The Great Healing – part 40: Item Three – The NEW Metrics – Part 1

As we move into a new economic future, we will not leave manufacturing behind for some mythical utopian agrarian society.  We still need ‘stuff’ for a good techno-sustainable standard of living (SOL), but the focus will be on a much broader quality of life (QOL) and not simply SOL.  As Read more…

More on conditioning 1 – mass media and reporting (numerical terms and negativity)

Most of the problems in the world can be tied one way or another to money, and by default to the need to keep acquiring it – it is what drives our failing world economy.  We hear of the levels of money held by the uberwealthy and also the debts Read more…

The Exponential Function

Some Left brain stuff today. The late Professor Al Bartlett at University of Colorado-Boulder spent many years doing public talks about the concept of growth and sustainability in connection with modern economic business thinking and planning. A lot hinges on the terms growth and sustainability. Is there such a thing Read more…