World Sustainability Link and Note Tracker

Summary: Assembles links and notes via topics for disbursement to build. Includes eosy within ww 2.0 and hws.

WorkFlow | HWS Build | EoSy Plan | Log

Site Build Notes

Started 10/31/2010. Divide into sections but monitor growth. Spin off, cull as needed. Link above.

• See wordpress for haiku.
• the build page for orientation and agenda

Current Projects

I merge my writing and study with my course development:

• An overview of my upcoming Sabbatical project offers a synthesis that attempts to ground sustainability within an ontology and also tries to invent strategic sustainability interventions through civil society organizations, public policies, and green business models and practices. See the Anthropocene: The proposed epoch of Earth history provides context and urgency to the introductory section of World Sustainability. This framing updates and envelopes the paradigm of Sustainable Development.
• As part of the effort to rethink the social ecology of sustainability, I will offer an upcoming course as part of the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College, Economics of Sustainability.
• The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: This anthropogenic ecological calamity raises energy, drilling, and sustainability to the national policy agenda, precisely as President Obama seeks to relax rules on off-shore oil drilling. The is perhaps the worst ecological disaster in American history. This crisis will be placed in the agenda section of the Public Policy Cycle.
• My native home for composition, hypertext, opens up possibilities not enabled by conventional text. The Institute for the Future of the Book catches on to what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned. He, and others like Mark Zuckerburg got it. The guru of practice is Jakob Nielson. Jesse James Garrett takes html structure further with Ajax.

Both of these important topics, one centered on Earth history and the other on immediate events, demonstrate the temporal span of sustainability.

Economics of Sustainability

Ireland NYT austerity and Heritage triumphalism.

Cull to add links or background:

• Heinberg on end of growth captures a main eos theme. Timely and representative.
• CRS long term economic forecast (2006). Starts:"The rate of long-term economic growth is the salient measure of the nation’s ability to steadily advance its material living standard."
• 11 long term trends miss global aspects and global crisis. Newsweek crows about Great Reset, comback. See economic outlook for 2010.
• Jay Hanson on primitive economics. Capital as Power pdf. And what good is Wall St.?
• Wiki on (real) economics: Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services." Which gets to the Story of Stuff. FT Lexicon: "The part of the economy that is concerned with actually producing goods and services, as opposed to the part of the economy that is concerned with buying and selling on the financial markets." See Costanza and visions speech. See Solutions Journal.
• Ecological services planning: Everglades, Chesapeake and adaptive management; BCA
• Commons: Barlow on water. See on the commons group.
• Election ends cap and trade; see Green Street Report, important resource | CA law upheld but weakened by reg. So, cap and trade alive but barely in CA, still imporant at state and regional level. (Shows how industry lobbyists will gut cap and trade.)
• Singapore: firms issue sustainability reports 10/31/2010 | Supports point to monitoring (stage 5 ppc) is crucial, ala Larry Susskind. 10/31/2010
• P&G sustainability vision 10/31/2010
• Grist on carbon tax and discuss Clean Energy NOW, a short video
• advice to graduates re green careers 10/31/2010
• states and munis face fiscal crisis (ala Jim O'Connor). AZ no longer pays for organ transplan: poignant story. See gov report. Christie did not pay pension.
• banks put economy "under water" NYT 10/31/2010
• WB will help fund carbon markets.
• transitioning to green

World Sustainability

• WB publications archive
• Cornell gets $80 for sustainability, David R. Atkinson Center for a sustainable Future: energy, ag, etc. 10/28/2010
• Cancun compromise on climate
• Note cognitive surplus in Wired as folks shift from viewing to internet (google search). See Commons-based peer production.

Enabling Analysis

1. Attorney arguing in favor of Prop 8 (passed in ref then unconstitutional) in CA re def of marriage: "If you redefine a word, you change the institution."
2. Reid Recovering the Commons book review. Note crack about Green Keynesianism of Van Jones. See interview.
3. Follow up with Tellus and Kates re enabling analysis resources.
4. Yusuf WB report on global poverty

Public Policy

Election for pp course:

• NYT district guide to elections: track for Public Policy and Inside America. 10/31/2010
• Hamtramak bankrupt
• Rich: $ GOP will come down on Tea Party (TP). Will TP prove ephemeral, like so much that evaporates into meaninglessness in ppc? TP agenda: lower taxes, cut deficit, smaller gov, anti-corporation(?). Rich notes that Pledge to America does not cut earmarks. McConnell's professed goal: Obama one-termer, party above nation. TP is camaflouge of corporate GOP agenda ala Kochs, Chamber, Rove. 10/31/2010

Policy:

• Grist on carbon tax
• See how GOP strategy emerged, NYT.
• biofuel gunboat! shows potential role of DOD. Also, sustainable Fort Bragg. 10/31/2010
• reaction in CO as fraud 10/31/2010

Project Tasks

Strategy for project and beyond, basis for mission statement. Includes plan that defines WebWorks: web site, book, Facebook group, Twitter, Wiki. Integration of social network is essential. Best models now Bill McKibben and Robert Kates. Must discover how social networks form around causes.

Chelsea Green proposal furthers the strategic plan:

1. Find business card of Meadows editor.
2. online outline 3.0, TOC
3. master lecture
4. letter of intent;
5. biography