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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 :)
Tag Archives: sustainability
Making (personal) sense of a disintegrating world
A lot of people – usually people who don’t actually know me – think I’m a pessimist. There are some things that even readers of this blog will know I believe in; things like inevitable catastrophic climate change, end of … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged climate change, degrowth, peak energy, peak oil, permaculture, predicaments, sustainability, Transition
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Expecting a minor bump; about to hit a brick wall at 200km/h
That, in a nutshell, is my take on the current state of the world when it comes to climate change and other “challenges” ahead. How to tackle it? As much as I criticized The Lean Startup book in my review … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Environment
Tagged Arctic sea ice, climate, climate change, climate models, crop yields, ecology, energy, IPCC, population crash, sustainability
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The dirty mobile telecommuters
Telecommuting can be great. It can also be loaded with many lies, one of which I’m going to partially debunk here: environmental benefits. Here’s typical imagery of a telecommuter, the kind that can be found from a plethora of presentations … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, mobile
Tagged CO2 emissions, emissions, mobile, mobile broadband, sustainability, telecommuting, teleworking, wireless
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Time to shift from sustainability to resilience
In my previous post I mentioned my stance of climate change being a predicament rather than a problem. That’s just one of the challenges that are moving from the problem-space into the predicament-space. As that happens, we will need to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment, General
Tagged adaptation, resilience, sustainability
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Why I think the Internet will survive even in the medium term
As the predictable series of crisis starts to bite (climate change, peak energy, deforestation, soil degradation & water scarcity to start with), what will be the first large element of the modern society to buckle? One of the most visionary … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Energy, ICT-stuff
Tagged communications, electricity, ICT, Internet, John Michael greer, mobile, renewable energy, Rod Tucker, sustainability
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