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Finalizando la COP26, traigo a colación una nueva área de conocimiento e intervención que subraya como el cambio climático es un asunto interdisciplinar que se debe abordar multidisciplinar. Aquí encontraréis información y materiales sobre "psicología climática", "ansiedad ambiental"... So what is Climate Psychology? Five key principles ... Climate change is not a scientific problem waiting for a technical solution. It's an urgent, frightening, systemic problem involving environment, culture and politics. It engenders fear, denial and despair amongst individuals, evasion, indifference and duplicity amongst the powerful. It forces uncomfortable dilemmas about justice, nature and equality into consciousness. It challenges all of us in modern societies both personally and politically. To work with these dilemmas the CPA draws on a broad range of perspectives including philosophy, the arts and humanities, ecology and systems thinking. Our core focus however is in psycho-social studies and the psychotherapy field, approaches which help us to understand the unconscious processes and emotions which control our thoughts, beliefs and behaviour and which manifest in mutually reinforcing systems of defence in society. Anxiety, guilt and shame make it very difficult for people to face the reality of climate change and lead to denial and disavowal while the norms and structures of everyday life validate and reinforce these responses.

"For more information about the event and to listen to the podcast go to the RSA event page: http://bit.ly/1jGN6C3 How will the 'collaborative commons' transform our lives? Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century. Follow the RSA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thersaorg Like the RSA on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thersaorg Our events are made possible with the support of our Fellowship. Support us by donating or applying to become a Fellow."

"For more information about the event and to listen to the podcast go to the RSA event page: http://bit.ly/1jGN6C3 How will the 'collaborative commons' transform our lives? Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century. Follow the RSA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thersaorg Like the RSA on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thersaorg Our events are made possible with the support of our Fellowship. Support us by donating or applying to become a Fellow."

"The Fairphone is a modular handset designed with repairability and ethical sourcing of its materials as headline features. It sold 60,000 units. Amazingly, for what sounds like a nerd-phone, almost half of those buyers had never owned a smartphone before. Now the Fairphone 2 is launching, and with a totally-new, in-house design. The new phone is even easier to repair, and because it was wholly designed by the FairPhone team, its supply chain is even more responsible than ever. The Fairphone is thicker than the latest iPhone or Samsung flagship, but that's the point. Instead of packing everything into a tiny case and keeping it there with glue, the Fairphone is designed to be taken apart. The lightweight magnesium frame supports modules that can be easily replaced by the user. "We have designed it with an aim to last three to five years, looking at making it robust and modular-for repairability," says Fairphone's chief communications officer, Tessa Wernink. "Obviously how long it lasts depends quite heavily on the user, so what we as a company are doing is offering an ecosystem around the phone that supports long-lasting use, first-hand or second-hand." Inside the case (itself one of several options) you'll find the core unit, containing all the chips and radios; a replaceable battery pack; a display that can be snapped off and replaced without any tools (not even a screwdriver); a receiver unit, which contains the front camera, sensors; the headset connector and microphones; a speaker/vibrator unit; and a camera module. These modules are designed to balance manufacturing complexity with repairability. For instance, the display comes as a standalone unit, but less-vulnerable components are bundled into one module. The camera, which people are most likely to upgrade as better versions become available, is also housed in its own module. That way you don't need to toss out your whole phone just to get a better camera. "In fact, the motto from the maker mo

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

"The time is now: the crisis resulting from climate change is huge, impossible to ignore, and demands an immediate response of an unprecedented magnitude in our history. Flavia Broffoni is the leader of Extinction Rebellion in Argentina, and tells us how civil disobedience is one of the ways for the world to remain our world and last for long. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and environmental policy, but she defines herself as an "anti-extinction activist and regenerative practitioner." Among many works, she was Policy Coordinator of the Wildlife Foundation / WWF and Director of Environmental Strategies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the City of Buenos Aires. She is the founder of AI.Re, a regenerative intelligence accelerator and coordinates the non-violent civil disobedience movement "Extinction Rebellion" in Argentina. "

"... Soil is the bedrock of civilization (Perlin 1991, Ponting 1993). Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what's gained to make ethanol? Why would we do this to our children and grandchildren? Perhaps it's a combination of pork barrel politics, an uninformed public, short-sighted greedy agribusiness corporations, jobs for the Midwest, politicians getting too large a percent of their campaign money from agribusiness (Lavelle 2007), elected leaders without science degrees, and desperation to provide liquid transportation fuels (Bucknell 1981, Hirsch 2005). ..."

"Open with a question or two. Another favorite education writer of mine, the cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, argues that teachers should focus more on the use of questions. "The material I want students to learn," he writes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, "is actually the answer to a question. On its own, the answer is almost never interesting. But if you know the question, the answer may be quite interesting." My colleague Greg Weiner, an associate professor of political science, puts those ideas into practice. At the beginning of class, he shows four or five questions on a slide for students to consider. Class then proceeds in the usual fashion. At the end, he returns to the questions so that students can both see some potential answers and understand that they have learned something that day. What did we learn last time? A favorite activity of many instructors is to spend a few minutes at the opening of class reviewing what happened in the previous session. That makes perfect sense, and is supported by the idea that we don't learn from single exposure to material - we need to return frequently to whatever we are attempting to master.But instead of offering a capsule review to students, why not ask them to offer one back to you?Reactivate what they learned in previous courses. Plenty of excellent evidence suggests that whatever knowledge students bring into a course has a major influence on what they take away from it. So a sure-fire technique to improve student learning is to begin class by revisiting, not just what they learned in the previous session, but what they already knew about the subject matter.Write it down. All three of the previous activities would benefit from having students spend a few minutes writing down their responses. That way, every student has the opportunity to answer the question, practice memory retrieval from the previous session, or surface their prior knowledge - and not just the students most likely to

"Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. As the environmental impact of that tide of plastic becomes a growing political issue, major packaged goods sellers and retailers are under pressure to cut the flow of the single-use bottles and containers that are clogging the world's waterways. "

"A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change. "Exxon knew." Thanks to the work of activists and journalists, those two words have rocked the politics of climate change in recent years, as investigations revealed the extent to which giants like Exxon Mobil and Shell were aware of the danger of rising greenhouse gas emissions even as they undermined the work of scientists. But the coal industry knew, too - as early as 1966, a newly unearthed journal shows."

"Manual de orientación para participar en redes sociales Author Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID); La Secretaria de Comunicação Social de la Presidencia del Brasil La Secretaria de Comunicação Social (SECOM) de la Presidencia del Brasil en acuerdo con la División de Capacidad Institucional (ICS) del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) han elaborado este manual para orientar la actuación del sector público en las redes sociales. El manual tiene como objetivo establecer buenas prácticas y guiar a los agentes de la administración pública latinoamericana en la utilización de las redes sociales, incluso la generación de contenido, la interacción con el usuario y el accionar en los casos de crisis. Es una guía para funcionarios públicos y ciudadanos que estén preocupados por el futuro de las relaciones entre gobierno y ciudadanía."

"Periodistas y Magnates Estructura y concentración de las industrias culturales en América Latina"

Presentación bien didáctica, analiza el voto electrónico y todo su contexto

Presentación bien didáctica, analiza el voto electrónico y todo su contexto

"A principios de marzo el Ministerio de Educación de la Nación anunció el desmantelamiento del equipo central del Plan Nacional de Inclusión Digital Educativa (PNIDE), la pata pedagógica del programa Conectar Igualdad. Desde entonces los trabajadores reclamaron la reincorporación, el pago de meses adeudados, y la continuidad del programa. Entrevistamos a Javier Castrillo, referente de Conectar Igualdad desde sus inicios y coordinador del PNIDE quien historiza el programa, responde a las críticas que recibió y, sobre todo, expresa su gran impotencia ante este contexto de desarme de un programa sumamente virtuoso."

"... el mundo tecnológico que como humanos hemos construido nos supera y se sitúa más allá de nuestros propios límites, es decir, nuestra entrada en lo que Jorge Riechmann viene denominando una época moral de largo alcance. Ahora, si en 1956 estas reflexiones eran de una importancia mayúscula hoy, cuando nuestro desnivel prometeico se ha extendido hasta prácticamente abarcar el grueso de nuestras acciones como sociedades humanas globalizadas y cada vez más profundamente occidentalizadas, es simplemente irrenunciable. ..."

Sinopsis: La crisis económica mundial desde el punto de vista de Bernardo Kliksberg. El economista argentino reflexiona, en veinticinco capítulos, sobre la exclusión, la reconstrucción del Estado, la idea del capital social, la ética, la construcción de una economía con rostro humano, entre otros temas. Una mirada estadística y positiva para conocer soluciones posibles.

"El irresistible avance de la corrección política es una señal muy potente que nos advierte de la infantilización de la sociedad occidental, reflejada con pavorosa nitidez en su universidad, de donde precisamente proviene."

"El oficialismo sostiene que, siempre, a más tecnología se consigue más progreso, y nunca contradicciones ni problemas. Natalia Zuazo hace el balance político del 2016, analiza el rol del Estado en cuanto a tecnología y a la influencia de la irrefrenable fuerza de las empresas multinacionales del rubro. ¿En qué se avanzó y en qué se dio marcha atrás?"

Entre ellos 4 sobre la Renta Básica Universal + Grecia, Egipto y El pensamiento de León Trotsky

Interesantísimo y completo artículo sobre la posición actual de la izquierda (¿mundial?) en la política y el contexto socio económico global capitalista actual, pasado y por venir. Para pensar