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A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate

October 6, 2012February 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Social Business, Systems Science

A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org

by Bill Becker

If Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the television cameras at who was watching their first debate, it undoubtedly would have been more interesting than the debate itself.

Rush Limbaugh…

http://flpbd.it/w7ZfQ

Hope and climate change (tv.msnbc.com)
Forward on Climate: Activists to draw a line in the sand on climate issues (coolrevolution.net)
Hayes: GOP approach to climate change is ‘depraved denialism’ (rawstory.com)
Obama vows climate change action in inaugural speech (fuelfix.com)
Keystone XL protesters pressure Obama on climate change promise (guardian.co.uk)
Thousands rally against US oil pipeline (aljazeera.com)

The Rise of the Tiny-House Movement

June 1, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Behavioral Science, Digital Humanities, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

surroundings of Lulu's tiny house, in unincorp... — surroundings of Lulu’s tiny house, in unincorporated Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) (Photo credit: nicolas.boullosa)

Great article on Tiny Houses in the New Yorker.

The Rise of the Tiny-House Movement

Rise of the Female Gun Nut (nymag.com)
Op-Ed: Downsizing the American dream (bostonglobe.com)
How To Build A Tiny Home – And Where To Put It (earthtechling.com)
Size matters: Small trumps big every time (jennifernicholsongraham.wordpress.com)

The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

May 9, 2011February 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital Humanities, Identity Management

Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com.

Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the Bush White House and advised against the invasion of Iraq. Great book.