Archive for January 2022

Or do visions of ‘clean’ robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road?    Andrew Nikiforuk    TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more.  In this well researched and written article he explores the move to Electric…

In the January 20th edition of YES Magazine, Larry Parks Daloz reviews James Gustave Speth’s new book, They Knew. …..we have known the dangers for a long time, that we have been fully appraised of what was necessary to avoid those dangers, and that, over and over, our nation’s leadership chose not merely to ignore…

An opinion piece by David Korten featured in YES Magazine.   Our society cannot be considered civilized by any objective standard…..we risk doing such irreversible damage to Earth’s  regenerative systems that our species is unlikely to survive. To read the entire article, follow the link below: https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/01/18/ecological-civilization-only-way-forward?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YTW_20220121&utm_content=YTW_20220121+CID_8db92adfe25d202bf2d05ac68d77ed03&utm_source=CM

Scotland is building a democracy fit for the 21st century and a climate action plan to meet the emergency of our time.  It’s all thanks to the power of proportional representation and the leadership of the Scottish Citizen’s Assembly. An article by Fair Vote Canada on how proportional representation and a Citizen’s Assembly in Scotland…