Energy And World Climate

Transport - July 28

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

-Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers
-Testing a London ‘Cycle Superhighway’
-Festival transforms autobahn into world’s longest street party

Happy homestead happenstances

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

How many slick tricks have you learned about farming and gardening more or less by accident? My favorite example happened because of laziness.

Transport - July 28

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

-Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers
-Testing a London ‘Cycle Superhighway’
-Festival transforms autobahn into world’s longest street party

The cybernetics of black knights

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

What do fifty years of failed fusion research, today’s avant-garde believers in the Singularity, and the antics of the characters in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” have in common? The answer lies in information, which forms — along with energy and matter — a triad of principles that shape whole systems, and have to be understood in order to craft new systems for the deindustrial age.

Happy homestead happenstances

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

How many slick tricks have you learned about farming and gardening more or less by accident? My favorite example happened because of laziness.

The cybernetics of black knights

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:35:59 +0000

Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:27 +0000

With the passage of the financial reform bill, giant banks see a golden opportunity to finally put the financial crisis, along with their culpability for wrecking our economy, in the rearview mirror.

Bowen in Transition

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:27 +0000

Last weekend I attended the Transition Movement 2-day introductory training course in Vancouver, along with three fellow Bowen Islanders. We immediately and unanimously agreed to establish a “Bowen in Transition” chapter, affiliated with the Vancouver Transition network (called Village Vancouver).

The Emergence of Localism

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:27 +0000

Our global society is in crisis, and the core of the crisis seems to be about resources: resource limits, overuse and misuse of resources, resource-related conflicts, and the resulting destruction of our natural life-support systems. The crisis is at an extreme stage, as we are approaching the final hard limits of a finite earth. This is all the more frightening because our governments seem powerless to respond effectively to the crisis. We can all see the rocks ahead, and yet the crew steams straight on, as the ship-of-state carries us toward destruction.

Tony we hardly knew ye