Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California’s Sonic.net WHY NOWHERE ELSE? Hint: Oligopoly

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation

They offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America. For only $69.95/month (100MBps for $39.95, both include phone service. … Wondering “why can’t somebody else do this?” You’re asking the right question. But you may not like the answer.
Via arstechnica.com

Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal – Technology Review

Via Scoop.itCreating the Future

A study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half.
Via www.technologyreview.com

Rootstrikers: Organization to Clean Up Politics

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation
HOW DO WE CLEAN UP POLITICS?
1. Provide that public elections are publicly funded;
2. Limit, and make transparent, independent political expenditures, and;
3. Reaffirm that when the Declaration of Independence spoke of entities “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” it was speaking of natural persons only.
Via rootstrikers.org

What Austerity Hath Wrought (More Austerity and Complete Control by Oligarchs)

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What’s the main impediment right now to jobs, jobs, jobs?
Via www.theatlantic.com