aranya on January 28th, 2010

A strange but interesting short video for all economists (and the rest of us participating) to ponder…

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aranya on January 5th, 2010

Perhaps only one piece of the puzzle, but still nice to see Stephen Fry adding his voice to a nice little video by WeForest… And mentioning the word ‘permaculture’!

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aranya on December 24th, 2009

It was perhaps inevitable that our so-called ‘World leaders’ would disappoint us in Copenhagen. Are any of us really surprised? The influence of big business is far too great for our politicians to lead us any more. No, we are the ones this time who are going to have to come to the rescue. Yes, [...]

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aranya on November 11th, 2009

Having just put another couple of logs on the fire on this chilly night, I am once again reminded of our total reliance upon winter warmth. As I mentioned before, we’ve developed an adapted hibernation strategy to get us through the cold months, but our dependency on fossil fuels of late has made us very [...]

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aranya on September 24th, 2009

Entropy is commonly defined as; ‘A measure of disorder or randomness. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.’ As a physics undergraduate student, this never made sense to me. If things are only able to proceed to a greater and greater state of disorder, where did the order we see come from [...]

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aranya on June 7th, 2009

The daily choices that we make have either a positive or a negative effect upon our environment & believe me, those choices are significant. Have you ever considered how much of your income (& time) that you spend each week on just obtaining food? Now multiply this up for a whole year. Then multiply that [...]

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aranya on March 25th, 2009

Could we all be suffering from brain damage? Tony Wright certainly thinks so, pointing out that the world we’ve created is clearly the product of a disconnected consciousness. The idea that we can keep on using up Earth’s resources and polluting her soil and water without consequence is insanity. But it seems there was a [...]

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