2016 – Page 6

Inequality, epidemiology and economics

In chapter 13 of his book Credo, Brian Davey points out that public health is an alternative indicator of well-being and is strongly correlated to levels of equality or inequality. Greater equality means greater well-being for everyone and a smaller need for the state – yet inequality has been increasing dramatically.

Basic Income Ireland Summer Forum, June 11 2016

The third annual summer forum will take place in The Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier St, Dublin, from 10am to 4pm on on Saturday June 11th 2016.

The forum is a good chance to meet basic income advocates, learn more about basic income, and to contribute your own ideas. In the morning, the theme is “Basic Income for Men and Women”.

You can read more and reserve a place at
http://www.basicincomeireland.com/news–events/basic-income-ireland-summer-forum…

Closed loop agriculture for environmental enhancement: returning biomass nutrients from humanure and urine to agriculture

This report by Féidhlim Harty argues that closed-loop agriculture would not only stop the waste of nutrients to watercourses as pollution, it would also stop the high energy inputs needed for artificial nitrogen production, would enhance biodiversity, and could go a significant way towards reducing overall agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Towards climate safety and justice: briefing and discussion about CapGlobalCarbon

June 8th, 2016, 2-4.30pm, Carmelite Community Center, Dublin. The purpose of this afternoon is to brief attendees on CapGlobalCarbon, set it in a context of the commons and social justice, and to generate ideas about how to implement it.

The strange idea of negative interest

This article by Graham Barnes addresses the role of demurrage (negative interest) in the design of new currencies. But it takes a roundabout route with diversions around the zero and negative interest rates being currently applied to fiat money; and a detour via positive interest which is itself a stranger idea than we have been led to believe. It suggests that demurrage is worth a place in the designer's kitbag, but not for the reason normally postulated.

What Feasta is doing

If you'd like to get an overview of Feasta's activities over the past couple of years, please take a look at our latest Annual Report. Whether you are interested in a particular Group, Feasta events or publications or just want to scan out of curiosity, we are sure you will find it interesting.

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