Note: If you have come here with the need to compare my original article to that of NucFluens, you’re in for a surprise. I have taken some of NucFluens improvements, and incorporated them in this post. In the near future I plan to include an archival copy of the original article (no photo, headers, [...]

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The world markets crashed recently, and we were reminded of the futility of short term thinking. A friend wrote a piece about blogging (link) Another blogger wrote on the virtue of long vs short posts . I read an interview in ‘The McKinsey Quarterly’ with Al Gore and David Bloods, founders of Generation [...]

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About a week ago I created a ‘fun quizz’ to assess your level of environmental literacy. Today we will focus on a few things you can do to contribute in the reduction of carbon emissions. Before we get started, let’s see why this is a worthwhile goal.
The cause for reducing carbon emissions: Climate [...]

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A number of things have made me think about the impact I have on this planet. There is the incredible prominence that environmental issues have nowadays in the news; Then there was Dan Millman’s blog post about the impact that my choice not to be a vegetarian has on carbon emissions. And yesterday, [...]

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Winter is truly here, bringing with it childhood memories of nights by the fireplace, cooking steak on a grill over the open fire.
Who would light an old-fashioned coal or wood fireplace in these days of global warming, and still have a clean conscience? Lucky for us all, a creative Australian inventor has designed [...]

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Who would have thought that an esoteric branch of mathematics could explain some of the current problems of poor mexicans? Chaos theory explains the latest problem for this segment of Mexican society.
At the heart of this argument lies the classic ‘butterfly effect‘. According to Wikipedia,the butterfly effect [...]

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