You could say we brought upon ourselves the economic and environmental tragedies of today. And you’d probably be correct. Everyone is still finger pointing because, by definition there can be no absolute answer, so it’s safe. Fairness is at the bottom of all of this, but where? And why. Perhaps a narrow definition of private [...]
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Common-Pool Resources
Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fun With IR and Wii
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS, SHINY, VIDEO DU JOUR on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Johnny Lee’s TED presentation, pairing an IR camera (the one in the Wii controller in this instance) and and IR source to make complex UIs available and affordable for the masses:
Here’s What’s Going On
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like me, it’s pretty simple. I’m asked by handful of followers of this blog why I’m not blogging lately about anything I’m working on or items I think are relevant to what’s going on and what should they be doing to take advantage of the economic conditions to gain share. There’s not a lot I [...]
Interesting Water Statistic
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, STATISTICS, WATER on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read a statistical claim re water today I find interesting if it’s anywhere near accurate. The claim is that one cup of coffee requires about 140 litres of water. For your tea people it’s not quite at bad, however still completely over the top imho, it’s about 35 litres. We found that for drinking one standard [...]
The Elusive Bottom
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, PEEPS, POLITICS on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Outside The Box‘s John Mauldin just published an insightful summary called The Elusive Bottom. Take the time to read the entire piece, here’s his bit on the new frugality that you might find sufficiently amusing to click over and read the entire piece: Frugality is going to set in As far as I know, there are [...]
Clever Incentive To Be More Green
Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, HEH on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Save fuel, get through traffic quicker and perhaps also safer. Nothing not to like, very clever. In Barcelona and Madrid motor bikers get pole position at traffic intersections. The pavement is marked with a yellow grid (Barcelona) or bike icons (Madrid), bikers scoot ahead of the cars and busses for the light change. Economic incentives [...]
Financial Literacy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Financial literacy is only part of the problem. The Economist, as usual, has a good piece on the subject, but the problem is there’s more that’s not understood re behaviour. There’s a motivational component, kids (and some adults) just don’t want to learn about this stuff. It’s easier to be ignorant, it takes less effort. Or maybe [...]
Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life
Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, PEEPS on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I realise everyone on the planet is focused on the ongoing Bear debacle and gossip re insolvent financial institutions about to be outed, with biofuels way down the list of topics at dinner tables in most NYC restaurants tonight. But this is a much bigger deal in the long run so I’m posting against the [...]
Climate Exchange
Posted in CARBON STATS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a piece in the WSJ today re Richard Sandor, emissions and carbon trading. The next big battlefield will be in the U.S., where Congress is currently debating setting up a system for regulating greenhouse-gas emissions. Lawmakers are considering a system like the one created by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a global United Nations-sponsored accord that set [...]
EU Carbon Targets
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, HEH, POLITICS on January 23, 2008 | Comments Off
The European Union’s original carbon targets are history. The new EU climate-change scheme was revealed today, power companies and other emitters will have to ratchet up their use of renewable energy. Country by country these targets will be sorted into directives, industry will have to pay for the right to pollute. Carbon trading schemes (cap-and-trade) [...]
Kids And Democracy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, PEEPS, POLITICS on January 7, 2007 | Comments Off
Over the holidays Martin Varsavsky posted an idea on his blog, one with potential to harness the power behind a lot of the buzzwords in a way that makes a lot of sense to me. Most of you know who Martin Varsavsky is, if not here’s a few links, he’s the guy with several several [...]
Brokerages Price War
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH on October 12, 2006 | Comments Off
If you have ever been the recipient of one of my email missives with subject This is not going to end well you already know where I’m going with this post. When I stumbled across Zecco recently it was not clear how long it would take – or if it would even take – however [...]
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