#MacArthur Foundation

[thoughtportal]

Non Profit and the hoarding of wealth

[garadinervi]

Princeton Praised a Professor for Winning a MacArthur. What About Its Probe Into Her Pro-Palestine Support?, «Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a recipient of this year's prestigious "Genius" award, discusses her employer's crackdown on speech.», (interview), by Inae Oh, «Mother Jones», October 2024

«Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I got the call? What the award means to me? What I’m working on now?—bc I asked them to accurately recount my response to Q1 or to not quote me at all.» ― Dr. Ruha Benjamin (responses in full here)

Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin awarded MacArthur 'genius' grant, by Rebekah Schroeder, Office of Communications, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 1, 2024

(image: Ruha Benjamin. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License))

[fandomstuckportal]

((thats going to be a problem later.))

[indizombie]

In today’s linear system, massive volumes of freshwater, synthetic inputs like chemical fertilisers, fossil-derived energy, and soil are used to produce 7.1 billion tonnes of food globally. Yet, so much of this is wasted. A large proportion of our food is destined for consumption within cities, where 2.8 billion tonnes of food waste and human waste are created each year. In cities, less than 2% of organic waste and the nutrients it contains is captured, treated safely, and used productively again. This results in missed economic opportunities and negative impacts on human health, local ecosystems, and agricultural land.

‘Eliminating food waste’, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

[marklakshmanan]

Recently heard a story about this research on NPR. Fascinating

[ilbioeconomista]

UPM Raflatac accelerates its actions to deliver a circular packaging industry and a future beyond fossils

UPM Raflatac has made further progress towards a more circular economy for plastics and a future beyond fossils during 2023. The progress towards the 2025 commitments is detailed in the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2024 Progress Report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). UPM Raflatac joined the Global Commitment as the first label materials company…

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Welcome to the BIG Mac! Congratulations Ebony.

[digitalcreationsllc]

Use the data center circular economy for sustainability | TechTarget

As described by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one of the top international organizations promoting circular-economic thinking today, the circular economy is a system that keeps products and materials in circulation through processes like reuse, refurbishment and recycling. The goal behind this system is to sustainably support more natural processes and reduce waste production. Data centers are…

[reformedfaith]

Those who seek to control their own lives will inevitably be frustrated. A confident trust in God’s providence is foundational to contentment.

John MacArthur

[valkyries-things]

LESLIE MARMON SILKO // WRITER

“She is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981. the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020.”

[mybeingthere]

Elizabeth Turk (b. 1961, California, USA)

1994 M.F.A., Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

A native Californian, Elizabeth Turk is an artist, known for marble sculpture. She loves the words of Isamu Noguchi “It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness”.

[paradife-loft]

"Could superposters alter not just what showed up in people's feeds, but their very sense of right and wrong? I put the question to Betsy Levy Paluck, who had won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work exploring how social norms influence behavior.

(...) Schoolkids bully or don't, she found in a long investigation, based largely not on whether they expect punishment or think the target deserves it, but on whether it feels moral to them. Either bullying felt permissible, even righteous, or it felt wrong, and that internal barometer was what mattered most. But how does our moral barometer become set? We like to think of ourselves as following an innate moral code, derived from lofty principles, lived experience, the advice of a trusted elder. In truth, studies find over and over, our sense of right or wrong is heavily, if unconsciously, influenced by what we believe our peers think: morality by tribal consensus, guided not by some better angel or higher power but by self-preserving deference to the tyranny of cousins.

In an experiment in rural Mexico, researchers produced an audio soap opera whose story discouraged domestic violence against women. In some areas, people had the soap played for them privately in their homes. In others, it was broadcast on village loudspeakers or at community meetings. Men who listened at home were just as prone to domestic violence as they had been before. But men who listened in group settings became significantly less likely to commit abuse. And not out of perceived pressure. Their internal beliefs had shifted, growing morally opposed to domestic violence and supportive of gender equality. The difference was in seeing their peers absorb the soap opera. The conformity impulse - the same one that had led Facebook's first users to trick themselves into fuming over the news feed - can soak all the way to the moral marrow of your innermost self."

- The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher

This book so far has been talking most centrally about Facebook, and to a lesser extent algorithm-sorted social media in general (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) - and from my experience of this site in particular if not those others, I think there are some meaningful differences in how Tumblr functions compared to those bigger sites, that make its effects on group behavior distinct if still broadly related and relevant.

But damn if this portion didn't come for my entire understanding of how fandom and related subcultures around here develop self-reinforcing behavioral norms, and how those social norms have changed in tone over the past couple decades.

[indizombie]

The valuable organic materials in food by-products and human waste today can be safely returned to agricultural land as compost and digestate from anaerobic digestion. These inputs help rebuild soil organic matter, improve soil health, increase water infiltration and retention, prevent erosion, and allow the soil to sequester more carbon. Innovators transforming organic matter into agricultural inputs include Lystek, who use human waste to produce fertilisers and the Nutrient Upcycling Alliance, who use urban organic waste streams to produce fertilisers. Other innovators use organic matter to make animal feed, such as Agriprotein, who use black soldier fly to transform food waste into fish feed for aquaculture.

‘Eliminating food waste’, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

[ptseti]

The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today, it has been born on the backs of black resistance...Black people have seen the worst of America, yet, somehow, we still believe in its best.” —Nikole Hannah-Jones . . Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016, Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.

[wisdomfish]

"There's no deep plowing, no spadework, no foundation, no brokenness of heart in the foolish man."

~ John MacArthur