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 [...]
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Could we build a last cathedral?
Posted in consumption, environment, motivations on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Basic instincts
Posted in consumption, environment, tagged Amazon, American dream, consumption, destruction, environment, Rainforest on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We are just another animal species, unfortunately given the ability to master fire and technique. I write unfortunately, because it is this gift that is going to cost us our disappearance. And not satisfied enough to put an end to our short period of existence on this world, we will also bring with us to [...]
We are all drug addicts
Posted in consumption, peak oil, tagged consumption, drugs, oil on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No matter what we can say, we are all addicts. And we ask even more of our drug every single day. Let’s first examine the characteristics of a drug and what makes you addicted, to finally draw this amazing conclusion. Usually, you do not like taking drugs because of the action to take them, rather [...]
IPAT, the fundament of industrial ecology
Posted in consumption, environment, population, technology on September 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An introduction to Industrial Ecology (two terms which, in my opinion, are hard to put together) will certainly expose this equation, which describes easily the current problems our civilization has to face:
I=PAT
I is the total impact on the environment. P is the population, in capita. A is the affluence, or consumption level per capita, expressed [...]
