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Jason Dillon

:: Design For Change :: - 1 views

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  • Jason Dillon on 29 Apr 14
     
    "The FIDS framework cultivates the I CAN mindset that allows children to believe they are not helpless, that change is possible and they can drive it. It develops the 21st century skills and creative confidence in people empowering them to use their creative agency to design innovative solutions." http://designthinkingguide.dfcworld.com/
  • Jason Dillon on 29 Apr 14
     
    "DESIGN FOR CHANGE is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through the Design for Change Challenge that "I Can" are the two most powerful words a person can believe. Children who have discovered this are changing their world. This year, Design for Change reaches 34 countries and over 300,000 schools inspiring hundreds of thousands of children, their teachers and parents, to celebrate the fact change is possible and that they can lead that change! The challenge asks students to do four very simple things: Feel, Imagine, Do and Share. Children are dreaming up and leading brilliant ideas all over the world, from challenging age-old superstitions in rural communities, to earning their own money to finance school computers to solving the problem of heavy school bags - children are proving that they have what it takes to be able to 'design' a future that is desired." - See more at: http://www.dfcworld.com/about.html#sthash.156lf0CC.dpuf
Jason Dillon

The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation | BillMoyers.com - 0 views

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  • In October, in his keynote address to the 2014 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, he told the assembled crowd, “In the light of a collapsing world, what better time to be born than now? Because this generation gets to rewrite history, gets to leave our mark on this earth.… We will be known as the generation, as the people on the planet, that brought forth a healthy, just, sustainable world for every generation to come. … We are the generation of change.”In December, HBO will debut the music video “Be the Change,” by Martinez’ hip-hop group, Voice of Youth.
Jason Dillon

Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com - 0 views

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energy climate

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  • Jason Dillon on 27 Feb 14
     
    In the second half of this interview, McKibben addresses the need to make urgent modifications to our systems of energy production. Video and written transcript are accessible: "We've been given the warning by our scientists who have done a terrific job at reaching consensus on a different problem in physics and chemistry. They've told us that we're in deep trouble. They've told us what we need to do, get off fossil fuel. The question now is whether we're actually going to respond to that. And it's like a sort of, well, it's like a kind of final exam for the question, was the big brain a good adaptation or not, you know? We're going find out in short order."
  • Jason Dillon on 27 Feb 14
     
    http://billmoyers.com/spotlight/climate-change/ Moyers has gathered a whole bunch of journalism on climate change.
James Linzel

IPCC finally weighs in on how to avoid further climate change | Ars Technica - 0 views

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  • growth is accelerating.
  • from 1970-2000 was about 0.4 billion tons more each year
  • three-quarters of these emissions come from fossil fuels
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  • rest come from things like deforestation, livestock production, and industrial pollutants.
  • much is due to economic growth and the rising use of coal in places like China.
  • population growth
  • Combining all anthropogenic climate forcings—including greenhouse gases, land use changes, and sunlight-reflecting aerosol particles—gives a net result equal to a CO2 concentration of around 430 parts-per-million
  • it must come back down to 450 parts-per-million by the end of the century
  • it’s clear that low-carbon options like renewables, nuclear energy, and fossil fuels with carbon capture will need to account for more than three-quarters of all electrical generation by 2050 if we’re going to meet that two degree Celsius target
  • Despite strong urban growth in many places, energy use in buildings could level off or decrease by the middle of this century if the right choices are made in terms of efficiency
  • long-lasting infrastructure we put in place now can determine, to a large degree, how much energy residents of a city will need to use
  • And while we’ve made some progress on deforestation, there’s potential there as well—forests and agricultural lands could be pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, rather than releasing more, by the end of the century
Jason Dillon

Gardening for Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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climate change gardening climate

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  • Taken alone, the small-scale transformation in my yard doesn’t matter all that much. But a constellation of small patches of milkweed, connecting one neighborhood to the next, might mean the difference between life and death for the monarchs. We need to start thinking not just about what used to be, but what could be. It’s going to take a lot of work. But it sure beats despair. The author of “My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard Into Habitat and Learned to Live With It,” and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of South Carolina.
Jason Dillon

Jane Goodall on New Gardens for a Changing World | Blog, Perspectives | BillMoyers.com - 1 views

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gardens goodall water climate change

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  • It is exciting to think that our gardens can be part of a growing effort to restore health to our planet. To this end, enormous efforts are also being made by young people all around the world through the JGI Roots & Shoots program.
James Linzel

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change - YouTube - 0 views

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climate climate change limits emergent patterns matter

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  • James Linzel on 06 May 14
     
    This is a great talk about the use of modeling to predict future occurrences. Great for science and math.
Jason Dillon

The Castros in Their Labyrinth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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sustainability economics government policy politics cuba castro

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  • Allowing Cubans to sign cellphone contracts helped swell the state coffers but gave citizens a tool for information and communication. Every little move toward flexibility has provided some economic relief to the administration and, simultaneously, a relative loss of control.
  • “Raúlist reforms.” The octogenarian leader appears to know that if he speeds up change, the entire sociopolitical model could dismantle before his eyes. While he keeps delivering the same message and proclaiming that changes are “for more socialism,” the reality makes it clear that Cuba is transitioning to a sort of capitalism exempt of labor rights and civic freedom.
  • A growing number of Cubans build their own receivers to enjoy television programming from Florida. Copies of those shows, popularly known as “the package,” are distributed on USB sticks or external hard drives by clandestine networks.
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  • The television screen has always been a very effective means for government indoctrination.
  • A few days ago, the newspaper Juventud Rebelde ran a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty holding a cellphone instead of a torch. The message was clear: Information and communication technology are the tools of the enemy.
  • Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban writer, has launched the island’s first independent digital newspaper, 14ymedio.
Jason Dillon

Investing in Energy Efficiency Pays Off - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The idea that money is available for the taking defies economic logic. But sometimes it’s true.
  • The opportunity is investing in energy efficiency. “The returns are tremendous, and there’s virtually no risk,” said Mark Orlowski, the founder and executive director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute,
  • Although no one is refusing to consider the idea, he explained, “People say, ‘We’re overloaded and this isn’t a fire that needs to be put out now.’ But if they actually did an energy audit, they would find millions of dollars in savings — and that money could be used for all sorts of things: scholarships, new faculty positions, even more pay for the university president.”
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  • David Bornstein is the author of “How to Change the World,” which has been published in 20 languages, and “The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank,” and is co-author of “Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.” He is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous reporting about responses to social problems.
Jason Dillon

China Confronts Its Coal Problem - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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china energy policy

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  • tate-owned news outlets reported this month that the government would ban the use of coal in Beijing and other urban areas by 2020 in an effort to reduce the noxious air pollution that chokes many cities. In July, a Chinese academic who is also a senior lawmaker said the government was considering a national cap on coal use as soon as 2016.
  • But he and other officials have provided few details — and, indeed, have sent conflicting, even disturbing, signals about their plans. Some measures China is considering could actually exacerbate climate change. One particularly misguided plan, for instance, would involve building 50 large industrial facilities in western China to convert coal into synthetic natural gas.
Jason Dillon

Paul Piff: Does money make you mean? | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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poverty economics class

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  • So what do we do? This cascade of self-perpetuating, pernicious, negative effects could seem like something that's spun out of control, and there's nothing we can do about it, certainly nothing we as individuals could do. But in fact, we've been finding in our own laboratory research that small psychological interventions, small changes to people's values, small nudges in certain directions, can restore levels of egalitarianism and empathy. For instance, reminding people of the benefits of cooperation, or the advantages of community, cause wealthier individuals to be just as egalitarian as poor people.
Jason Dillon

Climate Disruptions, Close to Home - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NCA climate nytimes

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  • report
  • the main reason neither Congress nor much of the American public cares about global warming is that, as problems go, it seems remote. Anyone who reads the latest National Climate Assessment, released on Tuesday, cannot possibly think that way any longer.
  • The study, produced by scientists from academia, government and the private sector, is the definitive statement of the present and future effects of climate change on the United States. Crippling droughts will become more frequent in drier regions; torrential rains and storm surges will increase in wet regions; sea levels will rise and coral reefs in Hawaii and Florida will die. Readers can pick their own regional catastrophes,
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