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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - May 2024 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...
by gmoke
on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM PDT
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“7 stories to know” is a new Monday series showcasing stories that may have been ignored in the crush of news over the past few weeks, and stories that have continued to evolve over the weekend. ...
by Mark Sumner
on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Conversations about overpopulation can quickly become controversial because they beg the question: Who exactly is the cause of the problem and what, if anything, should be done about it? Many population experts worry discussions around overpopulation...
by populationmediacenter
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM PDT
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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
on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 08:21 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Political change might come from the tip of a spear, a nonviolent one. The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JPMorgan to BlackRock by Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher Verso 2024 Why Civil Resistance Works, The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...
by annieli
on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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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
on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 10:38 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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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
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 09:08 PM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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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
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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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
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
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
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
on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:06 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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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
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
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
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
on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 07:33 PM PST
with 110 Recommends
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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
on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
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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
on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:42 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
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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
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 07:11 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
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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
on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 07:48 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
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