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Mar 7, 2013
by Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book
About five years ago a colleague of mine, Dale Allen Pfeiffer wrote an essay I can no longer locate. At the time, Colony Collapse Disorder was just being diagnosed in bees, and one of the discussed potential causes of the problem was cell phones and cell phone towers. Pfeiffer didn’t, as …
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Mar 5, 2013
by Sara Ayech, Transition Network
For this week’s opening piece on technology I wanted to find out more about communications technology. Phones, computers and the internet have become crucial not just in my own life but also to the spread of the Transition movement, and an essential part of projects like Social Reporting. …
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Oct 5, 2012
by Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
News of Turkish military retaliation to a mortar round fired from inside Syria spooked oil markets this week. Former Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has warned that there is a danger that the Syrian conflict could spread and destabilise the region, although the Turkish Prime Minister said …
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Sep 16, 2012
by Albert Bates, The Great Change
Both Solar Bob and Doc agree that trying to get charcoal-burning cultures like Haiti to give up making and burning charcoal is a lost cause, not worth spending much time on. We are less convinced of the hopelessness of conversion, having the card up our sleeve of eCOOLnomics still to play. Pop …
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Sep 15, 2012
by Ted Trainer, Energy Bulletin
This book continues the presentation of the Lovins perspective, essentially the claim that there is great scope for conservation measures and alternative technologies to solve our problems and enable maintenance of rich world economies and lifestyles. My notes indicate that it would be far too …
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Sep 12, 2012
by Staff, Energy Bulletin
-Wind could meet many times world's total power demand by 2030, Stanford researchers say -EU proposal would limit use of crop-based biofuels -Indian blackout held no fear for small hamlet where the power stayed on -Asia Risks Water Scarcity Amid Coal-Fired Power Embrace
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Sep 9, 2012
by Paul Smyth, Judy George
, Energy Bulletin
"Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson “That’s a pithy way of saying where our country, perhaps the developed world, is at right now,” notes author James Howard Kunstler. We’ve blown past the mileposts for global peak oil, says Kunstler in his new book, Too …
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Aug 23, 2012
by Paul Gilding, Cockatoo Chronicles
What a privilege it is to be alive in these times, in such a significant period in human history. It’s not always easy to see moments of great historical importance when you’re in the middle of them. Sometimes they’re dramatic, like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the landing on the moon. But …
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Jul 19, 2012
by Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press
Few would argue with the proposition that within the next 20 or 30 years our current sources of fossil fuels and other somewhat substitutable liquids will be only a fraction of the 90 or so million barrels a day (b/d) that we are current consuming. Long before then however, fossil fuels are …
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Jul 9, 2012
by Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz
, The Extraenvironmentalist
In Extraenvironmentalist #44 we discuss the archeology of innovation with Sander van der Leeuw to learn how our complex societies have shifted short-term risks to long-term risks through the application of technologies.
