Sublime

After the Great Recession of 2008, governments created jobs and spurred investment by putting money into renewable energy, energy efficiency, electricity infrastructure, and railroads. In 2008, China launched a $584 billion economic stimulus package,

Sometimes, a lack of training can produce even more interesting results. I was reminded of this recently after hearing a talk by Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet. He told the story of Norman Borlaug, an agronomist who developed disease-resistant wheat varieties that are estimated to have prevented over half a billion deaths worldw

Erect a wind turbine or solar plant in every town

drive down the price, countries are installing more turbines; the use of offshore wind has grown at an average annual rate of 25…

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One of the most famous was under the Polish writer and visionary Janusz Korczak, who created a republic for children with its own newspaper, court and parliament (he was later gassed by the Nazis in Treblinka, along with the orphans he looked after). His idea was that children should exercise sovereignty early on and might do a better job than the