Floating Islands for the Maldives

    Very cool stuff  I could want one….

    Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children in environmental science and furiously built retaining walls around every island, but the government is buying up land in nearby nations as a place to retreat to when the Maldives disappears. Now it appears that the intrepid Maldivians have come up with a new strategy to fight the rising tide: creating mini floating islands!

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Editorial

another tangent for the circle

Regarding a discussion about pre-Westphalian history, bards, resiliency, open-source warfare, and more, I believe this summarizes my position. Note that ...

On Virtual Tribes and Resilience

credit: rmatthendrick A purely virtual rc tribe is not, and will not be, entirely useful in terms of disaster/collapse ...

Design, Intelligent and Otherwise

The question today is - how do you prepare for something that can wipe out an entire species when you ...

Behavior

Cooperation goes viral

"The study is the first work to document experimentally Fowler and Christakis's earlier findings that social contagion travels in networks ...

blood glucose, decision making, and future orientation

Interesting research.  As an evolutionary mechanism, it makes sense - if you need food *now*,  planting seeds is less attractive ...

Self-control is contagious?

Interesting stuff. As vanDellen also points out, if you make the non-self control choice, you still can't blame it on ...

Habitat

Corn Ethanol Doesn’t Reduce Carbon Footprint

Corn ethanol doesn't appear to be the way to go, for multiple reasons.  So no, it's not "green". "The new study, ...

Floating Islands for the Maldives

Very cool stuff  I could want one.... Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children ...

Bomb the Blocks

Guerrilla Gardening and more. http://www.designundersky.com/dus/2010/2/25/ludic-guerrilla-gardening-drone-warfare.html

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Trends

Corn Ethanol Doesn’t Reduce Carbon Footprint

Corn ethanol doesn’t appear to be the way to go, for multiple reasons.  So no, it’s not “green”.

“The new study, published in the March issue of BioScience , finds much lower emissions from indirect land-use change than the Searchinger paper calculated but still enough to tip the balance away from corn ethanol.”

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Geopolitics

Another take on nations and states

Jeff 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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