CONSEGI 2011, a promising start
CONSEGI 2011 just started, and looks promising for two or three reasons. The first one is shown in this picture of the line at the registration desk: there’s a lot of young students here! Hopefully,...
View ArticleNever mind the debt! What matters is EROI
(this is my attempt to understand and summarize in less than 500 words, in order to make it accessible to as many people as possible, a very important issue I’ve read about in the sources quoted below....
View ArticleEfficiency is NOT the top economics priority
This is my own summary/understanding of a paper about the Insufficiency of Efficiency. I found it interesting because it complements what I recently read about the need for society to adapt as soon as...
View ArticleWhat is resilience and why it is good for you today
The adjective resilient means (among other things) “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. That’s an excellent capability to have in though times like these, isn’t it? You...
View ArticleThe European Energy SuperGrid needs education and openness
During the 2011 European Open Days (*) I followed a presentation of the Supergrid: “a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large-scale renewable energy and the balancing...
View ArticleOpen Days 2011: growth and job creation vs an ageing Europe
The 2011 European Open Days (*) covered a lot of very different topics, from local transportation to health, traffic, smart cities and education. Almost all these talks, however, starting from the...
View ArticleBringing rural Europe online: what’s better, wireless or fiber?
Several sessions and seminars of the 2011 European Open Days (*) have covered the theme of how to bring broadband connectivity to every European citizen. According to several Open Days panelists, when...
View ArticleGoing to Mauritius? Remember to map breadfruit trees!
A couple weeks ago, an unusual request on the Mauritius Linux Users Group caught my attention, one that may interest both tourists visiting Mauritius in the next months, and everybody interested in ICT...
View ArticleYou will not die. You will just have a hard time, forever. Unless…
John Michael Greer makes a really important provocation. He begins explaining a few things about the current world that everybody not living in a hole already knows: Our current industrial society was...
View ArticleSave the forests, not the tiger!
(this is something I wrote down for myself almost ten years ago, when I came across some “Save the Tiger” campaign. See at the bottom the reason why I resurrected this note and put it online now) May...
View ArticleSome questions and suggestions to all commoners
I’m just back from the 2013 Economics and Commons Conference in Berlin. A great event, in which I took lots of general notes synthesized in another post that I’ll publish tomorrow. This one, instead,...
View ArticleRogue Engineers Behind Volkswagen Scandal? So what?
Some recent declarations from VW executives about the Volkswagen scandal are half unbelievable, half totally irrelevant. Seriously. Quoting from “Could Rogue Software Engineers Be Behind VW Emissions...
View Articlefinal bits from fOSSa 2015, from Open Education to Ecology
fOSSa 2015 was such a great conference that I and Wouter Tebbens already wrote four other posts about it (see below). Here are the last bits that are worth sharing but did not fit elsewhere. Open...
View ArticleInternet of things, who’s right? UK or Denmark?
It’s always fun, and useful, when two or more news, that somehow go against each other, are published in the same day. Last Friday we had: From the UK: Internet of Things is Driving the [Global Market...
View ArticleClaimer.org tries to make it easier to claim damages by climate change
If damages caused by climate change go unclaimed, industries have no incentive to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. That’s why an organization is developing software to compile damage...
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CONSEGI 2011, a promising start
CONSEGI 2011 just started, and looks promising for two or three reasons. The first one is shown in this picture of the line at the registration desk: there’s a lot of young students here!Hopefully,...
View ArticleNever mind the debt! What matters is EROI
(this is my attempt to understand and summarize in less than 500 words, in order to make it accessible to as many people as possible, a very important issue I’ve read about in the sources quoted below....
View ArticleEfficiency is NOT the top economics priority
This is my own summary/understanding of a paper about the Insufficiency of Efficiency. I found it interesting because it complements what I recently read about the need for society to adapt as soon as...
View ArticleWhat is resilience and why it is good for you today
The adjective resilient means (among other things) “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. That’s an excellent capability to have in though times like these, isn’t it?You...
View ArticleThe European Energy SuperGrid needs education and openness
During the 2011 European Open Days (*) I followed a presentation of the Supergrid: “a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large-scale renewable energy and the balancing...
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