Robert Paterson reflects on the John Boyd Conference 2008. It’s pretty grim reading about the state of the world, but he does have suggestions for what to do (on both macro and personal levels).
The search for efficiency and the urge to consume has set us all up like a row of dominoes – there is [...]
Resiliency
December 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: · current affairs · economy · environment · politics
Deeply weird
May 14th, 2008 · Comments Off
There’s a little graphic and such, but here’s the central, weird finding of a Pew study reported in The Climate Change Attitude Mystery | Wired Science from Wired.com
The confounding part: among college-educated poll respondents, 19 percent of Republicans believe that human activities are causing global warming, compared to 75 percent of Democrats. But take that [...]
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Old trees
December 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
A really cool project in the UK: The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt
Help us to find and map all the old, fat trees across the UK.
Tags: · environment · international · plants
Environmental wake-up call
October 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
A photographer tries to make unimaginable numbers visible: chris jordan photography.
Tags: · art · current affairs · environment