The Evolution Will Not be Individualized

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I've been thinking about how the two most recent contributions to the Shareable Futures series -- the Q&A with author Paolo Bacigalupi and Vinay Gupta's "The Unplugged" -- stress social change as an accumulation of individual de. Read more »

What the Whale Ate

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High Country News (the Western state newsmagazine featured prominently in our conversation with author Paolo Bacigalupi) produced this disturbing collage of the contents found in the stomach of a beached whale. Read more »

What's a Farmers' Market For?

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Over at GOOD magazine's blog, Borborygmi has a quite interesting post on the limits, promise, and utility of farmers' markets:

Even today, many markets offer little guarantee of local food and no guarantee that the vendor hims. Read more »

Putting the Future Back in the Room

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The future that my parents' generation warned us about forty years ago looks an awful lot like our present. Read more »

Viennese Talks on Resilience & Networks

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Last Thursday I spoke at the Viennese Talks on Resilience & Networks hosted by FAS.research, the Austrian Ministry of Science & Research, The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and the Federation of Austrian Industries. Read more »

Sobering NASA Video of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

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Via The Map Room: NASA has produced a time-lapse video of the expanding Gulf of Mexico oil slick.

This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig and, later, the ensuing oil spill through May 24. Read more »

The Shareable Doomsday

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Remember the Cold War? I used to love the idea of a nuclear apocalypse. As a kid in Michigan, my little friends and I battled green-skinned mutants across our town's bombed-out fields and through abandoned factories. Read more »

The Ecological Footprint of e-Books

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One of the great promises of digital content has long been its purported eco-friendliness--in the early days of the battle between bloggers and the old-school media, bloggers touted the ecological footprint of blogs, which were surely more green than. Read more »

Can I Offset All My Cheating?

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One of the most brilliant, insightful satires I've ever seen: "When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere. Read more »

Sharing: The New Recycling?

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Over at the wonderful Streetsblog, Shareable friend Chris Carlsson reminds us that curbside recycling was once considered a wacky, far-out idea. "We tend to take curbside recycling for granted," writes Chris. Read more »
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