Externalities - JJ
The drama that raised the national debt ceiling without increasing taxes is sending warning shots across the bow for many industries. The message for energy subsidies, including the tax credits and treasury tax grants for wind and solar, as well as tax credits for oil and gas companies, could not be clearer. The gravy train is ending because the Government cannot afford it, and political realities won’t tolerate it much longer.
End of the Energy Subsidy Gravy Train | Oil Price.com
Anarchy and Austerity: Why London Won't Be the Last City to Burn - Derek Thompson - Business
The Great Recession gave birth to a lost generation across the world, where youth unemployment rates stretch into the 20s, 30s and even 40s. Those millions have responded with violence. The riots and fires consuming London are a story about senseless violence and crime.
Continuous geometric growth in a finite biosphere is impossible
Elevator Speech #2--Continuous geometric growth in a finite biosphere is impossible
How Not to Play the Game
It’s been more than a year now since the theme of “green wizardry” became central to the posts here on The Archdruid Report , and I’ve pretty much covered the first two of the three themes I mean to discuss before it becomes time to shift the conversation elsewhere.Over the past two years, we have released much of our toolset as open-source code: Backbone.js , Underscore.js , Jammit , CloudCrowd , and others . Today, we’re launching another piece of DocumentCloud — both on DocumentCloud.org and as a component you can integrate into your own projects. VisualSearch.js is a rich search box for real data.
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Martin Nowak and the mathematics of cooperation
Mathematical biologist Martin Nowak talks to us about the evolution of cooperation. Cooperation is a puzzle for biologists because it doesn’t make obvious evolutionary sense.
Lynne Kiesling If you want good examples of Schumpeterian competition, it doesn’t get much better than this: Amazon to take on Apple this summer with a Samsung-built tablet?
Schumpeterian tablet competition
Thomas P.M. Barnett's Globlogization - Thomas P.M. Barnett's Globlogization - Grand Strategy Competition Update
As head judge of Wikistrat ’s International Grand Strategy Competition, I wanted to highlight some of the takeaways that we’ve already gathered in the first week of the contest.How to make systems thinking sexy
When Elizabeth Thompson, executive director of the BFC, asked me, "is the Challenge too niche?" my reply was: Damn right it's niche - and a good thing, too.
THE US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) wants to take down web sites that use the .com and .net top level domains (TLD) regardless of whether their servers are based in the US. Erik Barnett, assistant deputy director of ICE said told the Guardian that the agency will actively target web sites that are breaking US copyright laws even if their servers are not based in the US.
Us claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction
More on The Spirit Level
There are quite a few interesting comments on my earlier post on The Spirit Level on Economist's View . I can't respond in detail to all of them, but here are a few additional thoughts. A few commentators seem to think I'm unsympathetic to the book, which isn't accurate. So let me be more direct in my assessment of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies StrongerThe peak oil blogosphere this year seems to have decided that the Fourth of July needed a Grinch of its own to compete with Christmas, and a fair number of blogs duly went up denouncing the day and its entertainments.
Salvaging Energy
Rural Women & Agricultural Land Conversions in China
China’s unprecedented economic growth and rapid urbanization have created a massive demand for arable land to be converted to real estate or industrial development. In parallel, local government officials and Village Collective cadres typically favor conversions because local public expenditures tend to greatly surpass local taxes and land use fees have become an important source of fiscal revenue. While the law establishes that land can only be expropriated for the public good, that farmers need to be notified in advance, and that those affected should be compensated for the land lost – for the cost of resettling and for the value of the structures and standing crops – the picture that has emerged in practice is worrisome.The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context
We live in a world of ever more change and choice , a world where we have far more opportunity than ever to achieve our potential.If you thought the wars over knowledge and culture were intense, I believe we’ll see much more interesting events unfold in the coming decade. The decentralized, uncontrollable economy where one lifetime employment is no longer central to every human being is something I’ve called the swarm economy, and I predict it will redefine society to an immensely larger extent than the ability to get rap music for free.