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- Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health
Some lessons from public health for sustainability and climate campaigners. Our choices are largely not our own -- context and norms are far more powerful forces for behavioral change than abstract attitudes. Most people just stick with the default settings. We need to change the default settings. - Every drone strike in Pakistan visualised
A simple but effective visualization of all the drone strikes in Pakistan, from 2004 to the present. 3100+ people dead, 1.5% of them "high value" targets. More than 75% alleged combatants (males of plausibly military age... 14+ years old) or "other". 5% children. 17% "civilians". - The Water Footprint of Crops
A fairly exhaustive accounting of the water embodied in various crop products in a 2011 paper by Mekonnen and Hoekstra. For each kg of rice, 14,000 liters of water. For each kg of beans, 5000 liters of water. Wow. - The NYT on Green Muni Utility Efforts
A piece largely referencing Boulder, talking about cities trying to wrest control of their electricity systems from major utilities. At this point I think I'll probably find any media coverage of this process hopelessly one dimensional, but still, it's nice to know they care. - Someone Else's Blank Slate
The Long Now has a good post on their blog summarizing the fate of Paul Romer's Charter City initiative in Honduras. In short, it's gone down in flames. Especially with the ideas and capital coming from N. America, this really shouldn't surprise anyone. There's a good core idea in Romer's Charter City pitch, but it has to be more like an organic autonomous region and less like a maquiladora or a colonial outpost.
- Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health
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The Water Footprint of Crops
A fairly exhaustive accounting of the water embodied in various crop products in a 2011 paper by Mekonnen and Hoekstra. For each kg of rice, 14,000 liters of water. For each kg of beans, 5000 liters of water. Wow.
Quantifying Community Garden Crop Yields
An informal study looking at the urban farming yields, by Mara Gittleman. 67 gardens, with a total area of 1.7 acres in NYC generated 87,000 lbs of food, with a market value of roughly $200k in 2010. This is equivalent … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, cities, economics, farming, food, gardening, gardens, urban
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Why Urban Farming is an Awful Idea
Boulder County is looking at some kind of county-wide sustainability program, with an associated tax which will be on the ballot this fall. The City of Boulder is revising its Climate Action Plan, looking toward a goal of climate neutrality … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, boulder, citites, energy, farming, food, math, politics
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Multi-agency armed raid takes down raw milk and cheese producer
Apparently the agricultural industrial complex is willing to take down its competition with a hail of lead if necessary. A multi-agency SWAT team descended upon a raw milk and cheese buying club in SoCal, and is holding the proprietor without … Continue reading
Industrial Scale Urban Farming in NYC
TED fellow Viraj Puri talks about his Brooklyn rooftop farming startup. Gotham Greens has ~1500 square meters of hydroponic greenhouses producing herbs and salad greens in a very controlled environment… somewhere between a farm and a manufacturing facility. The system … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, food, greenhouse, hydroponics, new york, nyc, sustainability, urban
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California Dreaming
An hour long interview based documentary by some Dutch filmmakers about the changing social and economic realities of southern California, in the wake of the financial crisis, and America’s general malaise. It’s dangerous to cling to an identity which is … Continue reading
Links for the week of June 26th, 2010
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Tagged academia, bailout, banks, caltech, cars, chemistry, cities, economics, education, election, fish, food, government, gradschool, greenpeace, iceland, japan, jobs, kagan, phd, politics, research, science, scotus, sharing, society, sustainability, technology, transparency, transportation, tuna
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