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Feeds we follow

By webmaster Monday June 15th 2009 22:30 Central European Time

These are feeds from other blogs and pages that we follow on a regular basis, because they often contain entries about technology and the environment. You might, however, find entries about totally different issues in these feeds too.

Transition Culture
Green blog
Open World
Sharon Astyk’s blog
TED blog
CNN Science and Technology

Transition Culture

Why GM Has No Place in a World in Transition

I was disappointed to read Mark Lynas’s piece in New Statesman, “Why We Greens Keep Getting It Wrong”.  The piece builds on Lynas’s previous much publicised conversion to nuclear power, arguing that if we are to apply the scientific rigour that underpins climate science to all other areas of life, in the same way
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Chris Martenson Speaks at the House of Commons

While Chris Martenson was in the UK recently, Peter Lipman and myself did an interview with him, which was fascinating and wonderful, but the memory chip it was on just got corrupted before I could download it and it is lost.  Gah.  As a meagre way of overcoming the profound sense of trauma I am
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A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

We’ve got so many wonderfully diverse and inspiring activities to show you this month…ideas for getting people involved and having fun! And they’re here for the sharing… In the UK, TT Luton is organising a series of Grow Your Own events to relocalise food production and consumption, with discussions and a
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‘Two Knights in the Castle’: a Totnes jewel….

One of Totnes’s best kept secrets is cartoonist Simon French (who, trivia fans, is the son of the head of Sixth Form from when I was at school).  Every week his column ‘Two Knights in the Castle’, based around two knights sitting on the walls of Totnes Castle, grows more surreal and ploughs its own
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The Story of Transition Tales

The Story of Transition Tales by Simon Robinson (MSc student at Schumacher College). This is the story of Transition Tales, a small group within Transition Town Totnes. One of the aims of this project is to raise awareness within Primary and Secondary School children of the transition solution of community led response to
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Green blog

Solar power will take over soon

The surface of the Earth receives an amount of solar energy equivalent to roughly 10 000 times the worlds energy demand. Of course there isn’t always sunlight, but the solar panels can store the energy, and they are getting better and better at it. A solar panel converts one sixth of the sunlight into electrical
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Watch: Barack Obama explains basic climate science

During a visit to Henderson Nevada, President Obama explained basic climate science for the people who had gathered to listen to him at the town hall. “First of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington and so everybody is like — a lot of the people who are opponents of climate change, they
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Karl Marx and the Metabolic Rift Theory

Karl Marx came up with the term “metabolic rift” to explain the crack or rift that capitalism has created between social and natural systems, humans and nature. This rift, he claimed, led to the exploitation of the environment and ecological crisis. Marx argued that we humans are all part of nature and he was also
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Inequality between rich and poor nations helps fuel a climate of mistrust and sabotages efforts to secure a climate deal

Photo credit: america.gov The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, which many have said was our last chance to take action against “the greatest threat the world has ever faced”, ended in a failure. For over 15 years delegates and politicians from around the world have discussed, debated and negotiated the questions
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Audi green police car commercial ignites controversy

Controversy was sparked recently when Audi aired a new car commercial featuring “green police” arresting polluters for environmental infractions. The ad which ran during last Sunday’s Super Bowl, promoted Audi’s new car, the A3 TDI diesel. In the imagined green police state, checkpoints were set up to enforce strict environmental regulations. Predictably, the new car with the
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Open World

Stranger Danger Myth

We teach our children about stranger danger and many children that are subjected to child abuse and violence in New Zealand are to young to understand what a stranger is. Evidence would suggest that it’s not the strangers they need to fear but instead their family. We place our children in overly protective cocoons and
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Psychiatry & Modern Psychology Subvert Education.

Psychiatry and psychology have hijacked our education system. Before the advent of psychology into the schools, education involved learning to read, acquiring mental skills, and developing the ability to think conceptually. The idea behind traditional education was to prepare the student with as wide and strong a base
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Schools, Ignorance Machinery

Image via Wikipedia The title says it all really. Schools have become the haven of ignorance. This is not the fault of the teachers. There is not a teacher I know that believes that they are teaching ignorance but all may say that they are impeded by the education system. We are told that in this global
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Ubuntu : Ultimate Edition Theme

In this article we will download and install the Ultimate Edition Theme 2.3. This is a special theme as it comes as a .deb file. Deb is the equivalent of windows .exe. So once you have it downloaded you can click on it and it will extract and install itself into the correct folders. Bottom Menu:
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Education Part 6 : Teachers

The role of teachers will change under the new Education system. Some teachers will still conduct classes to help deliver the practical content of classes and provide a mentoring / tutoring role in schools. However the number of classes and teacher student ratios will be markedly reduced. Most teachers will agree that the learning experience of
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Sharon Astyk’s blog

Wanna Buy a Homestead? Or Come Live on One?

I don’t usually do adverts, but a couple of people I’d like to help out are selling homes and farms, so I thought this once, I’d post a few.  First, my friend Edson is moving for family reasons from their place in Ohio, and is offering a terrific homestead.  You can even keep the cow! Second of
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Getting Out of Debt – And the Debt System

A joint essay by Keith Farnish, Guy McPherson, Dave Pollard and Sharon Astyk Indebtedness pushes us into a form of servitude, and in extreme cases, can leave us imprisoned. Consider, for example, current rates of interest, usurious compared to what savers earn on their savings in the same banks that charge that interest. Many religious organizations loath
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Independence Days – Year III

Many of us need nothing in the world so much as more time.  Adding new projects is exhausting – and stressful.  And yet, we know that there are things we want to change – for example, most of us would like to grow a garden with our kids, or make sure that we know where
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More Music for Farm Girls and Guys, Comic Edition

Over at the ye newe blogge (www.scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook), I’ve got a couple of posts up about the best songs to put on an agrarian mix CD.  Here’s a few more to add to the mix, including some of the funny ones.  Unfortunately, the embed video function is not working for me, so I’ve had to link: First
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Looking Towards the Future

It is so good to be back!  I missed this site – I love my new digs over at science blogs, but there’s something wonderfully comfortable and familiar about being here – it seems weird to say that a place on the internet can feel like home, but it is true. When I first shifted over
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TED blog

Come see TED's two panels at SXSW

South by Southwest 2010 starts Friday in Austin, Texas, and the TED team is heading down to present two panels: How to Create a Viral Video Saturday, March 13, 11am From pranks and mashups to world-changing talks, viral videos...
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Ozomatli: Hear the new single and see our exclusive photos

The awesome LA band Ozomatli rocked TED's Wednesday night block party in Long Beach last month -- check out our exclusive photos from the street (and see many more photos here). You can stream Ozomatli's new single, "It's Only...
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How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com

Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon...
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The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED U in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data...
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New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao

Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible,...
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CNN science and technology

Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers

The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks.
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Cisco unveils ultra-fast Internet technology

Cisco unveiled a new Internet technology Tuesday that it says will provide the ultra-fast data speeds necessary to stay ahead of users' rapidly growing online video demands.
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Sex.com domain goes up for grabs

Sex.com, one of the most valuable Internet domain names, will go up for auction next week after the previous owner defaulted on its debts.
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Will NASA ever return to the moon?

Will U.S. astronauts ever return to the moon?
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Space shuttle Endeavour lands

The space shuttle Endeavour landed Sunday night at Kennedy Space Center after a two-week mission to the international space station.
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