Tag: sustainability
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The human mind readily grasps a revolution like Tunisia's or the one in aborning in Egypt. We're well-equipped mentally for a short-term crisis, especially one that involves the question of who is in charge, and who stands with whom in a struggle over power and principle. But that's not the kind ... Read More
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For a few decades in the 20th century, it seemed as humanity's triumphs of public health were turning into an ironic and deadly trap. Because more babies were surviving infancy than ever before, and more adults were safe from deadly diseases, the human race's numbers were growing at a spectacular ... Read More
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A few weeks back, the old-school anti-fertility group Optimum Population Trust issued its index of "overpopulated" nations. It names 77 countries which, it says, are "consuming more resources than they are producing and are dependent on other countries, and ultimately the Earth a whole, to make ... Read More
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Plastic Logic finally released its much-anticipated QUE reader today, along with news of agreements that a forest full of books, magazines and newspapers will be available on the device. The Que is supposed to be a boon to important people who have to lug big piles of paper around to their ... Read More
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More cuddly holiday season news: According to two architects who specialize in sustainable-living solutions, it takes twice as much land-use in a year to keep a medium-sized dog fed as it does to run a Toyota Land Cruiser. A cat uses as much in natural resources as a Volkswagen Golf.In both ... Read More
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It's Black Friday here in the U.S., the worst shopping day of the year. Do yourself a favor and check out an alternate reality: the Rev. Billy's Church of Life After Shopping, where today is Buy Nothing Day. Read More
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Biofuel development is going to add a lot more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a new assessment published today in Science Express. In theory, fuel produced from sugar beets, corn or other crops should push less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases ... Read More
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In markets, medicine, justice, politics, psychology, and economics, "Rational Man" is dead. As the science of human behavior enters the post-rational era, we no longer think of ourselves as cool calculators in pursuit of our objective self-interest. Mind Matters is about this change and its effects on how we live. It's about the reasons people perceive, feel, think, and act as they do, and the gaps between what we think we're doing and what research says we're doing. Most importantly, it's about how this sea change affects the institutions we live by: courts, hospitals, governments, stock markets and other entities that still run on the presumption that people act rationally.
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