nef Podcast: Where did our money go? Part 1

http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2010/10/28/podcast-where-did-our-money-go-at-the-southbank-centre
Andy Wimbush
Communications Officer

ALAN GREENSPAN: ...And what I'm saying to you is, yes, I found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that fact. 
REP. HENRY WAXMAN: You found a flaw in the reality...
ALAN GREENSPAN: Flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works, so to speak.

Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/10/invention_secrecy_2010.html

October 21st, 2010 by Steven Aftergood

There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week.  It’s a 1% rise over the year before, and the highest total in more than a decade.

The “Good New Days” in a Non-Growing Economy

http://steadystate.org/the-good-new-days-in-a-non-growing-economy/

Waking Up in a Steady State Economy
by Rob Dietz
You wake up refreshed, the way you’re supposed to feel in the morning after a restful sleep. With plenty of time before the day’s activities unfold, you begin the morning with a light exercise routine, stretching and moving your body to get the blood flowing. After a quick shower (with water pleasantly heated by your rooftop solar water heater), you head to the kitchen. You whip up a simple breakfast using tasty and fresh ingredients from the weekly delivery of food from the local farm. You make a mental note to mention to the farmer how much you enjoy her organically grown strawberries the next time you see her.
Besides enjoying your meal, you use your leisurely breakfast time to scroll through the day’s headlines:

• Prison begins makeover into community college as former guards tackle the task of redevelopment
• Fans anticipate tonight’s season opener of the Cross-town Football League
• Work time reduction paying dividends: unemployment falls for 3rd straight quarter
• WTO’s 6 remaining members won’t disclose secret meeting location
• Land of a thousand currencies: museum exhibit puts the artistry of local currencies on full display

Conspiracy of Science - Earth is in fact growing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ&feature=fvw

Ted Talks: Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution

http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_pollution.html

Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre.

Activists Derail Massive Chevron Ad Campaign, Spark Media Vaudeville

http://theyesmen.org/blog/activists-derail-massive-chevron-ad-campaign-spark-media-vaudeville

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 19, 2010 Massive Chevron Ad Campaign Derailed, Media Slapstick Follows
News outlets, citizens duped by web of deceit - but whose?
A day-long comedy of errors began Monday morning when the Yes Men, supported by Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, pre-empted Chevron's enormous new “We Agree” ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses - the same abuses they say Chevron is attempting to “greenwash.”

Transportation-Jobs and the Agenda for Overt Over-Consuming

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/679/1/

by Jan Lundberg
13 October 2010
Whether we listen to President Obama, Paul Krugman, Robert Samuelson, the Republicans, Tea Party-ers, or liberal progressives, they all want more “jobs,” a “recovery,” and “prosperity.” As long as lust for “growth” prevails, and the approved social critics also ignore the nature of the system and its collapse, then the runaway train of unprecedented chaos and ecosystem destruction is only accelerating.

Tim Jackson's economic reality check | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_check.html

As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.