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As a gift offering to humanity, I am freely sharing my book "The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth" as an online learning journey in the Earth Regenerators study group. Go here to read the preface and get started: earth-regenerators.mn.co/posts/the-desi…

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bit.ly/2zuaIHo Defend democracy: resist the parliament shutdown. Boris Johnson is asking the Queen to shut parliament so he has a better chance of ramming through No Deal Brexit. This is disgraceful, and an attack on democracy.

bit.ly/2L7R7lu Bernie Sanders Calls To Seize the Means of Electricity Production. A year after a neglected Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) power line sparked a wildfire that tore through northern California, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday visited …

bit.ly/2Zjaqxf Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest. So it is unsurprising that Bolsonaro's response to the fires comes in the form of an attack on NGOs. On Wednesday, August 21, Bolsonaro said he believed non-governmental orga…

bbc.in/31T2OTP Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest - space agency. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, new space agency data suggests. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite data show…

bit.ly/2TVE8ri On me, and the Media Lab. A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that implicate Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes.

bit.ly/2P5bMfm Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change. Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the oceans have warmed about 0.1 degree Celsiu…

blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c… Information operations directed at Hong Kong. We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change.

nyti.ms/2ZgFAcI America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One. My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a pe…

bit.ly/2ZdF8fu Between the Devil and the Green New Deal. We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming. From space, the Bayan Obo mine in China, where 70 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals are extracted and refined, almost looks like …

nyti.ms/30g8Mhf American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.. A couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud, Martin Shkreli was the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company that acquired the rights to Daraprim, a lifesaving ant…

bit.ly/2YX7xa2 Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.. COPENHAGEN (The Borowitz Report)—After rebuffing Donald J. Trump’s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead.

bit.ly/2TD68zu Workshop – Commons Engine. Commons Engine solves real-world problems through a helping to generate commons-resource sharing organizations

bit.ly/2z12oyq Workers Seize the Shipyard That Built the Titanic to Make Renewable Energy. Late last month, 130 ship builders, steel workers, welders, and riveters seized control of the storied Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic in 1909.

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bit.ly/308vfMT Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis. Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many…

bit.ly/2Xsh6wU Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship. Tinkering at the margins of an economic model driving environmental breakdown is guaranteed to deepen the climate emergency. To thrive, only a systemic response to a systems crisis will do. We…

bit.ly/2NKtEvx After urging land reform I now know the brute power of our billionaire press. All billionaires want the same thing – a world that works for them.

go.nature.com/2KZvhTx Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C climate target. Net anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must approach zero by mid-century (2050) to stabilize global mean temperature at the levels targeted by internation…