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.

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.

mark solms sentience, preserving culture sites, historic flooding in Europe and China, blockchain solutions for climate refugees.

carbon capture, climate rally in DC, heat dome, RChain's role in climate mitigation, Jamie Wheal - Recapturing the Rapture

rewilding, proforestation, decentralized governance

Today we spoke about the G7 summit, new oil and gas production around the world, and a new letter from financial asset managers owning $41 trillion asking for governments to act more boldly on climate and to disclose long term financial risk due to climate. Darryl also discussed the west coast drought and Greg presented his ideas for a blockchain-based music collaboration game.

A couple of years ago in Poland, Greg gave a talk called Towards a Living World. Here's his update.

Joseph Purdam is an award winning XR producer / director using our ever evolving mediums of storytelling to share the narrative of our planet and its inhabitants. Joseph's aim is to expand our understanding and empathy through immersive content and experiences, enabling a deeper connection to our planet, its wildlife and out people. The overarching goal, to show us all as we are, one.

bishijie AMA Conversation with Greg Meredith: Infinite Concurrency, Combined World, RChain Reinvents Blockchain

Steve Keen - climate studies largely ignored for 5 decades, the new “Earth System Observatory” project at NASA, UFO's, global temperature rise and tough week for big oil

Iceberg 75 times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctica, the Maldives risk of disappearing, global temperature rise decimates food production, Amazon Web Services and an increasingly centralized internet

Today we spoke with visual artist and astronaut in training Richelle Gribble ( https://www.richellegribble.com/ ), and we also discussed recent environmental debates involving NFT’s, blockchain and Elon Musk. Ian also spoke about the Apple / Epic lawsuit and how it could affect utility tokens.

rich nations = 2.4 degrees, hydrofluorocarbons, roc sandford, zuckerberg's vr/ar play

home mortgages and climate change, over half of US sees climate change as a critical threat, green plans for Paris, RChain’s work on identity, Facebook and Apple’s war will be waged in VR and AR

earth day, life fleeing the equator, only 3% of Earth’s nature remains fully intact, coal miners union backs shift from coal, music climate activism, women blockchain leaders, Google / Youtube meets "social tokens" and the "creator economy"

Today we discussed the Earth passing 420 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere, a level not seen in 3.6 million years. We also discussed the lack of formal borders in a global climate crisis, where each country’s emissions have consequences for others. We also discussed Washington State’s desire to save old growth forests through “proforestation” and placing value on living trees and not just dead ones. We also talked about music as a catalyst for technology and Prince Phillip's environmental legacy.

US expansion of offshore wind tech, coffee pulp accelerates forest growth, RChain and the future of NFT's

australian flooding, preserving arable land, transparency is facebook's biggest threat, jack dorsey: bluesky, square and tidal

taxpayer costs of climate change, the advantages of decentralized energy solutions, 3 million abandoned oil wells, and the general vulnerability of our grid, RChain's type checking

freshwater fish extinction, 385 million yr old tree roots, Bill Gates bitcoin energy concerns, can bitcoin migrate away from POW?, RChain's CBC Casper

Major ice loss, batteries for base load power and decentralized grids, concurrent vs parallel execution and why search is important for a layer one blockchain platform

Climate crisis adaptation, earth's slowing ocean currents, collective intelligence, surveillance capitalism vs democracy

NASA and Climate, Facebook's climate labelling, US officially rejoins Paris Climate Accord today, why Elon Musk doesn't seem to understand blockchain's potential.

Climate change and pandemics, Shell announces that it has hit peak oil, RChain scales as you add hardware, RChain and multi-chains.

UN Climate poll, Tim Cook keynote on Privacy, Shoshana Zuboff and An Epistemic Coup, Tim Sweeny's call for an Open Metaverse

30 by 30 / The 4th Industrial Revolution / The End of a Global Internet?

Keystone XL, Paris Climate Accords, Elon Musk’s $100M prize, BlackRock and Bitcoin. RChain and the scalability trilemma. The coop has now joined the Climate Chain Coalition!

Today RChain member John Grant https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlgrant/ joined us, and we discussed financial risk in the agriculture market due to climate change as well as a new irrigation data app called “OpenET.” We also discussed governance and modern social media. "Why Hacktivism Will Lead to Digital Sovereignty"

Dolphin Disease, Climate Disaster cost, RChain's Concurrency

Today we discussed a piece of public art called The Climate Clock, the United States’ climate debt, The Green New Deal, the principal of Gaia and Cyborgs.

The ways in which the climate crisis impacts human health, New Zealand’s declaration of a climate emergency, an "Eco-passport" and Steve Wozniak's Efforce and the birth of the decarbonization economic boom.

Fires and power shutoffs in California, soil as a carbon sequestration solution, and Ward also spoke about his work in with Transkarbon and Credyts.

The tsunami risk in Alaska, the need for a National Institute of Health on Climate, John Kerry as Climate Czar, a new global map of bees, Jaron Lanier, the Social Dilemma and hacking Surveillance Capitalism.

Today we discussed the largest storm in the history of Nicaragua, the National Flood Insurance Program’s debt, RChain's Casper as permissioned or permissionless, Facebook's systemic problem, and data and communication of Covid-19.

In this RCast we talked about the record breaking hurricane season, and the decline of swamp ash for luthiers. We then discussed aspects of Directed Acyclic Graphs and how they apply to RChain's technology as well as RChain's CBC Casper tech.

Today we discussed the cost of not acting on climate in Australia as well as the report on Arctic sea ice failing to re-freeze by October. We also discussed the NEED for a social network that fosters collective intelligence.

Re-wilding, RChain and the evolution of the Web

Today we discussed the new Colorado fires, the “30 by 30” conservation effort in the US, and new polling that shows Pennsylvanians opposed to fracking. We also discussed voting in the AGM and recent technological achievements of RChain.

RCAST 109 Jesse Uzzell - Climate Futures

RCAST 108 Pakistan climate refugees, Twitter Blue Sky, DOJ Crypto Enforcement Framework

RCAST 107 - Natural Capital, Earth's digital twin

US climate migrations, on our way to block merge

OSLF - Topology and Geometry - Could wrapping our minds around “What is Logic?” be connected with wrapping our minds around “What is Geometry?”