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See initial log, ending in late January. This log starts February 20, 2011.
4/30: Original outline, WSY. ezine for publishing. Montague’s book outline.
4/26: Staged progressive disclosure, says Jakob Nielson, as RAD build +1.
4/25: FOOD: Brown re Arab world and sustainability crisis. Round-up on food in The Star of Asia. Coal intensity of big IT.
FISCAL: Stockman on fiscal madness. Progressive Caucus budget, cited by Krugman re tax hikes:
“The answer, I’m sorry to say, is the insincerity of many if not most self-proclaimed deficit hawks. To the extent that they care about the deficit at all, it takes second place to their desire to do precisely what the People’s Budget avoids doing, namely, tear up our current social contract, turning the clock back 80 years under the guise of necessity. They don’t want to be told that such a radical turn to the right is not, in fact, necessary.”
4/21: Water crisis in Midland, TX. Plutocracy, says Naked Capitalism.
4/20: Growing global inequality. Tiabbi on secret second budget for $. MIT short sus course. Grist on BP one year later.
4/19: Review of Natural Capitalism. Stiglitz on 1% means shrinking opportunity. K gains tax but, more, monopoly power and little anti-trust regulation. “Wealth begets power, which begets more wealth.”
“Virtually all U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office. By and large, the key executive-branch policymakers on trade and economic policy also come from the top 1 percent.”
4/14-16: Worldwatch on nucs. IMF, WB on Arab spring. See Yahoo global economy. Finance leaders chastise US deficit as threat to global economy --- and put USA on watch list.. But Chinese inflation slowing. Ireland improving.
4/13: Harvey on capitalism. University of MN on ecosystem services. Panarchy? See scale project. See critique of Murray’s evolution and social ecology.
4/11: CIPL re energy audits, Bldng Performance Inst certification. Gulf coast summary article in NYT. Natural Resource Damage Assessment conducted. Taxing the rich works. Bank opposition grows: other industries hostile to banking practices join as lobby.
4/10: See The Middle Class web site. Milbank on Beck’s demise.
4/9/2011: Chinese 2011-2015 plan stresses sustainability, consumption (sic) and welfare state as social insurance..
4/6: Green $ investment up 52% to $2.57 billion for 1st quarter.
4/5: TIAA-CREF funds explained, such as inflation linkers. Wharton prof warns against linkers and urges emerging markets. See analysis.
WB eAtlas data and graphics..
WSJ on taxing the rich and retirement distribution. See WSJ home page on investment. Stay out of fixed income bonds. Answer: large cap funds!
World GDP time series on Google data exporer.
4/3&4: Tried to build TOC, but awkward. Work on ESS 2.0 and outline WSY. Stayed up way late to figure this out: 1 method Lexia; 2 ATN Lexia; 3 EEE/EOS Lexia. “You torrent,” best, safe says Mike Robinson. EU contests carbon footprint of Canadian tar sands, WTO dispute threatened.
Chris Hedges on banks. See quote re Lorax by Seuss growth (Speth Red Sky). Read Bridge at Edge of World, fine (optimistic) book! Arundhati Roy: “Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
4/2: Mike likes onion on energy for disabling..
4/1: BALLE living local ecnomies. Accelerate the contradictions blog.Chris Harmon: How capitalism works. See Zombie Capitalism. Mike Robinson: forchan, pirate bay, anonymous. See Amazon music. See Living in End Times, Zizek.
3/31: Stiglitz on Brian Lehrer. See Free Fall. Gandhian economics and Schumacher. Note eco-books on local economics. China’s ghost city. Flavin on nucs and global carbon tax. Ellen Brown re web of debt.
3/28: Sustainability, Brundtland, climate change. Carbon credit market not materializing. See WBCSD.
3/24/2011: Forbes features Malthus and Brown on feeding China. Dasgupta on NK. Anthropocene article.
3/23: Note the important Dasgupta article on net growth. Jon Stewart on foreign oil. HTML Goodies search for DW. New Compass for venue. Support for nucs drops. War over energy looms, extrapolate from trends. See Energy Tribune. HSBC finance supports sustainability; see wind in UK and microloans for rickshaws in India.
3/22: Earthscan curriculum on sy. Cancun roundup. Tim Jackson YouTube. Earth Summit expectations lowered. See Bioregional site on architecture. Worldwatch on population stats. Daily Green aids consumers. Food inflation in US, linked to sustainability.
3/20: Found citation to my web site in Africa Env. Outlook. Cool! Nicole, long talk about MIT and Brown. Stefan Helmreich on biocapital. Discover Word Press, blog. Dev and social capital, useful for social capital.
3/16: ESS build, Daly notes. Good day building, writing. Must work on + attitude. html works for me to pull all together and makes the work available and public.
Japanese deceit in nuc disaster. TOES post. Michigan law opens up SAP in USA. leckman recent article on civil society organizations and global governance or Orion mag tends to deep ecology but publishes. See help for GDocs and Cloud Connect. Technology singularity amplifies intelligence., from Aqua Regia. See Gaia and Evolution.
Dollar at 16 year low vs Yen. Cranford Patch site. Open Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, a bit jingoistic but could help with StrSy. No, says George Monbiot, uncovering the hypocrisy. He is a hard right propagandist. The core idea jibes with Noosphere. (Monbiot notes that hard right will jump on all critics astroturfing --- be wary.) See Resource Investing News re CSS fiction.
3/15/2011: Explore Google webmaster tools. Google public data; see WDP, GDP growth.See Atomic Insights blog, pro-nuclear.
3/14: Jay Hanson on economics and on economics for others. Transitioning to Green for companies. Bloomberg radio news: 85% of US economy is service.there
3/13: Today and yesterday, spent awaking hour on collecting scrap paper notes on HWS as project definition, placed in folder called “HWS spring break.”. NTP foray deemed partial effect, so must do:
See Ted Talks on biomimcry. Google lobbies for green power, countercurrent to GK --- the contradictions within and among industries. See journal Constructed environment.
3/11: Williamson on Washington Consensus: Policy Dialog. See trade deficit. | Green capitalism fails, Smith in Real world economics. Commentary on Wisconsin and injustice. McKibben on Kochs. Obama drops cap and trade. See Yahoo site explorer
3/6&7: UN re women farmers key to fighting hunger. Lenin’s tomb for capitalism, globalization. Ordered Walljasper and Harvey. Yes mag. 400 richest have assets greater than 155 million combined, says Michael Moore. 60 Minutes: 25% of children in USA now in poverty, up to 16 million, 2 million more since recession began. ProPublica on fracking. NEF on measuring progress. Annie Leonard on Citizens United.
3/4: Oil reserve data. Robert H. Nelson, economics as religion. Food prices hit record, depend on oil. home economics from Amy Heid. See Architecture 2030 and Ed Mazria. See Lawn, P., & Clarke, M. (2010). The end of economic growth? A contracting threshold hypothesis. Ecological Economics, 69(11), 2213-2223. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.06.007
Best Android apps, Vignette #1. Looming battleground states. Exercise cuts aging. Assault on environmental regs.
3/2, 3: Anthropocene and pdf article. Implications of 4 degree rise. Mark Bittman on ag subsidies. Story of Stuff on Citizens’ United. See NYT editorial and climate change in context, from Google search. Scientific American: climate change will cause crop failures.
3/1: Green Conduct covers sustainability communication. GPI vs GDP at Inspired Economist. See Bloom Energy.
2/27/2011: Climate models too optimistic. Stern’s 2 degrees not compatible with 3% growth rates. NYT re rivers and fracking. Can Google’s Transphorm change energy?
2/22: Jay Hanson web site. Int Society for Ecology and Culture.
2/21: Note that Feasta carries articles. See Ray Kurzwell’s Law of Accelerating Returns. Hauff, 20 year Br update. See spoof film from cap and share. See Ray Anderson. Appropedia provides a wiki for sy +. India Env. Portal gives s. view. SourceWatch seeks truth and uncovers hogwash.
2/20/2011: Revived Google Docs, noticing that it publishes and updates as a basic html page, thus can be linked and automatically updates. This takes tasks away from Dreamweaver and my wiki. Links and revisions are easy and quick. Initial trials were sensational. See notes on Brundtland.
See Sustainable Measures for training course and Sustainable Jersey that might work for Rachel. | Background to Brundtland , to GEF. | See Centre for Global Education for venue for my work.