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Technology changes slower when applied to non-renewable resources 2 Citations A reality check from Richard Heinberg's current Museletter:Given plenty of cheap available energy, technology can work wonders. It is understandable that our society has fetishized technology, given the spectacular societal changes it has wrought in the past century. In the last twenty years alone, computers, cell phones, and a suite of other digital communications technologies have created industries and fortunes, altered our habits, and morphed our vocabulary. The evolution of computers has b, technorati.com
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Permaculture Principle 2: Catch and Store Energy 1 Citation This principle reminds us of the need to gather and save natural energy for our long-term needs in a time of energy descent. Our unprecedented wealth is largely due to our profligate consumption of earth?s natural resources, especially fossil fuels. We have been squandering our wealth, forgetting that ? like all things ? it is finite. ?In financial language,? Holmgren says, ?we have been living by consuming global capital in a reckless manner.? As we begin to slide downslope on the bell curv, technorati.com
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1 Citation With the news that Newfoundland and Labrador will soon be moving away from equalization while Ontario will be moving toward a ?have not? position, much has been said by government and the media alike on the subject. Over the past week it seems, to this observer, as if the objective has not been to clearly discuss Ontario?s woes or even to congratulate Newfoundland and Labrador for its success. The objective of some seems instead to be an offensive against Newfoundland and Labrador by turning wh, technorati.com
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Roughing It May Help Explain Personal Generated Energy 1 Citation We all hear of the advised shift towards alternative source of energy but people really fail to realize how it can be done. To most, the understanding is that they are just supporting sources to bring down utilization of energy but there are people who will go to extremes to force them to learn what it means to live on personal generated energy. In fact, the rural life is perhaps the best place to start it all off. Many people may have a shock at first but if you think about it, looking for, technorati.com
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1 Citation Money doesn?t always equal value. These news items are about the United States but what?s happening there is impacting the global economy . . . From The New York Times: Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans ?Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.? From the Economist: Inflation or deflation? ?The markets have become incredibly volatile, technorati.com
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Mean Joe Green #21: Three and a Half Million Mosquitoes! 1 Citation That?s how (I feel) the world views the U.S. According to the CIA World Factbook we have 1/22 of the world?s population but use 1/4 of the world?s oil! The United Nations and the World Health Organization share that the average person in the developing world uses 2.64 gallons of water a day. The average person in the United Kingdom uses 35.66 gallons of water per day? The average person in the United States uses between 100 and 175 gallons every day at home. Related Articles The Facts Ab, technorati.com
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Dessert Crawl at Caffé Demetré 1 Citation The Mature Students Club hosted a Dessert Crawl at Caffé Demetré. The conversation took some interesting turns to the pros and cons of royalties versus government ownership in non-renewable resource enterprises. The approach of Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams was contrasted to that of the former Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein. Omar Ha-Redeye is the President of the Mature Students Club at UWO., technorati.com
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