Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/deepaks_article.html The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion]. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with [[Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality]]. Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people …
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Sociale Databank Nederland en Grondvest
Gisteren tijdens de bijeenkomst van [http://www.ecoduso.org/ EcoDuSo] danwel de Happy Planet Group werdt ik voor het eerst geconfronteerd met de [http://www.sdnl.nl/ Sociale Databank Nederland]. Interessante bronnen en groepen mensen. Veel inspiratie voor [http://aardsource.org Aarde]. M.n. zaken zoals een Algemeen Basis Inkomen en [http://www.sdnl.nl/gv-1k03b.htm Belasting Ontrokken Waarde]. Ik herinner me dat Eckart Wintzen daar een keer …
Time & the Technosphere
13 maart 2007 had ik een afspraak met Martijn Arnoldus van [http://creativecommons.nl/ Creative Commons Nederland] over het uitbrengen van het [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha-boek] onder een Creative Commons licentie. Ik was heerlijk op tijd en het weer was ook prachtig. Dus kon ik heerlijk even snuffelen bij de [http://www.fsf.nl/ Frontier Bookshop] aan de Leliegracht in Amsterdam. Precies …
Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City
A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms—all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert. This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is envisaged for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When complete, in …
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Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology
Freeman Dyson, I love you! :…the rules of ”’Open Source sharing”’ will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good old days before separate species and intellectual property were invented. [http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/30/1927205&from=rss Read more of this …
Conscious Computing
Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes. Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource consumption in the complete life cycle of a network of computers has become the focus …
Aarde tag cloud
Using [[ScriptCloud for your tag cloud|ScriptCloud]]’s output, I created a tag cloud for the text in the [http://wiki.aardsource.org/Bus_Tour/Vision/Central_Station Aarde Vision Bus Tour]. Had to fiddle around with the style sheet a bit. The links do nothing, though. Here it is… aims architects architecture billions blogs blossoms broadcasted buzzing challenges collaborate combining cooperate ecology economic economy …
Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development
Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]: :[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]: “slugo writes ‘Internet search giant Google (GOOG) hopes to speed the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving away millions of dollars to people and companies that have what appear to be practical ways to get plug-in hybrid automobiles to market faster. :’While …
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One trillion euro for AardWagen
How about rewarding ”’one trillion euro”’ for the first international precompetitive collaboration that produces a vehicle in ten years that improves rather than poverishes our Earth in each and every step of it’s lifecycle? From original conception to design, manufacturing, use and destruction, AardWagen will make our environment better, more whole, embellish it, enrich it. …
Aarde Wiki Bus Tour
Welcome to the [http://wiki.aardsource.org/ Vision Bus Tour] around Aarde’s Wiki. You are cordially invited to contribute, ask questions and even fix any errors you find on the way. Enjoy the ride.