Beyond Sustainability – A Manifesto
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“Those dark cliffs looming ahead? That is the height of your achievement.”
– Bruce Sterling
What does “beyond sustainability” actually mean? It means we can do better than just squeaking by. [more]
Featured Article
Beyond Planet Three
Conversations about worthwhile sustainability readings from elsewhere on the web
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Alaska North Slope Temperature of 90 F Recorded
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Member of Soon-To-Be-Axed Australian Commission Calls Climate Debate “Infantile”
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Heartland Institute’s Contemptible Weaseling
The latest own-goal by Heartland has been going on for a couple of days, and has now made it to Slate summarized by Phil Plait and excerpted here. [more]
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Jamais Cascio Climate Management / Geoengineering Roundtable Tuesday
Via David Brin, who’s on the panel:
Join us this Tuesday June 18 at 11 a.m. Pacific, as we take on Reinventing Climate Management with scenario thinker Jamais Cascio, author of the book Hacking the Earth: Understanding Geoengineering. He will lead a terrific group of scientists and other innovators (plus me… for comic relief) wrestling with this issue in this roundtable.
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Rogue State Canada
Simon Donner reminds us that It is World Day to Combat Desertification. Or, World minus Canada, as Canada is only country to ever withdraw from the treaty. [more]
Featured Video
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Some Models Are More True than Others
Our decision-making under the influence of science comes back to the question of how much we should trust models. There is no easy general answer. But among the many ways this demonstration is interesting, it makes it very clear that some models are extremely trustworthy. On the other hand, obviously some models are useless. So there must be a continuum.
