> The rapid development toward the political / environmental
> catastrophies has reached the stage where only those aiming
directly > at terminating the transnational corporations are
entitled to call
> themselves progressive.
1. Karnataka State Farmers Associatio
Hi Steve,
Overall N.S. population is growing very very slowly. Population in CB is
declining at the rate of about 1%/yr. with the possibility of this
accelerating as one of the major local employers is "privatized" .
I guess your quote refers to land use planning. In Canada, the need for
land
Here are a few of the highlights of my next newsletter.
CRISIS
The roots of our present crisis are inherent to both "capitalism" and
"pseudo democracy". Both of these interdependent social systems
require ever-increasing amounts of high-quality natural resources
and waste sinks in order to mainta
In an essay forwarded to this list, Richard
Douthwaite paints a potentially disastrous picture of the modern world. He
argues that, because of the free movement of capital, investment has moved from
the industrial world to poor countries where returns are highest and taxes are
lowest. This
the new report will be on policy and Governance, jsut check in and see
how it evolves with the ROUND UP's
heiner
Steve Kurtz wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Have a quick look at the work being done by UN Univ:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/~acunu/millennium/scenarios/SPS.html
>
> Steve
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Please CC:
one of these is to have dialogue and conversations, another way to make
symposia and conferences, giving "VOICES THAT MATTER
http://newciv.org/cob/members/benking/voicetxt.html
'HAZEL HANDERSON called the "magic round-tables" a "GOOD SOCIAL
INVENTION" so it made it to the rhino's list and rep
A nice present to yourself. Sally
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>Subject: Interesting URL for Institute for Social Inventions
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 03:30
A friend of mine, visiting Seattle from Palo Alto in the mid 70's, when
Seattle was still a reasonable sized city, observed that "courtesy and
civility vary inversely with the population per square foot."
Caspar Davis
Sydney Nova Scotia-- population 40,000
Nova Scotia population -- 800,000
Political "weight"-- 5 %
Cape Breton Regional Municipality-- population 120,000
Sydney+Glace Bay+New Waterford++
Political "weight"-- 15%
M
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Steve Kurtz wrote:
>excerpt from a paper by Albe
Hi Mike,
He is addressing growth mgmt. Has N.S. pop. stabilized? He says that
Regional Planning can be valuable if...
AB:
>Planning in a community or region
>can provide long-term solutions to community or regional problems
>only if the planning causes, or is accompanied by,
>a complete cessatio
Greetings,
Have a quick look at the work being done by UN Univ:
http://www.geocities.com/~acunu/millennium/scenarios/SPS.html
Steve
excerpt from a paper by Albert Bartlett published in Population
& Environment, Vol. 20, No. 1, September 1998, Pgs. 77 - 81.
REGIONWIDE PLANNING WILL MAKE THE PROBLEMS WORSE
REGIONAL PLANNING DILUTES AND ULTIMATELY DEFEATS DEMOCRACY
Wh
Caspar Davis wrote:
> I assume you know about the various Genuine Progress Indicators that
> have been proposed at various levels of the political hierarchy. ...
Well, I've certainly read and heard a lot about the problems of the GDP, but
I'm not up to data on alternatives. I used a search eng
I've stumbled across an interesting web page for the Global Ideas Bank
put up by the Institute for Social Inventions. Even though they claim to
want "non-technological" inventions -- an oxymoron, by my definition,
I think the basic idea is very similar to the idea behind the term
"social technol
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