General Evolution Advocacy & Research
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Swaraj UniversityNew concept in facilitated self education. Based in India. Aims to graduate students directly into green/sustainable ecomony enterprises.
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How green are our cities?How green are our cities? The key number in measuring that now is the per capita emission or how big a carbon footprint an individual leaves. The developed world pegs lndia's per capita emission at 1.7 tonnes. But a study by a non-profit organization of 40 Indian cities says it is much lower ...
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The Nature Institute - Ghosts in the Evolutionary MachinerySteve Talbott takes a big stick to the researchers who blur the lines between digital worlds and real worlds. Great arrangement of ths foundation concepts of digital life and its utility (or not) in the effort to better understand our carnal world.
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Practical Action Consulting - 2 Nine experiences of democratising technology2 Nine experiences of democratising technology In the diverse experiences described below, different individuals and organisations have adopted a variety of roles to bring about what can broadly be termed the 'democratisation of technology'. Each account begins with a brief summary of these ...
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The Embryo's Eloquent FormThe Embryo's Eloquent Form This essay is part of a work in progress and is subject to continual revision. Date of last revision: May 22, 2008. Copyright 2008 The Nature Institute. All rights reserved. You may freely redistribute this chapter for noncommercial purposes only. Given the ...
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Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and TagsOntology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed ...
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How to Fight Soil Erosion by planting Vetiver Grass? - Howtopedia - englishOverview of the potential role of Vetiver in eco restoration
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Carbon Nullius and Racial Rule: Race, Nature and the Cultural Politics of Forest Carbon in CanadaCritical geographers have paid remarkably scant attention to issues of climate change, even less so to forest carbon management policy. Building on geographic debate concerning the ontological production of nature and race, this paper argues that at stake in the climate change debate are not ...
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The Dark Mountain ProjectHighlighting, challenging, and re-tooling our cultural narratives in preparation for a re-blossoming of our planetary existence.
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Monbiot.com » Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation?Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation? Posted August 18, 2009
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