Category: Environmental

Military industrial complexes (MICs) transformed into exploration information networks (EINs) The following text is a “prototype sketch” that allows readers to refine concepts on their own and even begin implementing in part(s) as they see fit and are able. This piece is not political analysis (what is), political commentary (what and who is to blame)… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 4 of 6: A prototype socioeconomic reality of humans advancing across the solar system – 2021-2071 →

A hard question with "cheat sheet" provided During this uncertain time, wherever we are in our world and in our individual lives, we all need to ask ourselves: Why do we really live? If our honest answers are any of the following, they are not good enough. 1) To keep living 2) To provide for… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 3 of 6: Why do we really live? →

Prospects for synergistic power across the solar system and eventually beyond We now have the opportunity to construct synergistic power among close to eight billion individual humans. If we the majority of humans focus on doing this in many ways both preliminary and eventual, those few who guard their entrenched power relative to others in… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 2 of 6: Humans on the move →

Prospects for human expansion beyond Earth, enabled by a knowledge-based economic system yielding practical abundance through interchange (not exchange) and non-authoritarian heterarchy Welcome to Sowing Accord, a new project of mine here at 3x3 Global Drills. After receiving my Ph.D. in political science (international relations) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012, I… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfD0lRt1Pw This introduction signals a new direction for 2019. From 2014-2018, this YouTube channel produced a number of videos centering around my 3x3 Global Drills process, the core idea of my dissertation in political science (international relations), "Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe," University of Hawaii (2012). Those videos provide a deeper understanding… Continue reading Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money? →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFG_RUN3k24&t=2s An addition of a new perspective from deep in the mountains of southern Mexico to my YouTube videos from 2017, "Abundance-based Global Currency 1-4 | 3x3 Global Drills Worksheet Series."

Here, we consider rapid climate change on Earth, no matter the cause, resulting in drastic global sea rise for next generations of humans based on the ongoing disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) since May 2014, Greenland ice loss from 2002-2016 and glacial melt around the world. (See also, "Ramp-up In Antarctic Ice… Continue reading Global sea rise migration within 40 years →

Artist's conception of an orbiting donor star collapsing into a middleweight black hole from which gamma-ray bursts of radiation jet out in opposite directions. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/middle_blackhole.html. Retrieved June 4, 2018. As we fight each other for territory across Earth and artificially created scarcity-based money, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of potentially… Continue reading Countering the gamma-ray burst threat within our galaxy →

National Assembly of Cape Verde, a unicameral body with 72 seats. As humans around the world, born into the nation-state system through no choice of our own, now may be a good time to think about what kind of representative democracy can work best at the global level. We do not necessarily need to abandon… Continue reading Ideas for a global senate →

Our world as it is, compromised of powerful and weak nation-states and multinational corporations all guarding their own interests is an inherently unstable system. Chaotic events, particularly since the period from September 2001 to November 2016, itself a chaotic transition may be the logical outcome of the world system into which all of us were… Continue reading Your own thoughts are needed from around our world →