Episode discussion topics
An end is near for the old brittle centralized systems of yesterday's global post World War II economy. What is old must be made anew, local, small, and sustainable. Let's bring home the bacon! (Well, actually bacon might be canceled.)
Food is fundamental for human sake, health, and long life. Will someone's god please save our potatoes? My goodness, what has happened to all the diversity in our crops? Healthcare will cost less once everyone has access to nutrient-rich foods. So then, healthcare for all becomes more...
Episode discussion topics
- An end is near for the old brittle centralized systems of yesterday's global post World War II economy. What is old must be made anew, local, small, and sustainable. Let's bring home the bacon! (Well, actually bacon might be canceled.)
- Food is fundamental for human sake, health, and long life. Will someone's god please save our potatoes? My goodness, what has happened to all the diversity in our crops? Healthcare will cost less once everyone has access to nutrient-rich foods. So then, healthcare for all becomes more affordable and less necessary, not kept on life-support for profit's sake
- Solutions are both strategic and also tactical and available today. Let us choose to make business ownership a reality for all of those who want it and let independent workers provide their services locally to those companies. Many CEOs are many times better than a few for distributing risk and providing competition in a really fair marketplace
- A floor of supplemental income to eliminate poverty and help small businesses succeed and a baseline of economic activity sustained by purchases for people's basic needs. If we make it local, it becomes sustainable, and we become a community again.
- We even provide a high-level explanation of lobbying and why it's so lucrative for the players of the game.
Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.
More info
- MVP was incorrect! It was Eisenhower, not Truman, who was the President who signed into law the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956. And the system has been in decline ever since.
- After "Culled mink rise from the dead to Denmark's horror," comes the "Great potato massacre of 2020." As a back-to-natural alternative, many human communities are trying to keep food diversity alive at the local level. Here's an example of a seed library maintained by the public library in Tucson Arizona.
- Nerd alert! Here's the latest on graphene in regard to a really cool material that exhibits some very unique electrical properties. Oh, you crazy universe: Graphene’s New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets | Quanta Magazine.
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