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Writing memos won’t help the bees: cultural change might
In 2014 President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum setting up a task force to create a strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators. The strategy was launched a year later in May 2015. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Pollinator%20Health%20Strategy%202015.pdf As part … Continue reading
Boosting GDP through better protection of animals
It is estimated that some 50,000 hedgehogs are killed on British roads every year. The population has fallen by a third in the last ten years or so. http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/how-many-are-left-.html I have devised a simple legal mechanism to protect the hedgehog … Continue reading
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Applying the evil genius of Finkelstein for the common good
In October Hungary will hold a referendum on the EU’s plan to force member states to receive immigrants / migrants / refugees. To ensure victory in the referendum, the Hungarian government has already started a large scale bill-board campaign: Budapest … Continue reading
Naming trees
At Danube Kids, a start-up charity aimed at helping children who live on the Danube Delta and along the Danube to develop a connection with nature, we have learned that children have a simplistic and utilitarian view of the natural … Continue reading
To make capitalism work: change the utility function (an extract from Waterford)
I thought I would publish some extracts from Waterford. Not the grizzly gory bits but the serious stuff. Here is a description of how the people’s utility function changed so that they could still run on capitalism but without it … Continue reading