The Great Rivers Partnership: IBM and the Earth

It is going to take changes in consciousness, changes in legislation, changes in strategy, deeper scientific understanding, deeper communication of scientific understanding to business owners and managers, new production technologies, new philosophies AND MORE to prevent the ever growing negative footprint on the earth by industrial civilization.

But at least IBM is prepared to develop IT technologies that allow us to monitor and understand what is happening. You may find interesting The Great Rivers Partnership.

Column: Et Tu, George by Nicholas Kristof

New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has done amazing work bringing the situation in Darfur to the attention of the American public. He also has an elegant way of analyzing the failures of leadership of President George W. Bush.

I particularly like his January 23, 2007 column Et Tu, George?.

Column: China's Sunshine Boys by Thomas Friedman

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has argued in many of his pieces that we America must consider energy policy as critical to the future of our security, economy and environment.

I particularly liked his December 6, 2006 article China's Sunshine Boys.

Column: Who Will Succeed Al Gore? Our Crucible Moment by Thomas Friedman

A lot deservedly has been said about the Nobel Committee's decision to award the 2007 Peace Prize to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and to Al Gore. But I thought an interesting perspective on Mr. Gore and on American Politics is Thomas L. Friedman's October 14, 2007 column Who Will Succeed Al Gore?.
 

The War: Directed/Produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (Florentine Films, PBS-WETA)

Six years in the making, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's The War is a magnificent documentary of World War II, and its affects on the Americans who served in the military, and those who lived through it at home. Focusing primarily on about a score of families from 4 smaller cities of the United States, and including many hours of actual combat footage, this is an amazingly comprehensive view of the War. The coverage of the social environment just before and during and after the War is elegant. Very highly recommended.