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• The real reason Dayton can’t regionalize.

  
  Esrati — Authority: 131
  There is a great article on Good.is about “Identity theft for Cities” that I’ve been waiting to talk about (after my last debacle post about race and regionalism . Maybe this time- we can keep the comments on subject.) If you look on a map of the globe- we’ll be lucky to see Dayton with a dot if we don’t ...
  1 week ago

• Information Wants to Be Free, But at What Cost?

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 148
  Everyone has heard the quote: "Information wants to be free." Ever since Stewart Brand uttered it in 1984 at the first Hackers Conference, this quote has been a rallying cry for those w read more
  2 weeks ago

• A Q&A with Stewart Brand

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 494
  Stewart Brand has been the subject of multiple NNN blog posts over these last several weeks: his latest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , was reviewed and the kerfuffle between Amory Lovins and Brand has been discussed in multiple posts . Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Buildings Learn, a lesson for technology

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Technology Blog — Authority: 588
  Stewart Brand’s 1997 television series, How Buildings Learn, has become something of a classic. Not so much for architects – they really hate being told what to do – but for software engineers.Episode 1:The basic thesis, that a building is never finished but changes and grows with the requirements of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Four (The “Role of Government Myth” and Final Thoughts)

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 494
  This is the fourth and final post from us that looks critically at the bogus claims in Amory Lovins’ latest study. “Role of Government Myth” In his new book , Stewart Brand states (p. 84) : …Energy policy is a matter of such scale, scope, speed, and patient follow-through that only a government can ...
  2 weeks ago

• NRDC’s Frances Beinecke: Act now on climate!

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 557
  Just last week, Frances Beinecke , the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council , gave a speech to a Chicago business audience and the first question went something like this: I read the Wall Street Journal, I still don’t believe in climate science and I want to hear the full  story. Beinecke’s new ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Two (The "Baseload Myth")

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 494
  Continuing on Friday’s critique of Amory Lovins’ latest study , our following post delves into discussing if wind and solar are baseload technologies. Funny enough, Lovins’ rebuttal of this myth completely misinterpreted what Stewart Brand said about baseload in his nuclear chapter and apparently ended up ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part One (The “Land Footprint Myth”)

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 494
  Three weeks ago Mr. Amory Lovins released a very pointed critique of Stewart Brand’s chapter on nuclear in Brand’s new book, Whole Earth Discipline . After reading both Brand’s and Lovins’ pieces, I understood why Lovins was so critical of Brand. It was because Brand was quite critical of Lovins in his ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stewart Brand on Green Myths

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 437
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Stewart Brand’s latest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , questions some of the central tenets of environmentalism. Is nuclear power bad? Can biotechnology serve the planet? Can science and engineering advance the environmentalist cause? As the title ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Cities Are Probably the Greenest Thing That Humans Do.”

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  A few years ago, environmental guru, Merry Prankster , and  Whole Earth Catalog author  Stewart Brand caused a minor stir with an  article he wrote in the MIT publication, Technology Review .  Brand, who was an early advocate of the “back to the land” movement of the 1960s and 1970s, had done some ...
  5 weeks ago

• Nuclear Power Debate: 350 Movers, Pragmatic Greens & Fearful Opponents

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 521
  First, take a deep breath. It is difficult to do when it is your life and career day-in and day-out, but every once in a while, all of us moving in the clean tech space should stop and reflect on the breakneck pace at which everything around us is moving: technology, regulation, public awareness. Sure, maybe climate ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Cities are probably the greenest thing that humans do.”

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 617
  A few years ago, environmental guru, Merry Prankster, and Whole Earth Catalog author  Stewart Brand caused a minor stir with an article he wrote in the MIT publication, Technology Review .  Brand, who was an early advocate of the “back to the land” movement of the 1960s and 1970s, had done some ...
  5 weeks ago

• Climate Changes

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 126
  By: Kory Raftery Several stories on the science and politics of global warming caught our attention this week: Tomorrow marks the "International Day of Climate Action," sponsored by 350.org . Its being billed as a grassroots political action campaign, but its also a numbers game - more than 4,600 events in close ...
  6 weeks ago

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