Plan B is a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and stabilize climate. Plan B replaces the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy: primarily wind, solar, and geothermal.
Its transportation systems are diverse and aim to maximize mobility, widely employing light rail, buses, and bicycles. A Plan B economy comprehensively reuses and recycles materials. Consumer products from cars to computers are designed to be disassembled into their component parts and completely recycled.
Plan B lays out a budget for eradicating poverty, educating the world’s youth, and delivering better health for all.
It also presents ways to restore our natural world by planting trees, conserving topsoil, stabilizing water tables, and protecting biological diversity. With each new wind farm, rooftop solar water heater, paper recycling facility, bicycle path, marine park, rural school, public health facility, and reforestation program, we move closer to a Plan B economy.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Free World Charter
Have you noticed that the environment is under great stress? That billions of people are hungry and thirsty? That species are going extinct at an accelerated rate? What would happen if we guaranteed everyone on the planet today would have their basic needs met? If no matter where you are in life, you would be free to live without threat of hunger, or thirst, or lack of shelter, and you could spend your valuable time perusing education or better health, rather than just survival money?
The Free World Charter is a document that proposes an advanced alternative society that uses no money, is free, fair, and sustainable. It is based on common sense, science and survival, and is neither political nor religious.
A voluntary initiative, the Charter defines ten founding principles of an alternative society that uses no money or trade, has no exclusive ownership, and is fairer, sustainable and more technically advanced as a result.
It is not a blueprint or design for such a society, but rather the framework on which such a society can exist and evolve. It is important, we feel, to copperfasten the fundamentals of any such radically different society before we can ensure its success - consider it designing a just world from the bottom up, rather than the top down.
In case you haven't noticed, the World has become a hostile place. We have inadvertently made it that way ourselves. The time has come to make some adjustments. The Free World Charter is, we believe, the first crucial step we must now take in order to protect and preserve ourselves and our planet
The Free World Charter sets out the basic parameters for how we can run a successful, modern society without money or trade. It is based largely on the ideology of industrial designer and futurist Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project who have spent many years designing and planning what they call a "Resource-Based Economy" to replace the dysfunctional monetary system we see today.
Free World CharterMonday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
An Unsustainable Economy
Watch this video about Goldman Sachs, and learn what an UNSUSTAINABLE BUSINESS looks like.
John Stewart interviews William Cohan author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world" on the Daily Show.
John Stewart interviews William Cohan author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world" on the Daily Show.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
How do you get someone to be self-sufficient? Teach them to fish, farm, or work. Independence comes from interdependence, not codependency. Open source hardware from Marcin Jakubowski, Polish Nuclear Fusion Expert and 21st Century Organic Farmer.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
University of Michigan Researcher Rand Discovers Previously Undetected Magnetic Property of Light!
This University of Michigan discovery by Steven Rand and his team may lead to cheap new high-voltage solar energy collectors. By collecting the combined magnetic component of light along fibers in glass, we may be able to 'rectify' (absorb) the energy into a material via magnetic forces and generate electric voltage while avoiding heat losses.
Light has electric and magnetic components. Until now, scientists thought the effects of the magnetic field were so weak that they could be ignored. What Rand and his colleagues found is that at the right intensity, when light is traveling through a material that does not conduct electricity, the light field can generate magnetic effects that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected. Under these circumstances, the magnetic effects develop strength equivalent to a strong electric effect.
What makes this possible is a previously undetected brand of "optical rectification," says William Fisher, a doctoral student in applied physics. In traditional optical rectification, light's electric field causes a charge separation, or a pulling apart of the positive and negative charges in a material. This sets up a voltage, similar to that in a battery. This electric effect had previously been detected only in crystalline materials that possessed a certain symmetry.
"It turns out that the magnetic field starts curving the electrons into a C-shape and they move forward a little each time," Fisher said. "That C-shape of charge motion generates both an electric dipole and a magnetic dipole. If we can set up many of these in a row in a long fiber, we can make a huge voltage and by extracting that voltage, we can use it as a power source."
The light must be shone through a material that does not conduct electricity, such as glass. And it must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter. Sunlight isn't this intense on its own, but new materials are being sought that would work at lower intensities, Fisher said.
For more information: UM Sustainablity
Stephen Rand: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/OSL/Rand/
Light has electric and magnetic components. Until now, scientists thought the effects of the magnetic field were so weak that they could be ignored. What Rand and his colleagues found is that at the right intensity, when light is traveling through a material that does not conduct electricity, the light field can generate magnetic effects that are 100 million times stronger than previously expected. Under these circumstances, the magnetic effects develop strength equivalent to a strong electric effect.
What makes this possible is a previously undetected brand of "optical rectification," says William Fisher, a doctoral student in applied physics. In traditional optical rectification, light's electric field causes a charge separation, or a pulling apart of the positive and negative charges in a material. This sets up a voltage, similar to that in a battery. This electric effect had previously been detected only in crystalline materials that possessed a certain symmetry.
"It turns out that the magnetic field starts curving the electrons into a C-shape and they move forward a little each time," Fisher said. "That C-shape of charge motion generates both an electric dipole and a magnetic dipole. If we can set up many of these in a row in a long fiber, we can make a huge voltage and by extracting that voltage, we can use it as a power source."
The light must be shone through a material that does not conduct electricity, such as glass. And it must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter. Sunlight isn't this intense on its own, but new materials are being sought that would work at lower intensities, Fisher said.
"In our most recent paper, we show that incoherent light like sunlight is theoretically almost as effective in producing charge separation as laser light is," Fisher said.The paper is titled "Optically-induced charge separation and terahertz emission in unbiased dielectrics." The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property.
For more information: UM Sustainablity
Stephen Rand: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/OSL/Rand/
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Primary Dealer Credit Facility
The Primary Dealer Credit Facility - according to CNN Money and ProPublica, the total extent of this UNDISCLOSED Federal Reserve 'Emergency' (no-interest) Loan program between May 2008 & 2009, was $9-Trillion. They just released these numbers in 2011, because they were afraid of a run on the banks and considered it a threat to 'National Security'. UNSUSTAINABLE ECONOMY.
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