Entries tagged with: Global Warming

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The Resilient World

Environmental architect William McDonough is said to have asked, "If a person described her relationship with her spouse as merely 'sustainable' wouldn’t you feel sorry for both of them?" The word "sustainability" has come to dominate environmental discourse, employed to...

Posted on February 23, 2007 11:45 PM

We Win the War; Now the Fight Begins

Bruce Sterling's Viridian Note #00487, sent today, is something of a victory announcement for the Viridian movement. The idea -- the truth -- that the planet is in the midst of an extraordinary climate disaster is no longer a fringe...

Posted on January 27, 2007 4:16 PM

Wednesday Topsight, January 24, 2007

Let's see, lots of apocaphilia lately... • Five Minutes to Midnight: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a well-known icon, shown here: the ticking clock, counting down to midnight. Throughout the Cold War, as tensions between the superpowers rose...

Posted on January 24, 2007 9:21 PM

Welcome, Treehuggers

My post on the carbon footprint of cheeseburgers got picked up on Treehugger, so this little site is seeing a new flurry of activity. For new visitors who recognize me as the co-founder of WorldChanging, the topics I cover...

Posted on December 27, 2006 10:26 AM

Bioprinters vs. the Meatrix

One of the odder manifestations of the fabrication future may well revolutionize the world of medicine -- and quite possibly change how we eat and offer a new way to fight global warming, too. Bioprinters use ink-jet printer technology to...

Posted on December 14, 2006 4:29 PM

Terraforming the Earth, Now In the Spotlight

Geoengineering -- aka planetary engineering, aka (re-)terraforming the Earth -- has once again popped up into the public limelight. The latest issue of Wired has an article about Nobel-prize-winner Paul Crutzen's proposal to spray sulfur particles into the high atmosphere...

Posted on November 27, 2006 2:34 PM

RAIDs Against Global Warming

This has "duh... why did we think of this before!" written all over it: a "redundant array of inexpensive disks" to cool the Earth. Everyone with a bit of sense knows that the only way to combat global warming-induced climate...

Posted on November 3, 2006 5:14 PM

New Futurismic Column Up

My monthly column at Futurismic is now up: The Geoengineering Option. Those who are familiar with my pieces at WorldChanging on "Terraforming Earth" will find some of the content familiar, but the focus in this piece is on understanding geoengineering/terraforming...

Posted on October 1, 2006 12:44 PM

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Posted on July 22, 2006 8:16 PM

Monday Topsight, June 26, 2006

Light blogging week (of course, the week when I get a hat tip from BoingBoing). I'm spending the next few days at the Institute for the Future's Health Horizons conference (PDF), including serving as the keynote speaker tomorrow. I'll be...

Posted on June 26, 2006 4:57 PM

Stephen Hawking, Global Warming, and Moving Out

Last week, at a talk in Hong Kong, Stephen Hawking made what struck me at the time as being such a reasonable and obvious observation that I didn't think it needed commentary: ''It is important for the human race to...

Posted on June 22, 2006 4:26 PM

Climate, Cancer and Changing Minds

Can smoking cause lung cancer? Yes. Is any given case of lung cancer caused by smoking? No way to know. The complexity of cause-and-effect is such that, while we can be certain of a strong connection between smoking and lung...

Posted on May 2, 2006 9:54 AM

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