Category Archives: Environment

Feelings across the universe

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

Reblogged from Learning from Dogs: If you can’t feel it, you can’t write it! This saying was offered in a creative writing class that Jean and I attended when we were living in Payson, Arizona.  It came to me spontaneously … Continue reading →

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Unsustainable Muse

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Thanks to my brother, I’ve been introduced to Muse. Night 2 at the O2 Arena, London. Muse performing ‘Unsustainable’. All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way that the availability of the remaining energy decreases. In all energy … Continue reading →

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Where oceans meet

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

[ A heads-up after the event: Gail (of Wit's End) immediately leapt in with what I think is crucial input as soon as this post was published. So please do read the comments section below, too! ] I’ve recently been … Continue reading →

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Why we fail

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

24327 votes for: ‘Keep Dropbox simple. Just make sure it’s fast, robust, multiplatform and bug free. ‘ 59 votes for: ‘Go Green! Run your data centres with renewables!‘ Homo fatuus brutus doesn’t deserve to survive. Meanwhile, in other news… Leave … Continue reading →

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Schrödinger’s Leopard

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

That clip was just in case you don’t know what is meant by the term ‘Schrödinger’s cat’. Moving on, then… … let’s do a quick species jump, to dogs (from whom, I’m reliably assured, we can learn a lot). And … Continue reading →

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Bee the change

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Neonicotinoids are pesticides. The last time I checked, bees were not pests. On the contrary, bees are essential to our survival, as they and other insects pollinate the crops upon which we rely for our food. And yet our economic … Continue reading →

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Global warming, one day at a time

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

In this video presentation, Dan Gilbert presents four features that threats must have for humans to react to them decisively and instantly. These are: a face violation of moral sensibility clear and present danger fast rate of change We don’t … Continue reading →

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Occupy Love

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

About the film – Occupy Love

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Ding, dong, the witch is dead

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

On the radio yesterday I heard the compère read out a tweet that described as ‘obscene’ the act of spending £10k£10m from the public purse on a funeral for the Iron Lady. (I agree with that stance myself; but then … Continue reading →

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End ecocide in Europe

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

I heard the other day that the UK Conservative party is considering leaving the European Convention on Human Rights — the BBC quoted Theresa May earlier this month as saying that “it restricted the UK’s ability to act in the … Continue reading →

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