“Is Coal losing its share of America’s Energy Mix?” Mickey Glantz. October 28, 2012
October 28, 2012 | 2 Comments
Mickey Glantz. October 30, 2012. “Is Coal losing its share of America’s Energy Mix?” There is a ‘war on coal,” so says the coal industry, its representatives and those vulnerable communities dependent on the coal…
Rio1992, Rio+20 and the UNFCCC
June 28, 2012 | 1 Comment
- Conference of Parties: Don’t compare apples to oranges! I started to write about the happenings at Rio+20, while sitting in one of its food courts. But I realized I needed more time and distance…
Climate Change and Energy Development
April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
- We Live in Two Different Worlds If the climate scientists’ projections about the dangerous impacts of the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases are valid and if the energy community’s optimistic projections about future fossil…
Global Warming: Stakeholders can’t see the forest for the trees.
January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Each tree represent an organization or perspective about the climate change issue. Without looking at the big picture — climate change as a global phenomenon — one’s views are distorted by what is going on…
Insight into the American Election Re-Cycle
January 06, 2012 | 3 Comments
I was listening to election results on the radio recently and a phrase caught my attention. The commentator said that the Iowa caucus in the first week of 2012 was the beginning of the 2012…
What comes after a post-service society? – oligarchy
September 20, 2011 | No Comments
The three major stages of economic development are as follows: the primary sector, dependent on the exploitation and sale of primary resources such as forests and mineral resources; the secondary sector is based on manufacturing…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Politics
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Another Country
September 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
Reflections from my hotel, about to leave for the airport to go home… I came to realize that the mighty US dollar is mighty no more. Its value compared to other currencies seems to be…
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The Arctic: The Achilles heel of the world
September 03, 2011 | No Comments
…as we have come to know it People of the 1900s learned to live with their climate regimes, from local to global. They adjusted their activities as necessary to cope with extremes and variabilities on…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Climate Affairs
Words of Wisdom from the Flat Earth US Congress
August 04, 2011 | 2 Comments
Senator Inhoff (R-Oklahoma) has been an outspoken critic of the global science consensus (not unanimity) on the human contribution to global warming of the atmosphere. there is nothing that can be said or discovered that…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Climate Affairs
The Cult of the Anti-Personality
July 20, 2011 | 7 Comments
Houston, errr, no, America, we have a problem! The concept of the “cult of personality” has become well-known in the general public in recent years, having become a part of the “ordinary knowledge” of the…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Human Condition
All Fragilecologies, Capacity Building, Comments, Guest Articles, Human Condition, Idea Bank
“A Curse on Being Creative” GUEST EDITORIAL by Ilan Kelman, CICERO, Norway. September 24, 2012
September 23, 2012 | No Comments
“A Curse on Being Creative”. GUEST EDITORIAL by Ilan Kelman, CICERO, Norway September 24, 2012. I am often treated to the quotation, or variations thereof, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of…
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