Solar Power Much Cheaper to Produce Than Most Analysts Realize, Study Finds By Joe Romm on December 11, 2011 at 10:22 am "Solar Power Much Cheaper to Produce Than Most Analysts Realize, Study Finds" The public is being kept in the dark about the viability of solar photovoltaic energy, according to a study conducted at Queen’s University.“Many analysts project a higher cost for solar photovoltaic energy because they don’t consider recent technological advancements and price reductions,” says [co-author] Joshua Pearce, Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. “Older models for determining solar photovoltaic energy costs are too conservative.”Dr. That’s the news release for a new journal article, “A review of solar photovoltaic levelized cost of electricity” (subs. req’d). That argument is one Climate Progress and others have been making for a while (see ‘Ferocious Cost Reductions’ Make Solar PV Competitive and Utility CEO on Solar: In “3 to 5 Years You’ll Be Able to Get Power Cheaper from the Roof of Your House Than From the Grid”.)
Potlatch A potlatch[1][2] is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States, among whom it is traditionally the primary economic system.[3] This includes the Heiltsuk, Haida, Nuxalk, Tlingit, Makah, Tsimshian,[4] Nuu-chah-nulth,[5] Kwakwaka'wakw,[3] and Coast Salish cultures.[6] Potlatches are also a common feature of the peoples of the Interior and of the Subarctic adjoining the Northwest Coast, though mostly without the elaborate ritual and gift-giving economy of the coastal peoples (see Athabaskan potlatch). Potlatches went through a history of rigorous ban by both the Canadian and United States federal governments, continuing underground despite the risk of criminal punishment, and have been studied by many anthropologists. Since the practice was de-criminalized in the post-war years, the potlatch has re-emerged in some communities. Overview[edit] NB This overview concerns the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch. History[edit]
Holisme Holisme (du grec ancien ὅλος / hólos signifiant « entier ») est un néologisme forgé en 1926 par l'homme d'État sud-africain Jan Christiaan Smuts pour son ouvrage Holism and Evolution[1]. Selon son auteur, le holisme est « la tendance dans la nature à constituer des ensembles qui sont supérieurs à la somme de leurs parties, au travers de l'évolution créatrice[1] ». Le holisme se définit donc globalement par la pensée qui tend à expliquer un phénomène comme étant un ensemble indivisible, la simple somme de ses parties ne suffisant pas à le définir. De ce fait, la pensée holiste se trouve en opposition avec la pensée réductionniste qui tend à expliquer un phénomène en le divisant en parties. Différentes acceptions[modifier | modifier le code] Histoire[modifier | modifier le code] Antiquité[modifier | modifier le code] XXe siècle[modifier | modifier le code] Holisme est un terme nouveau introduit dans les années 1920. Jan Christiaan Smuts[modifier | modifier le code] Le holisme de J. « M.
Ayahuasca Tourism in South America Written for Anthropology of Tourism, University of Maryland at College Park John N. Grunwell Within the last fifteen years or so, a grass-roots ayahuasca tourism industry has sprung up, with outposts all over Amazonia. Outsider's attraction to ayahuasca What brings people from all over the world to South America, simply to use ayahuasca? The most influential books of the last decade and a half are likely those of Terence McKenna, author of such works as Food of the Gods,The Archaic Revival, and True Hallucinations. ...it's not a frivolous pursuit... there's a certain amount of dread attached to taking it -- you have a hallucinogenic trip that deals with death and your mortality. Another well-know musician to speak of their ayahuasca experience is Paul Simon. Spirit Voices is really based on event (sic) that happened to me on a trip into the Amazon. Ayahuasca is often presented as a quintessentially South American experience. The ayahuasca experience itself can sound quite attractive.
Giri (Japanese) Giri (義理?)[1]:95[2] is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English. It is defined as "to serve one's superiors with a self-sacrificing devotion" by Namiko Abe. This value is so integral to Japanese culture that the conflict between giri and ninjō, or "human feeling", is said to have been the primary topic of Japanese drama since earlier periods in history. Giri may be seen in many different aspects of modern Japanese behavior: Japanese gift-giving is marked by an unwritten but no less real perceived balance of "giri", whereupon unusually large gifts must be reciprocated. Some social historians believe the pervasiveness of this concept in Japanese culture is a reflection of the static feudal order that defined Japanese society for centuries. On-Giri; What is it?
Psychologie de la forme Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La théorie gestaltiste a été proposée au début du XXe siècle, notamment par Christian von Ehrenfels, et se base sur plusieurs postulats. Premièrement, les activités psychiques ont lieu dans un système complexe et ouvert, dans lequel chaque système partiel est déterminé par sa relation à ses méta-systèmes. Deuxièmement, un système est conçu dans la théorie gestaltiste comme une unité dynamique définie par les relations entre ses éléments psychologiques. Troisièmement, et cela à la suite de certains amendements théoriques sur le dynamisme mental, on postule qu'un système montre la tendance vers une harmonie entre toutes ses qualités pour permettre une perception ou conception concise et claire, la « bonne forme »[1]. Histoire de la théorie gestaltiste[modifier | modifier le code] « L'arbre pensé » sans les racines. On trouve son origine dans quelques idées de Goethe. Gestalt et perception[modifier | modifier le code] Points d'un cube imaginaire.
Blue Me Portable Vacation Home | Modern Industrial Design and Future Technology - Tuvie Email Presenting you the all-new vacation home, which is portable! Yes you heard it rightly. “Blue Me” portable vacation home allows you to take the pleasure of a lovely nap in your own sweet home. Designer : Anton Markus Pasing via Dvice Waste, Recycling and Cradle to Cradle - The Red Cedar Volunteer Resource "[C]ulture can never be sustainable or anything other than destructive so long as it requires the importation of resources, that is, so long as it requires more than the local landbase provides..." Derrick Jensen, "What We Leave behind" We live in a culture that is disposable. We live in a culture that manufactures more than is needed and discards vast amounts of what it manufactures without using it. We live in a culture that throws away things that still work, because they are no longer new, because they are no longer fashionable, because they are no longer novel. Waste Not, Want Not The Household of the past did not throw much away. Old recipe books list recipes that call for pig's snout and trotters, lamb brains, intestines and so forth. Household Items that can be made from Waste or Natural Materials: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle When people here reduce, reuse, recycle- they generally picture blue bins and turning in aluminium cans. People need to start with reduce. Second is reuse.
Ubuntu (notion) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Ubuntu est une notion venant de l'Afrique subsaharienne qui trouve son origine dans les langues bantoues de l'Afrique du Sud et qui depuis a été liée à l'histoire de l'apartheid. Elle a inspiré la politique de réconciliation nationale de Nelson Mandela[1]. Le mot n'est pas traduisible simplement, mais dans sa diffusion au-delà des langues d'origine, il exprime un rapport entre l'individu et ce qui est commun : selon l'archevêque anglican Mgr Desmond Tutu, auteur d'une théologie ubuntu de la réconciliation[2], et prix Nobel de la paix, « Quelqu'un d'ubuntu est ouvert et disponible pour les autres » car il a conscience « d'appartenir à quelque chose de plus grand ». (voir la citation complète plus bas) Les racines étymologiques[3] : Une définition commune en donne pour sens « la qualité inhérente au fait d'être une personne parmi d'autres personnes ». — Desmond Tutu « Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.