Archive for the 'Global Warming' Category
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people's minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. Just have a look here, here, here or here...four different bloggers posting independently of one another, on the same [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Reading over Chris Lydon's musings from the Symi Symposium in Greece left me feeling melancholy and despairing; and a thought that has been crystallizing in my mind just started running over and over again in my internal dialogue: our institutions are paralyzed by egotism, self-interest, and inefficiency.
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
The concept of a "photosynthetic ceiling" was first introduced in Jared Diamond's book Collapse. Though Diamond certainly did not pioneer the idea, as far as I can tell he was the first to use the easily digestible term "photosynthetic ceiling", often referred to in other studies as human appropriation of terrestrial [...]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Innovation, by its very nature, is difficult to institutionalize. Innovation requires free and open environments where people can be creative, explore their own interests, and leverage available resources. Institutions rely on predictable processes so that when someone flips a switch or makes a phone call, they get the expected [...]
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Continuing on the idea of agricultural wastes, we move to pyrolysis, a term used to describe the conversion of biomass (and non-biological waste products, as well) into constituent elements by exposing it to moderate temperatures (~500ÂșC) in the absence of oxygen for short periods of time (fast pyrolysis). Though general research [...]
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