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Tipping Point Action Proposal in Contest at MIT Climate CoLab Crowdsourcing Platform
The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (www.cpcsc.info) now has a proposal ("Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges") in a contest at the MIT Climate CoLab Platform. The Tipping Point Action Proposal is entered in the "Shifting Behavior for a Changing Climate" contest.
There are opportunities to comment on the Tipping Point Action proposal--and to give it a "thumbs up"…
ContinueAdded by Stefan Pasti on May 28, 2014 at 11:51am — No Comments
Dirk Becker's Comments on the Occupy Movement - November 2
It all started with an email.
On July 13, 2011 Adbusters magazine sent out a call to its 90,000-strong list proclaiming a Twitter hashtag, #OccupyWallStreet, and a date, September 17. It quickly spread among the mostly young, tech-savvy radical set, along…
Added by Randy Chatterjee on November 10, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments
A turning-point we miss at our peril
We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity
by Johann Hari
Sometimes, there are hinge-points in human history – moments when we have to choose between an exuberant descent into lunacy, and a still, sober voice offering us a sane way out. Usually, we can only see them when we look back from a distance. In 1793, the great democrat Thomas Paine said the French…
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Grist: Behavior change causes changes in beliefs, not vice versa
Added by Randy Chatterjee on November 30, 2010 at 9:15am — No Comments
There won't be a bailout for the Earth - Johann Hari @ The Independent
Added by Randy Chatterjee on November 27, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments
TransLink’s freeway push must be stopped
Added by Eric Doherty on November 17, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments
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