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Category Archives: technical issues
Egalitarian Nature of Blogging
Wesley Fryer on The Egalitarian Nature of Blogging
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Selling Indulgences
A couple of colleagues have circulated links to websites offering the opportunity to offset the CO2 created by my energy consumption in return for monetary payment. eg http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/index.html http://www.cooldrivepass.com/home.cfm http://www.offsetters.ca/ Thanks for the links, but all of these people are … Continue reading
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How Much Renewable Energy Do We Have?
George Monbiot showed (in November 2005) that, even with extremely generous assumptions about the plausible extent of resource usage, renewable energy sources will not suffice to replace what he believes must be cut from our carbon combustion rate. But then … Continue reading
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Designed To Let Us Down
David Brin’s suggestion for adding peer-to-peer capabilities to create a more robust cellular phone system
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No Nukes For Oil?
In Today’s Big Story at thetyee.ca perhaps the most interesting aspect was the (wisely) restrained reaction of Jack Layton – “It’s certainly incumbent on somebody proposing to use nuclear plants to provide the power for the oil sands to tell … Continue reading
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Canada Sleeps Through War to ‘Save the Internet’
This Tyee article is about the low profile of the ‘Net Neutrality’ debate in Canada. Author Bryan Zandberg is right that this is something we should not be ignoring. The telecoms and cable providers are monopolies, and not only do … Continue reading
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Children of Men
The Tyee review of this movie (which I saw last weekend) is in my opinion off base. The film is technically quite well done with effective cinematography and acting, but the premise is more than silly; in fact it is … Continue reading
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What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You . . .
What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You About Global Warming is a review on Alternet by David Morris of George Monbiot’s book ‘Heat’
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Engaging Brains Through Games and Simulations
Wesley Fryer reports on a workshop by Bernie Dodge at Macworld
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Transforming Langara
A group of my colleagues at Langara College have been looking at the possibility of significantly increasing the attention paid to environmental sustainability – both in terms of our college’s physical operations and in terms of what we teach. Some … Continue reading
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Mark Twain, Father of the Internet
By Crawford Killian in Tyee we have Mark Twain, Father of the Internet cute!
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Phase Shift
Phase, Frequency, Amplitude, and all that.. is an example of a university math course adopting the convention that identifies “phase shift” as angular shift as opposed to horizontal displacement or “time shift” And at the time of this posting, the … Continue reading
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Phase Shift or Phase Angle?
Murray Bourne at squareCircelZ has taken the time to respond to a comment I made on one of his interactive math pages, so I thought I should make an effort to explain my concern in a bit more detail. In … Continue reading
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Oregon State Univ., LANDSCAPE PLANTS
Oregon State Univ., LANDSCAPE PLANTS
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Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
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Langara College – Environmental Achievements
Award from national Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry Article from Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada Another from OEE More from OEE status (gold) record at VCR/GHG Challenge Registry CS Workshops in partnership with CityGreen Report by … Continue reading
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Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint includes a “calculator” for estimating one’s personal contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere and suggests various ways of reducing or offsetting it. But the encouragement to “plant trees” (or pay for same) may be misguided, since it seems … Continue reading
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RealClimate – Climate Science Blog
RealClimate is a blog about climate science maintained primarily by Gavin Schmidt. It appears to be a forum for active discussion of current issues with input from a wide cross section of those active in the field.
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The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
This is a balanced complete and well referenced account of the history of our understanding of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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