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Re: World Cup Visualiser: Follow Real-Time Football Statistics on your iPad // Open Tables

utku — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:03:27 -0000

Hey, Utku from Mint here. Thanks for your interest in the app. Just wanted to let you know it's now live and in the App Store. Details are at http://mintdigital.com/live...

Thanks!

Re: Mini Magazine Notebook (with pockets!) // Open Tables

Huh — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:19:19 -0000

WTF?

Re: Spiraling Skyscraper Farms for a Future Manhattan // Open Tables

noneya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:58:45 -0000

This is about one of the only ways to go. Can simply pipe in sunlight with fiber-optics. Cool looking design also.
Your only other option is going underground, which would be cost prohibitive.

Re: I found the photo occasionaly on the net. This network depicts... // Open Tables

yep — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:58:18 -0000

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Re: Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Put a Tax on Plastic Bags // Open Tables

elleno — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:27:38 -0000

One of the easiest bags to carry is the EcoBags string market bag. It scrunches up into a tight ball and if you get the long handled ones you can use the handles to hold the ball together :). They weigh next to nothing so they're easy to keep in my briefcase and that way I don't forget.

Re: Geothermal energy in Canada // Open Tables

Rob Daly — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:33:29 -0000

well, firstly it's Iceland and not Canada, but that's easily done!

What I wanted to say was that it is very easy to make blithe remarks about Britain's lack of progress in renewable energies.

There is no doubt that Britain could and should do more, we have no excuses, and it is time to up our game. The bill running through parliament at the moment will impose the toughest carbon reduction targets IN THE WORLD (including Iceland and Cyprus!), so hopefully that will encourage investment and research.. and erm increase our “authority or dignity” (if that is something any nation should be trying to do?)

But what I think this posting misses is the point that looking at what Iceland has done, beyond being interesting and commendable, is pointless as a solution to problems in Britain, the US or China and India. We need solutions for major, heavily populated countries that don't happen to lie on one of the most geothermally active tectonic fault lines. Iceland has 300,000 people, a tiny population, easily catered for with geothermal energy. Furthermore if Britain were able to harness the same source of energy can you imagine the WWF saying that wildlife was thriving in a geothermal UK? Tens of millions of gallons of super heated water would have to be pumped out across wetlands and other coastal ecosystems! I've been to Iceland and it's a pretty barren place - sparsely populated - and covered in vast swathes of solidified lava fields, bereft of biodiversity (The ‘blue lagoon’ is in fact the effluent outflow from a geothermal powerstation), the perfect location for these actually very damaging generators.

The other countries mentioned in the video, New Zealand, the US, Italy, all mountainous and with ample geothermal opportunities. If you really want to point fingers perhaps it should be at these three and why they haven't invested sooner?

Finally we shouldn’t forget how this tiny population funded this cheap ecofriendly power for all…. International financing and BANKING! What Iceland preached at home it certainly didn’t practice abroad.

Re: GUERRILLA GARDENING // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:28:16 -0000

a good cause

Re: A good ariel of the site @ Norton Folgate looking east // Open Tables

Filip — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:11:53 -0000

Great photo!

Re: Money Is Debt // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:47:17 -0000

You are jumping from one extreme to the other. This film has been made by monetary reformers. What they are arguing is that something like a reformed capitalism can work with money that is not based on an interest-debt model... see for example New Economics Foundation, or JAK Bank as a working examples. They argue that the need for growth in capitalism (endless growth is seen as fundamentally unsustainable) is tied to the need to pay back interest: if we get rid of interest, then we get rid of the need for growth as the primary measure of economic sucess.

Whether they are correct is debatable to be sure. Marxists would certainly argue that there are much bigger problems with capitalism.

The question of big government spending is another question again... (many Keynesian capitalists argue for this of course)

Many contemporary ecological thinkers argue that centralisation is itself a problem, and that we need to shift to a multi-local global economic model....

Re: i second that // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:05:14 -0000

excellent!
One of your tutors did say that it should be possible for you to self-organise your tags... I am glad to see it! Jon

Re: One of the best dissertations I have ever read..... // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:54:23 -0000

a good summary... I did not know that the BNP has been trying to get involved... that is quite worrying!

Rob Hopkins' 'Transition Handbook' is key reading...

In my limited experience of actual transition movements... the results are quite varied.. although it is early days...

I worry about focusing on peak oil though... it is just one of many coming crises...

Re: Green Drinks, Chelmsford October 2008 // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:38:31 -0000

The primary purpose of the Green Drinks events is informal networking. It is not about campaigning as such, or reaching the public... that is for other targeted events... it is for local 'activists' or concerned individuals to get together... often to find opportunities for synergies and collaborations etc

Re: “Immersive Event Time” by Jeremy Hight // Open Tables

hight — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:23:58 -0000

ah ...cool....interesting.......just read the blog

Re: “Immersive Event Time” by Jeremy Hight // Open Tables

Filip — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:33:19 -0000

Hi Jeremy, the content is marked relevant/rejected in relation to the topic. Its a filtering system where content is then further reviewed on one of the live "table" interfaces. You can read more on our blog: http://blog.opntables.com/
...kind of like a vote.

Re: “Immersive Event Time” by Jeremy Hight // Open Tables

hight — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:36 -0000

I am the author

what is the relevant rejected deal? a vote on here?

Re: Going glocal. When local profit seeking social ventures date international non profits // Open Tables

opentables — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:18:44 -0000

interesting...

Re: David Harvey // Open Tables

jongoodbun — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:05:28 -0000

these videos of Harvey's lectures are essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how capitalism is working today

Re: Mac OS Foot Switch from a Guitar Amp Pedal. // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:31:02 -0000

one of these please Antonio...

Re: IMG_1541 // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:36:04 -0000

how did people think before post it notes?

Re: Nuclear waste containers likely to fail, warns 'devastating' report // Open Tables

Jon Goodbun — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:33:48 -0000

Many otherwise sensible people think that it is progressive and modern to unquestioningly support nuclear power (and similarly GM food). However, the question to ask with nuclear power, as with GM, is quite simply: 'Is the worst case scenario acceptable and manageable?'... In both cases it is clear that the risks are currently unmanageable, as this report shows. We need to fight the powerful propaganda that is pumped out by lobbyists in support of the private corporations that stand to control our food and energy supplies, and make vast government backed fortunes if given new contracts...

Re: Crafting 365, Day 305- Grey felted sweater purse // Open Tables

opentables — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:11:28 -0000

nice

Re: Petmate Indigo Extra-Large Dog House 25944 // Open Tables

Filip — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:05:33 -0000

eh? 25% does not deserve "recycled" tag.

Re: mosis' // Open Tables

Filip — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:29:20 -0000

very nice!

Re: Gertie Owl // Open Tables

Filip — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:19:01 -0000

great stuff!

Re: Gertie Owl // Open Tables

Filip — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:03 -0000

Absolutely love ugly dolls and what a great way to recycle old clothes.