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13.02.2012
Alda – Association for Sustainability and Democracy handed the following proposals over The Constitutional Council in May 2011. Each proposal is followed by a summary and precedent if available and applicable. There are twelve proposals, and they regard the presidency, … Meira
10.05.2012
There is a pretty interesting conference starting tomorrow and Alda encourages all to attend. It´s held at the University of Iceland at Askja and starts around 9 am. Among the lecturers are world renowned scholars for example James S. Fishkin. … Meira
08.05.2012
The Mondragon Experiment is a BBC documentary from 1980 about the origin and growth of the worker-owned cooperative in the Basque region of Spain.
14.02.2012
We have allowed democracy to fall into neglect. All decisions must be made by the people guided by the well being of the whole. The basic principle of democracy is that each and everyone has an equal say — equal … Meira
13.02.2012
Our aim is to change both the economics profession and common-sense understanding about how the economy works and should work. For this we need to disseminate new ideas, train the new generation of scholars and public intellectuals, and advance new … Meira
13.02.2012
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy … Meira