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from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6 http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html [All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be...
by gmoke
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 08:21 PM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 10:38 AM PDT
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Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you...
by gmoke
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 09:08 PM PDT
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Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/dickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests hat tip G. S. Murphy from Boston Food System...
by gmoke
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PDT
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For the first time, we’ve lived through 12 straight months with global warming of 1.5°C, and no amount of Trumpian rhetorical nonsense will erase much like the current “good” US economy in contrast to the recessionary economies of the UK and Japan....
by annieli
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Great Egrets are a pretty common bird in Florida, and I’m pretty much guaranteed to see at least one any time I walk around outside, in virtually any permanent body of water. They spend nearly all ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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UNVEILING DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS In a world where the pursuit of endless growth has led to environmental degradation, social inequalities, and resource depletion, a fresh perspective on economics has emerged – “doughnut economics.” Coined by British...
by populationmediacenter
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 09:35 AM PDT
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World’s biggest “passive house” office building https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-office...
by gmoke
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:06 PM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM PST
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BiILLIONAIRE EGOMANIACS by Carol Wolman, MD A few egomaniacs are destroying our world. They are devouring our minds, our pocketbooks, our individuality. Some of them believe they will be raptured by Jesus, even though they are disobeying everything he...
by cwolman
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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For the past few years I’ve been working on a garden in my friend’s large yard in San Antonio, Texas. Here are links to two previous diaries about this garden. Local ecosystem restoration and food forestry Small community action The latest addition I...
by Gardening Toad
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 11:56 AM PST
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The larger solar parabolic trough on the left I made in the 1970s for the New England Coastal Power Show, an energy show which traveled throughout the Northeast for a few years after the second Energy Crisis. We used it to heat water, make tea, and...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 07:33 PM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
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Liquid3, an urban photo-bioreactor that uses microalgae to remove CO2, produce O2, and biomass https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/7109 hat tip MonkCanatella@MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works Farm to wetland...
by gmoke
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:42 PM PST
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Announcing the 37th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference: "Growing Connections & Collaborations” January 13, 2024 8 AM - 6 PM Worcester State University, In-person Only, https://www.nofamass.org/home/nofa-events/winter-conference/ ————— Increasing...
by gmoke
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 07:11 PM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 07:48 PM PST
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Why We Must Focus on Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage, Not “All of the Above,” For Solving Global Climate, Air Pollution, and Energy Security Problems — A slide deck from Mark Z Jacobson presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting on...
by gmoke
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 10:02 PM PST
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As someone who scans the Internet to find energy/environment/climate events (mostly academic) around the world to publish Energy (and Other) Events Monthly (http://hubevents.blogspot.com), I found these online events which are intended to keep people...
by gmoke
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - December 2023 These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that...
by gmoke
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 04:17 PM PST
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A proportional national responsibility for carbon production cannot be cancelled by certain dimensional initiatives of “degrowth”. It remains questioning what actual national industrial production policies are in place in comparison to international...
by annieli
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 05:37 PM PST
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