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Criminal Injustice: Is abnormal non-sustainable?

BySustainMe

We at SustainZine look for things that are abnormal, things that are so inefficient and clearly irresponsible that they should be categorized as non-sustainable. We think the Criminal Justice system in the USA qualifies and non-sustainable. Question, what is a “normal” rate of incarceration for you citizens? And if you are a way out-of-control outlier to the other developed countries, does this represent non-sustainability. That is, if you don’t put anyone in jail, are you…

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Time to DrawDown and Look at All the Sky, not just Half

BySustainMe

In the US, we often characterize women hitting the Glass Ceiling where men are in the highest positions of companies – executives and board rooms. Interestingly, men don’t see much of a glass ceiling, maybe because they are usually upstairs and not looking down. Old white men may be complicit and complacent in women knocking at the other side of the glass, but world-wide the imperative to give women respect and opportunity is critical, with…

Toll of the Patent Troll

ByBizMan

The Wall Street Journal has a great article about Patent Trolls and the Toll the cost on an innocent economy. Here’s the excellent WSJ Article: America’s Biggest Filer of Patent Suits Wants You to Know It Invented Shipping Notification, By RUTH SIMON and  LORETTA CHAO, Updated Oct. 27, 2016 1:11 p.m. ET. Small(er) companies are targeted by a non-practicing entity (NPE), sometimes ungraciously referred to as a Patent Troll. IPZine previously discussed Patent Trolls in…

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Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here | TED Talk | TED.com

ByBizMan

Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here | TED Talk | TED.com: Yes. It is here. The next generation of manufacturing.This is an absolutely spot on TED talk related to the world of manufacturing. Everyone in the USA wines and complains about the flight of manufacturing from the USA. We don’t make anything any more. That’s not really true. We still make a lot of stuff, but the percentage of the workforce that makes…

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Busted, or not busted, our patent system

ByBizMan

One of the most revered, trusted and enduring of America’s industrial and technological advantages is our patent system.  Except that, it isn’t anymore.  Patents are included in the US Constitution, proof positive that the Foundering Fathers considered them critically important to the future of the country.  That was then, this is now and you’ll understand when you go to www.wired.com/2015/01/fixing-broken-patent-system.  It was written by Jay Walker,the founder of Priceline in the late 1990s. Here is an insightful…

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Miami No. 2 in startup activity, Kauffman report says | Miami Herald Miami Herald

ByBizMan

Miami No. 2 in startup activity, Kauffman report says | Miami Herald Miami Herald: This is a very interesting, but telling report. Miami is way up there in startups, about 250 per 100,000 people. Cleveland, not so much so, with less that 100 per. It is a little surprising that Orlando fell 12 ranks down to 33rd. Makes you wonder if it is Orlando losing ground or other metros gaining very rapidly. I would guess…