Environmentalism : An Introduction For You These Days. oAnth. #environment #environmentalism Environmentalism : An Introduction For You These Days - 2011-09-17 The recent trend associated with environmentalism isn’t just about activism or perhaps protests but additionally about technological administration as well as realistic use of the environment resources.
Environmentalists would be the folks, which simply by their own actions protest virtually any exercise or exercise which leads to deterioration associated with environment, safeguard guy and also creatures from risks arising away from this kind of destruction, as well as seek to conserve the natural assets. Globalization v/s Regionalism, Industrialization, Climate change, Innate engineering, Occupational Risks, Preservation of natural sources, Air pollution manage, Waste administration and also Sustainable development tend to be couple of topics, which are obtaining intense interest from the environmentalists these days. Zero Growth - P2P Essay of the Year? The Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy. Commentary by oAnth:
Zero Growth » Blog Archive » P2P Essay of the Year? The Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy. If you read only one essay per year, it probably should be this one, and I find myself agreeing with its basic premise about the necessity of a really radical re-orientation of the totality of the current system.
One seeming contradiction however, the author both rejects market forms as compatible with human survival yet points to the medieval experiences where people exchanged for ‘equal value’, i.e. without profit maximisation in mind. So a more clear recognition of non-capitalist market forms would have made the article more useful. Otherwise, the contradiction between saying the ‘market system must be scrapped’ and ‘most firms can remain private property’, might confuse some readers. * Article: Ted Trainer, “The radical implications of a zero growth economy”, real-world economics review, issue no. 57, 6 September 2011, pp. 71-82,
Paul Kingsnorth: green activism is 'simply a faction of consumer society' - Green living - The Ecologist. Paul Kingsnorth: green activism is 'simply a faction of consumer society' - Green living. Whether you call it doom-mongering or good old-fashioned common sense, there’s no doubt that Dark Mountain – the environmental movement founded by former Ecologist deputy editor Paul Kingsnorth and social activist Dougald Hine – has proven to be one of the most influential strands of green thought to emerge within the last five years.
Eschewing activism, rejecting mainstream eco-consciousness and using creative writing as a medium; Dark Mountain has enthralled and infuriated in equal measure. ‘We are fuelled by a belief that our mainstream creative culture, whether it be represented by literature, theatre, art or music, is utterly failing to engage with the magnitude of where we are as a planet and as a civilisation,’ explains Kingsnorth.
‘We demand political honesty and cultural engagement with the darkness which that reveals. Mark Newton: For those readers who are not aware of the Dark Mountain project, how would you say its aims differ from other environmental philosophies? How to recycle a 747 jet. How to recycle a 747 jet. A Santa Monica architect decided to use an entire 747 jet to build a client's home...and his client agreed.
To grant his client's wishes for a feminine, curvy, and eco-friendly house, David Hertz of Studio of Environmental Architecture recycled an airplane into a 4,000 square foot residence in Malibu named the Wing House. Hertz originally intended to use only wings of an airplane, but he discovered that buying an entire plane made economical sense. The aircraft held enough raw materials to build almost the entire home. One wing alone is over 2,500 square feet and the cargo space makes up 17,000 cubic feet of space. Die Überfischung der Meere nebst grafischem leckerbissen.
About the Global Urbanist. About the Global Urbanist. Quantum theorem shakes foundations. At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. Now, a preprint posted online on 14 November1 reopens the question of what the wavefunction represents — with an answer that could rock quantum theory to its core. Whereas many physicists have generally interpreted the wavefunction as a statistical tool that reflects our ignorance of the particles being measured, the authors of the latest paper argue that, instead, it is physically real. “I don't like to sound hyperbolic, but I think the word 'seismic' is likely to apply to this paper,” says Antony Valentini, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum foundations at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Quantum theorem shakes foundations. Andy Hair/iStockphoto Mathematical device or physical fact?
[1111.3328] The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically. Technology: How 3D Printing Will Make U.S. Self-Sufficient. How 3D Printing Will Make U.S. Self-Sufficient. Natural World: A Farm for the Future. Natural World: A Farm for the Future. BBC Two Programmes - Natural World, 2008-2009, A Farm for the Future. German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! Ok, those Germans are just showing off now.
Not only has the nation announced plans to shut down all of its nuclear power plants and started the construction of 2,800 miles of transmission lines for its new renewable energy initiative, but now the village of Wildpoldsried is producing 321% more energy than it needs! The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy.
It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after year is the home to such a productive energy-efficient village. The village’s green initiative first started in 1997 when the village council decided that it should build new industries, keep initiatives local, bring in new revenue, and create no debt. Inhabitat.