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Satellites track methane ... with philanthropists' money

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 14:47

A growing network of satellites is mapping the many leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This knowledge is needed to reduce global warming. But knowledge does not guarantee effective climate action ... especially since governments are playing second fiddle. Very strange.

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The demise of the alter-globalist movement

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - 15:15

Why the World Social Forum and other movements are failing to shape another world.

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Tools for change. Can social justice save the environment?

Friday, October 1, 2021 - 17:55

One year and a half into the COVID-19 crisis and slowly beginning to see the end of the tunnel, messages are still spread about the necessary changes in ‘the system’ to which this crisis will surely lead. But what changes? And what ‘system’? And how ‘necessary’ are they?

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Striking corona differences Europe – West Pacific. Q&A

Monday, March 29, 2021 - 23:04

This Q & A reveals how European experts responded and advised very differently from their peers in many West Pacific countries. Europeans – and the whole world – are paying the highest price for what may be the biggest blunder of the 21st century.

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How best to tackle the revival after corona shock?

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 14:37

Corona forces societies to respond at lightning speed. Instantly the question arises how to tackle quickly and most intelligent the revival after the acute crisis. Because there are vital choices to be made.

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What social model are we heading for?

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 13:09

Social policies have been the major victims of neoliberal globalisation. Slowly the IMF and the World Bank adopted a more open attitude. However, the road is bumpy. In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ‘New Social Contract’. But what the World Bank is really up to?

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Thinking beyond our usual silos. Systemic convergence of technological, social and structural changes needed in the SDG’s

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 14:39

Society should overcome ‘silo’ thinking and leave our deeply rooted mental models reflected in policy sectors. This is the Chair’s Summary of a SDG Workshop organized by the Club of Rome EU-Chapter and European Public Policy Advisors in wich Dirk Barrez (Pala.be) participated.

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Thinking beyond our usual silos. Media and education

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 13:01

Our commercialized media are no longer a lever for change, transformation or transition. And so-called education doesn’t bring about any fundamental change, let alone the necessary transitions of our failing systems. So, let's talk about solutions.

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Is civil society capable of realising system-wide solutions?

Monday, May 21, 2018 - 15:24

Action research confronts the Transition Network Civil Society with some challenges. Civil society organisations seem to lack the power to realise system-wide solutions – for example to regain the grip of society on the banking system after the financial crisis – or to push the political and economic world into that direction.

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Encyclopedic journalism is the future of mass media

Saturday, September 23, 2017 - 10:29

For twenty years now, I have been marvelling at how many mass media outlets fail to inform beyond the loose sand of countless events, short news stories, petty facts, non-events, gratuitous opinions and increasingly misleading reporting, nonsense or even lies... while there has never been so much opportunity to tmake the world more understandable.

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Hoe je het ook draait of keert, al onze welvaart komt van onze Aarde. Heel langzaam beginnen we een vervelende maar steeds belangrijker waarheid te erkennen. We kunnen ons niet veroorloven dat de talrijke economische activiteiten die we allemaal samen uitoefenen de draagkracht van onze planeet te boven gaan. Pas in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw zijn de mensen zich ervan bewust geworden dat de planeet waarop ze leven veel weg heeft van een kwetsbaar ruimteschip. Dat moeten we piekfijn in orde houden want we kunnen niet zonder.

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