As a lot of you know, I struggle with how humanity is going to survive in the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

From Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems by Newman and Jennings (2008):

Stephen Boyden, a biohistorian proposed the principle of biodeviation: "that when an animal is subjected to conditions that deviate from those it is genetically adapted to, the animal is likely to show signs of maladjustment".
Here is a list of what Boyden thought were universal ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm impatient ( Read more... )

This article in Wired about cellulose based bio-fuels really gives me some hope for the future.

“Our economy has been optimized (sic) to exploit exponential growth, and once exponential growth ends, it is designed to fail ( Read more... )

Something I found rather fascinating ( Read more... )