The Link Between Capitalism and Climate Change (And a Possible Solution)
In 2016, leaders from around the world came together to sign the Paris Climate Accords—a declaration to mitigate climate change by limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Five years later, world leaders are once again coming together for the United Nations climate summit COP26 in Glasgow to tackle the challenge of climate change. However,…
Read MoreSocial currency renews human energy
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” Henry David Thoreau We are not a job driven people, our lives are larger than that. Yet, we use most of our adult lives working jobs for money. The result of social value structures based on wealth. The myth is; you are…
Read MoreWe can moderate Climate Change. Change the climate…for humanity and nature
“One true sentence,” E.Hemmingway Our Economics allows fossil industries to sacrifice Humans and Nature for profit. This is slow suicide. The captains of fossil industries and other industries that have gradually become destructive of Humans and Nature over the centuries, have developed into the ultimate and perfect products of Capitalism. Asking Countries and investors to ”divest…
Read MoreEconomics and the Establishment of an Energy Currency
In general, we find it difficult to agree with others. We fear committing ourselves to a specific viewpoint, because it might be wrong and have results that we don’t like. Agreement might be one of the most difficult activities in which humans participate. During times of confusion, distrust and fear, agreements are even more important…
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Renew the Earth suggests a way to balance the unequal impacts of economics on humanity, by using Energy Currency for basic human needs
Albany, New York, October 2020 – Renew the Earth (renew-the-earth.org) suggests an Energy Currency Credit Card be given to every individual for use in acquiring their basic needs of food, shelter, education and healthcare. Renew the Earth, an Albany, New York based non-profit organization has been developing a way to calculate what is necessary to…
Read MoreA Solution to the Economic Problems We are Facing…
Keep economic systems going worldwide without creating inflation and putting our descendants into debt for generations to come. renew-the-earth.org has been working on a calculation called the Human Renewable Energy Measure, HREM. This measure is the standard of value for what we call Energy Currency. The EC exchange functions within existing economic systems and parallels but does…
Read MoreHREM Manuscript…A Work In Progress
“And Raven tried to make People out of Rock, so they would not die and a Leaf, so they would change. Rock was too slow. So People were created from a Leaf. It was light, it was quick, it changed.” Alaskan Native American Tlingit legend, People of the Tides. “The urgent challenge to protect our…
Read MoreChapter II – A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A cool mist brushes Illyrias face. In the semiicoma of first awakening, she tries to turn off the gentle drift of moisture, imagining that she is in the shower. “Sunny! This is not working… What? Oh.” “ I have been watching you, Illyria. Very amusing. You seem to be in the midst, of a mist-conception. …
Read MoreNew Adventures…with Illyria and Sunny!
In this, the first chapter of the new series of Earthling Letters, I am going backward to go forward, using the characters Illyria and Sunny the Robot from the book “Illyria’s World”, once again. To read, please follow this link, https://renew-the-earth.org/we-join-illyria-and-sunny-the-robot-as-they-talk-about-what-they-think-is-real-and-what-they-imagine/ The ebook, Illyrias World, is posted for free on the renew-the-earth.org website if you…
Read MoreWe join Illyria and Sunny the Robot, as they talk about what they think is real and what they imagine…
Chapter 1. In which Sunny mistakes wind generators for a flock of giant white birds. Illyria explains convection to him. And some interesting conversation between them. Our story begins with Illyria and Sunny camping in a forest clearing. We find them waking after sleeping under the night sky. “Good Morning Sunny! How are you?” “Better…
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