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Prospero. Emergent Survivalism. Self Sufficiency. Ensemble. ProsperOs. Peacemaking. Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Being. If you were to line up the poster for every James Bond movie ever, you would notice that pretty much all of them look like very sleek, very stylish advertisements for handguns and well-tailored suits.

Sometimes a lady is involved. For the most part, though, artillery and menswear are the bread and butter of the series’ print ad game. However, agency Herring & Haggis is giving us a glimpse at what it might look like if the movies’ marketers went in a different direction. In the lead-up to November’s Skyfall, the 23rd film in the martini-chugging, bad guy-dispatching spy series, the team at agency Herring & Haggis decided to celebrate 50 years of Bond with an experiment. They set out to re-watch each existing movie in the 22 days before the new one premieres, and design a new poster each day. (The poster commemorating Skyfall itself will be revealed the day after.) The posters the agency has released thus far have been bold experiments in minimalism, completely bucking tradition.

Religious tolerance .org. The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential. Commentaries on Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (contents) How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later. First, before I begin to bore you with the usual sort of things science fiction writers say in speeches, let me bring you official greetings from Disneyland. I consider myself a spokesperson for Disneyland because I live just a few miles from it—and, as if that were not enough, I once had the honor of being interviewed there by Paris TV. For several weeks after the interview, I was really ill and confined to bed. I think it was the whirling teacups that did it. Elizabeth Antebi, who was the producer of the film, wanted to have me whirling around in one of the giant teacups while discussing the rise of fascism with Norman Spinrad... an old friend of mine who writes excellent science fiction.

We also discussed Watergate, but we did that on the deck of Captain Hook's pirate ship. Little children wearing Mickey Mouse hats—those black hats with the ears—kept running up and bumping against us as the cameras whirred away, and Elizabeth asked unexpected questions. And then 1:17: I am Ubik. MEME : Gratuitous Grace. Aldous and I would give a (LSD) session to a friend or someone who wanted and the preparation for a session was very very careful.

The day before we didnt do anything we just fixed the house very quietly, the day of the session there was nothing except that and even the day after; so there was a three day thing because as Aldous wrote in Island the session is a gratuitous grace. Its what you take away from there. A gratuitous grace, something thats given to you for nothing, not that you merit it you just are lucky and get it but what you do with it afterwards is what counts. Laura Archera Huxley 'Liberation,' Dr Robert began again, 'the ending of sorrow, ceasing to be what you ignorantly think you are and becoming what you are in fact. For a little while, thanks to the moksha medicine, you will know what its like to be in fact what you are, and in fact you always have been. Brave New World or Island - The World Must Decide - Ram Dass Also see. Deep Time : A History of the Earth - Interactive Infographic.

Life on the planet started astonishingly early. The first living organisms, in the current model of evolution, are thought to be Prokaryotes1. The oldest known fossilised prokaryotes have been dated to approximately 3.5 billion years ago, only 1 billion years after the formation of the Earth's crust. Eukaryotes2 are more advanced organisms with complex cell structures, each of which contains a nucleus. Although incredibly hard to determine their origin, they are thought to have developed 1.6–2.1 billion years ago, although some research2 suggests eukaryotes being present even earlier than this. Around 1.1 billion years ago multicellular3 organisms are thought to have started to develop, most likely similar in form to plants such as green algae. 200 million years later true multicellularity had also evolved in animals similar in nature to today's sponges, which are organisms which can reassemble themselves.

The genus Homo gave rise to modern humans8, Homo sapiens, us. Main Page - PreparingU. 30 Habits that Will Change your Life - StumbleUpon. Developing good habits is the basic of personal development and growth. Everything we do is the result of a habit that was previously taught to us. Unfortunately, not all the habits that we have are good, that’s why we are constantly trying to improve. The following is a list of 30 practical habits that can make a huge difference in your life.

You should treat this list as a reference, and implement just one habit per month. This way you will have the time to fully absorb each of them, while still seeing significant improvements each month. Health habits Exercise 30 minutes every day. Productivity habits Use an inbox system. Personal Development habits Read 1 book per week. Career habits Start a blog. What do you think? Update: A reader put together a downloadable copy of all these habits. 50 Best Blogs for Zen-Like Living | MRI Technician Schools: 350+ Online MRI Tech Programs. Whether you are a Zen Buddhist or just want to lead a Zen life, these 50 spiritual and simplifying blogs and community web sites will point you down the path of enlightenment. Explore the first sub-section to learn how to have a happy, fulfilled life through Zen-inspired lessons and mantras.

The second sub-section is dedicated to those who are seeking a more spiritual side of Zen like Zen Buddhism. Many of these blogs feature meditations and insight on the path to Enlightenment. Learn to Live Peacefully Blogs 1. zenhabits – This no-frills site focuses on ways of slowing down and enjoying life to its fullest. 2. KOSMIC Life – This site is all about Zen living through making your world greener. Ahh. Search our database of 350+ colleges and universities to find the right program for you.

Tovey-collective-intelligence. The Sky Factory Custom ceiling art uses ceiling tiles to create indoor sky. A chandelier that turns a room into a forest. Top 20 World Most Beautiful Living Spaces | Ultra Home. 03 Mar 2013 March 3, 2013 If you are browsing internet for Home Ideas, Decoration and Remodeling Tips you are on the right place. In today’s article we collected the top 20 most beautiful living spaces around the world. I am sure you will hate your apartment after checking out the images bellow.

Starting from Switzerland, across America and up to Australia, there’s no better interior designs that the ones we collected and attached in the gallery bellow. We hope you will enjoy: The Heinz Julen Penthouse in Zermatt, Switzerland The Clock Tower Apartment in Brooklyn, NY The Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana The Firefly ski chalet in Zermatt, Switzerland Resort in St. Chalet Brickell in the Rhone-Alpes, France Converted cathedral The Over Water Bungalow at Le Meridien in Bora Bora The Igloo Village in Kakslauttanen, Finland The Ladera Resort in St. The Underwater bedroom in the Maldives The Garden House in Brazil The Pretty Beach House on the Bouddi Peninsula in Australia Jade Mountain in St. A 3-D Printed House?

Well, this may well be the coolest video you see today. It’s a TEDx talk from a fellow named Behrokh Khoshnevis, who is a professor of engineering at USC, where he directs something called the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies. CRAFT has stated as its grand challenge “building a custom-designed house in a day while drastically reducing the costs, injuries, waste and environmental impact associated with traditional construction techniques.”

The applications of such rapid-fire housing are endless: affordable housing for the poor; “extraterrestrial buildings constructed from in situ materials”; emergency FEMA-style housing, and the like. But don’t listen to me–listen to the guy who’s trying to make it a reality. If you’re short on time and want to focus on the tech, hop ahead towards the 4-minute mark. And if you’re really pressed for time, let me call out some of the most exciting things the professor says here, with a few little glosses of my own. Bur wait? In Denmark, a printable house. (Credit: Eentileen’s Print a House project) Danish architects Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal of Eentileen used just a computer, a “printer” — actually, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine — and 820 sheets of plywood to build a 125 square meter (1,345 square foot) home in four weeks.

Named Villa Asserbo, the home is the pilot project of Eentileen’s Print a House project. The designers are touting the process of mass-customizing houses and responsibly producing them on site. Eentileen’s Print a House process begins as a 3D model which is translated into a manufacturing template and sent to the CNC machine that then cuts sheets of plywood into pieces that can be slotted and fitted together. The architects developed their method to maximize efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and reduce construction errors in the building process.

The Chatelaine's Keys. Casaubon's Book - Just another site. Sharon Astyk adapts in place: an exposé. This is a guest post by writer Mynda Ubis-Ness, a lead reporter from the Canadian Environmental Magazine “Salacious Green.” Mynda writes “I asked Astyk for an interview about her newly released (on store shelves today) book, but it became very clear shortly after I arrived at her farm that there was a much bigger story here - she’s not really what dozens of readers have come to believe she is.

The public has a right to know how she’s misleading us!” Contacted to defend herself against these allegations, Astyk replied, “Ummm….” Mynda: May I call you Sharon? Sharon: Of course - everyone does. Mynda: Sharon, your writings make you seem to have it all. Sharon: Of course it is - we’re normal people, in fact, on the lazy side a lot of the time. Mynda: Yes, I was surprised, nay, shocked, to find that the house doesn’t seem to be the paradise I’d imagined it to be.

Sharon: Well, we’re rather fond of our dump, but yes, you could say that. On the other hand, this corn is corn I dehydrated. Best books of 2012. LegalHomeSwap.com. Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Le média de toutes les solidarités. Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

The winning essay: How to solve youth unemployment. BCGE A4.pdf. Emergy. Emergy is the available energy (exergy) of one kind that is used up in transformations directly and indirectly to make a product or service.[1] Emergy accounts for, and in effect, measures quality differences between forms of energy. Emergy is an expression of all the energy used in the work processes that generate a product or service in units of one type of energy. The unit of emergy is the emjoule, a unit referring to the available energy of one kind consumed in transformations. Emergy accounts for different forms of energy and resources (e.g. sunlight, water, fossil fuels, minerals, etc.) Each form is generated by transformation processes in nature and each has different ability to support work in natural and human dominated systems. The recognition of these differences in quality is a key concept of the emergy methodology. History[edit] The first formal statement of what would later be termed emergy was in 1973: Definitions and examples[edit] Nomenclature[edit] Accounting method[edit]

Index. Emergy Systems | Center for Environmental Policy | University of Florida. This site has been developed in response to a demand expressed by the community of scientists, students, and friends for a central location of materials, information and news related to Emergy. Mission This site is designed to aid in the research and teaching of emergy systems theory. Our mission is to provide a locus for those interested in obtaining information about the theory, concepts and principles of emergy systems and systems ecology. Ambio, Vol. 28, No. 6 (Sep., 1999), pp. 486-493. Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food. The role of social paradigm in human perception and response to environmental change. V Table of Contents Page Signature Page i Title Page ii Abstract iii Table of Contents v List of Figures x List of Tables x List of Acronyms xi List of Appendices xii Acknowledgements xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Relationship Between Human Behaviors and the Environment 2 1.1.1 Environmental Concern and Values 2 1.1.2 Environmental Knowledge 3 1.1.3 Environmental Behaviors 4 1.2 Theories Explaining Environmentally Responsible Behaviors 7 1.2.1 Resilience 7 1.2.2 Social Psychological Theories 10 1.2.2.1 The Theory of Planned Behavior 10 1.2.2.2 Value-Belief-Norm Theory 11 ix Page 4.5 Limitations of This Study 85 4.6 Next Steps 86 References 88 X List of Figures Page Figure 1: Visual representation of the hypothesized effect of the dominant social paradigm on the relationship between environmental concern and environmental behaviors 36 Figure 2: GSS database - f3 coefficient values between WISP, environmental concern and beliefs and environmental behaviors.

Resilience.org. African Christians Organization Network - Home. Less is More, More or Less | David Bergman: EcoOptimism. Thanksgiving, the celebration of bounty, seemed a completely appropriate time to contemplate the corollary concept of enough. Hence one of my tasks for the weekend (why do I always think a day or two off, or even a long plane flight, will give me the time to catch up on everything?) Was to read the advance copy of Enough Is Enough sent me by co-author Rob Dietz. A bit overoptimistic I was. I’ll blame the lingering L-tryptophan effect. But I’ve only missed the goal by a bit.

Dietz is the executive director of an organization called CASSE or the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, a mouthful as large as the (first) slice of leftover pumpkin pie I had for breakfast on several of the days following the feast. The basic tenet of the steady state economy (or SSE) is an observation that makes complete sense: you can’t have infinite growth in a finite system. What’s in a name? And so we get to steady state economics. Going Steady What’s Enough? It’s People! L’austérité n’est pas une fatalité : pour une nouvelle dynamique de mobilisation citoyenne ! Les marchés financiers ont accordé un répit précaire à la zone euro. Les taux d'intérêt sur les dettes publiques se sont détendus, même s'ils restent insupportables pour des pays comme le Portugal ou l'Espagne. Pourtant, les politiques d'austérité continuent d'étouffer les peuples et provoquent de terribles dégâts sociaux : la Grèce connaît même un risque d'effondrement sanitaire.

Les vices de construction de l’euro n'ont pas été réparés, la recherche effrénée de compétitivité par la baisse des salaires et des dépenses enfonce la zone dans la dépression. A l’instar de ses voisins, le gouvernement français inscrit sa politique économique dans la stricte orthodoxie voulue par les marchés. Dans ce contexte, le Collectif pour l'audit citoyen de la dette publique estime urgent de relancer le débat sur les alternatives à l'austérité. 1.

Début 2013, les gouvernements et les instances européennes s'auto-congratulent. La zone euro est-elle pour autant tirée d'affaires ? 2. 3. Zp8497586rq. What Do the Amish Believe About Salvation & Heaven? Amish and Plain People of Lancaster County, PA. Indian tribe buys famed rare plant garden, ancestral land. Service-Animals. Free Energy Does Not Occur in Nature | Contraposition. Cooperatives, Nonprofits. Recycle Reuse. Ecohabitat. New Ecology. Apiary. Polymath Renaissance. Populating Reality. Clean, Free Energy. Eco Info Flash ⚡ Transcendence. Modern Earth Life. Seven Generations. ALL Behaviours Begin at Home. Societal Gumbo. Mondo Earth. Well Read. ENGAGING SITES. Celebrations. Lunaria. Calendrica. Astrologos. Astrologikos. Aspects, Transits, Returns. Economy. New Found Moolah. New Politika. 100th Meme Keys. New Ethics. Sacred Paths. One World. World Beliefs. WORLD VIEWS. Earth Paradigm. Bygone Days.

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