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The Environment

Video Review: The Story of Stuff

by The Crazy Colombian on January 26, 2009

in Review, The Environment, Videos

A pow­er­ful video about the dan­gers of a consumer-driven soci­ety and the chal­lenge of sustainability

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Renewable energy? Go fly a kite!

by The Crazy Colombian on February 7, 2008

in Reflection, The Environment

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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How to have an eco-friendly winter

by The Crazy Colombian on June 16, 2007

in How to, The Environment

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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 some […]

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Image: blue on a tree by Car­los R
 
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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