Recorded May 25, 2009 at the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability organized by Local Future. First published to the World Wide Web on May 25, 2020.
Aaron Wissner is founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In late August of 2012, he created this video to explain, in the simplest possible terms, what money is, where it comes from, how it works, and how it can fail. This is the middle of a long study of Wissner's on the nature of money, starting from around 2007, to date.
Wissner is currently (as of May 2020) attempting to dig even deeper into the essense of money, gift, reciprocity, altruism, love, language, and how all of these are related to money. Wissner has written dozens and dozens of articles on money, created presentations, organized conferences around the topic, read up on it, since at least 2007, if not earlier.
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Associated terms include: money, debt, credit, debit, iou, trade, barter, exchange, promise, trust, future, expectation, confidence, food, life, happiness, satisfaction, monetization, store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account, standard of deferred payment, measure of value, fungibility, durability, divisibility, portability, cognizability, scarcity, money supply, savings, market liquidity, credit money, debt money, personal money, private money, paper money, currency, gift, reciprocity, consumer confidence, norm of reciprocity, gift giving, prosocial behavior, life, love, food, essential need, basic need, language, future, expectation, faith, belief, memory, illusion
Recommended Reading: Thomas Greco, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender; and The End of Money: The Future of Civilization
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
Money - The Mechanism of Mischief - Part 1 of 2 - Aaron Wissner | Local FutureLocal Future2020-05-25 | Part 2 of 2 - youtu.be/m_lTNS_HcP4
Recorded May 25, 2009 at the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability organized by Local Future. First published to the World Wide Web on May 25, 2020.
Aaron Wissner is founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In late August of 2012, he created this video to explain, in the simplest possible terms, what money is, where it comes from, how it works, and how it can fail. This is the middle of a long study of Wissner's on the nature of money, starting from around 2007, to date.
Wissner is currently (as of May 2020) attempting to dig even deeper into the essense of money, gift, reciprocity, altruism, love, language, and how all of these are related to money. Wissner has written dozens and dozens of articles on money, created presentations, organized conferences around the topic, read up on it, since at least 2007, if not earlier.
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Associated terms include: money, debt, credit, debit, iou, trade, barter, exchange, promise, trust, future, expectation, confidence, food, life, happiness, satisfaction, monetization, store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account, standard of deferred payment, measure of value, fungibility, durability, divisibility, portability, cognizability, scarcity, money supply, savings, market liquidity, credit money, debt money, personal money, private money, paper money, currency, gift, reciprocity, consumer confidence, norm of reciprocity, gift giving, prosocial behavior, life, love, food, essential need, basic need, language, future, expectation, faith, belief, memory, illusion
Recommended Reading: Thomas Greco, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender; and The End of Money: The Future of Civilization
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry. Robert has 26 years of international engineering experience in the chemicals, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries, and holds several patents related to his work. He has worked in the areas of oil refining, oil production, synthetic fuels, biomass to energy, and alcohol production. He is author of Utility Forecaster at Investing Daily, and of the book Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil. Robert has appeared on 60 Minutes, The History Channel, CNBC, Business News Network, CBC, and PBS, and his energy-themed articles have appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and The Economist.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
202102030000 UTC Aaron Wayne WissnerNicole Foss 2020 12 14 Downside Investment Risks for Pensions, Stocks and More | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-12-15 | Investment risks in 2021 are discussed in depth by Nicole Foss taking the assumption that the transition of the US President moves smoothly, hosted by Local Future founder & president Aaron Wissner.Nicole Foss 2020 12 14 US Politics Update - Democracy at Risk | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-12-15 | Futurist and political commentator Nicole Foss shares her perspectives on the 2020 US presidential election, especially the transition of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. After this talk, Nicole shared her perspectives on what the might happen to economics and finance in 2021 and beyond, assuming a smooth transition of power : youtu.be/npuhlVpGdjkState Pension Fund & Projections | Investment Board Meeting of the State of Michigan | 2020 DecemberLocal Future2020-12-11 | Where do pension checks come from? 60+ billion in assets are held by the State of Michigan pension and retirement funds. This uncut presentation by staff and contractors describes the fund, its goals, its membership, and much more. For anyone looking to understand state pensions, this would be a great primer, as it includes several presentation created for a general non-technical audience. This was a public meeting subject to the open meetings act held virtually on December 10, 2020.
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Snyder is an architect, licensed residential builder, and PHI (PassivHaus Institut) accredited building certifier, doing her certification work as an independent contractor under the auspices of CertiPHIers Cooperative, serving clients across the USA and Canada.
passivehouse.com/03_certification/02_certification_buildings/03_certifiers/01_accredited/01_accredited.htmlFoss & Wissner 2020 12 07 Election, Virus, Fascism, Media Bubbles |The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-12-08 | Futurist Nicole Foss of New Zealand discuss the virus, fascism, media bubbles, the US election and more with educator Aaron Wissner of Michigan.Foss & Wissner 2020 11 24 Election Authoritarianism & Media Complicity | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-11-25 | Nicole Foss of NZ and Aaron Wissner of USA discuss the US election, ballot counting, and issues including the danger of authoritarianism and the role media complicity can play.
Nicole Foss Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL540785A76F8FDD5CFoss & Wissner 2020 11 16 The U.S. Election & Its Aftermath | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-11-18 | Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner discuss the results of the 2020 US election including vote counting, legal cases, debunked conspiracy theories, and reactions of Trump loyalists.Wissner 2020 11 04 The Too Close to Call Election | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-11-05 | Educator Aaron Wissner describes the situation with the US election as of 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2020.Foss & Wissner 2020 11 01 Election PreView - The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-11-02 | Join Nicole Foss and Aaron Wissner on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time to discuss the U.S. national election results.Foss & Wissner 2020 10 26 Election Claims Hunter Donald JoeLocal Future2020-10-29 | Futurist Nicole Foss shares her analysis on the fall 2020 claims about Hunter Biden, as well as what is at stake in the 2020 US election.
Part 2 -- youtu.be/wNZNU1tUgJgFoss & Wissner 2020 10 26 Twitter #2 Trump & The Election | 2nd of 2 parts | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-10-28 | Futurist Nicole Foss shares her thinking on creating a useful twitter feed from experts rather than organizations. This is part 2 of 2.
Authors:
Jeff Sharlet, theocracy @JeffSharlet Mary Trump, psychology of Donald Trump @MaryLTrump Don Winslow, author/film-maker @donwinslow Steven Hassan, cult expert @CultExpert Norman Pagett, energy @End_of_More Jared Yates Sexton, threat of white supremacy @JYSexton Molly McKew @MollyMcKew Jennifer Mercieca @jenmercieca Jasmin Majanovic @JasminMuj Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien Ruth Ben Ghiat, authoritarianism/Mussolini @ruthbenghiat Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum David Corn @DavidCornDC Craig Unger @craigunger Tony Schwartz, Art of the Deal @tonyschwartz Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight @sarahkendzior
Academic Researchers: Marc-Andre Argentino, QAnon researcher @_MAArgentino Timothy Snyder, history of authoritarianism @TimothyDSnyder Heather Cox Richardson, history @HC_Richardson Nate Hagens, energy systems @NJHagens Karen Stenner, authoritarianism @karen_stenner
Military: Alexander Vindman, Lt Col (ret) @AVindman Malcolm Nance, security @MalcolmNance
Political Operatives: The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson
Lawyers: Glenn Kirchner @glennkirchner2 Dirk Schwenk @DirkSchwenk Susan Hennessey @Susan_Hennessey Elie Honig @eliehonig Jennifer Cohn, election security @jennycohn1 Elizabeth de la Vega @Delavegalaw Jill Wine-Banks, Watergate lawyer @JillWineBanks Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade Teri Kanefield @Teri_Kanefield Preet Bharara @PreetBharara George Conway @gtconway3d Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck Laurence Tribe @tribelaw Seth Abramson @SethAbramson Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance Asha Rangappa @AshaRangappa_ Mimi Rocah @Mimirocah1 Jed Shugerman @jedshug
Economics/Finance: Charles Hugh Smith @chsm1th Mike Shedlock @MishGEA Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis Jesse Colombo @TheBubbleBubble
Energy: Art Berman @aeberman12
Crime Victims E Jean Carroll, writer @ejeancarroll Virginia Giuffre @VRSVirginia
International Business: Bill Browder @Billbrowder Nick Hanauer @NickHanauer
Sitting Politicians: Katie Porter @RepKatiePorter Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell Adam Schiff @AdamSchiff Ted Lieu @tedlieuFoss & Wissner 2020 10 12 Twitter, Trump & The Election | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-10-14 | Futurist Nicole Foss shares excellent sources for breaking news and anaylsis from twitter with Local Future's Aaron Wissner.
Leana Wen, MD @GWPublicHealth Bob Wachter, Chair UCSF Dept of Medicine @Bob_Wachter Craig Spencer, MD @Craig_A_Spencer Eric Feigl-Ding, MD/epidemiology @DrEricDing Carl T Bergstrom, bio prof @CT_Bergstrom Trevor Bedford, epidemiology @trvrb Dr Dena Grayson, MD @DrDenaGrayson Dr Jack Brown, opthamologist, body language expert @DrGJackBrown PeakProsperity, PhD pathology/toxicology, Covid @chrismartenson John Talmadge, MD @JohnMTalmadgeMD
Psychologists/Psychiatrists:
Daniel Winarick @DrWinarick Nick Carmody, psychologist @Nick_Carmody Bandy Lee, psychiatrist @BandyXLee1 AntiNarcopathyPharmD @narceducator David Reiss, MD @DMRDynamics Propane Jane, psychiatrist @docrocktex26 Elizabeth Mika, psychologist @yourauntemma
Journalists:
Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg @JenniferJacobs Kaitlan Collins @kailancollins Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman Ed Yong, science writer @edyong209 Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche Laurie Garrett, science writer @Laurie_Garrett Maddow Blog @MaddowBlog Vicky Ward @VickyPJWard Brian Beutler @brianbeutler David Farenthold, Trump org coverage @Farenthold Julie Brown, Epstein case @jkbjournalist Aaron Rupar, tracking Trump @atrupar Max Boot @MaxBoot Jason Leopold, Buzzfeed @Jason Leopold Ben Collins @oneunderscore_ Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan Julia Davis, Russia news @JuliaDavisNews Carole Carwalla Dr, Cambridge Analytica @carolecadwalla Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Jennifer Rubin @JRubinBlogger Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand Just Security @just_security Zoe Tillman @ZoeTillman David Frum @davidfrum Daniel Dale, Trump fact checker @ddale8
Podcasters/Independent Writers and Speakers:
Allison Gill, Mueller She Wrote, Daily Beans @allisongill David Korowicz @David Korowicz Casey Michel, writer @cjcmichel Venture Capital @kelly2277 Portlus Glam @PortlusGlam Sandi Bachom @sandibachom Noel Casler, worked on Celebrity Apprentice @CaslerNoel Jon Stoehr @johnastoehr Greg Olear @gregolear Tami Burages @tburages Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman Lincoln's Bible @LincolnsBible Louise Neufeld @ninaandtito Eric Garland @ericgarland Juliette Kayyem, security @juliettekayem The Hoarse Whisperer @The RealHoarse Polly Sigh @dcpoll Andrea Chalupa, Gaslit Nation @AndreaChalupa Judd Legum @JuddLegum Seamus Hughes @SeamusHughes Olga Lautman @OlgaNYC1211 Umair @Umairh Christian Picciolini, former nazi @cpicciolini Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 Garrett Graff @vermontgmg Claire McCaskill @clairemc Alexa O'Brien @alexadobrien Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites
Former Staffers/Federal Employees:
Elizabeth Neumann, security/risk assessment @NeuSummits Olivia Troye, homeland security @OliviaTroye Miles Taylor, DHS chief of staff @MilesTaylorUSA Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI @FrankFigliuzzi1 Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt Lisa Page, former FBI @NatSecLisa Norman Ornstein, ethics @normOrnstein Jenn Budd, border patrol @BuddJen Richard Painter, ethics @RWPUSA Brett McGurk, security @brett_mcgurk John Brennan, CIA @John Brennan Walter Shaub, ethics @waltshaub David Rothkopf @djrothkopfFoss & Wissner 2020 10 05 CoVid & The US Election - The Deep Shock | Local FutureLocal Future2020-10-06 | Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner discuss the US Presidential election including the CoViD19 diagnosis and treatment of Donald Trump, the likelihood of CoViD resurgences in the autumn, election fraud, the presidential debate(s), and more.Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner 2020 09 28 The Final Election | The Deep Shock | Local FutureLocal Future2020-09-29 | Nicole Foss shares her outsider view on the 2020 USA election touching on topics including: Donald Trump, stolen election, the post office, the US Supreme Court, MAGA, liberals, Fox News, military, police officers, presidential election, covid false positives, and more.
Keywords: vote, Trump, election, supreme court, Biden, liberals, country, military, community, fraud, votes, envelope, mail win, states, law, post office, Americans, balance, taxes, work, voting, future, signs, scenario, propaganda, anon, Fox News, supporters, service, conservative, democrats, political, republicans, office, ballot, beliefs, rule, police, weakness, party, appointed, situation, removedSuburban Permaculture Community Fun 2020 09 15 Shani Graham, Tim Darby, Nicole Foss, Aaron WissnerLocal Future2020-09-19 | Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner invite Shani Graham & Tim Darby to share their stories about having fun while building community on a suburban Australia street; whose efforts include permaculture style urban community gardens, renewable energy, friendship, resilience, relocalization, and more.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
mutualaidnetwork.orgThe News - 2-weeks in 45-minutes - 2020 07 15 - Aaron Wissner | Local FutureLocal Future2020-07-15 | After avoiding news for two weeks, Aaron attempts to catch up in 45-minutes, to limited success :-) A better video is the chat with Nicole Foss: youtu.be/ZrbJJUc0p_M?t=859 If you want to hear Aaron's attempt to get caught up, you are invited to listen :-)Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner 2020 07 13 Limits, Peak Oil, Interest, Mortgages, News | The Deep ShockLocal Future2020-07-14 | What is going on and in the news in the USA and the world especially in light of the coronavirus, peak oil, climate change, economic depression and organizational and political corruption? 14:19 Nicole Foss Joins Call: Tip: Set Playback Speed to 2x, 1.75x, or 1.5x
0:00 Aaron's Intro & Welcome 2:55 Recent Calls: Daryl Taylor, Robert Rapier, Richard Heinberg, David Korowicz, DiAnna Ritola 11:19 Most Viewed Videos: Steve Keen, Daniel Quinn, Nicole Foss, Gail Tverberg, Peter Bane
13:56 Nicole Foss online - She's invited Stephanie Rearick to join a future call. 15:51 Down to Business: Limits, Boundaries, Sustainability & Mad Max 18:47 Closed borders: USA & Canada, especially in British Columbia & Washington, couples 22:05 Tikopia, islands, small communities, sustainability, tragedy of the commons 25:22 Message in a Bottle (Tikopia) series: youtube.com/channel/UCQ2I8IWfEQH0nNAHQJQqweQ/videos 27:46 Mutual coercion mutually agreed upon, Garrett Hardin, tragedy of the commons
32:14 Formal Introductions and Peak Oil consequences 35:41 Peak Oil Q: What do you think is leading us towards a “local future” ? Have you seen the HSBC Banks 2017 report which concludes Oil outputs will imminently decline 5-8% / year? 44:34 From which nations is the USA going to get all its oil? military, middle east, Venezuela 47:22 Saudi Arabia & USA deal, Matthew Simmons "Twilight in the Desert", fundamentalism 50:31 Canadian tar sands uneconomical extraction, ERoEI, energy return on investment 51:56 ERoEI example: The Distant Gas Station, using more energy then getting back 54:27 The Discount Rate: long vs short term, crisis management, markets, short termism 58:39 Has this model of capitalism failed? expansion & economic freedom vs contraction 1:02:21 The Matrix film series analogy; historical cycles: small, medium, large, huge 1:08:35 A visual of the "local future" -- maybe living a lifetime within 5-miles of home, etc. 1:11:19 Viewers Questions: coronavirus, Daryl Taylor, frustration with talking with others
1:14:19 What will happen to interest rates? (mortgages, negative, cash, hard goods, etc) 1:33:55 What about mortgage fixed interest rates? 1:37:32 Feed-in tariff (renewable energy) rates 1:39:49 Walking away from underwater mortgages (jingle mail, non-recourse loan, crisis) 1:46:12 Benefits of renting (Housing: renting vs mortgaging vs owning debt free) 1:49:32 Rental rates differences 1:53:15 Unemployment, under-employment, moving back home, falling wages 1:55:18 Tiny homes, downsizing, campers, renting, 400 sq ft, 200 sq ft, etc 2:01:20 Do you think we'll have a debt holiday? Why not? debt jubilee, debt cancellation, land
2:14:42 The news update for the past few weeks: covid-19, assemblies, defunding police 2:21:41 Will school open in September? Masks or no masks? current New Zealand cases 2:23:58 When will the borders open? International tourism? camping holidays, pro sports 2:29:53 Issues with the virus and with vaccines, antivaxers, polio, HPV, Gardasil ban, flu 2:40:12 Eviction crisis and food shortage or food supply crisis, "useless eaters" 2:42:32 What's going on with the Trump vs Biden race? polls favor Biden, dirty politics 2:44:59 Commuting sentence of Roger Stone (self-pardon, impeachable offence, William Barr) 2:52:16 Corruption opponents: Justin Amash, Joe Walsh, Tom Nicols, Rick Wilson, George Conway 2:57:45 Fracturing of parties, Overton Window in the USA, centrist-right democratic party, etc 2:58:42 Socialized medicine & health insurance costs: coinsurance, copays, taxes, dual-citizenship 3:02:26 Nicole's Paypal email: StoneLeigh49@gmail.com to thank her for her service 3:03:38 Russia paying bounties to Taliban for dead American soldiers in Afghanistan 3:06:05 Dictatorship, ignoring government, "pathological kleptocracy", authoritarian playbook
3:10:55 Five things people can do to be proactive 1. get to know your neighbors, make friends, build relationships of trust 2. get out of debt, reduce living costs as much as possible, 3. have control of the essentials of your own existence 4. set up a small business with local inputs and outputs 5. pool resources, consolidate assets, and consider having more people on one property
3:17:21 Inviting Stephanie Rearick of the Mutual Aide Network to a future call
Futurist Nicole Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
http://www.foss.blog/
Aaron Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
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About Robert Rapier
Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry. Robert has 25 years of international engineering experience in the chemicals, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries, and holds several patents related to his work.
He has worked in the areas of oil refining, oil production, synthetic fuels, biomass to energy, and alcohol production. He is author of Utility Forecaster at Investing Daily, and of the book Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil. Robert has appeared on 60 Minutes, The History Channel, CNBC, Business News Network, CBC, and PBS, and his energy-themed articles have appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and The Economist.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
Individuals include: Donald Trump, Bill Barr, Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Charles Kushner, Chris Christie, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, millionaires, billionaires, selfish people, etc. Media includes: CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, corporate media, etc. Possibly trustworthy: Justin Amash, Jeffry Flake, Joe Walsh, etc
Book mentions include: * The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir – June 23, 2020 by John Bolton * Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump – March 19, 2019, by Vicky Ward * Proof of Corruption: Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump – September 8, 2020 by Seth Abramson * Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man – July 28, 2020 by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
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About David Korowicz
David is working on understanding large-scale systemic risk and supporting policy and social responses. Up until February 2020, he was director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative, where his work was aimed at encouraging and supporting large-scale preparedness and contingency planning for intensifying large-scale systemic risks.
He is a systems thinker, physicist and human systems ecologist, interested in the challenges to our societies arising from the transformation of risk. This fits into his broader interests into the evolution, stability, and collapse of complex societies. He is an advocate for a re-appraisal of risk and the need for societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning.
He argues we are on the cusp of an inevitable major societal transformations that will largely outrun our capacity to manage or control. The implications will be prolonged and severe. We can choose to face such consequences head-on, and work to support what’s best in our human story in times that threaten to expose the worst. Understanding, anticipation and preparedness is part of this.
David has been a pioneer in drawing upon ideas from fields such as ecology, complexity and systems science to shed light on emergent risks, vulnerabilities and uncertainties. He has written influential studies on the the financial and socio-economic implications of a peak in global oil production; the propagation of financial and monetary shocks through trade networks and critical infrastructures; pandemic shocks and the limits to growth. Currently, he is developing a Globally Integrated Systemic Risk framework.
Korowicz has been an invited contributor on the socio-economic implications of a severe pandemic for USAID/ US Pacific Fleet ASEAN preparedness, and to the pandemic working group of the Global Agenda Council on Complexity & Risk (World Economic Forum); presented on contingency planning for large-scale socio-economic stress and shocks; and taught a masters course Human Systems Ecology & Systemic Risk at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. David was a ministerial appointment to the council of Comhar, Ireland’s sustainable development commission. He spent a number of years on the executive committee of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - a think-tank. David also made a significant contribution to the Foresight Analysis Nexus.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Streamed Live to the World Wide Web: 20200623 Aaron Wayne WissnerAaron Wissner - News Roundup & Commentary - 6:00 p.m. EDT Monday, June 15, 2020Local Future2020-06-16 | Aaron Wissner of Local Future discusses the news of Monday, June 15, 2020 with commentary while hoping Nicole Foss will join the call (which she does not). To compress time, try playing back speeds 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 or 2.0x.
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About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
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About Jonathan Balcombe
Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist and best-selling author. He has three biology degrees including a PhD in animal behavior. He has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters ranging from turtle nesting behavior to the ethics of animal dissection.
His books include Second Nature, Pleasurable Kingdom, and his most recent title, the New York Times bestseller What a Fish Knows. Hi next book, Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects, will be published by Penguin in November.
A popular commentator, he has appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the BBC, and the National Geographic Channel, and in several documentaries, and is a contributor of features and opinions to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and other publications. He lives near Toronto, Canada.
"What A Fish Knows," from Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. June 2016. NY Times best-seller. Available or forthcoming in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Arabic, Estonian, Norwegian, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, and Turkish.
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
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About Dr. Steve Keen
Dr Keen is one of about a dozen people in the world who accurately predicted the 2008 debt bubble collapse and the resulting collapse of the housing markets, the stock markets, and the unemployment to follow; and the only one to be able to describe the reasoning mathematically. This was possible due to his understanding of money, debt, credit and mathematics as it plays a role in the economy.
This "school" of economic thought is referred to as "post-Keynesian" school, as distinct and separate from "mainstream" economics, which currently the globally dominant (and structurally flawed) school of economic thought.
Post-Keynesian is much more similar to a "hydraulic macroeconomic" model. Dr Keen generally references the work of John Maynard Keynes, Irving Fisher, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hyman Minsky as influences in helping him to understand money and economics in these terms. (Perhaps along with writings from John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Hudson.)
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blog where she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
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About Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and shares information about the web site Resilience.org. Heinberg, a former university professor and now senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, speaks widely and has published over a dozen books about ways to live better after hydrocarbons are no longer used for fuels. Notable works including: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdonw: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality; and Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
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About Vincent Lyn
Vincent Lyn is CEO Founder at We Can Save Children; Director of Creative Development at African Views Organization; Economic & Social Council at United Nations; and Rescue & Recovery Specialist at International Confederation of Police & Security Experts.
From: We Can Save Children:
"On a bodyguard mission for VIP in Ghana, Vincent visited a shelter where 20 children (ages 5-15) had just been rescued from slavery. He recalls seeing the fear in their eyes, how that look stayed with him and inspired him to become involved - offering help, in some way.
He started promoting awareness and raising money for rescue and recovery projects of these trafficked children. Contacted by many people and local CBO (community based organizations) in Africa looking for help; one of these contacts was in Uganda. Wanting to see the situation in person (Vincent adheres to the philosophy of "being active on the ground level to get things done, not just talk about it.") he traveled to Kampala and witnessed children starving to death and struggling to survive. He knew that helping alleviate this suffering was to become a life mission.
Since that time Vincent has become the Creative Director for the NGO - African Views (leading conferences at the International Peace Institute and the UN), become an Economic and Social Council to the United Nations (ECOSOC), and started a nonprofit organization - We Can Save Children - whose mission is to rescue and recover children in Africa and the Middle East. Whether these children are orphans, refugees, or poverty-stricken, the goal is to protect and provide aid (funds, resources and guidance) to help these children survive.
Vincent is truly making a life-saving difference in the lives of these children - not just donating money, but being there for months at a time, personally helping save children from slavery, starvation, and dying from disease. His We Can Save Children organization provides them access to an education and an opportunity for a better future...and for the first time in their lives - hope!
One of the newest projects involves over 1,200 orphaned children from Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda in 3 different orphanages in Uganda. Vincent's foundation provides food, shelter, medications, clothing and education as well as important vocational skills. He has also purchased agricultural land, so they can be self-sustainable in terms of food.
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
The conversation includes the perception of the Ghana of an assortment of other countries; how the "first world" extracts the wealth of the "developing world" / "third world" (especially South American and Africa).
We also discuss the how the people in Ghana and Nigeria realize that the USA has taken the wealth, so some individuals feel it is fair to attempt to "scam" people in the USA.
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Steve Keen, Nicole Foss and Aaron L. Wissner discuss the global economy as an inequality generating wealth accumulation system; considerations on what people are suggesting to do.
Steve is on the call for the first hour, then Nicole and Aaron continue on into some very concrete and specific action steps for anyone to take during the second hour.
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About DiAnna Ritola
Rev. DiAnna Ritola is a sex educator and counselor, Interfaith Minister, and Dianic Wiccan Priestess who has been studying, speaking, and practicing at the intersections of spirituality and sexuality as they come alive in intimate relationships since 2007. She advocates releasing shame associated with sexuality, body image, and sex and religion to celebrate the joy and adventure of embodiment through reclaiming our birthright as spiritual sexual beings. DiAnna lives in New York City with her wife, Michele Fitzsimmons, their cat, Lilith, and their dog, Brigid.
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
We hope this message of hope, and of re-framing the view of the world, will play at least one small part in starting the healing of the world :-)
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Earlier Titles: On Our Human Nature: Who am I? Why do I get angry? How will I give love? What is compassion? Our Human Nature: Who am I? Why do I get angry? How will I give love? What is compassion? Human Nature: Who am I? Why am I violent? How will I give love? What is compassionate love? Human Nature: Why am I violent? How will I give love? When will we be at peace? Who am I? Why is there violence? How can I give love and peace? Where does violence come from? Our Two Gifts How can I spread nurturing maternal compassionate love and peace?Unlimited Love: Our Compassionate Nature, and the Love and Service Inside Us | Linda BlauwkampLocal Future2020-05-29 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_love
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About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Join Aaron Wissner as he develops a complex hypothesis for the reason that apes do not have tails, related to a 4 km rocky asteroid impact in northern Asia, followed by a world glaciation; and later by the lack of a tail in one (or more) Catarrhini old world monkey leading the all of the apes.
Aaron extends the lesson to attempt to uncover the branching of the apes line between the gibbons and hominoidae; then between orangutans and homininae; then gorillas and hominini, then homo and pan, and finally between pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) and pan paniscus (bonobo).
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Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
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About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
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About DiAnna Ritola
Rev. DiAnna Ritola is a sex educator and counselor, Interfaith Minister, and Dianic Wiccan Priestess who has been studying, speaking, and practicing at the intersections of spirituality and sexuality as they come alive in intimate relationships since 2007. She advocates releasing shame associated with sexuality, body image, and sex and religion to celebrate the joy and adventure of embodiment through reclaiming our birthright as spiritual sexual beings. DiAnna lives in New York City with her wife, Michele Fitzsimmons, their cat, Lilith, and their dog, Brigid.
Aaron Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Go ahead, as this premieres, and put notes and time codes in the chat, and especially, put in the questions as they are posed, so people can jump to various points. Thank you for your help with this :-)
Feel free to download any other of the Local Future files as well, again, not to be edited, but only to be shared as complete files. Each one is a complete thought; but, not for upload to YouTube to public or unlisted (private is okay); let's keep the visible versions right here so that people can connect and find them :-) With that caveat, all on videos on this channel are now Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) as amended above. ~ By authority of Copyright Holder Aaron Wayne Wissner 1970 Michigan, at 202005271443 UTC
u5JQBdjEQQXtTqD5Ptz43DdYVegan Sex: Drop Your Meds and Jump In Bed: PG-13 - Ellen Jaffe Jones & Troy Funk | Local FutureLocal Future2020-05-27 | Ellen Jaffe Jones, six time health and fitness book author, Florida real estate agent, and author of the book "Vegan Sex: Drop Your Meds and Jump in Bed" and her partner Troy Funk, real estate broker, Sarasota Florida, discuss the improvement in their sex, love, and relationship life after going vegan, and then finding one another. The conversation includes discussions of erectile dysfunction (ED), energy level, illness, health, wellness, nutrition, weight loss, worldview and more.
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About Ellen Jaffe Jones
Ellen is a best-selling vegan cookbook and health and fitness author, as well as a sought-after speaker at vegfests, foodfests, health fairs, book festivals and many other venues. She has published 6 books with the oldest and largest vegan publisher in the US, and is currently working on a 7th.
She is legendary in engaging her audiences and conducting her Q and A while holding a plank contest. Her record was 10 minutes at the Tampa Vegfest. She is a certified personal trainer and has coached high school girls cross country and track.
Ellen was a 2-time Emmy-winning TV investigative reporter for 18 years, while she watched her mom, aunt and both sisters get breast cancer. Her family became part of the original BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer gene studies. Figuring out how to beat her genes and continue remaining the only adult female in her family without cancer became the investigative reporting job of her life. At the age of 28, she almost died of a colon blockage and saved herself from a hysterectomy by going on a vegan diet.
Troy Funk came to veganism searching for answers to a relative’s life-threatening health problems. He knew that Portland had one of the best Vegfests in the US and went there in search of answers, In 2016, he first met Ellen Jaffe Jones, one of the speakers, who he would later learn lived almost in his own backyard. Four years later they became partners in life and business. Troy races competitively in Sarasota (with Ellen).
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Peter Sinclair is a Michigan based videographer specializing in Energy and Environment issues. He produces the video series "This is Not Cool", for Yale Climate Connections.
Mr Sinclair is also Media Director of The Dark Snow Project, an international crowd-funded science and communication focusing on climate change and climate solutions.
A frequent speaker, Mr Sinclair is a passionate advocate of renewable energy development, and brings his rich multi-media presentations to schools, colleges, universities and community groups throughout Michigan and around the world - including major universities, and invited presentations at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, and Colorado.
Mr Sinclair was named 2017 “Friend of the Planet” by the National Center for Science Education, who called him "The most important videographer on the planet."
Questions Asked and Answered:
1. What caused the flood? 2. Why was that dam there? 3. What is the future of dams? 4. Did the current stay-at-home order in any way related to the event? 5 .Was this inevitable? 6. Is this the first recent flood of this sort, worldwide? 7. What is the proper "ownership" of dams? The ones above, the ones below, etc. 8. What will be the unexpected and unintended fallout both upstream and downstream? 9. What caused the flood?
Background:
This is, of course, meant to be a general answer to a general question, and more specifically regarding rivers, and more specifically still, regarding dams. The dam upstream from Peter failed a few days ago after a climate forced extreme rain event; but that is only part of the story. For a much bigger understanding of "What Caused the Flood?" Watch the video, only about 35-minutes, it is entirely engrossing
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About Peter Sinclair
Peter Sinclair from Midland, Michigan (born 1953), is an environmental activist whose focus is on climate change. He is a YouTube blogger, explorer and founder of the ClimateCrocks.com website. Together with climate researchers he's traveled to hot spots of climate change, for instance to Greenland as part of the Dark Snow Project.Sinclair is perhaps best known for producing the Climate Denial Crock of the Week series on his YouTube channel. In 2012, he launched another YouTube series, entitled This is not Cool, for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Sinclair is the son of Mary P. Sinclair, He lives in Midland with his wife, Sandy, a teacher, and has stated that his concern about global warming results from concerns about the future of his children. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Sinclair has given a number of public speeches on climate change, such as one on January 23, 2013 at Michigan State University entitled The Ultimate Injustice. Sinclair gave another talk at the Ross School of Business on September 11, 2013, co-sponsored by the Erb Institute. The talk was entitled Communicating Climate Science in the Disinformation Era.
For his videos, Sinclair regularly interviews climate scientists. He has also interviewed Marc Morano at the 2012 International Conference on Climate Change. Later that year, his video "Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives" was featured in Mother Jones. In January 2014, he posted an interview with Jeff Masters of Weather Underground addressing arguments about cold temperatures disproving global warming, which was covered by the National Journal.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Nicole Foss & Aaron Wissner discuss facing the fear of death in the unfolding of the future. This is intended to be read like a novel. Do not attempt all in one setting, unless you really have time to binge. Take breaks. You don't have to finish it to get something out of it. :-) To compress time, try playing back at a higher rate like 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 or 2.0.
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About Nicole Foss
Futurist Nicole M. Foss is the creator of Foss.Blogg. Here she provides easy-to-understand answers in response to questions on peak oil, financial crisis, energy descent, resilience, community, and simple living.
Foss was co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she wrote under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner chronicled and interpreted the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrated finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain the predicament and can be done about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was an editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.
Foss ran the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she has focused on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level.
Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
Recorded May 25, 2009 at the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability organized by Local Future. First published to the World Wide Web on May 25, 2020.
Aaron Wissner is founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In late August of 2012, he created this video to explain, in the simplest possible terms, what money is, where it comes from, how it works, and how it can fail. This is the middle of a long study of Wissner's on the nature of money, starting from around 2007, to date.
Wissner is currently (as of May 2020) attempting to dig even deeper into the essense of money, gift, reciprocity, altruism, love, language, and how all of these are related to money. Wissner has written dozens and dozens of articles on money, created presentations, organized conferences around the topic, read up on it, since at least 2007, if not earlier.
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Associated terms include: money, debt, credit, debit, iou, trade, barter, exchange, promise, trust, future, expectation, confidence, food, life, happiness, satisfaction, monetization, store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account, standard of deferred payment, measure of value, fungibility, durability, divisibility, portability, cognizability, scarcity, money supply, savings, market liquidity, credit money, debt money, personal money, private money, paper money, currency, gift, reciprocity, consumer confidence, norm of reciprocity, gift giving, prosocial behavior, life, love, food, essential need, basic need, language, future, expectation, faith, belief, memory, illusion
Recommended Reading: Thomas Greco, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender; and The End of Money: The Future of Civilization
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Wissner founded Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which helps communities envision positive, "sustainable" futures. As president, he organized and directed dozens of events including: organizing the series of five annual Local Future conference, culminating in The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision – Action – Leadership 2012. The Local Future (a.k.a. New Culture) education channel on YouTube features over 200 ad-free educational videos, with over one million views.
Wissner served as a teacher in public schools for twenty-five years, including teaching students from Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in subject areas including: mathematics, science, computers, video production, digital journalism, business applications, and student leadership. As well as assorted extracurricular and co-curricular activities, such as track & field coach, Odyssey of the Mind coordinator, robotics coordinator, chess club coach/coordinator, student council advisor, etc. Wissner also served as an educational leader and negotiator at the local, county, regional, state, and national level.
Wissner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Physical Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; with additional course work from Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University; and a Michigan Teaching Certification for grades 6-12 all mathematics and all sciences. He lives in Michigan with his spouse and two children.
William attended Manistee High School at the same time as my grandfather Ray Wissner. William and I met twice. And, he reminds me of my grandfather as well. This talk of Bill's is critical to understanding our predicament. Please take the hour to watch it
"Where there is no vision, people perish." I've tried to suggest we see with ideas as well as with eyes. Where people lack vision enabling concepts, their vision will remain deficient: that holds for popes, princes, and presidents; and people at large. -- William R. Catton, Jr.
Which is why I (Aaron) think everyone would be served well by reading the novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Fast forward to the 8 minute mark to start Bill's talk.
William Robert Catton Jr. (January 15, 1926 – January 5, 2015) was an American sociologist best known for his scholarly work in environmental sociology and human ecology. Catton was known primarily for his 1980 book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Catton wrote three other books, including From Animistic to Naturalistic Sociology and his 2009 book Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse. In addition, he has authored numerous scholarly articles, book chapters and book reviews.