Decentralization

PHOTOS: Mesmerizing Biological Delights

Carla Leitao | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Gelatin, Biology, Spheres, Locality, Physics, Architecture, Design, Science, Polymer, Material Science, Biosphere, Decentralization, Space, Hybrid, Biological Habitat, Water, Poland, Biological Materials, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Rpi, Autonomy, Biological Architecture, Genetic Engineering, Slidepollajax, Art Meets Science, Arts News
Carla Leitao

The expanding definition of "life" or "alive" is not only a consequence of joyful abuse of language and metaphors, but also the outcome of an increasingly able gaze upon the things that make -- and with which we make -- the world we supposedly know.

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How Tomorrow's Infrastructure Will Be Built

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Infrastructure, Gas, Decentralization, Electricity, Private Sector, Roads, Oil, Airports, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Standards, Development, Taxpayers, Results, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Ideology is being replaced by standards. Never-ending arguments about privatization, who should own the electricity company, have given way to public discussions about performance, who can avoid more black-outs.

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Occupy Research: Methods and Tools for a Decentralized Future

Amelia Marzec | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: College Activism, Occupy Wall Street Technology, Mit, Research, Technology News, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, Media News, Higher Education, College News, Education News, Harvard, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Boston, Occupy Together, Decentralization, New York News, Technology News
Amelia Marzec

To decrease reliance on corporate media, protestors are moving towards building their own open source tools. Hackathons have been organized in New York, Boston, DC and San Francisco. The projects are available on Github so different camps can download and run them locally.

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We Need Decentralized and Renewable Energy

Steven Cohen | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Decentralization, Fossil Fuels, Green News
Steven Cohen

As the rest of the economy moves away from capital-intensive, highly-centralized production facilities, we need to do the same with energy. As we take that step, let's also replace our dependence on fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy.

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Creating a Cycle of Haitians Helping Haitians

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Decentralization, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti, Marc Kielburger, Sustainable Development, Development, Craig Kielburger, Foreign Aid, Port-Au-Prince, Free the Children, World News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

We found a group of Haitians rebuilding their country in a sustainable, scalable model through decentralization. Unfortunately, foreign aid tends to overlook this in favour of short-term, surface relief.

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Vermont Revolutionaries and the Rise of a Green Tea Party

Christopher Ketcham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vermont, Vermont Commons, Second Vermont Republic, Anti-Empire, Decentralization, Antiwar, Secession, Dennis Steele, Chelsea Green, Politics News
Christopher Ketcham

The most radical antiwar candidate in the US is not Dennis Kucinich or Rand or Ron Paul or any of the usual suspects. It's a 42-year-old Vermonter named Dennis Steele, who is running for governor of his state as an open secessionist.

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In Command But Not in Control By Design: J&J's Management Model

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cisco, Leadership, Decentralization, Doing Both, Inder Sidhu, Command-and-Control, Management, Weldon, Johnson & Johnson, Business News
Inder Sidhu

How would you manage 250 operating companies spread over three industries that do business in more than 60 countries? That's a question Johnson & Joh...

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How to Give Up Power and Get More Done

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Management Models, Cisco, Leadership, Decentralization, Decision-Making, Inder Sidhu, Doing Both, Command-and-Control, Business News
Inder Sidhu

Cross-posted from Washington Post: On Leadership Would you give up some of your authority and responsibility if it resulted in accomplishing more? F...

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Bouncing Back From the Disaster in the Gulf

Byron Kennard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Distributed Generation, Resiliency, The Gulf Oil Spill, Homeland Security, Ecosystems, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Entrepreneurship, Energy Policy, Micropower, Decentralization, Energy Security, Technology News
Byron Kennard

The Gulf oil spill is yet another grim reminder that our society's reliance on highly complex and centralized energy systems renders us highly vulnerable. In fact, there seems to be a correlation: the more complex and centralized a system, the more vulnerable it becomes.

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Disaster in the Gulf: Making Sure it Never Happens Again

Byron Kennard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Environment, Energy, Decentralization, Complexity, Technology, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Byron Kennard

I imagine that we will probably find and fix whatever technical malfunction caused the Deepwater Horizon explosion. But this is no way to make sure it never happens again.

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Tea Partying's First Anniversary

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polls, Nader, Third Party, 1960s, Baby Boom, March, Tea Partier, Sarah Palin, Crist, Republican, Me Generation, Tax Day, Charlie Crist, Decentralization, Vietnam War, Protest, Rally, Rubio, Boomer, Tea Party, Left, Republican Party, Ralph Nader, Reid, Taxes, Lefty, Tea Parties, Florida, Marco Rubio, Libertarian, Primary, Anti-Vietnam War, Grassroots, War, Hippies, Tea Partying, Election, Protesters, Anti-War, Rallies, Silent Majority, Decentralized, Movement, Tax, Chris Weigant, Harry Reid, Candidate, Nixon, Tea Party Express, Baby Boomer, Loud Minority, Politics News
Chris Weigant

One way or another the Tea Party's future prospects are likely to hinge on whether their decentralized nature turns out to be their strongest point, or their weakest.

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Rebuilding Haiti, with A Rwandan Twist

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Rwanda, Grassroots-International, Decentralization, Human Rights, Haiti Earthquake, Emergency Relief, Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development, Haiti, Rethinking Aid, Sovereignty, Development, World News, World News
Salena Tramel

Haiti's development plan shouldn't be identical to that of Rwanda, but what the two countries do have in common are local solutions to unthinkable problems.

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Not Your Mother's Federalism

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Brookings, Decentralization, Cities, Bruce Katz, Matt Yglesias, Think Progress, Urban Policy Metropolitan Areas, Metropolitan Policy Program, Centralization, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Matt Yglesias at Think Progress has a good synopsis of a new Democracy article that both points out the importance of metropolitan regions to the nati...

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Does Obama Favor Biden's Plan To Break Up Iraq?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bosnia, Decentralization, Joseph Biden, Joe Biden, Iraq, Biden-Gelb Plan, Partition, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

So Biden, unlike Obama, is supposed to be a foreign policy guru. But his previous position on the most pressing issue of the day -- the war in Iraq -- is disturbing, if not downright muddleheaded.

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Biden And Brownback To Push Iraq Partition Plan At Joint Iowa Campaign Stop

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Decentralization, Joe Biden, Sam Brownback, Home News

Sens. Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) will hold a joint campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, this Friday to promote their decentralizatio...

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