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The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance

02/11/2013 16:45
Steve Burgess For centuries, we have built cultures and economies around scarcity. Economics is the “study of how human beings allocate scarce resources”1 in the most efficient way and conventional wisdom agrees that regulated capitalism results in the most efficient allocation of those scarce...

Abundance and Scarcity

02/11/2013 16:42
Frédéric Bastiat Which is preferable for man and for society, abundance or scarcity? "What!" people may exclaim. "How can there be any question about it? Has anyone ever suggested, or is it possible to maintain, that scarcity is the basis of man's well-being?" [Read more] ...  

The Economics of Abundance

02/11/2013 16:36
From Karim Benammar [1] "Against the concept of economic abundance, of free trade, open markets, the information super-highway, of everyone getting into stocks, and of the ever-quickening pace of the use of energy, resources, money, and innovation, we find an ecological sense of self-restraint, of...

Towards an Economic of Abundance

02/11/2013 16:28
André-Jacques Holbecq The author distinguishes two great economic periods: one marked by scarcity, until 1960, one market by the abundance of economic goods, after that period. This shift forces to rethink all our assumptions and to change our paradigm, which is why he proposes the alternative of...

Honeybee Democracy

02/11/2013 16:12
Thomas D. Seeley Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as...

Honeybees are Protectors of Humanity and Guardians of the Planet

02/11/2013 16:10
by: William Rudolph (NaturalNews) Albert Einstein once said, "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Through their production of an elite class of...

The story of honeybees and their importance in sustaining life

02/11/2013 16:08
by: Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) They are an amazing and highly beneficial insect species that quite literally underpins the sustenance of life as we know it on planet earth. But honeybees are increasingly threatened by an onslaught of harmful influences, not the least of which includes the...

Earthworm Ecology and Sustaining Agriculture

02/11/2013 16:03
by Matthew R. Werner Earthworms can play a variety of important roles in agroecosystems. Their feeding and burrowing activities incorporate organic residues and amendments into the soil, enhancing decomposition, humus formation, nutrient cycling, and soil structural development (Mackay and...

Earthworms

02/11/2013 16:01
Earthworms are more than just fish bait. They are the main contributors to enriching and improving soil for plants, animals and even humans. Earthworms create tunnels in the soil by burrowing, which aerates the soil to allow air, water and nutrients to reach deep within the soil. Earthworms eat the...

Life on Earth… but not as we know it

02/11/2013 15:56
Robin Mckie Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with 'weird' lifeforms that are so different from our own they're invisible to us. [Read more] ...  
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