The San Francisco Ecocity Declaration
An ecocity is an ecologically healthy city. Into the deep future, the cities in which we live must enable people to thrive in harmony with nature and achieve sustainable development. People oriented, ecocity development requires the comprehensive understanding of complex interactions between environmental, economic, political and socio-cultural factors based on ecological [...]
How much Virtual Water is in your shirt?
Virtual Water is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. Waterfootprint.orgcalculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That’s a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the fertilizers and [...]
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
online liveJoin the conversation at the Free Press Action Network where we’ll be live blogging during the hearing. We’ll be discussing the hearing, current Internet policies, and what we can do to protect Internet freedom for the future.Live Chat During the FCC HearingDATE: Thursday, April 17TIME: 3- 10 p.m. ET / 12-7 p.m. PTLOCATION: www.freepress.net/actionIn recent [...]
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Monday, February 11, 2008
from Culture Change.org
Intensive crop culture for high population is unsustainable
Written by Peter Salonius
Editor’s note: The following essay by soil scientist Peter Salonius is Part One of his two-part series for Culture Change that bursts the delusion of agriculture’s providing for a large human population long-term. If after reading it [...]
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Six Degrees has problems
ScienceFriday.com’s version
Chances are you’ve heard of the ’small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct?
The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. [...]
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from
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Edward Hasbrouck
<edward@hasbrouck.org>
<http://hasbrouck.org>
The deadline for public comments on the USA Transportation Security
Administration’s proposed rules to make would-be travellers obtain
individualized prior permission for all journeys by air to, from,
overflying, or even *within* the USA is this Monday, 22 October 2007.
If you have a chance before 5 p.m. Washington time on Monday, I urge
you to go [...]
Saturday, October 20, 2007
from http://machinist.salon.com/
How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic
The broadband company’s audacious scheme to interrupt your data proves why network neutrality rules are crucial.
By Farhad Manjoo
Oct. 19, 2007 |
Bless the Associated Press for unearthing, through careful and diligent investigation, Comcast’s shameful, hidden Internet traffic-management scheme.
Comcast, the AP determined, actively manages data on its [...]
We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and reality… More
Monday, September 24, 2007
from Salon.com
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
By Juan Cole
Sep. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become [...]
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Monday, September 17, 2007
http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/10/35-year-time-lapse-of-tokyo-skyline/
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
from
Erowid Conference Report: Mind States Costa Rica by Lux, Erowid Staff Writer
v1 - Jul 18, 2007
sample from Jon Ott-
“The End of the Treasure in the Basement”, by Jonathan Ott
Jonathan described himself as “not a prophet”, but someone who has been interested in the question of energy and the petroleum-based political and economic infrastructure of the [...]
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From the Oil Drum site
Peak Phosphorus
Posted by Prof. Goose on August 17, 2007 - 10:00am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: agriculture, depletion, hubbert linearization, phosphorus, recycling
This is a guest post by Patrick Déry and Bart Anderson. Patrick Déry is a physicist, energy, agriculture and environment analyst and consultant in Quebec, Canada. Bart Anderson is [...]
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Rory Carroll in Caracas
Monday May [...]
CNN Money (Kurzweil’s started a hedge fund called FatKat) has a very well written overview of Kurzweil and his career.
