Tag results for: County Goal #4: Economy
COUNTY GOALS #4 & #9
Upping Our Recycling Game
Designing an innovative suite of products to reduce waste and promote sustainability through durability, longevity and repurposing.
Projects
FROM HERE TO THERE IN 2045: Reimagining Transportation
A bold vision to move away from a car centric culture through sustainable mobility solutions with Long Beach as a case study.
COUNTY GOAL # 4
REPURPOSING LAND: Transforming back-alley wasteland into thriving community space
COUNTY GOALS #2, #4, & #9
Design for a Sustainable Campus
Creating education modules promoting energy efficiency and water conservation – beginning with building design at community colleges.
COUNTY GOALS #2 & #4
Altered District
Designing architectural prototypes to create a healthy and sustainable work environment.
Blog Posts
The Futility of Symbolic Environmentalism
Like offering a band-aid for a bullet wound, Michael Goldberg argues that individual lifestyle changes may be little more than moral signifiers in the fight against climate change. For Goldberg such symbolic gestures are out of their depth when faced with the mounting material concerns of a global disaster.
/ March 15, 2019
Banking on Fairness Is a Risky Business
In part five of our series on public banking, S. L. Mintz considers several public financing models. "But before embracing public banks’ promise of low cost funding, advancement of local priorities and welcome returns on investment," he says, "informed taxpayers should weigh risks that can derail good intentions."
/ April 19, 2018
Despite Bipartisan Support, Public Banking in Michigan Spurs Skepticism
Fresh proposals can inform the debate about public banking in California. Toward that end, Pando Populus invites leading and original thinkers...
/ February 21, 2018
Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home
Pope Francis’ bold clarion call in Laudato Si’ is passionate but also thoughtful and undogmatic in exemplary ways. Even while summonsing the best conclusions and consensus of the scientific community, there is a tone of humility and a recognition that knowledge is always partial and emergent.
/ November 1, 2017
Planting a Public Bank in the Garden State
Fresh proposals can inform the debate about public banking in California. Toward that end, Pando Populus invites leading and original thinkers...
/ October 1, 2017
Government Support for Public Banks Stirs Global Controversy
Most economists (including this one), believe that there is a vital role for governments in the financial sector. The exact role is open to debate and might very well vary across countries and over time.
/ July 27, 2017
REVIEW: Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics”
The main epiphany for Raworth is the realization that the economy has both a biophysical ceiling and an ethico-social floor, and that the Keynesian-neoclassical growth synthesis tends to violate both of these limits.
/ June 26, 2017
Banking of, by and for the People?
When residents of Yorba Linda and Placienta, California, approved a $200 million school construction bond, they got a nasty surprise. “Just one $22 million borrowing from 2011 will cost taxpayers nearly 13 times that amount — $280 million — to repay,” the Orange County Register reported in 2015.
/ May 30, 2017
Trump’s Growthism: Its Roots in Neoclassical Economic Theory
By "Trumponomics," I mean an unrestrained commitment to policies of drill it, pump it, burn it, cut it down, dig it up, pave it over, buy it, consume it, and if it threatens to slow growth, then run over it or bomb it.
/ February 7, 2017
Nationalism and Economism
I proposed that we view Western history, after the fall of Rome, in terms of three periods distinguished by the deepest level of loyalties and the ways people understood themselves: Christianism, nationalism, and economism. Perhaps economism might now give way to "Earthism." Let's work for that.
/ July 4, 2016
Francis and King on Earth
Francis and King on Earth
/ July 2, 2016
Eco Civilization in China
Residents and visitors breathe dark, smoggy air in the cities, and partly because the problems are so serious, China is committed to work for “ecological civilization.”
/ April 15, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership, Again
We who seek an ecological civilization have a chance. The tide may be turning toward supporting the public interest. Perhaps DEMOCRACY has a future.
/ January 27, 2016
Trade and Sovereignty
One can hardly question that national sovereignty is being surrendered to the corporations.
/ January 11, 2016
Nordhaus on the Pope and Markets
Nordhaus operates out of economic thinking that is strongly individualistic in its assumptions. He does not seem to understand the difference between taking the market as the instrument of solving our problems and putting forward different goals altogether.
/ October 10, 2015
This Pope Is Very Pando
A world oriented to wealth will never be sustainable.
/ September 24, 2015
Francis and King on Earth
Like Rev. King, Pope Francis is calling for radical nonviolent global revolution.
/ August 12, 2015
Pando Populus’ Mission
The distinction of Pando Populus lies in our commitment to a worldview that displays the profound interconnectedness and mutual dependence of all the entities that make up our world.
/ August 12, 2015
Why Care About Greece?
The history of a world composed of nation states has not been a pretty one. Why should we care? It is not promising that governments are ceasing to be sovereign. It is hard to expect transnational corporations to make the decisions needed to save the habitability of the planet.
/ July 12, 2015