day — the Obama White House hosted a Water...
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Batteries may waste energy for grid-connected solar installations
I readily confess to being pretty breathless about Tesla’s Powerwall and updated Powerwall 2, offering twice the capacity. Both seemed like the perfect solution to remaining on the grid in an urban...
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50,000 new seeds added to Svalbad Global Seed Vault
Ten years or so ago, when it became abundantly clear to anyone paying the least bit of attention that climate change was real and posed a potentially devastating threat to the planet’s food source, a...
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Tesla helps Kauai move to renewable energy
If the Hawaiian island of Kauai — the oldest of the eight major islands — isn’t my favorite place on the planet, it’s certainly in the top two. It’s the only place I’ve been where it was feasible to...
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Tompkins Conservation donates one million acres to Chile
Former Patagonia, Inc. chief executive Kris Tompkins has pledged one million acres for land conservation in Chile through Tompkins Conservation. The Tompkins Conservation donation of Parque Pumalin...
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For the love of ferns
A perennial lover of ferns, I’m always looking to incorporate these beauties indoors and out. The mature leaf structure, at once graceful, and full, has little resemblance to the faintly aspiring-like...
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Climate change doomsday clock down to 10 years
A team of international researchers has found that we have 10 years or less to resolve the climate change emergency before it becomes irreversible. The good news is that the same team of researchers...
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Permafrost melt enters Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Warmer than normal temperatures and unexpected rain melted the permafrost in Longyearbyen, Norway, the home of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Average temperatures more than 7℃ higher than normal were...
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