RCast

Tom Moulton and Jim Whitescarver joined us today. We discussed air pollution in the UK and beyond, and Venture Capitalist John Doerr’s billion dollar gift to Stanford to establish a new climate and sustainability school. We also discussed Jim’s history, collective intelligence, EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System), origins of chat and more.

RCAST 186 [Climate & Coordination] Apr 29 2022 - Guest: Musician, Microsoft designer - Steve Ball

Today's guest was former W3C chair / current CEO of RChain Publishing -Steven Ross Talbot.

Today we discussed a warning from 230 medical journals that names climate as the greatest threat to human health as well as Gen z’s mobilization in the workforce toward careers in climate solutions. We also discussed fossil fuel subsidies and an election in Canada

Sven from Team Human on 1000 Nations and Democracy games, Hurricane Ida, flooding, tree extinction

1 billion children at risk of climate shocks, a town moved to higher ground, media's role in climate denial, exciting CBC Casper update

Douglas Rushkoff joined as surprise guest. We discussed flooding in Japan, the cultural origins that led to blockchain, NFT's, Greg shared a poem, and Steve Ross Talbot shared a sketch for a health app for displaced people.

IPCC#6, the best tweets from climate twitter, fires in California and Greece, the importance of climate for the coop.

Preserving important historical sites in Britain, water stress around the United States, the degrowth movement., horizontal governance.

Today we discussed severe flooding in London, the rehabilitation of a river in Boston, and a climate warning from before the civil war from a female science legend. Steve Ross-Talbot also shared his blockchain energy consumption research relating to RChain, and we had a discussion about the value of NFT's vs the art itself.