The NOW Labz project is a collaboration between the HotSpring Network, Quipu.cc, and partners, aimed at bringing thoughtful people together to brainstorm solutions to big problems. Quipu.cc will be hosting a NOW Labz series of cyberdialogues, timed to coincide with the Commission on the Status of Women, to discuss women’s rights, gender rights, childhood equality … Continue reading NOW Labz CSW 2013 Online Meetings
In the first State of the Union address of his second term as president of the United States, Barack Obama outlined an ambitious agenda, to reform economic and social policy, education, immigration, energy, gun control laws, and laws governing gender equality. He laid down the most direct and explicit challenge to lawmakers on climate policy, … Continue reading We are Citizens; the Time is Now
A carbon fuel reimbursement—a carbon correction fee with 100% household return—is designed to span the entire marketplace, so that citizens, families and small businesses can drive change toward the systems that will create the most liberating, prosperous, sustainable future. This HaikuDeck slideshow details the basics. In short: Charge a fee to any entity that introduces … Continue reading Solving Climate to Save the Economy
The year is 2013. The world did not come to an end in the last month of 2012, as so many had feared. Cynicism and existential terror have not won the future. It is Martin Luther King Day, three weeks to the day after the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—which declared in the gravest … Continue reading Working Together Makes Us Free: Inauguration 2013
All I want for Christmas is you… … supporting a carbon fuel reimbursement for American families. Here’s why: we are living in what could be described as a “carbon bubble economy”. Market forces have failed to price carbon-dioxide-emitting fuels accurately, and so we have been experiencing a protracted economic boom, based in part on the … Continue reading Carbon Fuel Reimbursement: America’s Christmas Bonus
National priority: world-leading education The United States of America has been, since its birth 236 years ago, a world leader in promoting universal public education. It has also been a world leader in promoting universal access to higher education and to advanced degrees. That history has made the US a leader in technological innovation and … Continue reading Education Must Be Top Priority for Vibrant, Sustainable Future
New coalitions are needed, to do the work we need done. It is time to take a hard look in the mirror once again. Our democracy is an indirect democracy, so much so that we don’t even vote directly for our preferred candidates for president and vice president; we vote for the slate of “electors” … Continue reading Two-party System: Envelope Pushed to Limit?
The inaugural edition of the HotSpring Quarterly is now live and online, available for free browser reading and download, through our Issuu.com library. (explore the embedded ebook below) Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Hot Spring Quarterly. This publication represents the work of a community of thinkers, researchers, reporters, educators, innovators and committed change-makers, … Continue reading Inaugural Edition of HotSpring Quarterly
Watching the reading of the names, at the World Trade Center site, now sacred ground for millions of people, it is clear that there are many legacies of the experience of September 11, 2001. On that day, thousands of ordinary people, some professional rescue workers, some just citizens who owned boats, or who happened to … Continue reading Vital Intimate Ritual: Meditative Healing at Ground Zero
Bill Barron is running as an independent for the United States Senate seat currently held by Republican Orrin Hatch, of Utah. Bill’s commitment to our achieving our absolute best in terms of stewardship of the natural environment, conservation of wilderness, natural resources and life-sustaining ecosystems, is the foundation for a campaign that will give Americans … Continue reading Support Bill Barron for US Senate
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