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The Economics of Happiness (2011) Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at the University of Michigan in the 1960s A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at the University of Michigan in the 1960s Introduction Students gather on the University of Michigan's Central Campus to protest the Vietnam War. From UM News & Information Services collection, Box E-5
No Impact Man Dear friends, I don't say this often but I am scared. Not scared to the point of paralysis. Not scared enough to run away. Not scared enough to stop trying to help. FRONTLINE - Documentary films and thought-provoking journalism WATCH COMPLETE PROGRAMS178 full documentaries available in our archive Check your local broadcast schedule » FRONTLINE on Premiering September 7th Information that Society Needs to Wake the Fu*k Up The current state of humanity’s reality is one big cluster-fu@k, as well as a mystical dream. However, some of the people who are disengaging from ‘mainstream programming’, ‘social engineering’ and are waking up to the realities of our world, have only awoken to one side of the equation. Therefore, this list serves as a reminder of both the educational and conceptual ‘awakenings’ that need to occur on a widespread scale to transform our social systems into their new stage of evolution. Our future generations are depending on us not being asleep at the wheel. Regardless of how challenging at first it is to take in, when we do the ‘proper’ research, we understand that:
Over 400 Social Change Documentaries on 1 Page Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves. Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to.
Spirit of Community Promote Consciousness. Promote Humanity The Internal Universe This written expression is an excerpt from the book Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution.© 2007 Steve McIntosh, used with permission.The... The Korean Way of Tea Visiting Songgwangsa, an important Son monastery in Chollanamdo in South Korea, if you take a walk up a steep hill and deep in the forest you reach Bu... Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) “You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ballads. “Disownership” is a national trend in America right now, as Internet startups transform the way people consume goods and services. Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding renting, borrowing, and leasing items, versus ownership, are shifting around the country, according to a study conducted by Sunrun and Harris Interactive.
Local Lawmaking: A Call for a Community Rights Movement A little over 10 years ago, a small, rural township in central Pennsylvania banned corporate factory hog farms from their community. A couple of years later, several New Hampshire and Maine towns banned Nestle and other corporations from extracting water for bottling operations. In November 2010, the City of Pittsburgh adopted a law which prohibited fracking for shale gas within its boundaries. And just two months ago, at the start of May, Mora County, New Mexico, banned all drilling for oil and gas within the county. While on their face these issues may appear to be different – ranging from corporate agribusiness to energy extraction – the communities on the receiving end of things all have at least one thing in common: they’ve given up hope that their state or federal government will act to protect them. And so, they’ve stopped waiting – for new laws that will protect them, or for newly elected officials to act differently than ones who have been in office for decades.