Russia makes major shift in climate policy – I will be amazed if Russia actually shifts its climate policy in any functional way. I suspect they feel free to make this politically advantageous statement because there doesn't appear to be any real threat of the world doing anything substantive about climate change, so why not get on the hypocrisy bandwagon and avoid any unnecessary conflict over it? Perhaps more than any other nation, Russia stands to benefit from climate change: gas and oil sales, and a massive unusable northern seaboard, as well as huge oil and gas reserves on its northern continental shelf, increased agricultural productivity, less harsh winters, no serious domestic population or water pressures, etc. This is normal Russian politics. (tagged: russiaclimateeconomicspolitics )
Growing Power – A two acre farm in Milwaukee growing food for 2000 people in greenhouses and hoop houses year round, heated by decomposing compost, with fish producing fertile waters for the plants, and worms breaking down the incoming nutrient stream: 80,000 lbs of food scraps every week from restaurants and institutional kitchens. (tagged: sustainabilityurbanfoodagriculturegarden )
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Local atmospheric Raleigh number spiking. Nap time must be over. 7 hrs ago
Bryan, Stephanie, Mike, Susan, Isadora, Liz, me, waffles, uh, is there *anybody* out there working today? :) 12 hrs ago
Heading down to Lakewood on the GS to play some Celtic tunes. And I'm running late of course. 1 day ago
Awesome morning ride to Ward via Lee Hill: cloudy up, sunny down, Sichuan dan dan noodles and good conversation at the top. Thanks Lincoln! 1 day ago
Government Data and the Case for Not Running Me Over2010/07/24 A good short note on how open (but still semi-broken) government data can help make all kinds of policy discussions more substantive. And how much better it would all be if it weren't so borken. As applied to the question of who pays for roads (everyone, it turns out, including cyclists).
Boulder is a city "wired for biking" - The Denver Post2010/07/21 Well thankfully I'm not the *only* person who has noticed how nice it is to bike here! Boulder has a whopping 10% modeshare for bikes (commuting), and a 46% increase in bikes downtown over the last 2 years. Please please please let this be a runaway process.
Xeromag | Polyamory?2010/07/21 A decent devil's advocate type description of what "polyamory" means. Lots of continuum variables...
Boulder Green Streets2010/07/19 Boulder is experimenting with temporary de-motorization of some streets, semi-Ciclovia style, and half a block from my house!
Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected2010/06/26 Go Iceland! Strange things happen in countries the size of cities. And even if you don't agree with this particular iteration, we need more experiments. More long tail governmental experiments. What we've got today just doesn't cut it.
The Real Science Gap2010/06/26 A much broader and more data driven historical look at how gradschool, and the system of science in the US, got so broken. Freakishly published only a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea it existed when I wrote my essay.
Tuna’s End2010/06/25 We will eat them all. Every. Last. One.
Don't Become a Scientist!2010/06/24 Jonathan Katz, a professor at Wash U., advises us not to become scientists. Not because science is evil or untrue, but because the system we have constructed for doing science, at and beyond the graduate level, is fundamentally broken.
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