feedbacks, cycles, technology to the rescue
======
"Maybe we're going into an ice age and global warming will offset that"...sounds like wishful thinking to me...If we act together as a species to protect existing carbon sinks while encouraging new ones (such as in warming Antarctica area and other land and sea areas where algae and other plants are increasing)...One new carbon sink is human ingenuity in turning the combustion waste product co2 into a resource...With information technology transcending the need for long transport of services, goods, and people...Alvin Toffler's Future Shock need not be so scary. We're at
a new stage of evolution
or
Coming of the Messiah
or
Second Coming
or
Millennium
or
Age of Aquarius
or
The Revolution
or
whatever you want to call it.
Technology can come to the rescue. We need simple low-tech too.
=====
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club
wpamushroomclub.org
======
Celebrating Earth at Potato Peel Mountain
bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebrate-earth.html
======
Search terms:
"Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler"
"primary production"
"high-info low-mass"
"Green New Deal"
"Earth Overshoot Day"
online "on line" "assembly line" bioreactors bicycles "appropriate technology"
"planet on overshoot"
"local remanufacturing"
ecowoman
======
From:
Remaking Cities Institute
cmu.edu/rci/projects/rmkng-hazelwood/index.html
Remaking Hazelwood, Remaking Pittsburgh (August 2007) background study.
...visionaries to think about the future of the Pittsburgh region, and to put at their service our expertise in urban design and community development. Our work begins in the Greater Hazelwood Area, home to one of Pittsburgh's largest remaining riverfront brownfield sites.
The Wall Street Journal published an article in 1999 calling Pittsburgh "Roboburgh" in recognition of the local concentration of talent in robotics. Can this city that historically has been known as "Iron City" become associated with the incorporation of innovative technologies in our social, cultural, economical, fiscal and natural environments?
What if Pittsburgh becomes a worldwide reference again for something as central to our perception of "modernity" as steel has been for the last century? What if cutting edge technologies are embedded into the daily lives of our communities now? What if robotics spin-off companies settle in the region? What if through technology we can extend the productive participation of aging and disabled populations in the everyday life of our communities; and what if that becomes a major industry? What if the same happens with entertainment technology? What if major international companies are successfully attracted to open manufacturing and/or R&D activities...What if 1,000 students move into the Hazelwood area? What services will grow around them?...What if we develop programs for current residents to take advantage of the growing employment opportunities in some of those sectors? What if all this is done with a strong sense of respect for the ecological framework of the region and with a commitment to diversify the economic and cultural opportunities...aligning the creative energy of our universities, the motivation for new product development of firms, the principles of sustainable community design and the energy and leadership of our region...
======
pathwayswellnessprogram.com/farm_to_table.html
earthtoobama.org
votersthink.org
news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=earthjustice
======
accelerationwatch.com
"Interpreting a world of accelerating change."
======
“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario”
September 12–14, 2008 | Bellevue, Washington
futurefoundation.org/programs/hum_wrk5.htm
======
Kucinich: Nationalize the Fed
brasschecktv.com/page/580.html
... take the money supply and control over it back from the bankers...
======
cspanjunkie.org
footprintnetwork.org
beesfordevelopment.org
avant-gardening.com
soilassociation.org
======
Third World Network
twnside.org.sg
======
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
unccd.int
======
a perspective on appropriate genetic engineering
rockfound.org
======
links
peopleandplanet.net/section.php?section=3&topic=5
======
Organic farming brings hope to stressed Indian farmers
peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3503
...has brought hope to villagers in a drought-prone area in India commonly known for farmer suicides due to debts from high-cost modern agriculture.
Low-cost, sustainable and environment-friendly farm technologies are helping boost the confidence and self-reliance of farmers in the drought-prone...
The Integrated Natural Sustainable Agriculture Programme (INSAP)...
======
www.earthscan.co.uk
facebook.com/pages/London/Earthscan/40207053788
======
Rainforest may burn, speeding climate change
peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3508
======
Local Governments for Sustainability
iclei.org
Local Action for Biodiversity
iclei.org/index.php?id=7927
======
citiesandconservation.org
interenvironment.org/pa/tui-quotes.htm
... protecting nature and improving city life are interdependent goals. Conservation and urban leaders are natural allies...
======
Defend everybody. We either all share the guilt or we're all blameless. Recovery teaches to accept the past, love the present, and take faith in the future.
======
Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Criminal Defense Resource Center
pacdl-cdrc.org
======
World War 4 Report
ww4report.com/links
======
Sty in sky rethinks how we can farm in city
Pig City — highrise pig sties designed by a Dutch architectural firm — is one of the radical ideas on urban farming in a
Design Exchange exhibit.
3/2/9
by Christopher Hume
thestar.com/News/GTA/article/595040
======
"...planet on overshoot..."
worldchanging.com/archives/009499.html
======
Quotes from
Information Clearing House Newsletter
informationclearinghouse.info
++++++
"When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people.
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...."
~Daniel Ellsberg 5/13/70 to the
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
++++++
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
~Elbert Hubbard
++++++
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
~Dwight David Eisenhower
++++++
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
~Jimmy Carter
======
greenmuseum.org
pittsburghearthday.com
======
Rachel's Sustainable Feast
Sunday May 24 12:30 - 4:00
rachelcarsonhomestead.org
http://rachelcarsonhomestead.org/Default.aspx?tabid=88
======
goodfoodneighborhood.org
buylocalpa.org
======
anythingradioactive.com
fusor.net
======
A Game As Old As Empire
The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the
Web of Global Corruption
gameasoldasempire.com
======
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
economichitman.com/pages/bookpages/excerpt.html
======
Nuclear power isn't the answer to energy or environmental problems
3/4/9 by Eric Epstein
Three Mile Island Alert
tmia.com
post-gazette.com/pg/09063/952891-109.stm
======
green chemistry
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-324070.html
======
Combining agriculture with reforestation
ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html
======
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
igsd.org
======
Ed Humes finds "eco barons" working to save earth
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090304/lf_nm_life/us_books_author_humes;_ylt=AjMNU.TtiLhRPhBKTHzYSYaFWo14
======
monetary.org/links.htm
======
http://www.agriculture.com
======
Climate Change: New Thinking to Tackle Old Problems
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45905
======
2/28/9
Drought in Southern South America
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37239
...one of the worst droughts in southern South America in decades...plants were struggling to grow in the hot, dry weather. Since northern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil contain rich, intensively cultivated land, the dots include fields of corn, cotton, soy, wheat, or pastureland for grazing cattle. The brown tones reveal that these plants were growing far less vigorously than average in late January 2009.
From mid-November 2008 through mid-February 2009, unusual weather patterns brought extreme temperatures and low rainfall to this normally productive agricultural region. The period is critical for many crops, including cotton, wheat, soy, and corn. As a result, crop yields in the three countries were expected to dip, with Argentina suffering the worst blow, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Even Argentina’s famous beef industry had been affected by the drought, reported BBC News, as pastureland disappeared, and cattle starved.
======
Selling nuclear power
The sales people took the acronym EPR, which stands for European Power Reactor design, and slipped into doublespeak making EPR sometimes mean Evolutionary Power Reactor...
greenpeace.org/raw/content/usa/press-center/reports4/epr-the-french-reactor.pdf
======
"Maybe we're going into an ice age and global warming will offset that"...sounds like wishful thinking to me...If we act together as a species to protect existing carbon sinks while encouraging new ones (such as in warming Antarctica area and other land and sea areas where algae and other plants are increasing)...One new carbon sink is human ingenuity in turning the combustion waste product co2 into a resource...With information technology transcending the need for long transport of services, goods, and people...Alvin Toffler's Future Shock need not be so scary. We're at
a new stage of evolution
or
Coming of the Messiah
or
Second Coming
or
Millennium
or
Age of Aquarius
or
The Revolution
or
whatever you want to call it.
Technology can come to the rescue. We need simple low-tech too.
=====
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club
wpamushroomclub.org
======
Celebrating Earth at Potato Peel Mountain
bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebrate-earth.html
======
Search terms:
"Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler"
"primary production"
"high-info low-mass"
"Green New Deal"
"Earth Overshoot Day"
online "on line" "assembly line" bioreactors bicycles "appropriate technology"
"planet on overshoot"
"local remanufacturing"
ecowoman
======
From:
Remaking Cities Institute
cmu.edu/rci/projects/rmkng-hazelwood/index.html
Remaking Hazelwood, Remaking Pittsburgh (August 2007) background study.
...visionaries to think about the future of the Pittsburgh region, and to put at their service our expertise in urban design and community development. Our work begins in the Greater Hazelwood Area, home to one of Pittsburgh's largest remaining riverfront brownfield sites.
The Wall Street Journal published an article in 1999 calling Pittsburgh "Roboburgh" in recognition of the local concentration of talent in robotics. Can this city that historically has been known as "Iron City" become associated with the incorporation of innovative technologies in our social, cultural, economical, fiscal and natural environments?
What if Pittsburgh becomes a worldwide reference again for something as central to our perception of "modernity" as steel has been for the last century? What if cutting edge technologies are embedded into the daily lives of our communities now? What if robotics spin-off companies settle in the region? What if through technology we can extend the productive participation of aging and disabled populations in the everyday life of our communities; and what if that becomes a major industry? What if the same happens with entertainment technology? What if major international companies are successfully attracted to open manufacturing and/or R&D activities...What if 1,000 students move into the Hazelwood area? What services will grow around them?...What if we develop programs for current residents to take advantage of the growing employment opportunities in some of those sectors? What if all this is done with a strong sense of respect for the ecological framework of the region and with a commitment to diversify the economic and cultural opportunities...aligning the creative energy of our universities, the motivation for new product development of firms, the principles of sustainable community design and the energy and leadership of our region...
======
pathwayswellnessprogram.com/farm_to_table.html
earthtoobama.org
votersthink.org
news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=earthjustice
======
accelerationwatch.com
"Interpreting a world of accelerating change."
======
“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario”
September 12–14, 2008 | Bellevue, Washington
futurefoundation.org/programs/hum_wrk5.htm
======
Kucinich: Nationalize the Fed
brasschecktv.com/page/580.html
... take the money supply and control over it back from the bankers...
======
cspanjunkie.org
footprintnetwork.org
beesfordevelopment.org
avant-gardening.com
soilassociation.org
======
Third World Network
twnside.org.sg
======
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
unccd.int
======
a perspective on appropriate genetic engineering
rockfound.org
======
links
peopleandplanet.net/section.php?section=3&topic=5
======
Organic farming brings hope to stressed Indian farmers
peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3503
...has brought hope to villagers in a drought-prone area in India commonly known for farmer suicides due to debts from high-cost modern agriculture.
Low-cost, sustainable and environment-friendly farm technologies are helping boost the confidence and self-reliance of farmers in the drought-prone...
The Integrated Natural Sustainable Agriculture Programme (INSAP)...
======
www.earthscan.co.uk
facebook.com/pages/London/Earthscan/40207053788
======
Rainforest may burn, speeding climate change
peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3508
======
Local Governments for Sustainability
iclei.org
Local Action for Biodiversity
iclei.org/index.php?id=7927
======
citiesandconservation.org
interenvironment.org/pa/tui-quotes.htm
... protecting nature and improving city life are interdependent goals. Conservation and urban leaders are natural allies...
======
Defend everybody. We either all share the guilt or we're all blameless. Recovery teaches to accept the past, love the present, and take faith in the future.
======
Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Criminal Defense Resource Center
pacdl-cdrc.org
======
World War 4 Report
ww4report.com/links
======
Sty in sky rethinks how we can farm in city
Pig City — highrise pig sties designed by a Dutch architectural firm — is one of the radical ideas on urban farming in a
Design Exchange exhibit.
3/2/9
by Christopher Hume
thestar.com/News/GTA/article/595040
======
"...planet on overshoot..."
worldchanging.com/archives/009499.html
======
Quotes from
Information Clearing House Newsletter
informationclearinghouse.info
++++++
"When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people.
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...."
~Daniel Ellsberg 5/13/70 to the
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
++++++
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
~Elbert Hubbard
++++++
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
~Dwight David Eisenhower
++++++
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
~Jimmy Carter
======
greenmuseum.org
pittsburghearthday.com
======
Rachel's Sustainable Feast
Sunday May 24 12:30 - 4:00
rachelcarsonhomestead.org
http://rachelcarsonhomestead.org/Default.aspx?tabid=88
======
goodfoodneighborhood.org
buylocalpa.org
======
anythingradioactive.com
fusor.net
======
A Game As Old As Empire
The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the
Web of Global Corruption
gameasoldasempire.com
======
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
economichitman.com/pages/bookpages/excerpt.html
======
Nuclear power isn't the answer to energy or environmental problems
3/4/9 by Eric Epstein
Three Mile Island Alert
tmia.com
post-gazette.com/pg/09063/952891-109.stm
======
green chemistry
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-324070.html
======
Combining agriculture with reforestation
ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html
======
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
igsd.org
======
Ed Humes finds "eco barons" working to save earth
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090304/lf_nm_life/us_books_author_humes;_ylt=AjMNU.TtiLhRPhBKTHzYSYaFWo14
======
monetary.org/links.htm
======
http://www.agriculture.com
======
Climate Change: New Thinking to Tackle Old Problems
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45905
======
2/28/9
Drought in Southern South America
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=37239
...one of the worst droughts in southern South America in decades...plants were struggling to grow in the hot, dry weather. Since northern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil contain rich, intensively cultivated land, the dots include fields of corn, cotton, soy, wheat, or pastureland for grazing cattle. The brown tones reveal that these plants were growing far less vigorously than average in late January 2009.
From mid-November 2008 through mid-February 2009, unusual weather patterns brought extreme temperatures and low rainfall to this normally productive agricultural region. The period is critical for many crops, including cotton, wheat, soy, and corn. As a result, crop yields in the three countries were expected to dip, with Argentina suffering the worst blow, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Even Argentina’s famous beef industry had been affected by the drought, reported BBC News, as pastureland disappeared, and cattle starved.
======
Selling nuclear power
The sales people took the acronym EPR, which stands for European Power Reactor design, and slipped into doublespeak making EPR sometimes mean Evolutionary Power Reactor...
greenpeace.org/raw/content/usa/press-center/reports4/epr-the-french-reactor.pdf
======
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