The end of the year is just passing now. The winter solstice occurs at about noon (GMT) today (21 December). That’s the nadir of the solar cycle, when the angle of the sun is most acute on the axis of rotation of the earth. Today is the shortest day of the year in the northern …
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BT Notes November – economic crisis – ecological crisis …
November started with recovery from our Halloween party which we always enjoy. Despite several days of rain before, we managed to light a bonfire which kept burning for a couple of days – warm enough to roast marshmallows on two days later. On the night marshmallows were roasted on the BarBQ. Thanks to everyone who …
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Nutritional Medicine
I recently finished reading Nutritional Medicine by Stephen Davies and Alan Stewart. I had found it on a shelf in the house and flicked it open one day. It looks a bit academic – it’s a guide with some medical terms – but interesting. It must have been read by Mum last century(!) – its …
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The sad economics of growing vegetables
I came across an article on intensive commercial horticulture in Organic Matters. It reflects much of what we’ve learned over the past decade of organic production in Ireland (a developed economy, with subsidised industrial farming and a consumer market generally interested in cheapness and uninterested in quality or source). Two main ideas which are relevant …
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End of Iraq War – New York Times published by Yes Men
The Yes Men do it again. Over a million copies of a fake NYT dated 4 July 2009 were handed to commuters in New York and Los Angeles with the headline Iraq War Ends. Brilliant. You can see the fake New York Times website, which has articles like Ex-Secretary Apologizes for W.M.D. Scare and USA …
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LOHAS mind maps and videos
LOHAS 12, the twelfth annual gathering focussed on sustainable an healthy living, has recently put presentation videos and summaries online here. Particularly good are the graphic mind maps of about a dozen presentations which are linked here. Here is one of them entitled LOHAS Market Trends prepared by idea360.com:
Systems-Thinking.org
Mental Model Musings at the web-address www.systems-thinking.org offers an easy to navigate portal in to the world of systems thinking. Worth a browse for anyone in the knowledge business. To get an idea of the extent of the musings of Gene Bellinger, here are the contents: Systems Modeling & Simulation Systems Introduction to Systems Thinking …
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BT Notes October – change, parties, …
October is a lovely time of year for all sorts of reasons. The colours of nature in our temperate climate are changing as Autumn peaks. Leaves of beech turn gold then brown, maple red then drop, the oaks hang on to their green a little longer. As leaves fall you can begin to see through …
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The Wall Street Crash – archive 23 November 1929
From The Economist archive Reactions of the Wall Street slump, Nov 23rd 1929
The World in 2009
The Economist has started a blog on The World in 2009 in anticipation of that publication at the end of the year. To get a preview of their prognostications, or to add your own, check out the site.