Resilience Maps - Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps

Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps is a Creative Commons licenced mapping and analysis tool for evaluating personal and social resilience. It is intended to be used for planning, and is simple enough to learn during a crisis to facilitate cooperation and effective response. It is also part of the STACKTIVISM toolkit for political and social analysis.

Seeing The Stack - #stacktivism talk by @thejaymo

Who controls the future of your food?

GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMO OMG, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing global movement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system been irrevocably hijacked?

Or can we take back our food, heal the planet, and live sustainably? The choice is ours, but we have to start now!

Five Surprising Facts About Energy Poverty

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The world needs to double or triple its current spending—estimated at about $400 billion a year—to meet the United Nations’ goal of bringing clean and modern electricity to all people by 2030, says a new report by a wide group of international agencies led by the World Bank.

The effort to tackle energy poverty may look as if it has been at a standstill because estimates of the number of people without electricity have barely changed for years. In fact, electricity has been extended to 1.7 billion more people between 1990 and 2010, and 1.6 billion people gained access to cleaner cooking fuels. But world population grew 1.6 billion over that same period, with high growth in regions with poor energy access—a problem concentrated in about 20 countries in Asia and Africa. The World Bank report said the pace of expansion would have to double to meet the 100 percent energy access target by 2030.

Access to energy

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“The first ever SOIL ATLAS OF AFRICA uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to answer and explain these and other questions. Leading soil scientists from Europe and Africa have collaborated to produce this unique document.”

Water in the #anthropocene: via @sthlmresilience : A global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene

"let’s take a closer look at the problems, at why ending growth isn’t a viable solution, at the true resources of the planet, and at what we need to do to win this most important race."

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The Limits of the Earth, Part 1: Problems

great piece on world resources

India is Drowning in its Own Excreta-Can Science and Engineering Come to the Rescue?

Just a few weeks ago, I flew into India to join other new media specialists and journalists with the International Reporting Project to examine issues of …

“An entire nation drowning in its own excreta is an unpleasant thought, but this is what is happening”, at least according to Sunita Narain, Indian environmentalist and Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment

- good long read

Download Open Source Ecology's first ever Annual Report

who owns the means of not dying?

Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps

A Creative Commons licensed mapping and analysis tool for evaluating personal and social resilience. It is intended to be used for planning, and is simple enough to learn during a crisis to facilitate cooperation and effective response