Thermoelectric Advances Could Increase Car, Truck, Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Efficiency by 15%
Industrial waste heat is 7 quads in the USA. There is more waste heat from power plants and from cars. Capturing 20% of that waste heat is 1.4 quads every year. 1.4 quads is double all of the wind energy generated in […]

When you really stop to think about it, Bush & Co. have spent over 1 trillion dollars in pursuit of a poison we know is killing us. They have squandered 1 trillion dollars seeking a poison that would be much better for the conditions of spaceship earth if it were left securely sequestered […]

Thanks to Tom Atlee, today I watched the Stroke of Insight video - a presentation at the 2008 TED conference. It is amazing. I hope you will watch it too. And then share it as you see fit
The “Stroke of Insight” video is deeply informative with respect to the limits […]

Thomas Friedman’s essay in today’s NY Times, Anxious in America, is a good first step indictment of the failure of the Cold War world view to solve our 21st century problems. It should be no surprise that a world view that despises the role of government, except, curiously, when it comes to spying on […]

How do we define an “economics” that would be appropriate for spaceship earth? Is the current Chicago school of economic theory, as embraced by Senator Obama, the best we can do? It has had a long run. Has it gotten us to where we want to be? Can it get us to where […]

Could a President Obama set us free?
What is the “The Trap“?
It is a three part film by Adam Curtis, broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.
Curtis’s narration concludes with the observation that the game theory/free market model is now undergoing interrogation by economists who suspect a more irrational model of behaviour is appropriate and useful. […]

Don’t miss this video. It explains it all.
Don’t forget to register to vote. And PLEASE be sure to vote in November.

Author: Jim Warren
It’s often said about “open” government, that the best way to hide something is to bury it in a mountain of “public” records.
Regarding John McCain’s everso-brief “disclosure” of his medical records, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported,
“… At promptly 7:30 a.m. PT [on Friday beginning a holiday weekend], we were taken to a […]

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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 […]

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 […]