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    <title>Investing In The Ecosystems That Sustain Us - NOEMA</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Making the economic case for nature is an essential task for securing development in our planetary age."

...

"As both cause and telltale symptom, gross domestic product encapsulates why modern economics has been so anesthetized to planetary peril.   

GDP, an approximation of the value of goods and services produced within a country’s borders, emerged in the U.S. during its 20th century crucible of war planning and welfare state construction. It was adopted by the government to measure the aggregate value of economic production at a time when such information was unavailable to policy and business leaders.

Today, decimal-level fluctuations in GDP’s growth can unnerve ministries and shift billions on financial markets. The ubiquity and influence of the metric have endowed it with an aura of unshakeable authority over economic affairs; it is often treated as if it were an objective feature of the world rather than a human artifact that is freighted with the biases of its creators and marked by the circumstances of its creation. 

In reality, GDP includes much that is detrimental and excludes much that is essential. Only a few decades after national economic accounting was institutionalized in the U.S., Robert Kennedy highlighted the problems with using it to measure a nation’s true prosperity. Criticizing gross national product, a GDP-related indicator, he lamented in 1968 that it counted as positive economic output things like air pollution, cigarette advertising and “the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.” 

Nearly six decades later, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the sentiment in even starker terms: “Absurdly, GDP rises when there is overfishing, cutting of forests or burning of fossil fuels,” he wrote in 2021. “We are destroying nature, but we count it as an increase in wealth.” 

How we measure the economy is more discretion than discovery. Simon Kuznets, who has been credited with formalizing the concept of GDP, initially opposed the inclusion of government spending and expenditures on armaments and advertising. The emphasis on private transactions and the exclusion of activities deemed socially harmful was a conceptual, perhaps even ideological, preference rather than an appeal to objective reality. 

Even today, and despite the best efforts of the UN System of National Accounts (SNA) to standardize methodology, there are international divergences in GDP accounting. China is still deeply influenced by the System of Material Balances (an inheritance from its central planning period), which associates “value-added” with physical products and underweights services including healthcare, housing and education. In the other direction, the 2008 revisions to the SNA permitted the inclusion of illicit transactions such as narcotics sales. 

These inconsistencies not only reflect the discretionary basis of much official accounting; they have direct bearing on the identification — or misidentification — of policy priorities. For instance, perspectives from feminist economics have long pointed out that GDP omits most of the unpaid house- and care-work that are primarily done by women, despite such services being critical to individual well-being and social welfare. That they lack formal markets should not condemn them to policy irrelevance and deprive them of financial support. 

Similarly, much of nature lies outside the narrow frame of GDP and the “valuable” activities it seeks to measure. Addressing these conceptual, methodological and institutional lacunae requires a new understanding of the essential contributions ecosystems make to people. We need to recognize and cultivate this ecological production rather than mourn its loss and count the costs after industrialism has made a wasteland where nature once thrived."

...

"Whatever the particular politics of the moment and country, it has nonetheless become a piety across much of the world that digital services are services, that artificial intelligence is intelligence, that automated labor is labor, and that all of the above should be promoted as a matter of policy. In this light, and given the urgency of the Anthropocene’s challenges, it is hard to imagine a principled reason for denying that ecosystem services are economic services and should also be promoted as a matter of policy. 

The future is clouded with risk, whether from the uncertain blessings of AI or the certain curses of climate change. But it is nonetheless encouraging that, however belatedly, growing numbers of people are beginning to view nature as our most precious asset. While not without pitfalls, recognizing the economic value of ecosystems is a major advance in how societies conceive and coordinate their development.  

GEP may never achieve the ubiquity and influence of GDP. But should the simple premise that the development of trees is integral to the development of people be accepted within economics, then this flawed but indispensable discipline will have undergone a much-needed transformation — one that is critical to ensuring the possibility of civilization."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The Impossible Math of Philanthropy - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-23T03:43:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Lower East Side of Manhattan is home to some of the oldest and most storied charities in the country, founded at the dawn of the Progressive era. University Settlement, established in 1886, opened one of the first public baths in New York City. In 1893, Henry Street Settlement began offering health care to neighborhood residents and later convened the conference that led to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P.

Today, New Yorkers in need continue to depend on these charities for housing assistance, child and elder care, food security, education and employment training. Yet poverty on the Lower East Side has been increasing for decades, and Manhattan has the most unequal income distribution of any large county in America.

It’s a similar story across the country. In recent years, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and many others have poured billions into fighting poverty, protecting the environment and improving health outcomes. Corporate giving has also grown significantly over the past 5 years. Yet despite these efforts, income inequality is worse than it’s been since before the Great Depression, and poverty and its associated social pathologies remain stubbornly pervasive. What gives?

There’s a simple answer, one you’ll never hear in the grand halls of the charity gala circuit: The math of philanthropy simply doesn’t work. And it never will.

Americans typically understand charities as organizations that pick up where the government leaves off — championing the poor, the environment, the sick and the marginalized. But this framing is incomplete, and frankly misleading.

More often than not, charities work to mitigate harms caused by business. Every year, corporations externalize trillions in costs to society and the planet. Nonprofits form to absorb those costs, but have at their disposal only a tiny portion of the profits that corporations were able to generate by externalizing those costs in the first place. This is what makes charity such a good deal for businesses and their owners: They can earn moral credit for donating a penny to a problem they made a dollar creating.

Take the fast-food industry, where wages are so low that a majority of workers’ families are enrolled in public assistance. When an underpaid McDonald’s worker seeks a free meal at a soup kitchen, the soup kitchen is, in effect, stepping in to supplement a legal but inadequate wage. The lower the wage, the greater the profits for McDonald’s, which puts the soup kitchen in the position of indirectly subsidizing those profits.

According to census data, about half of Americans earn less than a living wage, which we estimate conservatively at $75,000 for a family of three. For every family to earn a living wage, we estimate that employers would need to pay at least $1.9 trillion more in wages and salaries. But in 2023, only $77 billion of all American charitable dollars went toward so-called human service organizations such as food banks and homeless shelters. Employers will never choose to make up that difference, because keeping wages low is what fuels so much of the profits their shareholders demand.

Government welfare programs play a much larger role than charity in bridging the $1.9 trillion gap, but they are also insufficient. Total spending on economic security programs by the U.S. government in 2023 was $545 billion, still a small fraction of what it would take for all Americans to meet their basic needs. If the Trump administration fulfills its plan to slash social services such as food stamps and child care assistance, while diverting more wealth to the rich through tax cuts, the math will get only worse and the pressure on charities will compound.

A similar predicament exists for environmental cleanup.

Think about Coca-Cola, which, up until the 1970s, was sold mostly in refillable glass bottles. In the 1980s and ’90s, it switched to plastic — effectively outsourcing the cost of recycling to municipalities, or, more accurately, the cost of plastic pollution to the world.

Last year, researchers identified Coca-Cola as the single largest branded plastic polluter on the planet. The long-term environmental costs of plastic pollution are enormous — $3.7 trillion per year, according to one study. Based on its share of plastic production, that means Coca-Cola’s plastic alone inflicts some $30 billion in annual environmental damage. That’s about three times the company’s net income in 2022. How much did it donate to charitable causes that year? Not quite $95 million, a small share of which went toward recycling programs.

That leaves governments on the hook for the rest of the damage, but here, too, public spending is grossly insufficient, and it is almost certain to become more so under the Trump administration. The total proposed budget for the Environmental Protection Agency in the current fiscal year is less than $11 billion; as of 2018, states and local governments contributed about $32 billion a year to protect natural resources — but again, that’s a tiny fraction of what it would cost to fix the damage corporations inflict on the environment each year.

These calculations reveal why so many good and seemingly well-funded causes fail to move the needle. The health and environmental costs from the food industry exceed the revenue it generates. The cost in the United States of health care from smoking is several times the revenue of the cigarette industry. The costs of mental illness, misinformation and political discord created by the social media industry are immeasurable.

Nonprofits that work to reverse obesity, prevent addiction or treat anxiety will never have anywhere near the resources they need to fully meet their missions.

Building a more equitable world would require addressing the damage that for-profit companies cause at the root. As the European Union has shown through a variety of new laws in recent years, regulation can be used to force businesses to internalize their hidden social costs. Alternatively, corporations could be legally rechartered so that their bylaws compel them to put public interests ahead of their shareholders. Both approaches would hurt companies’ profit margins.

For this to work, the public would also need to develop greater skepticism of the rich entrepreneurs who, with more cash than they could ever spend, donate portions of their wealth to favored causes. Lionized for their achievements and revered for their compassion, they bask in their status as society’s saviors. Meanwhile, the corporations they own extract wealth and externalize costs on a scale that dwarfs their largess. With one hand they generate supernormal profits by plundering society, and with the other they dole out a few crumbs to “save the world.” But they never will. The math simply doesn’t work."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/OjBEA

via:
https://48hills.org/2025/02/lurie-wants-to-ask-his-rich-friends-to-fund-his-programs-heres-why-it-wont-work/ ]]]></description>
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| Jen Lowe and Patricio Gonzalez at Eyeo 2022 |

A talk about ancient and traditional practices of time and divination, and imagine a possible future that requires a return to holistic technologies, and globally connected local communities. We’ll show projects of folks who are preparing for that possible future by building atomic modular technology and practicing reuse technology as emerging technology. We’ll cover some lessons learned making our own atomic modular tools, like glsl viewer, and the alchemy of making our own digital art with recycled e-waste. Our inspirations include: birds, clouds, Octavia Butler, Rasheedah Philllips and Black Quantum Futurism, Ursula Franklin, Hundred Rabbits artist collective, the Solar Protocol project, and Precious Plastic’s localized global recycling network."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For the most part, we tend to keep our clothes relatively clean and avoid spills and rips and tears. But denim is so hard-wearing and hard-working that it just kind of amasses more and more signs of wear. So you can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans.

For Denim, Avery Trufelman spoke with her friend, artist and curator Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; Tracey Panek, the corporate historian at Levi Strauss and Company; Lynn Downey, a biographer of Levi Strauss and the former Levis corporate historian; Ada Kong, the toxics manager at Greenpeace East Asia; Emma McClendon associate curator of costume at The Fashion Institute of Technology; Ulrich Simpson, owner of the small independent denim brand UBI-IND."]]></description>
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Where does greenwashing leave off, and real change begin?"]]></description>
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    <title>FixIts | For When You're In A Fix - Quick. Reusable. Strong.</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What are FixIts?
FixIts are mouldable eco-plastic fixing sticks for your tech, home, garden and more.

So handy you’ll want them within arm’s reach no matter where you are, whether that’s your jeans pocket, kitchen drawer or toothbrush holder.

Reusable and compostable, FixIts can help you reduce waste and make the most of the resources you've got at hand too.

1. Heat it: Put the kettle on and get your mug ready
 
2. Melt it: FixIts melts and becomes flexible at 62 C.
 
3. Mould it: FixIts can be moulded in any which way, shape or form.

Create anytime, anywhere.
Why buy things you like when you can make things you love? All you have to do is put the kettle on, make yourself a cup of FixIts and get hands-on.
  
Mend because you can.
You don’t need to be a DIY expert to give your stuff a new lease of life. FixIts melts, moulds and mends in minutes so you can say ‘I fixed it.’

Want to give it another go? Simply heat up to re-use for…

1. Tech
Use FixIts to keep cables tidy and labelled or fix that broken charger.

2. Home & Garden
Mend flowerpots, craft bespoke home décor or even create a hanging herb garden.

3. Adventure
Don’t let broken camping or sports gear hold you back: Fix-It and keep doing the things you love.

Drill it, sand it, cut it and more.
There’s more to FixIts than twisting and moulding: once cooled it becomes hard and tough so you can get your tools out and modify it the way you want to.

You’re the hero, and FixIts is your handy companion when you’re needed to save the day."

[See also: https://vimeo.com/276851731 ]]]></description>
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    <title>FORMcard by Peter Marigold — Kickstarter</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-22T17:16:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A handy, pocket sized card of strong but meltable bioplastic that you can use to make, fix and modify the world around you."]]></description>
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    <title>BLDGBLOG: Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach</title>
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    <link>http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/welcome-to-world-of-plastic-beach.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Incredibly, a "new type of rock cobbled together from plastic, volcanic rock, beach sand, seashells, and corals has begun forming on the shores of Hawaii," Science reports. 

This new rock type, referred to as a "plastiglomerate," requires a significant heat-source in order to form, as plastiglomerates are, in effect, nothing but molten lumps of plastic mixed-in with ambient detritus. Hawaii with its coastal and marine volcanoes, offers a near-perfect formational landscape for this artificially inflected geology to emerge—however, Patricia Corcoran, one of the discoverers of these uncanny rocks, thinks we'll likely find them "on coastlines across the world. Plastiglomerate is likely well distributed, it’s just never been noticed before now, she says."

We've been surrounded by artificial geologies all along.

But is it really geology? Or is it just melted plastic messily assembled with local minerals? Well, it's both, it seems, provided you look at it on different time-scales. After heavier chunks of plastiglomerate form, fusing with "denser materials, like rock and coral," Science writes, "it sinks to the sea floor, and the chances it will become buried and preserved in the geologic record increase." It can even form whole veins streaking through other rock deposits: "When the plastic melts, it cements rock fragments, sand, and shell debris together, or the plastic can flow into larger rocks and fill in cracks and bubbles," we read.

It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to suggest that our landfills are also acting like geologic ovens: baking huge deposits of plastiglomerate into existence, as the deep heat (and occasional fires) found inside landfills catalyzes the formation of this new rock type. Could deep excavations into the landfills of an earlier, pre-recycling era reveal whole boulders of this stuff? Perhaps.

The article goes on to refer to the work of geologist Jan Zalasiewicz, which is exactly where I would have taken this, as well. Zalasiewicz has written in great detail and very convincingly about the future possible fossilization of our industrial artifacts and the artificial materials that make them—including plastic itself, which, he suggests, might very well leave traces similar to those of fossilized leaves and skeletons.

In a great essay I had the pleasure of including in the recent book Landscape Futures, Zalasiewicz writes: "Plastics, which are made of long chains of subunits, might behave like some of the long-chain organic molecules in fossil plant twigs and branches, or the collagen in the fossilized skeletons of some marine invertebrates. These can be wonderfully well preserved, albeit blackened and carbonized as hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen are driven off under the effect of subterranean heat and pressure." Plastiglomerates could thus be seen as something like an intermediary stage in the long-term fossilization of plastic debris, a glimpse of the geology to come.

Ultimately, the idea that the stunning volcanic beaches of Hawaii are, in fact, more like an early version of tomorrow's semi-plastic continents and tropical archipelagoes is both awesome and ironic: that an island chain known for its spectacular natural beauty would actually reveal the deeply artificial future of our planet in the form of these strange, easily missed objects washing around in the sand and coral of a gorgeous beach."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The subjects of Mandy Barker's photographs look like creatures from another world, but they're actually quite mundane: discarded fishing nets, plastic bottles, and toothpaste tubes. They're what sits beneath the surface of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Barker photographed the "soup," the plastic debris suspended in water from the Garbage Patch, to create strange alien scenes. But even though the objects in these photos aren't alive, they're still dangerous, killing ocean life wherever the patch travels."
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    <dc:date>2011-07-04T05:02:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via: http://villagedog.tumblr.com/post/7195173847/aurora-robson-jungle ]<br />
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_NS1pJQfVc ]]]></description>
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