Does Freedom of Speech imply the responsibility to speak honestly – even when what is not what people want to hear? John Ehrenfeld, on his blog, in discussing the US Presidential Campaign, noted (here), “[M]y concerns and consternation at the virtually complete absence of truth from [a GOP debate in New hampshire]. Not only was the [...]
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Tweet I am presenting “Beyond Fuel: From Consuming Natural Resources to Harnessing Natural Processes,” a discussion of the hidden costs, or “economic externalities,” of nuclear power, coal, and oil, and the non-obvious benefits of wind, solar, marine hydro and efficiency at the Space Coast Green Living Festival, Cocoa Beach, Florida, Sept 17, 2011. The festival [...]
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Tweet It sounds too good to be true: * 100 gigawatts of offshore wind, $300 Billion, * 100 gw of landbased wind, $200 Billion, * 75 gw of solar, $300 Billion, * 75 gw of geothermal, $200 Billion. * 200 gigawatt equivalents of efficiency – $200 Billion. * 100 & Clean, Renewable, Sustaianble [...]
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Tweet Earth Day, 2010, I looked to the future on Popular Logistics. In 2009, I wrote about water pollution and agricultural waste in the Chesapeake. Today I am looking at the present and recent past. While a comprehensive look at where we are can be found on the web pages of the World Watch [...]
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NY Times Special (Business As Usual) Energy Section Clifford Krauss’ “Can We Do Without the Mideast?” sets the tone for the “Special Energy Section” in the NY Times, March 31, 2011. “The path to independence – or at least an end to dependence on the Mideast – could well be dirty, expensive and politically explosive.” [...]
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Offshore Wind Energy: Its potential to mitigate climate change (For Webinar Click Here) New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions Wednesday, March 2, 2011 – 2:30 pm James Manwell, U Mass Amherst, Director, Wind Energy Center, (Press Release: Renewable Energy Research Laboratory) Wind power in the United States has grown from 1,800 [...]
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Conferences – In New Bedford, Mass, the Marion Institute presents Bioneers by the Bay. Van Jones delivered the keynote. I was there last year. It was great. In Washington, DC, The Green Festival. A friend of mine from the Pentagon will be there. In Long Branch, NJ, The Social Venture Network Fall Invitational. Ralph Meima, [...]
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Apple, Blackberry, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Motorola, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and other consumer electronics companies can be less unsustainable than their competitors and less unsustainable tomorrow than they are today. However, given: The state of the art in manufacturing, Electronics are made with designs that are supplanted before they wear out, and Recycling consumer electronics is [...]
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Abstract. By burning fossil fuels we have put 3.6 trillion tons of Carbon Dioxide, CO2 in the atmosphere1 in the last 200 years – most in the last 60. This has changed the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from 270 parts per Million, ppm, to 390 ppm, an increase of approximately 31%. This increase of atmospheric [...]
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If your car is accelerating out of control, whether it’s a Toyota, a BMW, or any car, Put your foot on the brake – and press the brake with a steady pressure. Put the car in Neutral. (Just like manual tranmissions, automatic transmissions have a “Neutral” setting. You shouldn’t drive if you don’t know this.) [...]
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The Brundtland Commission defines sustainability as “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” How do you do it? Harnessing processes, not consuming resources. (click here). In Making Sustainability Work, 2008. ISBN 9781906093051, Marc Epstein describes how to do it; the corporate structures needed. We’ll get [...]
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The [$34 million] the city wants to spend on [the Brooklyn House of Detention design] contract would be better used as a means to reduce class sizes and build more schools. – William Thompson November 19, 2009, Press Release, YouTube, Gotham Schools Part I. Bill Thompson: “Schools not Prisons” the full the company men movie [...]
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Obama in Strasbourg, “pollution from cars in Boston or from factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic … what I want to do is not only fix the immediate crisis, but, working in partnership with other countries, create a path for sustainable, responsible growth.”
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The classic definition of Sustainability; providing the needs of today without compromising our ability to meet our needs tomorrow. And how do you do it? Harnessing processes; rather than consuming resources.
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.