Funding a Relief Project
I posted my original comment on disaster relief requirements approximately ONE HOUR before the quake hit Haiti . You can see yesterday’s repost here …. so what are the relevant notes from today’s news? (quotes compiled from multiple wire stories.)
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We operate with the following assumptions:
The bulk of the human population will be urban - a continued trend
The fastest-growing segment of urban growth will be slums - a continued trend
Global warming will continue at roughly the same rate it is at now - a continued trend
This leads to a focus on urban planning; disaster mitigation and recovery; temporary autonomous zones; community resiliency; resource generation and distribution systems; material science; mass psychology; and related fields.
As Burning Man focuses this year on the theme of "Metropolis", Genius now will continue to reference and support that vision with goals of both influencing the discussion and promoting Burning Man ideology and (more importantly) experience and collective knowledge..
Editorial
Regarding a discussion about pre-Westphalian history, bards, resiliency, open-source warfare, and more, I believe this summarizes my position. Note that ...
credit: rmatthendrick A purely virtual rc tribe is not, and will not be, entirely useful in terms of disaster/collapse ...
The question today is - how do you prepare for something that can wipe out an entire species when you ...
Behavior
Interesting research. As an evolutionary mechanism, it makes sense - if you need food *now*, planting seeds is less attractive ...
Interesting stuff. As vanDellen also points out, if you make the non-self control choice, you still can't blame it on ...
photo credit: djuggler Interesting news - and right in line with our research objectives. The competition aimed to develop new ...
Habitat
How have I missed this? "What is "Seasteading"? Seasteading is creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. ...
While this piece has a somewhat odd tone to me, in terms of catching the lessons I think it's a ...
This is an important book on an important topic. While one may disagree with some of his conclusions as ...
Trends
micro solar-photovoltaics – potentially cost effective, resource effective, and competitive“So they use 100 times less silicon to generate the same amount of electricity,” said Okandan. “Since they are much smaller and have fewer mechanical deformations for a given environment than the conventional cells, they may also be more reliable over the long term.”
Geopolitics
Another take on nations and statesJeff Jarvis on Google as a state. I personally agree it’s closer to a nation, but as with most other things getting lumped into that argument, it’s new wine in old bottles – we have a really hard time realizing that non-nation and non-state actors are the fastest growing world powers.
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