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 Charter

Carbon Nation Trailer

Time we started cleaning up after ourselves.

An Unsustainable Economy

Watch this video about Goldman Sachs, and learn what an UNSUSTAINABLE BUSINESS looks like.

The Daily Show - Exclusive - William Cohan Extended Interview Pt. 2
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John Stewart interviews William Cohan author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs came to rule the world" on the Daily Show.

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.

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.

"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/

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.

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

One of the things that is going to determine if we can have a future is the stability of our financial systems. Professor Elizabeth Warren is my hero, and she is head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department.

Now she is not going to solve all our problems, but this new organization can set the example for how government is supposed to work, and therefore shame all the other departments into reorganizing using transparent open communication and direct dialog with citizens. If you need a job, they are hiring!

Elizabeth Warren was in San Diego this week for Community Dialog, she wants to hear your ideas.