This post is the occasion to continue the series of posts I initiated some time ago on the “let’s face the truth about climate change mitigation” theme. The ultimate goal of these posts is obviously not to suggest any definitive answer to the question: is it possible to mitigate climate change, only to give some [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Biofuels – Let’s face the truth about climate change mitigation (II)
Posted in climate change, global warming, peak oil, population, science, technology, tagged biofuels, climate change, consumption, crisis, development, food, IPCC, oil, population, technology on November 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Could we build a last cathedral?
Posted in consumption, environment, motivations on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had the chance this week to attend to a lecture given by a lecturer in Industrial Ecology, that is currently member of an NGO, as well as a member of the City Council of Trondheim. Prior to this job, she took a degree in Industrial Ecology and spend time both in research within [...]
Consuming without even noticing it
Posted in consumption, global warming, technology on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Weird that sometimes the same news is revealed simultaneously in several countries. The latest I have noticed deals with those little, insignificant appliances that we leave on stand-by instead of unplugging them (or switching them off). It might be nothing, one could think. After all, what does a diode consume? Almost nothing… Right. This reminds [...]
