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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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
"The study is the first work to document experimentally Fowler and Christakis's earlier findings that social contagion travels in networks ...
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 ...
Habitat
Corn ethanol doesn't appear to be the way to go, for multiple reasons. So no, it's not "green". "The new study, ...
Very cool stuff I could want one.... Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children ...
Guerrilla Gardening and more. http://www.designundersky.com/dus/2010/2/25/ludic-guerrilla-gardening-drone-warfare.html
Trends
Corn Ethanol Doesn’t Reduce Carbon FootprintCorn 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 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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