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    A Back-of-the-Envelope Master at work (on how to get renewable drinking water for 2m people.)

    by  • October 13, 2008 • Personal, Science, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson on Global Swadeshi fleshing out how to provide water security for the Canary Islands. I just love this post. This is exactly the kind of magic that I hoped that Global Swadeshi would produce. Now let’s build it! I’ll note that the same logic applies to the dry coastlines of Africa too. And [...]

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    The First Annual Open Sustainability Network Conference – 18/19 of Oct, 2008

    by  • October 13, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Sustainability_Network And they’re having an event next week ======== OSNCamp is the gathering for all those interested in openness and knowledge sharing for a “just sustainability”. It is also the first gathering of the Open Sustainability Network. What’s it about? Thousands of organizations and millions of people are currently working to effectively tackle a set [...]

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    EU to ban incandescent lightbulbs.

    by  • October 13, 2008 • The Global Picture • 5 Comments

    Four years ago, I said You know when I’ll say we’re taking environmentalism seriously as a people? When the government *BANS* incandescent lighting in general applications. Just flat out bans it, like they did with PCBs or lead-based paint or other hazardous substances. That’s how real change is effected. We have arrived.

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    Threats of martial law on bailout plan

    by  • October 4, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California says that some representatives were told that if the bailout bill failed, there would be a catastrophic financial crisis followed by martial law. Things that make you go… hm… Ron Paul… “America is going bankrupt… We’re in the same position the soviets were… we can’t support the empire any more…”

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    AKVO’s big, big, big world

    by  • September 29, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson does a short presentation at World Water Week. Really worth watching. Particularly is that it is at heart a discussion of scale as a primary challenge in global change. Worth remembering the world is a big, big, big place… 6,000,000,000 is 20 Americas, six Chinas, 120 Britains… it’s a big, big, big world.

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    On the global financial collapse

    by  • September 29, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    We should have given individuals money to pay their mortgages. That was the real answer here. As it is, the banks still wind up owning the empty houses, the people still wind up homeless, and the crash is still coming. Why the bad debt of the banker can be bought by the state, and not [...]

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