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Affiche du document The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future

The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future

Vincent Doumeizel

1h27min00

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116 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h27min.
The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow.Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a few dozen varieties, at most. Incredibly diverse, seaweed could help to bring back balance in our ecosystems through a wide range of applications. It could allow us to better feed human beings and animals, replace plastic and fertilizers, boost medical innovations, mitigate global warming, repair biodiversity and support economies in coastal communities where fish stocks are declining.Although seaweed has supported our development for millions of years, we have lost our connection with it and focused our efforts purely on land cultivation. Today a fast-growing global population, combined with climate, social and environmental crises, gives us compelling reasons to reconsider this forgotten treasure.‘This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about our planet's future’ Mark Lynas, journalist and author of Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency‘An essential read for anyone who is curious about the extraordinary powers of seaweed to change the world, ’ Alexandra Cousteau, Head of Oceans 2050, and Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter‘Seaweeds and algae have an essential role to play in the solutions available to us and Vincent Doumeizel’s The Seaweed Revolution shows us how’ Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean and former President of the UN General Assembly‘Seaweed holds the key to help solve many of the crises the world is facing’ Carlos M. Duarte, Executive Director of the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform‘A powerful read which will enlighten, enthuse and inspire in equal measure’ Ocean Challenge Magazine'The potential of seaweed, or marine algae, to transform our world is huge… excellent book' New ScientistVincent Doumeizel is Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact as well as director of the Food Programme at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
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Affiche du document Citizen Capitalism

Citizen Capitalism

Lynn A. Stout

1h13min30

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98 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h13min.
Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practical proposal to provide a guaranteed minimum income—it not only avoids creating a new government program or increasing taxes, but also gives the entire citizenry more influence in the economy.Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen—this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public. This would happen through the creation of what the authors call the Universal Fund, a kind of national, democratic, mega mutual fund. Every American over eighteen would be entitled to a share and would participate in directing its share voting choices. Corporations and wealthy individuals would donate stocks, bonds, cash, or other assets to the fund just like they do to other philanthropic ventures now. The fund would pay out dividends to its citizen-shareholders that would grow as the fund grows. The Universal Fund is undoubtedly a big idea, but it is also eminently practical: it uses the tools of capitalism, not government, to give all citizens a direct influence on corporate actions. It would be a major institutional investor beholden not to a small elite group of stockholders pushing for short-term gain but to everyone. The fund would reward corporations that made sure their actions didn't harm people, communities, and the environment, and it would enable them to invest in innovations that would take more than a few months to pay off. Which is another reason corporations would donate to the fund—they could be freed from the constant pressure to maximize their quarterly share price and would essentially be subsidized for doing good. The authors demonstrate that our current economic rules force corporations to be shortsighted and even destructive because for most large investors, nothing matters but share price. The Universal Fund is designed to be a powerful positive balancing force, making the world a better place and the United States a better nation.
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Le Suicide de l'Amérique

François Heisbourg

1h09min45

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93 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h10min.
Qu’arrive-t-il donc à l’Amérique, depuis toujours notre amie, notre alliée ? Quelle est la nature du chamboule-tout provoqué par l’élection de Donald Trump, et quelles en sont les conséquences ? La réélection d’un Donald Trump plus radical, plus systématique, a déclenché un processus révolutionnaire produisant sans délai des faits accomplis dans l’ordre économique et stratégique. Pour François Heisbourg, la tempête trumpienne n’est pas seulement un mauvais moment à passer ; il s’agit bien d’une sorte de suicide national, même si les adversaires de l’Amérique, la Chine et la Russie, s’empressent d’en faire un suicide assisté. La principale victime de ce suicide accéléré sera l’Amérique elle-même : à nous Européens d’agir pour éviter de figurer parmi les dégâts collatéraux. Très informé, souvent visionnaire, un livre nécessaire pour comprendre ce qui nous arrive et va nous arriver. François Heisbourg est conseiller spécial à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique et a présidé l’International Institute for Strategic Studies de Londres et le Centre de politique de sécurité de Genève. Son expertise est très respectée en France mais aussi en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages, dont Le Temps des prédateurs, Les leçons d’une guerre, Un monde sans l’Amérique, aux éditions Odile Jacob, qui ont tous été de grands succès. 
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Affiche du document Merci : Chronique de la chenille au papillon

Merci : Chronique de la chenille au papillon

Shireen Pharaony

27min00

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36 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 27min.
Merci est le récit d’une traversée intérieure. Un chemin de transformation, de dépouillement, de retour à l’essentiel. Écrit dans une langue sensible et vibratoire, ce livre témoigne d’une métamorphose vécue : celle d’un être qui, au fil des épreuves, des chutes et des élans, découvre que la guérison ne réside pas dans le combat… mais dans l’accueil. Clairsentiente et empathe, je retrace mon parcours singulier : des troubles alimentaires à la reconnexion énergétique, d’un monde de performance à un monde de présence. Chaque chapitre est un fragment d’âme, une respiration, un espace de résonance pour celles et ceux qui sont eux aussi en quête de sens, de liberté intérieure, de foi, de vérité. Ce n’est pas un livre à comprendre. C’est un livre à ressentir. Un livre sans méthode, mais rempli de passages. Il invite à écouter le corps, à reconnaître les résistances, à s’ouvrir à la vie qui circule. Et surtout, à se souvenir : que nous sommes déjà tout ce que nous cherchons. En filigrane, « Merci » explore les grands thèmes de l’existence : la souffrance comme messagère, l’Amour comme vibration, l’illusion du contrôle, la foi vivante, l’abandon à ce qui est. La chenille n’est pas vaincue par la vie : elle est initiée. Et le papillon ne cherche pas à briller – il se déploie, naturellement, quand le temps est venu. Ce livre est une offrande. Un murmure à l’âme. Une main tendue pour tous ceux qui osent tomber… et se souvenir.
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Affiche du document Rebalancing Society

Rebalancing Society

Henry Mintzberg

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90 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h07min.
Internationally renowned bestselling author Henry Mintzberg offers an original and compelling analysis of the roots of our current political and economic crisis and lays out a roadmap for restoring balance and renewing capitalism and democracy.Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. In this book Henry Mintzberg offers a new understanding of the root of our current crisis and a strategy for restoring the balance so vital to the survival of our progeny and our planet.With the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe, Western pundits declared that capitalism had triumphed. They were wrong—balance triumphed. A healthy society balances a public sector of respected governments, a private sector of responsible businesses, and a plural sector of robust communities. Communism collapsed under the weight of its overbearing public sector. Now the “liberal democracies” are threatened—socially, politically, even economically—by the unchecked excesses of the private sector.Radical renewal will have to begin in the plural sector, which alone has the inclination and the independence to challenge unacceptable practices and develop better ones. Too many governments have been co-opted by the private sector. And corporate social responsibility can't compensate for the corporate social irresponsibility we see around us “They” won't do it. We shall have to do it, each of us and all of us, not as passive “human resources,” but as resourceful human beings.Tom Paine wrote in 1776, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” He was right then. Can we be right again now? Can we afford not to be? ContentsOverview: The Basic Point1. The Triumph of Imbalance2. From Exploiting Resources to Exploring Our Resourcefulness3. Three Pillars to Support a Balanced Society4. Radical Renewal5. You, Me, and We in This Troubled World
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Affiche du document The Rise of the American Corporate Security State

The Rise of the American Corporate Security State

Beatrice Edwards

1h06min00

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88 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h06min.
In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more. It has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the potential of indefinite detention now codified into law. Our democracy and freedoms are impaired daily by government control of information, systemic financial corruption, unfettered corporate influence in our elections, and by corporate-controlled international institutions. The Constitution of The United States that has shielded us for more than 200 years from the tentacles of oppressive government and the stranglehold of private wealth becomes more meaningless with each new act of corporate-ocracy. Behind a thinning veneer of democracy, the Corporate Security State is tipping the balance between the self-interest of a governing corporate elite and the rights of the people to freedom, safety and fairness. The consequences of these trends and conditions are devastating. We are submerged in endless war, and the wealth produced by and in the United States skews upward in greater concentrations every year. The middle class is under financial attack, as Washington prepares to loot Social Security and Medicare to finance the insatiable war-making and profit-taking.   Repression descends on a people slowly at first, but then crushes quickly, silencing dissent. According to the author of Rise of The American Corporate Security State, Beatrice Edwards, our task now is to recognize the real reasons to be afraid in 21st century America, and address them.  Our early steps in the right direction may be small ones, but they are important. They are based on the principle that we, as Americans, have a right to know what our government is doing and to speak openly about it. Creeping censorship, secret courts, clandestine corporate control are all anathema to democratic practices and must be corrected now, before this last chance to redeem our rights is lost.
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Capitalism 3.0

Peter Barnes

1h36min45

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129 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h37min.
The commons — those creations of nature and society we inherit together and must preserve for our children — is under siege. Our current version of capitalism — the corporate, globalized version 2.0 — is rapidly squandering this heritage. Now, Peter Barnes offers a solution: protect the commons by giving it property rights and strong institutional managers. Barnes shows how capitalism — like a computer — is run by an operating system. Our current operating system gives too much power to profit-maximizing corporations that devour the commons and distribute most of their profits to a sliver of the population. And government — which in theory should defend the commons — is all too often a tool of those very corporations. Barnes proposes a revised operating system — Capitalism 3.0 — that protects the commons while preserving the many strengths of capitalism as we know it. His major innovation is the commons trust, a market based legal entity with the power to limit the use of scare commons, charge rent, and pay dividends — in both cash and services — to everyone. In Barnes' vision, an array of commons trusts would institutionalize our obligations to future generations, fellow citizens, and nature. Once established, they'd use markets and property rights to create a better world for us all. Capitalism 3.0 offers a practical alternative to our current flawed economic system. It points the way to a future in which we can retain capitalism's virtues while mitigating its vices.
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This Changes Everything

Sarah van Gelder

48min00

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64 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 48min.
We Are the 99% The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations— something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond this critique. This Changes Everything shows how the movement is shifting the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe is possible, and their own involvement in creating a society that works for the 99% rather than just the 1%. Attempts to pigeonhole this decentralized, fast-evolving movement have led to confusion and misperception. In this volume, the editors of YES! Magazine bring together voices from inside and outside the protests to convey the issues, possibilities, and personalities associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement. This book features contributions from Naomi Klein, David Korten, Rebecca Solnit, Ralph Nader, and others, as well as Occupy activists who were there from the beginning. It offers insights for those actively protesting or expressing support for the movement—and for the millions more who sympathize with the goal of a more equitable and democratic future. Since their founding in 1996, YES! Magazine and YesMagazine.org have been showing how powerful ideas fused with practical actions can drive profound change toward a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world. Project Censored calls YES! “the standard for solutions journalism.” Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman calls YES! a “vital voice of independent journalism.” The Utne Independent Press Awards have repeatedly recognized YES! Magazine.
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