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Resiliency

December 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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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.

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Environmental wake-up call

October 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

A photographer tries to make unimaginable numbers visible: chris jordan photography.

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