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Friday, August 23, 2002 |
Stafford Beer, a legend of management cybernetics and democratic technology, penetrating insights and great joie de vivre, passed away quietly today in Toronto, surrounded by family and friends.
5:44:13 PM 
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New World Wildlife Fund report, Sustainability at the Speed of Light, underlines how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - defined as any product or system that communicates, stores, and process information - could play a positive role in achieving sustainable development.
10:20:10 AM
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Time Magazine's Green Century "special report on the state of the planet and how to save it."
For starters, let's be clear about what we mean by "saving the earth." The globe doesn't need to be saved by us, and we couldn't kill it if we tried. What we do need to save[greater equal]and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up so far[greater equal]is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then, it's us we're trying to save[greater equal]and while the job is doable, it won't be easy.
Nice to see someone clarify that, for once. The planet's not going anywhere. The question, as always, is where are we going?
9:10:16 AM
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Often missed in the policy debate: a growing body of forest management strategies that are both profitable and environmentally sound -- and that are profitable because they're environmentally sound. F'rinstance: New Bottom Line: Less is more in Swedish forest
Meanwhile...
Amazon Forest Still Burning Despite the Good Intentions In spite of heightened efforts in recent years to limit deforestation and encourage "sustainable development," the assault on its resources continues, with Brazil in the lead.
8:11:06 AM
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Forest policy Friday
Bush, Citing Fires, Will Seek to Ease Laws on Logging
"The procedural requirements of our environmental laws are not supposed to wreak environmental havoc, and that's what some of them are doing," said James L. Connaughton, the chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality.
The proposal was denounced today by Democratic Congressional leaders and the Sierra Club, as well as other environmental groups, which described it as a backdoor means to provide the timber industry access to national forestland.
Environment Groups See Threat to Green Rules
``Given Bush's track record on everything from global warming to forest protection to energy policy, their record says that they are listening to the special interests at the expense of the environment,'' said Tiernan Sittenfeld, spokeswoman for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Bush Defends Logging Initiative as a Better Means of Management Against Forest Fires
Mr. Bush would give loggers greater leeway to cut larger, more commercially valuable trees as well as worthless brush, and would deny environmentalists legal tools they have used to block such logging.
8:03:55 AM
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