Category Archive for 'Community'
Saturday 10 May 2008
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Corner swamp 671, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.
What do you see in the photograph above?
I suggest we primarily “act” on what we “see”. Errol Morris posits that what we “see” is largely informed by […]
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Sunday 20 Apr 2008
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KWB-micro-CHP, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.
Wood pellet powered Stirling engine micro-CHP is now a commercial product in Europe! This very strategic product is made by KWB of Austria, who currently refuse to sell into […]
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Wednesday 26 Mar 2008
In this weeks Green Grapevine, published weekly in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, and Brattleboro Reformer, Daniel Hecht writes a review of James Howard Kunstler’s 2004 - 2005 book The Long Emergency.
The Long Emergency Predicts a Dire Future
James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is something like required reading among peak oil activists, and it’s a […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Climate Change, Community, Economic Justice, Economy, Energy, Politics
Wednesday 13 Feb 2008
The Grass Energy Collaborative [GEC] working paper was first shared in Dec. 2005 in Montpelier. Then it was shared at a meeting at Shelburne Farms in early January 2006 — just two years ago. Unexpectedly, President Bush mentioned “switchgrass” in this 2006 State of the Union speech. This really set up […]
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Saturday 09 Feb 2008
An important key for a more successful future is a more realistic and more honest economics. Not the fantasy economics we have today that assumes that economics is both mechanistic and divorced from the laws of the natural world.
Why we have not developed a new economics that includes the laws of physics, and […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Community, Economy, Politics
Friday 21 Dec 2007
Posted by Jock Gill
Oregon science teacher a mega-hit on YouTube
09:34 AM PST on Monday, December 17, 2007
Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Often, the kind of videos that blow up on YouTube involve scantily clad girls, or stupid pet tricks. But a nine-minute, 33-second video on the perils of global warming made by Central High School science […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Climate Change, Community, Culture, Economy
Monday 26 Nov 2007
On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
Cambridge, Mass.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Civil Rights and Equality, Community, Democracy, Economic Justice, Empowerment, Politics, Technology
Thursday 27 Sep 2007
Yet again, the Democrats are following, not leading.
It strikes me that the Jena Six situation, an event that happened on December 04, 2006, is a leadership opportunity the Democratic party should have taken up more PRO-actively. It is part and parcel of the ugly racist legacy nurtured by the hateful and divisive “Southern Strategy” […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Civil Rights and Equality, Community, Ethics, Politics
Wednesday 19 Sep 2007
Biofiber pellets are green coal: Stored solar energy, a useable form of recent sunlight. Coal is just ancient sunlight. This makes me think of steam as in engines. This leads to green coal powering steam engines for combined heat and power, perhaps even Micro-CHP.
A “2-cylinder, 3 horsepower steam […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Climate Change, Community, Energy, Technology
Monday 10 Sep 2007
The promoters of poisonous black seeds from jatropha [and here and here] “weed” have, so far, yet to imagine, see, the cooking fuel before their very eyes: double pressed oil seed cake [the residual fibers after the oil has been extracted]. When run through the oil press a second or third time, the […]
permalink | Jock Gill | Climate Change, Community, Culture, Energy, Technology
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