by Gil Friend | Jun 6, 2004 | Sustainability
I do find myself wondering — with all three technologies in this session — what’s the point? I’m not persuaded that these technologies add value to the more fundamental matter of people actually speaking to each other. Maybe my luddism is...
by Gil Friend | Jun 6, 2004 | Sustainability
Celia Pearce of UC Irvine working with Buckminster Fuller Institute on a ‘assymetical’ game with players as stewards of the real world – not just a virtual game world. Players use mltiple devices — PCs, phones, PDAs — to simluate and...
by Gil Friend | Jun 6, 2004 | Sustainability
Blogging the PlaNetWork conference at the Presdio in San Francisco, which has a strong focus this year on the conscious use of information technologies and the Internet … in creating a truly democratic, ecologically sane and socially just future. Just heard Arno...
by Gil Friend | May 27, 2004 | Sustainability
Big piece in National Geographic, complete with cool maps and serious challenges: When will the peak hit? Depends on who you ask. David Greene of Oak Ridge National Laboratory analyzed oil production rates based on a variety of supply estimates. His interpretation of...
by Gil Friend | May 26, 2004 | Sustainability
The Donella Meadows Archives are now online. And well worth visiting. This is a public collection of the work of Donella (Dana) Meadows. Through her writing and speaking, Dana helped people understand global systems with long delays and complex feedbacks, while also...
by Gil Friend | May 24, 2004 | Sustainability
[World Changing]: I’m somewhat in love with The Greening of the City, Jane Jacobs’ latest essay…. Jacobs goes on — by way of discussing sprawl as a by-product of the cheapness of suburban parking and a agro-business planning mindset...
