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Bank of I.D.E.A.S. e-Newsletter
Bank of I.D.E.A.S. has gained much in our thinking from the work and writings of Robert Putnam. No one else has helped to popularise the importance of ‘social capital’ in community building like him. In his classic, ‘Making Democracy Work – Civic Traditions in Modern Italy’ he outlines his insights into why northern Italian regions were more successful socio-economically, than those in the South.water - mainly about fresh water
Climate change
Few areas of science have such profound implications for public policy and society as the study of climate change.
The science of climate change
Along with various Seattle business and community leaders, city planners and politicians, a large group of scientists from the University of Washington got a chance to preview the new film, An Inconvenient Truth , last week. The film is about Al Gore’s efforts to educate the public about global warming, with the goal of creating the political will necessary for the United States to take the lead in efforts to lower global carbon emissions.
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Climatic Research Unit email controversy
The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as "Climategate" ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). [ 4 ] Several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, an unknown individual or group had breached CRU's server and thousands of emails and computer files were copied to various locations on the Internet. The story first broke in the climate sceptic blogosphere , [ 5 ] and columnist James Delingpole popularised the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy. [ 6 ] Climate sceptics argued that the emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy , in which scientists allegedly manipulated climate data and attempted to suppress critics. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The accusations were rejected by the CRU, who argued that the emails had been taken out of context and merely reflected an honest exchange of ideas. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
IN HARD times governments are consumed by short-term problems. But this does not mean the archetypal long-term problem, climate change, has gone away. Science continues to support the case for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions so as to minimise the risks of catastrophe. Meanwhile it is clear how wretchedly the world is failing to do so. Even if countries honour their promises, the UN reckons that by 2020 emissions will exceed the trajectory for keeping warming under 2°C by up to 11 gigatonnes.
Climate change: The sad road from Kyoto to Durban | The Economist
Goals for a Critical Thinking Curriculum
Critical thinking, as the term is generally used these days, roughly means reasonable and reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. 2 In doing such thinking, one is helped by the employment of a set of critical thinking dispositions and abilities that I shall outline, and that can serve as a set of comprehensive goals for a critical thinking curriculum and its assessment. Pedagogical and psychometric usefulness, not elegance or mutual exclusiveness, is the purpose of this outline. It could be used for an overall critical thinking curriculum outline, or as a comprehensive table of specifications for critical thinking assessment.Carbon Tracing - Bridging the gap between Carbon and Finance
Carbon Tracing is currently developing the definitive financial management platform for the emerging global carbon trading marketplace.
Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
The Breathing Earth simulation Welcome to Breathing Earth . This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Treehugger Snowmageddon is a website set up to help people dig out of the blizzard in New York. It was originally set up last year in Washington; it is an attempt to crowdsource information, where people can use their...
It seems to me that "We the people" now entails the deeper concept: "we the people who want to survive, and want to ensure the survival of our decendants". by xodarap Feb 21