Source – wakingtimes.com – Here’s an amazing, inspirational video of how The Urban Farming Guys transformed one of the poorest, most dangerous zip codes in the US into a thriving, almost crime-free, sustainable community. Now, former drug addicts, thieves and criminals are the ones who are helping to rebuild what they once lost. The same community…
Source – soundofheart.org – I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nation, ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened in America, what we call “Turtle Island.” My words seek to unite the global Community through a message from our sacred ceremonies to unite spiritually, each in our…
Source – rt.com – With the 2015 North American International Auto Show well underway in Detroit, automakers are revving engines by taking the all-electric line-up of Tesla head-on and showcasing the very first 3D-printed vehicle. All eyes were on General Motors, as the company revealed a new concept car that is scheduled to become reality…
Source – vox.com – A new study is out providing support to one of my favorite ideas in public policy — that the best way to deal with the challenge of homelessness is to give homeless people homes to live in. To some it sounds utopian and it’s natural to worry about the cost, but…
Source – ecowatch.com – You’ve most likely heard one of the arguments leveled at wind power: turbines are ugly. And while you might not agree, it’s true that the tall turbines that are increasingly appearing all over the landscape stand out among their surroundings. French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière decided to do something about that. His…
Source – collective-evolution.com – In Part 1 of this three part series, The Future of Capitalism, we learned that capitalism is not sustainable without growth, nor does it allow for conservation in equal measure. Though it was acknowledged that capitalism has generally served us well, many readers took great exception to the possibility that capitalism…
Source – bilaterals.org – Some 40 states ready to create free trade zone with EEU: Diplomat, http://www.bilaterals.org/?some-40-states-ready-to-create#sthash.e7HXA8kH.uNLq2YgW.dpuf The Supreme Eurasian Economic Council met in the Kremlin. The meeting is dedicated to practical aspects of the launch of the Eurasian Economic Union and its bodies as of January 1, 2015. Taking part in the summit were…
Source – geneco.uk.com – We’ve launched the first UK bus powered on gas generated from recycling food waste and treating sewage – the Bio-Bus! Television personality Stefan Gates took the first journey on the bus, which is refuelled at GENeco’s gas to grid plant at Bristol sewage treatment works. GENeco produces enough biomethane at the…
Source – businessweek.com – The first thing you notice about the Mirai, Toyota’s new $62,000, four-door family sedan, is that it’s no Camry, an international symbol of bland conformity. First there are the in-your-face, angular grilles on the car’s front end. These deliver air to (and cool) a polymer fuel-cell stack under the hood. Then…
Source – yesmagazine.org – Organizations that aim to reduce the use of toxic chemicals have long focused on shutting down offending businesses. But this story from Boston shows another way. Chuck Collins is a co-founder of JPNET and Polly Hoppin leads the environmental health program at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. Photo courtesy of…
Source – blueprintsforbutterflies.com – We live in a supportive Universe but do not live in a supportive system, and it’s the principal of this conundrum that influences our lives by way of our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual perspective. The system we live in is a slow burn into a personal and private prison of…
Source – liberalamerica.org – The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration. The organization has accused CIA director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes and they’ve called for a German prosecutor to conduct an immediate investigation. This move…
Source – rawstory.com – In a blistering editorial published in the Monday edition of the New York Times, the editorial page editors are calling upon the Justice Department to open an investigation into the torture practices committed during the administration of President George W. Bush with an eye towards prosecuting those who “committed torture and…
Source – gji.oxfordjournals.org – Modelled deformation patterns for 2001 January 1 to 2015 January 1 expressed as anomalies to the average pattern (related to polar motion) over the 20th century. Modelled deformation patterns for 2001 January 1 to 2015 January 1 expressed as anomalies to the average pattern (related to polar motion) over the 20th…
Source – kauilapele.wordpress.com – I’ve heard of this story, and seen the program (in the video) before. However, it particularly feels resonant for this time period. I sense that more and more soldiers are seeing (and will see) the Light, and in that Light, recognize that all wars are bankers wars, and that they are…
Source – spiritsound.com – As Alvin Toffler points out in his visionary book “Future Shock”, we must become more capable of handling change than ever before if we are to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century. Toffler observes, “We have the opportunity to introduce additional stability points and rituals into our society, such as…
Source – medicalxpress.com – The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. And the more urgent the issue, the more people want to remain unaware, according to a…
Source – wakingtimes.com – It is impossible to unravel our greatest societal problems without taking aim at the world’s financial system, which is fundamentally corrupt on many levels. The global financial system, organized around centrally managed, privately owned, fiat, fractional reserve currencies, is an engineered tool of the world’s banking elite that, by design, enslaves the public…
Source – collective-evolution.com – A team at IBM recently developed what they call a High Concentration Photo Voltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system that is capable of concentrating the power of 2,000 suns, they are even claiming to be able to concentrate energy safely up to 5,000X, that’s huge. The process of trapping the sunlight produces water…
Source – owni.eu – Like many of their professors, students at the Sorbonne had become used to going to buy their ink cartridges from a small shop on a nearby street. With no manufacturer affiliations, it carried shelves full of ‘generic’ cartridges that worked with printers from big name brands like Epson, Canon, HP and…
Source – washingtonpost.com – It’s the latest, greatest Silicon Valley IPO to hit the headlines, now emerging from its humble beginnings in a San Francisco niche market – into a potential global powerhouse brand. As it puts together its latest round of fundraising, Uber has been valued at [40] billion. Many have found that figure eye-popping…
Source – cryptogon.com – At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more affordable, while ending reliance on oil and…
Source – avfallsverige.se – Imagine a world where pollution is a non-issue, cities are pristine, healthy environments to live in, and little to no entanglements from discarded trash injures wildlife or clogs the oceans. In Sweden, this is almost a reality, yet it’s causing a paradoxical predicament for the recycle-happy country that relies on waste…
Source – heguardian.com – When Jay Rogers drove away from the International Manufacturing Technology Show in September and toured around Chicago in a two-seater, you could be forgiven for not paying much attention. Unless, of course, you’d watched it rise up out of a 3D printer the size of a shipping container over the past…
Source – themindunleashed.org – Funding has just been secured to break ground on the world’s largest ocean current-driven power plant on the shores of Scotland. The plant is expected to supply the electrical needs of 175,000 homes once completed, with the initial delivery of electricity expected by 2016. The first phase of the project will…
Source – streettalklive.com – Recently, Tim Duy wrote an interesting piece entitled “Yes, I am Optimistic” wherein he stated that: “The lesson no one wants to draw from this recovery is that the US economy is both stronger and more resilient than commonly believed. Do not dismiss the real improvement in the economy since 2009.…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – Debunking the Stubborn Myth that War Is Good for the Economy About.com notes: One of the more enduring myths in Western society is that wars are somehow good for the economy. It is vital for policy-makers, economists and the public to have access to a definitive analysis to determine once and…
Source – wakeup-world.com – Despite the furious efforts of the world’s controllers, humanity is waking up. Don’t let recent events and seeming contests of ideology throw you. We’re in the thick of it now. There’s nothing level about this playing field, and the mass narrative is strong propaganda. Don’t even listen to it. Rely on your heart…
Source – inquisitr.com -On Sunday, the people of Switzerland will go to the voting booth to decide their nation’s economic future. The “Swiss gold vote,” as it’s being called, would require that the nation put its currency back onto a gold standard, which would require the Swiss central bank to buy large amounts of gold…
Small vegetables–many leaf crops and even compact and miniature varieties of fruiting crops such as tomatoes and peppers–can be grown indoors in a sunny, bright windowsill year round. Vegetable gardening indoors has most of the same requirements as an outdoor garden: bright light, water, nutrients, and protection from pests and diseases. Since space is likely…
Source – huffingtonpost.com – People who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics, Uruguayan President José Mujica told CNN en Español in an interview posted online Wednesday. “We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” Mujica said in the interview. “So it seems to…
Source – wakingtimes.com What would happen if the government came out and acknowledged that extra-terrestrials are operating here on planet Earth? Would society break down and come to a screeching halt overnight, or would things pretty much just carry on, business as usual, with everyone showing up for work on time the day after the announcement?…
Source – rueactivist.com – This month, the largest solar farm in Africa became fully operational in Kimberley, South Africa. The solar farm is called the Jasper Solar Power Project, and will produce an estimated 180,000 megawatt-hours of energy annually for South African residents, which is enough to power up to 80,000 homes.However, another solar project…
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