Earthgov

Why do you think it is so hard to burst into to the ranks of elite? You may think they guard so hard the purity of their family bloodlines only out of the idea of preserving the status of their ancestors. It already became a tradition over the centuries. Does it mean people outside of their status are not considered worthy anymore? It all has much deeper reasons than you ever thought of.

It's called "Since Sliced Bread" and the concept is simple: ask regular people to submit ideas about how to improve life in America for working families. Then vote to find the best proposals, and launch a campaign to make the winning vision a reality.

...a team of volunteers and experts have narrowed the field down to the 21 most powerful and innovative suggestions. The plans range from new ways to provide universal health care all the way to nationwide wireless internet access.

Click here to be notified when voting becomes available.

The Commons - ( lo-fi || hi-fi || mp3 || Lyrics/Story )

"I wrote this after reading Mat Callahan's book, 'The Trouble With Music'. Of course I've read lots of other great stuff on this subject (the commons) but I love what Mat wrote about music and culture as also part of the commons. I agree." - david rovics

http://www.longnow.org/

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"The Long Now" Brian Eno Nov 02003
Listen: Vorbis, MP3 Part: 1, 2, 3, 4
Read: PDF, DOC, SXW

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"The Art Of The Really Long View" Peter Schwartz Dec 02003
Listen: Vorbis, MP3
Read: DOC

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"There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing" George Dyson Jan 02004
Listen: Vorbis, MP3

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The Millennium Development Goals, Young Global Leaders Summit,
Kimmel Center, New York University campus, September 10, 2005

To learn more, visit www.mdgsummit.org.

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Oh, thank the Universe.

I have just this minute discovered this community, after searching wiith the interest "earth" for just such a community.

When I was a boy of eight, nine, and ten, Star Trek and Buck Rogers gave me visions of a united humanity, with one government. As early as then, the idea of nations and borders, with their correlated wars over lines on maps as well as resources, struck me as the height of absurdity. I looked at the real world and saw that governments were larger than they had ever been before, and that the trend was to cover larger and larger areas over time. It seemed only logical to me that there would be fewer and fewer governments over time, until it was realized that duplication was a waste of resources, and that national divisions only create human ones.

I considered the United States Constitution the best on Earth, and the natural model for the eventual (and, I felt, inevitable) one-world government. When my nationalist uncle railed against the United Nations, I upped the ante by expressing my desire for a one-world government.

We need to get our stuff together on Earth before we can hope to be regarded as anything more than a provincial, infighting backwater.

About me: I am a thirty-five-year-old administrative assistant, photographer, and creative writer in Los Angeles. My wife is an elementary-school teacher for the Los Angeles public-school system.

I have always considered myself, like Socrates, a citizen of the World first and foremost.

I've created the community Wizened Wigwam as a rallying point for those who would change their own reality to bring about the paradigm shift. The purpose is multifold ( Read more...Collapse )