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Feeds we followThese 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
Transition CultureWhy GM Has No Place in a World in TransitionI 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 wayRead more... Chris Martenson Speaks at the House of CommonsWhile 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 amRead more... A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of TransitionWe’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 aRead more... ‘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 ownRead more... The Story of Transition TalesThe 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 toRead more...
Green blogSolar power will take over soonThe 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 electricalRead more... Watch: Barack Obama explains basic climate scienceDuring 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, theyRead more... Karl Marx and the Metabolic Rift TheoryKarl 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 alsoRead more... Inequality between rich and poor nations helps fuel a climate of mistrust and sabotages efforts to secure a climate dealPhoto 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 questionsRead more... Audi green police car commercial ignites controversyControversy 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 theRead more...
Open WorldStranger Danger MythWe 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 andRead more... 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 baseRead more... Schools, Ignorance MachineryImage 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 globalRead more... Ubuntu : Ultimate Edition ThemeIn 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:Read more... Education Part 6 : TeachersThe 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 ofRead more...
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