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Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Thursday, November 28, 2002

The Incredible Mind of Einstein. It comes as a shock to realize that Albert Einstein, whose theories still seem so futuristic and Star Trekky, did his first pathfinding work almost a century ago. By Philip M. Boffey. [New York Times: Opinion]
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Quote of the day

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Bush Plan Gives More Discretion to Forest Managers on Logging. The Bush administration proposed to give forest managers more discretion to approve commercial activities with less evaluation of potential environmental damage. By Robert Pear. [New York Times: Science]

The remarkable thing about the Bushian ideology is that local control is good if it reduces environmental protection (eg forestry), but bad if increases environmental protection (eg clean air).
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Of course it also helps to have candidates...

Something I didn't know, voting is compulsory in Australia. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Wow. Where else? (Turnout was all of 30% in California this year.)
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EIA: US renewable energy use declines 12% from 2000 to 2001

Biomass surpasses hydro; both decline. Renewable electric generating capacity increased modestly; wind power provided most of the 1,803-megawatt capacity increase. The five leading States for renewable generation during 2000 were: Washington, California, Oregon, New York, and Idaho.
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