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In the context of current debates about how to maintain the onward march of technological progress, it may be worth revisiting a logical paradox half a century old that casts doubt on whether unlimited technological progress is possible at all.
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
We become dependent upon technology and upon the system that provides it and the energy to run it. We forget how to do things for ourselves. …
Hello. My name is Dale, and I am a technology addict.
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Inkjet-printable solar panels… really!
When it comes to solar- lest we forget
Jeremy Leggett: Summoning the will to tap our solar brilliance
Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
A breakthrough in oil & gas industry technology is not inevitable. Indeed, it is not very likely. Painstaking linear growth in technological advances permit more oil to be recovered each year, but Seidensticker’s myths about technology change apply to the oil & gas industry just as they apply to most human endeavors.
The 100mpg hybrid car should be here, now! The only thing inhibiting the plugin-hybrid / electric car has been the battery – and as this article will illustrate – the batteries are indeed ready.
Better living through green chemistry
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour (interview about new movie)
Simple and cheap: Nepal’s application of science
Astyk: Cut your laundry energy
$100 laptop, meet the $100 desktop
Young people say family, friends make them most happy
Offshoring emissions, historical carbon and climate imperialism
Distributed generation of Amory Lovins’ brainpower
Ecological economist Herman E. Daly on climate change: From ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Singing the nation electric: post-oil democracy
Harnessing the energy of crowds
Algeria to tap vast sunbelt for solar energy
Wind turbine whining unwarranted
Gary Snyder from 1970: Four Changes
Population, pollution, consumption, transformation
Sharon Astyk: Is space an option?
Ag professor: Is capitalism sustainable?
The really inconvenient truth
