SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective

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

Better alternatives to money-dominated reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCGsSe6Pmo Also available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/310739282 (4:05) From 2014-2018, this 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 of the shorter… Continue reading Better alternatives to money-dominated reality

Intro to 2019: Do we need nations or money?

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?

Abundance-based interchange economics

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."

Global sea rise migration within 40 years

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

Countering the gamma-ray burst threat within our galaxy

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: 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 planet… Continue reading Countering the gamma-ray burst threat within our galaxy

Ideas for a global senate

National Assembly of Cape Verde, a unicameral body with 72 seats (Image: Google Images). 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… Continue reading Ideas for a global senate

Your own thoughts are needed from around our world

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

Exchange-free Economics speech (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItHp71jblEg&t=71s All content across this site is and will remain AI free Also available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/256199038 (35:02) If you find these videos helpful, feel free to share with your own comments. In this speech, followed by slides of my 3x3 Global Drills process developed from 2005 to 2012, I state why human expansion beyond… Continue reading Exchange-free Economics speech (1999)