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clear thinking: June 2006
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Musings on Science and Society. Posted by Peter B. Reiner. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The View from Georgeson Bay. There was an error in this gadget. Webpages I visit from time to time. Adventures in Ethics and Science. BC Sustainable Energy Association. Blog Around the Clock. Institute for the Future. Living the Scientific Life. Natural Resouces Defense Council. Sandcastle in the tide. The Future - A Rough Guide. The Science Creative Quarterly.
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clear thinking: Steady State Economics & GDP
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Musings on Science and Society. Steady State Economics and GDP. Have named Herbert Daly. As their Person of the Year. Daly. Has long been champion of the notion of the steady state economy. A former Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, Daly. Is currently Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Daly. Is no slouch: he has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award. And the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science, the Sophie Prize, and the Leontief.
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clear thinking: February 2006
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Musings on Science and Society. The impending ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse. Is receiving scant attention - but should be front and center for every one. If the Bourse opens as anticipated in March 2006, it is likely to shake up the global order significantly. As pointed out recently in Z Magazine. That would be otherwise unsustainable, especially in a world where money can move so easily. Several people ( here. Would stay their hand. It is worth pondering whether ...
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clear thinking: July 2007
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Musings on Science and Society. A Whiff of Apocalypse in the Air. Inside the front cover of the July/August issue of the Atlantic is a two page advertisement from Chevron. The crux of the message is that global energy security is everyone's responsibility, and the ad invites us to visit a website that they have setup at willyoujoinus.com. Then there is the recent piece in the Times. By Jeroen van der Veer, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, in which he tells us about three hard truths:. So the oil companies a...
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clear thinking: November 2008
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Musings on Science and Society. At first glance, you would think that the environment would be a big winner as the global financial crisis is felt by all. After all, excessive consumption is at the heart of our planetary ecological catastrophe (for one particularly distressing example, see here. Following on this line of reasoning, as people cut back their consumption, environmental pollution should also decrease. A bit of research reveals the problem to be widespread. Recycling Today reports. The drop i...
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clear thinking: Make more. Consume less.
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Musings on Science and Society. Make more. Consume less. Douglas Coupland has an op-ed. In today's New York Times in which he asks the question,. What if we actually do spend 10 percent less this year — and then decide to stay at that level? The answer is actually quite simple: Yes. The root source of the problems afflicting our world is too much consumption. The historian Andrew Bacevich has a rather clear-eyed perspective on the issue. From his interview. Again and again) that "the party is over". ...
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clear thinking: January 2006
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Musings on Science and Society. What could you do with Two Hundred and Fifty Billion Dollars? Over on the right hand side of my blog, you can see a handy little counter that I found which estimates the cost of the war in Iraq, based on Congressional Appropriations. It is set to hit $250 billion in March 2006. It is really quite staggering to think about why that money was spent, and what else it could have been used for. Posted by Peter B. Reiner. The vulnerability of energy supplies. Advocating that gov...
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Dr. Christina's Corner: May 2008
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I'm an English professor interested in fiction, poetry, science, what we read, how we read, and what it all means. Find out what I'm reading and why. Thursday, May 22, 2008. Persons are more than their properties. I just finished Robert Spaemann's wonderful book: Persons: the difference between someone and something. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College. View my complete profile. Persons are more than their properties. Hands off our ovaries.
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Dr. Christina's Corner: December 2009
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I'm an English professor interested in fiction, poetry, science, what we read, how we read, and what it all means. Find out what I'm reading and why. Monday, December 21, 2009. If you are looking for a terrific book that explains how four intellectuals could move from different kinds of idealism to uniquely American pragmatism, read this one by Louis Menand. Menand is a wonderful writer, and this book gave me a sense of how important Holmes, James, Pierce and Dewey were in America. Here's another way to ...
