The latest Big Stories

• Truth is not a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder
• Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low
• Allan Savory: It’s a management problem
•  Legendary superstar publicist Howard Bloom “The Gods Inside Us”
• The dark and dirty secret the State of Florida is trying to cover up
•  That’s not News

Archives of the Wire

• Cities/Communities    
• ACLU Civil Liberties 
• Commentary   
• Ecological Design  
• Energy/Transportation   Ethical Leadership   
• Food  
• Info/Comm 
• Localization  
• Materials/Resources 
• Planetary Health  
• Public Health

Ecological Design

• Understanding Permaculture (Whole System design)
• More Bees, Please! Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities
• Can Zigzag patterns on  walls help cool overheated buildings?

Finance and Ecological Economics

• A global public banking ecosystem breakthrough
• Why we need public power and energy democracy for feminist futures
• Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families
• EVONOMICS: One thousand critiques of neoclassical economics are not going to be effective unless the critiques hang together.
• Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid

Public Health

• How Lush Hillside Farms Are Protecting Nairobi’s Water Supply
• These vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses
• In 10 seconds, AI model detects cancerous brain tumor often missed during surgery
• How greener schoolyards benefit kids — and the whole community
• World-first lung cancer vaccine trials launched across seven countries
• San Francisco middle school gets free grocery store
• Federal officials are sending millions of dollars to states in an effort to provide better housing options for people with disabilities.
• ALS patient’s voice restored by text-to-speech brain implant.

Info-Comm

• Publishers Weekly Editor: The Freedom to Read
• No debt Degrees in Massachussetts?
• UK TV Presenter Vorderman: TV played a role in the riots
• Schools in England now teaching students Critical Thinking and how to spot misinfo.
• Free Software Assn Europe intervenes for free software movement in Apple vs. EU Commission
• The decline and end of cable TV

Materials & Resources

• Overconsumption leads Earth to exceeded 2024 annual ecological limits
• Mine No More
• Busting Waste: These companies on a mission to design out waste
• Big battery connection “squads” to the rescue as NSW scrambles to fill grid reliability gaps
• Will cheaper, more efficient and powerful battery enable a cleaner energy grid?
• Shell: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

Did you know?

• Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
• Business Lobby Reached Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks
• Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization’
• Meet Teneo: The Global PR Firm Promoting COP29 Host Azerbaijan as a Climate Champion
• Desmog’s library of public relations firms that continue to push fossil fuel misinformation
• Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
• Green Queen Guides/Report on The Complete Ultra-Processed Foods and Plant-Based Meat FAQ Guide

Daily Do-it’s

(What you can do where you are now.)

• All Do-its
• Activism
• Commentary
• Economics
• Energy & Transportation
• Food
• Heroes
• Info-Comm
• Materials and Resources
• Planetary Health
• Public Health

Designing the Future

• Can China’s smart tech be a game changer in stemming biodiversity loss in hard to access coastal areas?
• What could decarbonizing palm oil look like?
• Innovations unleashing the power of design to create a more sustainable and fairer world
• Since we can’t make the changes we need within the existing system, how do we create change where we are, now?
• Understanding the Great Transformation
• Community owned food production + distribution
• India’s schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution 
• Community-owned energy systems
• Improved transportation systems
• Interconnected media systems
• Improvements in materials and resources

Localization

• Energy revolution: A community-based approach to socio-ecological transformation
• Unqueezing the Land
• Putting local foods on local menus
• New report outlines ‘People’s Route to African Food Sovereignty’

Food Systems

• Environmental benefits of alternative proteins
• Plant-based foods dominate China’s protein supply
• More ethical, more sustainable and more healthy Swiss chocolate
• Bumper harvests in wheat, corn and soybeans mean food prices are falling.

Insights

• Who owns the World?
• The Present Crisis and the Future’s Promise: A Call for Transformation
• WTF?

Understanding Disruption

• During the 2020s, key technologies are converging that will disrupt and transform the fabric of our civilization
• Disruptions that benefit humanity
• How these three disruptions can eliminate more than 90% of Green House Gas Emissions
• Disruptions occur when new ideas, products or services weaken or transform existing industries
• Understanding Moore’s Law
• Disrupting Food and Agriculture
• Disruption: Transportation
• Disruption: Energy
  

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  Ethical Leadership

• Finally, What took them so long? FTC to ban fake online reviews, inflated social media influence.
• Reports: Benefits of Second Hand Recommerce

• Carnegie Hall Helps Young People of Color Explore the Music Industry
• Descendants of a Brazilian coffee plantation that enslaved people in Brazil have taken over, centuries later.
• John Lewis statue to replace Confederate statue in Georgia
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Energy & Transportation

• Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.
• China powers up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm
• Down Under: World’s ‘largest solar precinct’ approved by Australian government

• Volvo Cars dumps 2030 all-electric target, to ramp up hybrids as it weakens climate goals

• Middle East oil states announce four mammoth solar projects totaling 7.5GW 

• Wind turbine feeds directly into electrolysers in hydrogen first, paving way for off-grid production

• Solar and battery microgrid saves Lord Howe Island $1.5m in diesel fuel costs in two years

• The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables

Smarter Cities

• Report: circular cities key to Europe’s economy, environment
• ‘This is the first one’: Completely free grocery store set to open in the Bayview
• Sacramento plan to transit buildings to electric appliances
• Oakland School District Transitions to 100% Electric Bus Fleet
• Smarter City Transition in action

Innovation in Technology

• Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
• This app developer is giving displaced young Nigerians an educational lifeline