California just legalized public banking, setting the stage for more affordable housing. Cities and counties in California will be allowed to create their own public banks, making the state one of just two to legalize institutions of that kind.
The California governor, Gavin Newsom, on Wednesday signed the Public Banking Act, or AB 857, which will allow city and county governments to create, or sponsor, public banks. Those banks will in turn provide public agencies access to loans at interest rates much lower than they could find at private banks. Supporters say the change sets the stage for funding infrastructure demands or providing loans to developers to help meet affordable housing needs. Post-capitalists must understand the role of migration in global capitalism. UK renewables just produced the majority of its electricity. 5 Reasons Why Your Company Should Run an Internal Blog. If you are working in a team or leading a team, there is a good chance you regularly have one of these questions on your mind (or at least, you should): How can we share information between team members in an easier and more efficient way?
How can you encourage team members to share their knowledge and expertise in a way that invites collaboration yet doesn't disrupt the workflow? How can we speed up internal communication and boost collaboration on a daily basis? There is one simple tool that can help you (re)solve questions like these and improve overall internal communication: An internal company blog. An internal blog is a digital communication tool designed to improve team communication, as well as communication between departments.
Millennials to Hold 5 Times More Wealth in 2030 — Banks Are Struggling to Attract Them. The market for investing is changing rapidly and incumbents are struggling to satisfy the needs and expectations of younger generations of investors, according to a report by tech market intelligence firm CB Insights.
By 2030, Millennials are expected to hold five times as much wealth as they do today, controlling as much as US$20 trillion of assets globally. Their parents, the baby boomers, are set to pass down another US$30 trillion by 2050 in North America alone. Mapped: Where Will The Top 10 Cities Be Located in 2035? If you’ve ever flown cross-country in a window seat, chances are, the bright lights at night have caught your eye.
From above, the world tells its own story—as concentrated pockets of bright light keep the world’s economy thriving. Today’s visualization relies on data compiled by CityLab researchers to identify the world’s largest megaregions. The team defines megaregions as: Areas of continuous light, based on the latest night satellite imagery Capturing metro areas or networks of metro areas, with a combined population of 5 million or higherGenerating economic output (GDP) of over $300 billion, on a PPP basis.
Google Business Marketing Kit. Living Building Basics. The Living Building Challenge is a green building certification program and sustainable design framework that visualizes the ideal for the built environment.
It uses the metaphor of a flower because the ideal built environment should function as cleanly and efficiently as a flower. With the Living Building Challenge, you can create buildings that are: Regenerative spaces that connect occupants to light, air, food, nature, and community.Self-sufficient and remain within the resource limits of their site. Living Buildings produce more energy than they use and collect and treat all water on site.Healthy and beautiful. Living buildings give more than they take, creating a positive impact on the human and natural systems that interact with them. The Living Building Challenge is organized into seven performance areas called Petals. SCALE JUMPINGThe Living Building Challenge recognizes the ideal scale for solutions is not always within a property boundary.
Online Courses - Executive & Corporate Training - Singularity U. UpcyclePop - Interactive Eco-Market- America's First Upcycle Market. A Look Beyond the Hype of Vertical Farming - Greenhouse Grower. Battlefield Farms in Rapidan, VA, set up a vertical farm for propagation to help increase production per square foot.
How Do Good Causes Achieve Great Design? In my last post, I made a case for why design matters to good causes.
Here are some practical steps that organizations can take to harness the power of design to build a strong brand. Key points to remember: • Great visual design matters a lot, but design is about more than just beautiful websites and collateral materials. • Great design is about telling stories and building a brand. • Your brand is the way all of your constituents see you, feel about you, and interact with you across all touch points.
So how does an organization with limited resources build a strong brand and support it with great design? Accelerators can be the spark to fire up local economic growth. Using public funds to fuel early-stage enterprise is, unsurprisingly, a contentious issue.
Why should the public purse, already straining under the pressure of delivering essential public services, help to fund an e-commerce marketplace for luxury car rentals? But companies like Carborg — a car rental startup based in Birmingham — who have benefitted from a publicly funded accelerator programme are doing far more than growing their own business, they’re also growing the local business ecosystem. Where accelerators were once used primarily in the private sector to increase investment opportunity, increasingly they are being used as instruments for public funding bodies whose primary aim, besides promoting innovation within a particular industry, is to bolster local economic growth and regeneration. A New Lens on the World: Revolutionizing Optics by Combining Nanostructured Metasurfaces With Liquid Crystal Technology. An illustration of how a metalens refracts light.
Exponential View by Azeem Azhar. Programs - HeartMath. How coronavirus spreads outdoors vs. indoors. HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis - A different experience of reality FULL DOCUMENTARY. Out-Of-Work Appalachian Coal Miners Retrained As Beekeepers. Non-profit offers free beekeeping classes, bees and equipment to displaced coal miners, improving the local economy and protecting threatened bee populations The declining coal industry has left nearly 100,000 former miners unemployed in West Virginia.
But a new nonprofit called the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective hopes to bring a new, more eco-friendly industry to the region: beekeeping. The charity was founded with funds from a $7.5 million settlement from a lawsuit against coal mine company for violating the Clean Water Act. The money has been used to fund environmental restoration projects and to develop sustainable economic opportunities in the once-thriving region that now has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Exponential View with Azeem Azhar on Apple Podcasts. Seat At The Table - Anand Giridharadas. Becoming a Solutionary. The potential of far-ultraviolet light for the next pandemic. Mark Blyth and Joeseph Stiglitz.
The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice. EIF2018 08 A History of the Future – The World in 2025 Jeremy Rifkin. Talking about climate change in an emotionally intelligent way. Following the Boom and Bust of the Roman Economy. The Roman Empire is ironically known for both its greatness and its weaknesses. The Roman economy is no exception. The Roman economy represents an ancient economy that was large and powerful enough to create an empire that spanned the Mediterranean and lasted several centuries. The Roman economy is also known for its deficiencies which eventually led to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Origins of the Roman Economy The city of Rome emerged sometime between the 8th and 9 th century BC from a collection of farming communities that had established fortifications near the Tiber River .
During the early Republican period , the Roman economy was largely based on agriculture. As the Roman Empire grew, the Roman economy also developed significant trade and manufacturing sectors. So you want to downscale the Doughnut ? Here's how. Today is the launch of Creating City Portraits – a methodological guide for downscaling the Doughnut to the city and turning it into a tool for transformative action. The Doughnut is a compass for 21st century thriving – one that aims to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.
Microbes Living Deep Below Earth's Surface Could Be Remnants of Ancient Life Forms. There's an enormous variety of life thriving deep beneath Earth's surface. The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought. Ushio's 222 nm Far UV-C Successfully Tested on Humans - EdisonReport. Globalization Is Making the World More Equal Even As It Hurts the West's Middle Class. Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. In the United States, for instance, wages have remained fairly stagnant since 1980 while the wealthiest Americans have taken home an ever greater share of income. My thoughts for the Call to Unite. Is a capitalist-socialist economy inevitable? Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree. Google recently made a huge announcement that could change the future of work and higher education: It's launching a selection of professional courses that teach candidates how to perform in-demand jobs.
These courses, which the company is calling Google Career Certificates, teach foundational skills that can help job-seekers immediately find employment. However, instead of taking years to finish like a traditional university degree, these courses are designed to be completed in about six months. "College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn't need a college diploma to have economic security," writes Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs at Google.
"We need new, accessible job-training solutions--from enhanced vocational programs to online education--to help America recover and rebuild. "