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Ruth Cuadra

Politify | Rethink Democracy - 0 views

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    The first tool to forecast the financial impacts of political scenarios
Lisa Eriksen

Innovation Fetish: Naive Buzzword Unites Parties, Avoids Policy Choice | New Republic - 0 views

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    An interesting piece on public vs. private "innovation" and the politics that go with it. 
Lisa Eriksen

Volatile weather creates dramatic changes for California farmers | Center for Investiga... - 1 views

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    What will change in agriculture mean to the economy and politics of California?
Ruth Cuadra

'Museums in the Digital Age' future-gazing report launches (Arup) - 0 views

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    Future scenarios: museums as retreats, safe havens and political ambassadors
Ruth Cuadra

The Next Big Thing: "Sit-able Cities" - 1 views

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    Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
Lisa Eriksen

This wonder of the world has turned off. Are you worried about the climate yet? | Hugh ... - 0 views

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    Environmental concerns must be integrated into personal, political and commercial decisions on every level.
Ruth Cuadra

He gets paid to watch TV at Disney - 0 views

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    Mr Ho also co-leads Disney's Futures Thinking programme - planning for shows for 10 to 20 years down the road, and scanning trends in everything from technology and education to politics, to chart scenarios in which Disney could be operating.
Johanna Fassbender

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Ideas & Innovations | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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    it is one of the more interesting stories in web guru land... Good find!
Lisa Eriksen

A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Professor Piketty offers early-20th-century France as an example. “France was a democracy and yet the system did not respond to an incredible concentration of wealth and an incredible level of inequality,” he said. “The elites just refused to see it. They kept claiming that the free market was going to solve everything.”It didn’t.
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    Perhaps we should just focus on high-level, individual donors since they will own most all of the wealth?
Ruth Cuadra

Five Years After Pioneering It in North America, Chicago Might Take Participatory Budge... - 0 views

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    Participatory budgeting -- part of the Open Government trend
Ruth Cuadra

Mixed results for de Blasio's housing mandate - 0 views

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    Likely new mayor of NY wants inclusionary zoning to require developers to build affordable housing
Elizabeth Merritt

Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state : NPR - 0 views

  • "We already are seeing 'border war' with individual states passing major legislation that differs considerably from that in other places," says Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and William Gale, a Brookings senior fellow in economic studies,
  • When and if the issue turns to violent confrontations between local citizens and federal officers, or between contentious groups of citizens, the clash might well take place far closer to home
  • America has an extraordinary number of guns and private militias," they write. How many? They cite the National Shooting Sports Foundation's estimate of 434 million firearms in civilian possession in the U.S. right now. That would be 1.3 guns per person.
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  • But the most meaningful geographic separation in our society is no longer as tidy as North and South, or East and West. It is the familiar divide between urban and rural, or to update that a bit: metro versus non-metro.
  • for now we're less a nation divided into 50 states than we are two nations that are both present in each of those states.
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