Cosmic Events
[note: this is the original post. There is an important update at the bottom; sadly the event was not ‘real’, but I leave the text here for some time for […]
Category Archives: Biosphere
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Entropy and the Meaning of “Renewable”
Fighting Entropy takes Energy (photo: Printemps, flickr) Can we give hard currency to the terms ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’? An excellent book by Guy Deutscher, a physicist from Tel Aviv University, […]
Peak Water and Food Security
If nations care about food security, their first concern should be sustainability of freshwater supplies. Here is the logic: The world’s fresh water supply is largely inaccessible for water production: […]
Global Warming is no Stag Hunt
Is finding a solution to Global Warming really like solving a Prisoner’s Dilemma? Most real-world problems of cooperation and coordination, even if they are said to be one, are really […]
Energy Literacy 101 – The Energy Equation for Obesity
Here’s a lighter one for a change. No politics, no grand solutions to grand problems, just a playful way to extract a life lesson or two (it will require some […]
The Oldest News in the Universe, on the NY Times Front Page!
As I was walking the streets of New York this morning, I had a flash-back into my earlier career, into my particle-physics / cosmology years. There was a new stack […]
Smog in Athens: What Price?
What would it be worth to stop Athens polluting its air again like it hasn’t done since the Seventies? Can and should we afford the cost of helping reduce the […]
The Sustainability Report 
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