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Introduction: Planet Under Pressure
Food: An estimated 1 in 6 people suffer from hunger and malnutrition while attempts to grow food are damaging swathes of productive land.
Water: By 2025, two-thirds of the world's people are likely to be living in areas of acute water stress.
Energy: Oil production could peak and supplies start to decline by 2010
Climate change: The world's greatest environmental challenge, according to the UK prime minister Tony Blair, with increased storms, floods, drought and species losses predicted.
Biodiversity: Many scientists think the Earth is now entering its sixth great extinction phase.
Pollution: Hazardous chemicals are now found in the bodies of all new-born babies, and an estimated one in four people worldwide are exposed to unhealthy concentrations of air pollutants.
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Can the planet feed us?
The world does produce enough to feed everyone. But the food is often in the wrong place, or unaffordable, or can't be stored long enough. So making sure everyone has enough to eat is more about politics than science.
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Earth is too crowded for Utopia
So if we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.
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Source:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature
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2006/06/23
Life Map
A map of my life journey, indicating of key incidents and key effects by far, uses as a visual aid to self understanding.
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★diary-thoughts
2006/06/22
2006/06/21
RedSnow Studio link appears on Wikipedia
A RedSnow Studio link has appeared on Wikipedia 'Kill Kenada' page, spelled 'Red Snow Studios' as it was credited on the 'Fly' DVD single.
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2006/06/20
Múm
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繼Sigur Rós我再度迷上另一支冰島樂團Múm
múm. a random summer.
FatCat Records : Múm
Múm - Myspace Site
Icelandic band múm's live in Taipei
繼Sigur Rós我再度迷上另一支冰島樂團Múm
múm. a random summer.
FatCat Records : Múm
Múm - Myspace Site
Icelandic band múm's live in Taipei
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music-audio
2006/06/15
Meme Power / Next City / TED
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- Universe 'too queer' to grasp
- Eco-designs on future cities
- Interactive map Urban explosion
- Big thinkers show the way forward
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Highlights:
- Meme Power
--- Humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in.
--- Each species, in fact, has a different "reality". They work with different "software" to make them feel comfortable.
--- Middle world is the narrow range of reality that we judge to be normal as opposed to the queerness that we judge to be very small or very large.
- Developing worlds
--- The only way to end poverty is to build viable systems on the ground that can deliver services to the poor in ways that are sustainable.
--- The West is being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
- Future cities
--- Some 70 million people a year migrate from the country to cities.
--- Many of these set up home in squats, put together from scarce materials, if put together at all. There are a billion squatters in 2005. By 2050, that figure will reach three billion.
--- Cities have to engage these residents because they are building the cities of the future.
- Mr McDonough's Next City vision
--- We can only think of our future cities if we think about what our intention is as a species.
--- (The Next Cities) they can grow, they can breathe, and they can be ecologically sound, just as trees, forests, and gardens are.
--- We lay the city out so everyone can move in parks without crossing traffic, the buildings have daylight lighting, the university is at the centre, and with hi-tech connectivity.
--- The buildings and all around it work like biological, growing beings, photosynthesising and producing and re-using their own energy.
--- A quarter of the city's cooking will be done with gas from sewerage.
--- The energy systems will be solar energy. China will be largest solar manufacturer in the world.
--- The city will be inhabited by species and the top of the city will be green.
--- It shows that cities can change - humans can change the way they do things. Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
- Ideas at TED
--- Despite terrorism, environmental destruction and poverty, the future could be bright.
--- Technology can solve more problems than it creates.
--- Entrepreneurs are good and governments are inflexible.
--- The philosophy of TED is that governments come and go, but ideas last forever. It is about nurturing those ideas and taking them to a new level, effecting change form the ground up.
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Source:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature @ 2005
- Universe 'too queer' to grasp
- Eco-designs on future cities
- Interactive map Urban explosion
- Big thinkers show the way forward
-----
Highlights:
- Meme Power
--- Humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in.
--- Each species, in fact, has a different "reality". They work with different "software" to make them feel comfortable.
--- Middle world is the narrow range of reality that we judge to be normal as opposed to the queerness that we judge to be very small or very large.
- Developing worlds
--- The only way to end poverty is to build viable systems on the ground that can deliver services to the poor in ways that are sustainable.
--- The West is being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
- Future cities
--- Some 70 million people a year migrate from the country to cities.
--- Many of these set up home in squats, put together from scarce materials, if put together at all. There are a billion squatters in 2005. By 2050, that figure will reach three billion.
--- Cities have to engage these residents because they are building the cities of the future.
- Mr McDonough's Next City vision
--- We can only think of our future cities if we think about what our intention is as a species.
--- (The Next Cities) they can grow, they can breathe, and they can be ecologically sound, just as trees, forests, and gardens are.
--- We lay the city out so everyone can move in parks without crossing traffic, the buildings have daylight lighting, the university is at the centre, and with hi-tech connectivity.
--- The buildings and all around it work like biological, growing beings, photosynthesising and producing and re-using their own energy.
--- A quarter of the city's cooking will be done with gas from sewerage.
--- The energy systems will be solar energy. China will be largest solar manufacturer in the world.
--- The city will be inhabited by species and the top of the city will be green.
--- It shows that cities can change - humans can change the way they do things. Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
- Ideas at TED
--- Despite terrorism, environmental destruction and poverty, the future could be bright.
--- Technology can solve more problems than it creates.
--- Entrepreneurs are good and governments are inflexible.
--- The philosophy of TED is that governments come and go, but ideas last forever. It is about nurturing those ideas and taking them to a new level, effecting change form the ground up.
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Source:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature @ 2005
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news-topic
2006/06/06
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