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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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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 […]

Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy […]

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 […]

Paul Krugman’s March 14th NY Times essay “Betting the Bank“, should be a wake up call that the old American Fantasy of no limits & no consequences is not only an impossibly false proposition, for one it ignores the laws of thermodynamics, but it is also at the very heart of our imploding economy.
It strikes […]

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 […]

Author: Jock Gill
Clearly all cultures have what might be called their DNA. This cultural DNA appears to determine the nature of a culture and the boundaries within which it can “thrive”. Given that cultures, like organisms, live in an ever changing “context”, it is no surprise that the DNA of a culture is […]

Author: Jock Gill
As we consider our choices for a better tomorrow, at least a livable tomorrow, it is clear that one requirement is that we take a fresh look at how we use our resources. Are we making the best possible use of them such that they can best serve the greatest number of […]

The P2P Power Economy
Author: Jock Gill
For too many decades the idea of the citizen as a one dimensional consumer has been growing. See Adam Curtis’ BBC series “The Century of the Self“. Today, it is the dominant view. The citizen consumes products, services, and “ideas” promoted by the few and sent […]

Author: Jock Gill

The picture above, thanks to David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics. Univ. of Toronto, is one way to look at the concept of punctuated equilibrium or the bifurcation process that is part of Chaos.
I once wrote a simple BASIC program that creates this image of a system bifurcating and then moving into chaos. […]