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“You’re Only As Young As The Last Time You Changed Your Mind” Whole Earth Discipline – Stewart Brand

Monday, November 2, 2009

Stewart Brand’s new book has a great accompanying website with a million cool links
and enough of the book to let you know you’re going to love reading it. But just in case
you’re not sure, check out the talk (and great questions afterwards) from The
Long Now Foundation. Direct link to the mp3 file here.
Are you [...]

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Saul Griffith, “Climate Change Recalculated”

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

According to Saul’s calculations, in order to reach a goal of 450 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide in time to limit a global rise in temperature to 2 degrees C., we’ll have to reduce the amount of burned fossil fuels to 3 terawatts (of power). That means we’ll need to replace 11.5 terawatts with new [...]

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Nuclear Power Plants finally over by Amory Lovins of the RMI

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

This is amazing! Lovins was on the Charlie Rose Show saying this too. This is in complete contradiction to supposed “Greens” like Stewart Brand, James Lovelock (Mr Gaia , himself!), and others, saying we have to go Nuclear Power Plants to save ourselves!? WTF?! And a 4th media hit! Neil Young on Letterman mentions [...]

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Paolo Soleri honored this weekend in San Fran.! Digital Be-In & EcoCity conf.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

After 40+ years San Francisco seems to be the first city on the Planet Earth/Gaia to get a clue about Soleri’s work and ideas! Bucky Fuller mentions somewhere that on average it takes 50+ years for an Innovation to really catch on….so  10 more years to go!  Stewart Brand featured Soleri way back in the [...]

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Seminars About Long Term Thinking

Sunday, December 2, 2007

I’ve mentioned this before, but these lectures are just SO GOOD I think it worth repeating.
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
And check out what’s coming up.

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Dec. 14 (Friday) – Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, “The Edge of Art”

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Jan. 11 (Friday) – Paul Saffo, “Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting”
Feb. 4 (MONDAY) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “The Future [...]

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