Monthly Archives: March 2023

No Miracles Needed How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air CAD$16.95 (T) Author: Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, California Date Published: February 2023 : Paperback isbn: 9781009249546 The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels … Continue reading →

It was announced today that the 2022 Holberg Prize is awarded to Catalan scholar Joan Martinez-Alier for his research in ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice. https://holbergprize.org/en/news/holberg-prize/environmental-justice-scholar-joan-martinez-alier-named-2023-holberg-laureate

Humans have a long history of using wind to carry out work that is now powered by fossil fuels https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2023/03/09/from-intercontinental-spy-balloons-to-solving-the-carbon-crisis-wind-can-take-us-places/

The healthy functioning of democracies depends on the quality of the information that frames debate within them. But digitalisation, the rise of social media and increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence (AI) are delivering new opportunities to poison the well … Continue reading →

Fogo Island is located northeast of the island of Newfoundland. 150 square miles in size, it is home to 2,500 persons. Beginning in 1954 the Canadian government introduced a resettlement plan for Newfoundland that encouraged populations in remote areas to … Continue reading →

Michael Schuman’s 2002 address “Going Local: New Opportunities for Community Economies” remains an inspiring guide for active citizens to work together in encouraging local production in their own settings. In it, he contrasts the dominant approach to area economic development, … Continue reading →

With all the hype in the press these days about the information superhighway, artificial intelligence, chat bots and the use of computers to provide us with information, knowledge, wisdom, and false news, it is important that we understand a few … Continue reading →

Artificial intelligence has implication across the board, solving problems and raising others https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/18/from-retail-to-transport-how-ai-is-changing-every-corner-of-the-economy

The little QR code is ubiquitous across India’s vastness. You find it pasted on a tree next to a roadside barber, propped on the pile of embroidery sold by female weavers, sticking out of a mound of freshly roasted peanuts … Continue reading →

Uncovering an early industry that employed more workers than any field other than farming. Historians of capitalism, including Marxists, have paid little attention to a critical event in the evolution of capitalism — the European discovery and expropriation of what … Continue reading →