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refuge west: March 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Push to Eat Local Food Is Hampered by Shortage. March 26, 2010. By KATIE ZEZIMA, New York Times. EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. — Erica Zimmerman and her husband spent months pasture-raising pigs on their farm here, but when the time came to take them to slaughter, an overbooked facility canceled their appointment. As a result, they are scaling back on plans to expand their farms because local processors cannot handle any more animals. 8220;It&#...
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refuge west: November 2009
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Monday, November 23, 2009. Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009. Ugo Bardi has written a very readable summary of how this process unfolded in one of the best documented cases, the fall of the Roman Empire. The end of Rome was a process of radical relocalization, and the result was the Middle Ages. John Michael Greer, author of The Long Descent. Wednesday, November 18, 2009. NOVEMBER 17, 2009.
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refuge west: December 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Friday, December 31, 2010. December 17, 2010. A Physicist Solves the City. By JONAH LEHRER, New York Times. For West, the world is always most compelling at its most abstract. As a theoretical physicist in search of fundamental laws, he likes to compare his work to that of Kepler, Galileo. And Los Alamos National Laboratory. Set out to solve the City. As he points out, this is an intellectual problem with immense practical implications. Urban populati...Of Ri...
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refuge west: March 2011
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Monday, March 28, 2011. US Energy Portfolio Shift. March 28, 2011,. Renewing Support for Renewables. Is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts. The biggest positive result of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi could be renewed public support for the development of renewable energy technologies. Many influential policy makers, including President Obama. As the chart below illustrates, renewable energy sources (including hydropower and biofuels.
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refuge west: February 2011
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Thursday, February 10, 2011. Imperial Valley, Southwest: 50 percent chance of drying up in as few as 10 years. Fighting For Water In Arid Imperial Valley. KQED Public Broadcasting - February 10, 2011. Southern California's Imperial Valley produces about 80 percent of the nation's winter vegetables. But years of drought, and a population boom in the Southwest, now threaten the water supply in the desert region — and all those cheap winter greens. This is the o...
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refuge west: May 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Interview With David Orr. Http:/ www.e360.yale.edu. Eyeing the Difficult Path To a Sustainable Future. Environmentalist David Orr says the easy part of helping the United States live within its ecological limits may be passing laws, such as one that puts a price on carbon. The hard part, he maintains in an interview with. Is changing a culture of consumption that causes extensive environmental damage — and unhappiness. Down to the Wire.
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refuge west: September 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Seedlandfund subscribes to the theory that we are heading towards a new equilibrium in the 'flat world' global economy. The US, less a producer, is in economic decline or at least entering a period of slower growth. The tightly managed production economies, such as China, are rising in the world. But, the stock market is rising! We believe better 'people metrics', to track and monitor the US economy, might be the US poverty rate, ...
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refuge west: August 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Taleb's Pessimism Lures CIC. China's Sovereign-Wealth Fund Is in Talks to Invest in Universa's Bearish Wagers. By JENNY STRASBURG, Wall Street Journal. Healthy investments are those that produce goods that humans need to consume, not flat-screen TVs," said Mr. Taleb by phone from near his family's ancestral home in Amioun. "Stocks are not a robust investment. Make sure you have a garden that bears fruits.". Universa is run by 39-year...
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refuge west: October 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Saturday, October 30, 2010. Big Solar's Rube Goldberg. The Tortoise And The Solar Plant: A Mojave Story. By Sarah McBride, National Public Radio. October 30, 2010. Mercy Vaughn crouches over a young tortoise peeking out from its burrow near a creosote bush in California's Mojave Desert. The area is home to rare species, including the threatened desert tortoise. But a giant solar plant is under construction in the vast wilderness area. They will pee," Woodman ...
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refuge west: July 2010
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Towards Sustainable and Robust Human Systems. Friday, July 30, 2010. Is Solar Power Now Cheaper Than Nuclear Energy? Thu Jul 29, 2010. Solar power took a big step toward becoming the alternative energy of choice with this week's news that energy from sunlight might be cheaper than nuclear power. The analysis, which comes from a Duke University report entitled. Solar and Nuclear Costs: The Historic Crossover. Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Twitter. Monday, July 26, 2010. Exploring Algae as Fuel. The goa...
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