Ian Goldman
@iangoldmansa.bsky.social
Passionate about the polycrisis and how we transform to survive. What role can planning, monitoring and evaluation play in that transformation.
#Adaptation to #climate related #disasters now a huge expenditure in the US. Also fuelling rise in GDP which just shows how ridiculous the GDP measure is. Destroy the planet and GDP rises because you have to spend so much to adapt. Before the collapse of course. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
How Disasters Fuel the US Economy
Preparing for and recovering from climate-related disasters has become a significant and growing portion of the US economy. This episode of The Brief examines what that means for future catastrophes a...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
#Adaptation to #climate related #disasters now a huge expenditure in the US. Also fuelling rise in GDP which just shows how ridiculous the GDP measure is. Destroy the planet and GDP rises because you have to spend so much to adapt. Before the collapse of course. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Madman. The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for #FossilFuels.
Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits.
. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... via @NYTimes
Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits.
. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... via @NYTimes
The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels.
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Madman. The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for #FossilFuels.
Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits.
. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... via @NYTimes
Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits.
. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... via @NYTimes
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How can monitoring, #evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) help us tackle today's #polycrisis more effectively?
Join us this Monday for an online lecture with @iangoldmansa.bsky.social, President of the International Evaluation Academy.
🗓️Oct. 20, 4-5 PM (UTC+8)
👉Meeting link: bit.ly/4nUlrBz
Join us this Monday for an online lecture with @iangoldmansa.bsky.social, President of the International Evaluation Academy.
🗓️Oct. 20, 4-5 PM (UTC+8)
👉Meeting link: bit.ly/4nUlrBz
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
How can monitoring, #evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) help us tackle today's #polycrisis more effectively?
Join us this Monday for an online lecture with @iangoldmansa.bsky.social, President of the International Evaluation Academy.
🗓️Oct. 20, 4-5 PM (UTC+8)
👉Meeting link: bit.ly/4nUlrBz
Join us this Monday for an online lecture with @iangoldmansa.bsky.social, President of the International Evaluation Academy.
🗓️Oct. 20, 4-5 PM (UTC+8)
👉Meeting link: bit.ly/4nUlrBz
The well-off continue to splash out on luxury travel: posh hotels, first-class air fares and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Global spending on luxury hospitality will exceed $390bn in 2028, up from $239bn in 2023.
#climatecrisis #emissions #inequality .
economist.com/business/202...
#climatecrisis #emissions #inequality .
economist.com/business/202...
Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in
Can hospitality firms avoid the mistakes fashion firms made?
economist.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The well-off continue to splash out on luxury travel: posh hotels, first-class air fares and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Global spending on luxury hospitality will exceed $390bn in 2028, up from $239bn in 2023.
#climatecrisis #emissions #inequality .
economist.com/business/202...
#climatecrisis #emissions #inequality .
economist.com/business/202...
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Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.
Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.
"Drain the swamp."
Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.
"Drain the swamp."
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.
Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.
"Drain the swamp."
Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.
"Drain the swamp."
‘The year … served as a brutal reminder to the Roman people that all their greatness, their prosperity, might be threatened by the very quality that had originally won them their empire…their aptitude for killing.’ The US today, with troops being ordered into cities? From Pax by Tom Holland p xxvii
October 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
‘The year … served as a brutal reminder to the Roman people that all their greatness, their prosperity, might be threatened by the very quality that had originally won them their empire…their aptitude for killing.’ The US today, with troops being ordered into cities? From Pax by Tom Holland p xxvii
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Can’t fix it all in 3…ah sorry, 4 years
New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
October 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Can’t fix it all in 3…ah sorry, 4 years
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As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
I ask you.
Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?
Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.
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Ireland remembers how 19th-century aid from Sultan Abdulmejid saved the fate of thousands in the Irish famine, with their own flotilla bypassing the British.
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ir...
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Ireland remembers how 19th-century aid from Sultan Abdulmejid changed fate of thousands
Ireland never forgot how Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I sent money, shipfuls of food to suffering Irish during Great Famine - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
October 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ireland remembers how 19th-century aid from Sultan Abdulmejid saved the fate of thousands in the Irish famine, with their own flotilla bypassing the British.
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ir...
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ir...
I am looking for a public manager in the global S to collaborate with who is thinking deeply about how public management needs to change to address the polycrisis. Please do put me in contact with anyone that is thinking deeply on this and that would be a good co-author.
April 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I am looking for a public manager in the global S to collaborate with who is thinking deeply about how public management needs to change to address the polycrisis. Please do put me in contact with anyone that is thinking deeply on this and that would be a good co-author.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in #ClimateChange and #JustTransition at Wits University in 5 faculties. 2-year fellowship, R300 000 per annum, plus medical aid and a contribution to research costs. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025. Please contact tashveer.bodhi@wits.ac.za.
April 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in #ClimateChange and #JustTransition at Wits University in 5 faculties. 2-year fellowship, R300 000 per annum, plus medical aid and a contribution to research costs. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025. Please contact tashveer.bodhi@wits.ac.za.
Our pet #dogs have a far greater effect on the #environment than we would like to be the case. Pets attack wildlife, disturb habitats, shed toxic flea treatments, eat vast amounts of meat.
Good boy or bad dog? Our 1 billion pet dogs do real environmental damage
We don’t want to admit it, but our beloved pet dogs do a lot of environmental damage, from killing or terrifying wildlife to emissions from pet food.
theconversation.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our pet #dogs have a far greater effect on the #environment than we would like to be the case. Pets attack wildlife, disturb habitats, shed toxic flea treatments, eat vast amounts of meat.
1984 in action
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1984 in action
#vaccines work. Newborn babies are among the biggest beneficiaries of vaccines. 50 years ago, nearly 10/100 babies died in their first year of life. Now fewer than 3/100 babies do. Since 1974, vaccination has averted 101 million deaths globally in infants under one.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#vaccines work. Newborn babies are among the biggest beneficiaries of vaccines. 50 years ago, nearly 10/100 babies died in their first year of life. Now fewer than 3/100 babies do. Since 1974, vaccination has averted 101 million deaths globally in infants under one.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Know anyone gof this award? www.linkedin.com/posts/clarem...
The Evaluators’ Institute is proud to announce the establishment of… | Claremont Graduate University
The Evaluators’ Institute is proud to announce the establishment of the TEI Social Betterment Award, which will recognize an individual or individuals who have…
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March 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Opening of international workshop on #monitoring the #justtransition, organised by ICAT, WRI and Presidential #Climate Commission, in Cape Town.
February 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Opening of international workshop on #monitoring the #justtransition, organised by ICAT, WRI and Presidential #Climate Commission, in Cape Town.
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
This feels like a 1936 moment - Trump preparing to take over Greenland, Panama and Gaza, allies browbeaten, no regard for international or domestic US law, US state being taken over with no regard for law while people are dazed.
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This feels like a 1936 moment - Trump preparing to take over Greenland, Panama and Gaza, allies browbeaten, no regard for international or domestic US law, US state being taken over with no regard for law while people are dazed.
And some thought Russia was the enemy.
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article)
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
And some thought Russia was the enemy.
The US federal government now becomes an unmasked tool for #oligarchs, #genocide (Israel), and negative emotions of hate, greed, jealousy etc. It is now incumbent to support all sorts of partnerships with US cities, states, NGOs to keep the flames of compassion, solidarity and truth.
Graphical representation of the relationship between nuclear threat to take care of a mouse and the incidence on international trust. Strange, counterproductive, self-defeating, futile, myopic, unsustainable, detrimental, perverse, egocentric strategy. Apply liberally to the Canada-US relationship.
February 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The US federal government now becomes an unmasked tool for #oligarchs, #genocide (Israel), and negative emotions of hate, greed, jealousy etc. It is now incumbent to support all sorts of partnerships with US cities, states, NGOs to keep the flames of compassion, solidarity and truth.
The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, which thrived 5000-2000BC in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, seem to have been egalitarian societies. There are hints of social stratification in later settlements — perhaps leaduing to the culture’s demise. Lessons for us?
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Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge
Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millen...
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January 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, which thrived 5000-2000BC in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, seem to have been egalitarian societies. There are hints of social stratification in later settlements — perhaps leaduing to the culture’s demise. Lessons for us?
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If anybody else did this would we ever hear the end of it?
January 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If anybody else did this would we ever hear the end of it?
#heat records shattered in 2023/2024, more than expected from modelling. Scientists are racing to see if this is just a blip in #climate data, or an indicator that the planet is heating up faster than they thought. Lets all hope its not the latter. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?
Nature examines whether the temperature spike is a blip or an enduring — and concerning — trend.
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January 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#heat records shattered in 2023/2024, more than expected from modelling. Scientists are racing to see if this is just a blip in #climate data, or an indicator that the planet is heating up faster than they thought. Lets all hope its not the latter. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
This summer, leaders of global financial institutions will meet on funding the #SDGs. Finance is short in part because lenders like World Bank insist that indebted countries prioritize paying off loans to rich countries over investing in public services. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformed
The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it.
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January 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This summer, leaders of global financial institutions will meet on funding the #SDGs. Finance is short in part because lenders like World Bank insist that indebted countries prioritize paying off loans to rich countries over investing in public services. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...