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Category Archives: sustainability
Energy, the Environment, and What We Can Do
John Baez gave a Google Tech Talk on the issue. The slides include links to more detailed arguments and his home page also links to the Azimuth Project wiki is collecting information and ideas from a larger group of participants.
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Sustainable Energy Choices
Barry Brooks at ‘BraveNewClimate’ has made a brave effort at summing up the need for nuclear power as part of the CO2-free mix in a brief video, but parts of it still felt to me like “industry propaganda” – to the … Continue reading
The Inheritors of What?
A new book by Eric Kaufmann entitled Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century is
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Artificial Leaves from North Carolina
Thanks to reader Colleen McGuire for pointing out this interesting development. It does look promising if it can be developed further, although as one of the researchers said, “We do not want to overpromise at this stage, as the devices … Continue reading
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Mythical Myths about Sustainability
Many of these Top 10 Myths about Sustainability are mythical in the sense that they are just elementary misconceptions that don’t qualify as myths because they are not widely held by intelligent adults, but “Myth 6: Sustainability means lowering our … Continue reading
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Yes, There *IS* an Elephant in the Room
AlterNet Article by Chris Hedges Rebuttal by Betsy Hartmann
David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
In Sustainable Energy – without the hot air UK physicist David MacKay presents plausible back-of-the-envelope estimates of the scales of action needed under various strategies for reduction of global carbon fuel combustion. The numbers he uses are easily checked and … Continue reading
Mythical Myths No 7
In “The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons”, Ian Angus claims that the phenomenon commonly called a “tragedy of the commons” is a myth. But he is wrong. Anyone who is aware of the fate of the Atlantic cod … Continue reading
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Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet
Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet Typical knee-jerk anti-nuke article but comments actually worth reading
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CO2 Reduction Scenarios (UK example)
Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap [printer-friendly] | The Register
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Fare-Free Public Transit
AlterNet: Environment: Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You (and IMO it could and should be paid for with the revenue from a levy on urban auto traffic like the ‘congestion fee’ charged in London)
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AlterNet: Environment: What to Say to Those Who Think Nuclear Power Will Save Us
AlterNet: has reprinted an article from ‘Orion’ magazine by someone called Rebecca Solnit who claims to be giving advice on: What to Say to Those Who Think Nuclear Power Will Save Us though what she is really arguing is not … Continue reading
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Video Debate on Nuclear Power
Peter Bradford, Patrick Moore and Jim Riccio debate the future of nuclear power and why nuclear power cannot solve the climate crisis. The actual debate linked to from Nuclear Information and Resource Service – NIRS is quite interesting, but the … Continue reading
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Kudos to Fox News ?
Thanks to Theodore Labadie who posted the link on the ‘Transforming Langara’ listserv, but this is not surprising. The interview subject is promoting the purchase of “carbon offsets” and the opportunities for fraud in that are so magnificent that no … Continue reading
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BC-Alberta Trade Agreement Scuppers CO2 Reduction in BC
This Tyee Article about TILMA shows how its restrictions on differential regulation make it virtually impossible for one province to implement stricter standards (in any area).
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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming
AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming
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Why I Have Not Read ‘Heat’
According to his publisher’s web blurb, George Monbiot has established that “we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the “climate feedback” becomes unstoppable”, and “for the … Continue reading
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Lights Out!
Unfortunately I don’t think this initiative has had enough publicity in this part of the world for there to be a noticeable dip as seen by BC Hydro but there’s nothing wrong with joining in to the extent that we … Continue reading
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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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