“In an unprecedented television and internet event, ABC News is asking you to help answer perhaps the most important question of our time - What could our world look like over the next one hundred years if we don’t act now to save our troubled planet?” Watch the trailers, imagine the future, and figure out [...]
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Imagining the future
Published September 21st, 2008 in Change, Cleanup, Climate, Collapse, Earth, Ecosystems, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Global Warming, Global Warning, Greenhouse Gases, Ideas, Imagine, Innovation, Life, Natural phenomena, Oceans, Population Growth, Save the planet!, Science, Statistics, Sustainability, Toxic wastes, Uncategorized, Urban decay, What are we doing to ourselves? and What can we do?. 0 CommentsPopulation and exponential growth: dr. albert bartlett
Published September 18th, 2008 in Change, Collapse, Education, Evolving planet, Future, Human World, Population Growth, Science, Statistics, Trends and Uncategorized. 5 CommentsUnderlying every problem we are currently experiencing is unchecked population growth. Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado in Boulder gave a very informative lecture several years ago, and it is a classic. Basically, he says the most important thing we are ignoring is the simple mathematical principle of exponential growth. [...]
Plastic bags
Published July 9th, 2008 in Animals, Biology, Cleanup, Collapse, Ecosystems, Environment, Future, Health, Human World, Ideas, Innovation, Life, Man-made phenomena, Oceans, Plastic, Recycling, Statistics, Sustainability, Toxic wastes, Uncategorized and What are we doing to ourselves?. 4 CommentsThis post is going to be short and not too sweet. I’ve added a new category. It’s called “What are we doing to ourselves?” I hope to add another one, called “What were we thinking?” Go HERE to see something eye-opening and worth knowing about plastic bags. They’re everywhere and piling up, and they are really, seriously [...]
Some things you just can’t give up
Published June 15th, 2008 in Change, Collapse, Computers, Education, Future, Human World, Journalism, Magazines, News, Philosophy, Science, Trends and Uncategorized. 4 CommentsI’m having a tough time lately trying to decide which magazine and newspaper subscriptions to renew and which ones to let slide. This is a personal thing happening to me, but it is also a widespread phenomenon. Suddenly, people are doing their reading and their newshounding online and don’t have time to do the reading [...]