Review: Change the Story, Change the Future – A Living Economy for a Living Earth

David Korten 5.0 out of 5 stars Brings Us Full Circle — Valuable as Remedial Education for All, June 27, 2015 David Korten has been one of my heroes and indirect mentors through his books for over a decade. His book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community resonated deeply with me, and I …

Sepp Hasslberger: Consumers Seeking Health Impacting on Monsanto and Coca Cola

It would not be bad if consumer demand forced some of these companies to get into selling actual, healthy food and drink… Coca-Cola Facing Major Financial Challenges As Sales Steadily Decline In recent years, consumers have been slowly cutting back on things like soda, junk food, and GMOs, in favor of a more healthy diet. …

Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution

I was  glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O’Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction …

CounterPunch: Where is Jesse Ventura When You Need Him? The Public Gets the Government It Tolerates

Where is Jesse Ventura When You Need Him? The Public Gets the Government It Tolerates by ROBERT DAVID STEELE If Jesse Ventura or any true, electable populist candidate reads this and wants to be President, I have a plan to make it so. I ran for President in 2012, accepted as a candidate by the …

Reflections: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?

Intel is doing something new and useful. They have introduced a Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) to migrate toward assuring Intel consumers that its offerings are free of minerals from conflict environments — tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are the ones they are focusing on. What Intel is doing impresses me for two reasons. First, they …