From The Intelligent Optimist Summer 2016 Liberland may be the ultimate startup. On April 13 of last year, 31-year-old Czech politician Vit Jedlicka declared a three-square-mile plot on the marshy west bank of the Danube as a new sovereign state and installed himself as … [Read more...] about Possibility: A new nation—on three square miles?
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Possibility: The justice of the crowd
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 In recent years, crowdfunding has become a popular tool to fund projects and interests shared by groups of people. It is particularly common in arts and culture, leaving it up to the audience to determine what gets done and what they want to … [Read more...] about Possibility: The justice of the crowd
Liberland now open for business as the latest state experiment
As separatist tendencies are brewing in the troubled European Union, a libertarian Euro-skeptic Czeck politician, his girlfriend and a third like-minded friend have planted a flag in Liberland, an empty 2.7- square-mile Serbo-Croatian no man’s land by the side of the Danube. The … [Read more...] about Liberland now open for business as the latest state experiment
How sustainability-minded accounting can shift government decisions
Sustainability typically doesn’t show up as a neat row of dollar numbers to be added to a cost-benefit spreadsheet. As a result, decision-makers routinely ignore it. That may be about to change if the NPV+ method already applied by Martin O'Malley, a potential Democratic … [Read more...] about How sustainability-minded accounting can shift government decisions
Beyond sustainability
It takes more than growth and development for a city, an economy or an ecosystem to flourish—it takes resilience. Baal,Van,Mark | September 2010 issue Biloxi is gone. That’s what Toshiro Kida, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Yale University, thought when he arrived in the … [Read more...] about Beyond sustainability