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This is my home for things that don't, for one reason or another, belong to Twitter, Facebook or my other blogs. Here you will find my thoughts and musings on topics ranging from climate change and energy issues to mobile & IT technologies, reviews on things I read/see and from cultural commentary to photos. In other words, the topics are all over the place - so if you're looking for a blog with a consistent focus on a single issue, keep looking :)
Category Archives: Environment
Once-in-a-hundred-year events every five or ten years? Welcome to a brave new world.
Lately, weather has been the news more often than followed the news. After every major storm or other weather event, meteorologists around the world get asked the same question: “Was this due to climate change?” And all around the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment
Tagged climate, climate change, creeping normalcy, cyclones, floods, la nina, shifting baseline, storms, weather
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Review: Post Carbon Reader
The last environmentally oriented big-picture book on my reading list for now was “The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st century’s sustainability crisis“, edited by Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lergh, but written by literally dozens of well-known authors. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Reviews
Tagged book reviews, climate change, energy crisis, peak oil, post carbon reader, sustainability
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Review: With Speed and Violence
Returning shortly to the “big picture”-type of books, I chose to go with the well-regarded book With Speed and Violence: Why scientists fear tipping points in climate change by Fred Pearce. Now, Pearce is a science journalist rather than a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Reviews
Tagged climate, climate change, IPCC, tipping points
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Total cost of different lighting types
Lighting, in allowing people to be productive outside daylight hours, is one of the most important applications of electricity. Given its importance, it’s pretty interesting that for most of the world, the mainstay technology – the incandescent bulb – has … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Energy, Environment
Tagged CFL, compact fluorescent, cost-efficiency, efficiency, halogen, incandescent, LED, lighting, lighting cost
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Sustainable building
After the previous couple of books on the sustainability crisis I picked two books dealing with the same general topic on a highly individual level, yet in a field that is responsible for as much as 40% of the global … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Building, Environment
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