December 2009
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US man 'arrested' in North Korea  →
secrets0ciety via BBC: North Korean authorities have said they have arrested a US man who crossed into their territory. The North’s official KCNA news agency said the man had entered the country from China on 24 December. There is no official word on the man’s identity. However there have been reports that Robert Park, a US Christian activist, recently crossed into North Korea. Colleagues say he...
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IBM and the Smart Grid →
via smarterplanet
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“LEED is a checklist for people who don’t want to think…you get points for using...”
– Architect William McDonough (via age-of-ecology) (via landscapearchitecture)
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“If you want to defeat the right, we must defeat corporatism. This is a truth I...”
– The 1990s Are Over. Has Anyone Noticed? (via azspot)
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Hippies grew up and became yuppies. The children...
Oh, the irony. Hippies were authentic, or at least more so than their children’s generation. Hipsters are superficial and commercial about their shit. Hippies did it out of rebellion with some form of authentication. Hipsters do it for the attention and “hip factor”. Hippies were honestly poor because their parents wouldn’t support them. Hipsters are white youth too damn lazy to find a job and...
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My Personal Thoughts on Global Sustainability
After a lifelong interest in what has been given the umbrella term of sustainability, and one year of work for Auburn University’s Office of Sustainability — during which I have been a student of a survey on the field (food systems, energy, transportation, buildings and climate change) as well as a teaching assistant of the same class a semester later. I spend a lot of my time thinking...
Dec 26th
The Next Decade
Last night I was watching a program entitled “The Bubble Decade” on a network that a year or two ago was preaching the prosperity gospel — albeit a more secular version of it. Over the course of this decade we were attacked from two sides, one one we were told to listen to the experts, and on the other we were commanded to use our common sense. It turned out that the experts...
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Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he’s come up with a system that works.
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Merry Christmas!
War is over! If you want it.
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Diary of an Interesting Year
May 21st. Another row with G. He blew my second candle out, he said one was enough. It wasn’t, though. I couldn’t see to read anymore. He drives me mad—it’s like living with a policeman. It always was, even before the Collapse. “The earth has enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed” was his favorite. Nobody likes being labelled greedy. I called him Killjoy and he didn’t like that....
Dec 22nd
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tsparks:jhnbrssndn:poortaste: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics Documentary featuring Tom Ferguson, Noam Chomsky and other prominent thinkers More Info / Support the Creators Golden Rule from Jonathan Shockley on Vimeo.
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A paper delivered at the 2009 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference that describes how British cyberneticist Stafford Beer’s writing, infographics, and industrial design for his ambitious Cybersyn Project worked together to create a science fictional narrative of omniscience and ominpotence for Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile.  See more here… via...
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Alex Steffen of Worldchanging via chrislindsay: That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things that are propped up too long snap and collapse suddenly. Our way of life is unsustainable. The sooner we transform our economy into one that can generate sustainable prosperity, the better off we’ll be, and with every passing day, the risks of catastrophe grow larger and more certain. We...
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“If the climate was a bank they would already have saved it.”
– The best line delivered so far in Copenhagen, concerning the U.S.’s commitment to meaningful action. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing standup comedian Hugo Chavez! (From Politico’s Glenn Thrush via chrislindsay poortaste peterwknox skimmingthesurface celsius451
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“What defeated Roosevelt in 1938? In part the peculiar southern fear of federal...”
– The Edge of the American West via azspot
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The 7 Foods Experts Won't Eat →
moorewr:foodoflove:nutritionista: 1. Canned Tomatoes The expert: Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A The problem: The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Unfortunately, acidity (a prominent...
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