Links

Sites of particular interest to world sustainability and the major problems society is now facing:

Occupy Wall Street

Shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
Survey of Occupy Demands 11/11/11
Occupy Wall Street Demand List from 9/28/11
Cops arrest Citibank customers attempting to close accounts
Florida's Alan Grayson stands up for the Occupy Movement on the Bill Maher show
Elizabeth Warren about Wall Street Greed
Robert Reich on the American Dream
Robert Reich in San Francisco
Robert Reich - The REAL Public Nuisance
Push for 28th Amendment to Limit Corporations
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker interrupted by Mic Check Protest
Harvard Economic Students Walk Out of Class Claiming Failed Theories
How Wall Street Blocked Criminal Action Against Itself - William K Black
What Are The 99% Asking Us To Do?
How the Money System Allows Elite Bank and Corporate Executives To Rule The World
Steve Jobs Did Not Create Jobs By Inventing the iPhone
Rich People Do Not Create Jobs
Constitution Amendment Idea collection website
Video - What it's like to live on $7 an hour
Mortality toll of not having health insurance

Sustainability Information Resources

The Earth Charter
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Global Human Footprint Data
Living Planet Report 2012
The Water Footprint – water resource data
World statistics displayed in interactive graphic format.
Excellent Zero Growth resource, Ken Meyercord, Founder
The Energy Bulletin, a collection of information on the peak in global energy supply
Thomas Homer-Dixon Newsletter on Peak Oil
The Carbon Capture Report
Economic charts and graphs - Calculated Risk Blog
What administration built up U.S. Debt
David Loye on cultural evolution
Humanitarian Early Warning System – World Hazard Map
Maps for environmental factors
Center for the New American Dream
U.N. Report on Global Sustainability January 30, 2012

Threats to Sustainability

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity - November 1992 - Text
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity - November 1992 - Union of Concerned Scientist version
Large summary of facts about the coming collapse
A broad collection of topics, with some about social collapse
Scientific American article on the concept of Limits To Growth

CO2
Co2 / Global Warming Link Found
Koch-Funded Study Finds Global Warming Real, Due To CO2

Sea Level Rise
Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Nearing ‘Tipping Point’

Water
Garden hose ban in the UK due to drought

Oil
New York Times article – Game Over for the Climate
Long list of websites that address Peak Oil and Resource Depletion - Anatoly Karlin
Misleading government methods used to over estimate oil availability
Does the U.S. really have more oil than Saudi Arabia
Jay Hanson Audio Interview on the Reality Report with Jason Bradford
Dalai Lama & Nobel Laureates letter to stop Keystone XL pipeline

Labor
2011 Labor Crisis

Food
A link between food prices and social unrest
Corruption of the FDA
Scientific American Discussion
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Threats to Sustainability - videos

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity - November 1992 - David Suzuki Video
The Collapse of America

Limits to Growth
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 1
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 2
Dennis Meadows Limits to Growth pt. 3
Peak Oil - The Post Carbon Institute

Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 1
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 2
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 3
Jay Hanson Peak Oil pt. 4

The Days After Peak Oil – Walking the Walk
Bill McKibben - Downsides to Economic Growth
Bill McKibben 350 PPM CO2: Earth's Tipping Point?
CASSE - Ecological Limits to Economic Growth
Chief Oren Lyons speaks about Climate Change

Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 1
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 2
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 3
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 4
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 5
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 6
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 7
Albert Bartlett The impact of exponential growth pt. 8

The National Academies series on America's Climate Choices - 20 videos
Who Killed Economic Growth - Post Carbon Institute
The End of Economic Growth - Heinberg - Post Carbon Institute
What a Way to Go – life at the end of empire
Russel Ackoff - the need for system thinking in problem solving
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New Sustainability Models

Plenitude Economy model - video

Sustainability Projects

Video about communities experimenting with 'Life after growth'
Website offering ideas to build post collapse communities
The Big Society – David Cameron – U.K.

Kenneth Larson's pictorial world overview perspective
Ultra High Speed, Low Energy Trains
Evacuated Tube Trains, Daryl Oster Patent 5,950,543
Japanese High Speed Train Development
China High Speed Trains
Removal of Elwha River dams
Earth Charter Events overview
Earth Charter Videos

Sustainability Organizations

350.org
Al Gore's Moving Planet Effort
Website to Explore New Forms of Democracy
The Democracy Imperative
Growthbusters.org

Cases of Business Greed Superseding Social Benefit

Planned Obsolescence - industry conspiracy limiting product life to force increased sales
Video about the government bail out of the banks - mortgage foreclosures
Wall Street Journal March 22, 2011, Paul Farrel New Civil War erupts, led by super rich, GOP
Half of US Mortgages Effectively Underwater - CNBC
How the Money System Allows Elite Bank and Corporate Executives To Rule The World

Democracy - Principles

Innovations in Democracy
DebatePedia – A debate format to collect ideas on issues
The Concord Principles - Ralph Nader 1992
http://www.rianeeisler.com/roadmapintikkun.pdf ">Roadmap to a New Economics – Riane Eisler
The Demosophia Paradigm – A3 cooperation
Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment – Tom Atlee
Ayn Rand on Altruism

Democracy – Problems

Lobbying – inside look – Jack Abramoff
Accurate Democracy – voting problems and solutions

Issues with Education

The failure of modern education
Clash of Modern Technology with Assembly-line Education
How to Fix Math Education - NYT
Relevance of Math Education
Math or Quantitative Literacy?
Being Left-brain in a Right-brain World

Issues with human psychology

The shortcomings of personal CHOICE

Issues with Science

Bruce Harvey, physics based on field theory
Harvey, Alternative view of Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
Reginald Cahill, on Roland De Witte's experimental confirmation of the aether
Conrad Ranzan, summary of cover ups of positive proof of the aether
Multiple Flaws in the Theory of Relativity

Medicine is Broken

Medicine is fractionated – Maureen Bisognano
Revolutionizing 21st century-medicine

Issues with society in general

The Skeptical Inquirer, Michael Shermer
Scott Ewen's large video collection of world wide problems
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.1
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.2
Ayn Rand Mike Wallace interview – Pt.3
How Scientific Information Flows Through the Media