meta mutations: a search for principal equations

The living of science is not possible.

Somewhere a spirit seeks to harmonize with the beginning and the end of things, and never along the path to righteousness is it known when the thread will snap its judgement, forcing past cracked lips no utterance of truth to this world.

In the movement of planets Kepler found bodies reborn from dust. A finite clockwork of aggregation captured in the motion of mathematics, knowable by us only before the infinite lies still in a time beyond our imagining or measure.

Our concentrations orbiting an inward moving nucleus of species survival splinters an embrittled margin with an ever widening gap. Equations govern the motions of the spirited. The mouse takes the cheese.

In the search for a specialty your path creates an apprenticeship to this science with no mentor but an unframed picture of what might be.

hating oil is passe

No, you read that right... The title DOES read 'hating' NOT 'heating'.

Of course, as we all know, hate is a negative way of expressing one's incapacity to understand, empathize or otherwise find a more constructive and life-affirming way of getting their point across.

So hating oil is passe. It has to be. Thinking otherwise would be tantamount to describing your need for food energy as unnecessary and evil... follow this and you must realize I am saying oil is a necessity of life.

Well it is, isn't it?

It isn't whether you do live without oil that paints you into a corner it is whether you can live without it. Sure, you could make a personal choice to live without oil, but you wouldn't be able to do it. Not even the local health food store goes without relying on oil, or the byproduct of oil, at some point in the chain of inter-nationalized inter-dependency to source product and deliver it to your door.

And no matter what you do about it, you aren't going to make a dent in the foundation upon which you live, even by making a conscious choice about what you buy at the store, put on your table, shade yourself with under the heat of the sun in the summer or heat yourself with in the cold heart of winter. You might as well give up.

Statistics are against you.

Even in the hydrogen economy carbon emissions won't be 100 per cent sequestered. Right now 90 per cent of the hydrogen produced in the world is sourced from reformed fossil fuels. You're still pumping oil out of the ground or releasing natural gas from the crypt of time to extract its precious hydrogen cargo.

The European Union Commission on Sustainable Development has released a draft of its proposed directive governing overall commitments to energy efficiency and energy security. In this draft the EU targets a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2050.

While this may be good news to some (remember, it takes roughly 80 years for the effects of emissions to dissipate in the 'open' environment) it doesn't mean that oil has been removed from the picture. In fact, there are no specific targets contained in this document that set limits to oil development, procurement or distribution. And nothing in the draft hints that oil companies should now reform existing supplies of refined oil into hydrogen.

The open market dominates. Governments in the industrialized world have all taken a similar tact to the European Union member nations with the caveat that in Canada great consideration is given over to nuclear where nuclear has been implemented already. Private investor ownership greatly guarantees nuclear longevity and the issue is likely to rage on with ferocity for many generations until renewable investments are more attractive than nuclear ones.

Incidentally, nuclear is considered a clean technology by Environment Canada, Industry Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and is an ingrained part of Ontario's electrical generation mix, standing at a whopping 76% of today's base load capacity.

Maybe I should be taken out on the cinder path and punished for my viewpoint on oil. But just who is going to do that? Who is the one person I know that has the right to do that? Maybe a marsupial, but doubtful any human other than a scattered few over there on the dark continent who decided not to join in the agrarian revolution or the following industrial revolution, but seem likely, instead, to develop a footprint in the communications revolutions.

Well, I've said my corporate piece and forgotten the one thing that does make a difference. Careful, it's touchy and feely and could get all over you if you aren't careful. Get out your bleeding heart alert because the word of the day is... investment. No, you thought I was going to say 'togetherness', didn't you. Well, private investment is a togetherness of a sort. Investment in conservation is just another form of paying yourself and the other investors who hold a common share in the same endeavor.

The same could be said of community power initiatives. There are, however, two problems. One is that someone else's investment interests may already be in the way, and two, it isn't necessarily fair that given you can invest in a renewable source of energy and be an owner of a corporate entity, that everyone is going to be given the chance to do so. This second point is probably the one that tells you your investment is going to pay off, no matter what else you can do about it.

We are damn lucky right now that the entire spectrum of generation has been opened to the public. This is a bold and risky move. Special interests like oil aren't going to like it, but be honest, just because someone works for a company you don't particularly like, is no reason not to invite them to invest alongside you. You can either tell them to keep it quiet, or invite them out to the meeting. Chances are even if they believe their technology is cleanest the chance they are offered to invest and profit will at least help your renewable initiative off the ground.

So, the people you should be asking to invest aren't the converted. The people you should be asking to invest are the people who work for and already profit in other energy forms like oil and nuclear.

You might be surprise how willing they are to work with you when you are polite.



-- if I had a polite bone in my body I might convince others I am a Canadian --

the impiety of trial balloons

A trial balloon is a waste of a good piece of man-made material.

The problem with trial balloons is that the people who release them so they can gauge the reaction of the people watching don't really know where they're going or where they'll land for sure. So much time is spent on the prevailing winds that gusts and blasts are ignored in favor of popular prognostication.

Unless you want to place a secular government in someone else's country.

Next time the news reports the loss of yet another monument to organized religion at public place of institution I am going to remember that its being taken away signifies the intent to evangelize the enforced cooperation of someone who doesn't share those same symbolized beliefs by the removal of something someone else holds dear.

Freedom is an entanglement of various forms of subterfuge. Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for someone else. Sometimes it is they who are the sacrifice. The altar is pretty commonly understood to be impermanent, but people on both sides use it anyway.


-- the iconoclast is the iconography of the symbolic future --

the morphology of an unconscious artificial intelligence

Have you analyzed the transformation of the social network from TCP/IP switched HTTP containment and element language constructs to a true relational model based on a fractally inorganic morphology of knowledge/criticality intelligence dependent on human activity?

The person in the machine exist along every path to destination. Bandwidth limits pathway determination. Speed forms new synergies passing the ability to take in all relations. Distributed processing. Distributed accessible identity. Distributed subconscious terms. Collected individual, shared and collectivist (discipline-centric) destinations. Keystones locking the arch of intelligence.

The search engine in the sleep of the 'intelligent' machine knows where the hits are.


-- I swear my head gets bent every time I sit at a terminal keyboard --

the consumer law of the conservation of energy

I asked this question today of a renewable energy expert:

What are some of the regulatory changes necessary to uphold energy conservation so intrinsic to renewable adoption and how can these economically advantage consumers?

Please send your ideas.


Here is one that may follow the natural capitalism thema:

Privately build apartment buildings must contribute 40 per cent of all energy required by residents and after X number of years of private ownership the 'land' that each apartment represents falls back into public ownership.


Some of the drivers of this idea are that multi-level buildings extrapolate on surface rights ownership principles entrenched in the economy but that there is less economic benefit to the current methods of deriving income from each new surface level than is represented by the impact on the environment.

Another pretext is that economic and political systems are impacted by centralization of freedoms: that is to say that with either system and related sub-systems ultimate freedom would be complete factional control. This is the balance of type that impinges on personal freedoms as well.

The penultimate reason is economic deconstruction. Making new ownership from old. Making public of the private.
We currently run systems that bias toward the privatization of, for lack of a better term, the public. Using the word public in some way favors the idea that unowned or ungiven everything is public. You would have to believe that government serves the public in order to support the belief that anything handed to the private by government is public in the first place.

Anyway, semantics and self aggrandized argument aside, land lease/ownership is a great example of how economic deconstruction is outpaced by the ability of land to provide capital that is centrally amassed and that creates unending dependencies on the developments placed on those lands.

Still, it wouldn't serve anyone to usurp control of lands and change rules overnight. But it also doesn't serve the public to allow unscalable capital towers to dominate the economic landscape. Such a system does not entrench altruism where an enterprise is no longer individual or concerned with more than its own survival. Further to this is the theocratic indoctrination of the enterprise in its ownership and development of land. As the eternal, just so long as the lease is paid, the revenue stream lasts forever.

An analysis of various political systems and regulatory environments reveals historical wariness around any talk of adopting any limitations to apparent individual freedom, however, when an incorporation no longer mitigates the behavior or obligations of mere individuals you have a collective whose cause is to serve a singular purpose. Fortunately, for the most part, this specialization works because other collective forces also act simultaneously to balance the cultural bandwagon.

The individual, however, is forced to then politicize the party line to the effect of marketing its virtues whatever the impact of achievement may be. Another characteristic of the this corporate organism is its nuclear oligarchy in competition seeking the destruction or occlusion of other organisms discarding ideology as waste products of victory.

Its monotheism is apparent in its evangelism to subsume that can only be telegraphed as far as its reach.

Anyway, now the argument is taking a turn toward a partisan politic.

In the creation of the private the death of it must also be present to serve the public that expects the nutrient of change on which to subsist. And within change the understanding that some needs exist must tailor the regulatory environment of conduct and ownership.

Even the patenting of life may depend on it.




-- the need for energy can be created but never destroyed --

the recentred in a pitched memory

When the magnetic fields of one capitulates to the other the memory formed is of the imbalance in the order of things.

Something had to give. The question of which -- the capitulant or the holdout -- represents harmony and which represents discord is the true play of human activity upon the backdrop of species, origin, evolution... all those fun things that spin miraculously toward heat death or the creation of infinite universes.

Where the human seed sprouts truest is in the spiritual escape from the rigor of survival to a balance of harmony. In this path the admission of true form is an acknowledgement of the imperfect inheritance of the sacrifice each human must make of another to go forward.

Our colonies, our cultures, our pitched battles for resources or ideologies we concern ourselves to make or assert as the form of our limited ability to telegraph the message to everyone that we only wish to be friends.

The centre is perpetually moved by diaspora never to be found and pinned, as wave after wave of emotive contemplation separates us from childhood, family, friends, time and location.

To suffer the heat death alone or to spawn a new universe is a task no cyberdraped evolution can influence or overcome.

It is the only certainty is the life placed in your own hands.

The only transience is the clarity held against the sanctity of all life.



-- this ice is my environment --

the avatar of complexity in an age of specialization

The random cameo of intellectual property patents as financial assets marks the full polarization of open source and corporate protected product developments.

The staking of identity claims are compelling evidence of the branded avatar that is the space between the screen and keyboard and the content massaged by this medium by user or users. Existing in this space we have dubbed 'cyber' is the institutionalization of the electron, the healthcare of the digital pulse, and the medieval metronome of the cycle built for and by a church of believers but used by an unabashed techno-secularized rabble of the incongruous.

Welcome to the avatar. If you try to read any of it at all you are its master and always in immersion or not a slave to understanding.



-- when I ask for your identity I do so for the purpose of security --

patterning for the reactionary dilemma

Activism is not an essential role of the mainstream media unless it is to report an incident of activism or a populist activist movement that can no longer escape notice.

An election platform by a recognized political party is an activist movement that is palatable to the mainstream media.

Environmentalists must realize that a body of evidence is simply a diverse collection of information that has no head and no tail. In other words, to the mainstream, there is no animal with which to wrestle. There is no recognition of a centrist dogma to an environmental movement as there is with a recognized discipline that has an apparent contribution to the economic well being of news readers.

It is incumbent on activists to rephrase their 'industry'. In fact, this word 'industry' is a useful tool environmentalists are missing. By extension 'industry' in context says that money is to be made and that the future is being preserved. It is the watchword of the mainstream definition of progress that persists today despite the body of evidence suggesting that industry is complicit in damaging the environment by profiting from the maintenance of dependencies and systems that have a detrimental impact.

Environment Industry.

Today the environment industry reported...

Wind and solar became industries.

Now the environment must rephrase itself without redefining its core goals. Part of this effort may require activism to become bound under recognized consortia consisting of members who propel issues by arguing over them. There is never any news in agreement.

For social justice advocates of the environment industry to be outspoken against the actions of Greenpeace on the same issue gives both members of this consortia voice.

So, along with the environment industry, remember to make your arguments with this industry's idealogical members public without taking umbrage that this has been done to you or allowing the public play of conjecture to devolve into mashing the issue out of sight.

Without money the only tool available to activism is its ability to relate to the public in a meaningful and expected way whatever the message may be.




-- today the mainstream reported the end of the world at the height of economic prosperity. party politicians were unavailable for comment, the leader of government having spent the last hour of life with family. opposition members berated the ruling party saying the environment industry had predicted an end to the world five years ago if changes were not made. the opposition stated that while it was last in power its initiatives would have saved the world but these had been cut when the first budget of the current government was released. so long... thanks for all the ... fish --

escalated ambiguity a reactionary dilemma

It has been my experience that anything done by government usually exists in the planning stages for at least five years before it is implemented.
That's five years of public money spent to plan around various scenarios to derive a final policy based on whatever outcry initial release elicits from the paying public.

It is a fine line that exists between service and leadership.

Many of the decisions of government are not made by the elected officials, rather it is the product of study that results in public policy usually at the department level.

Civil servants investigate or cause to be investigated various issues relating to the smooth operation of public institutions into an uncharted future based on expected and historical conditions.

Even as the libertarian ideals that have grown in the past two and a half centuries have made a good portion of this operation transparent, and that the system itself continues to work toward openness, there still exists the problem of public advocacy on issues not directly related to trade and industry. It is the failure of mainstream media to capture the lagging attention of the public on issues that are mere tributaries to the confluence of ideology asserted in action.

These early nodal points of public policy formation are more often identified within the discipline to which they may apply when implemented and are usually tagged with some sort of economic advancement for the monitoring agency. Trade publications are one manifestation of this need to monitor developments at a low level.

The mainstream press can not bring all the issues and early developments to all the people all the time. The office of the ombudsman is less likely to serve the public on public policy development than a not-for-profit consumer advocacy agency. The public is not as well funded as industry to monitor government as monies collected from the public by government aid in the motions of government and not in the mechanisms tailoring and ensuring the voracity of its platforms.

The mainstream amplifies ambiguity by treating only the symptoms of public policy implementation and not the incremental input the process of deriving public policy needs to power its maturity.

Who but a politician has the time to ask the flood of questions required by the system of government it must then answer with public policy?

Moral ambiguity is present in the mainstream treatment of public policy. As a general rule judgements with respect to slant rarely branch into the root causes of events, instead concentrating on impact and effect as if to affect closure by stimulating public response for regulatory order.

This is the reactionary dilemma of the mainstream.

tax revolt is terrorism

In many cases private ownership is funded by public funds with the idea of protecting the public -- doing the things necessary to ensure energy security, food security, even national security by funding military readiness.

The legacy of the 20th century is that national security and corporate longevity has been placed ahead of the combined intelligence of the public to engage its collective funds in meaningful ways that assist in the welfare of all, including the marginalized and/or disenfranchised 'members' of mainstream society.

To underwrite change without violence, without dictating market activity or interrupting markets that employ caveat emptor as their market viability, or even without directing public money to research and development of technologies for the purpose of transferring new developments to interested parties, even income tax revolt would be ineffective because the tax revenue generated by the public's dependency on non-renewable forms of energy protects government from having to rely on how much each participating member of the public is able to generate in personal revenue.

What we have is not freedom. Freedom is a misnomer that provides no limitation on the individual or the enterprise. Freedom does not include the ideas of interdependence and governance. Contextually, the modern definition of freedom is the right to participate in making change. Once the ability of the individual to participate is compromised by means of financial dislocation this freedom is made inert. The cost/benefit ratio of participation impinges on the ability of the societal dependent to survive within the system.

The connection between capitalism and democracy is the distribution of domination, quite possibly superior to any other system of approach to governance, but one in which the service of upholding and regulating it pander to an elite nonetheless.

Where policy infringes on freedom is its unwilingness to acknowledge the incorporation of social dictums that run contrary to the operation of the government of the day -- communism for instance. The 'system' of government is a social network whose bounds are loosely defined by the longevity of its supporters. As the ability of corporations to promote policy on a timeline that spans generational boundaries and by this token exceeds the system that limits governance it is apparent that it is the corporation that has the greatest influence on government and the spending of public money to its own advantage.

Income tax revolt is therefore an act of sedition or terrorism in the eyes of government that believes the collection of tax is a measure to protect the public from the threats it has studied on behalf of the public.

the passionate pressure seeks reflection

Scouring the Net for pithy commentary I've come across both the elevated and the base.

One slip on the keyboard can trigger something deep and dark to eclipse your horizon or lead you to the passionate embrace of the sublime.

And then it is time to move on.

Whatever your prediliction, there isn't much time to really understand where you've gone without taking the time to reflect on the sights seen on the journey.

May you someday have the time to reflect and build true memories.


-- your conversion has begun --

the state of self-loathing in the realm of discontent

Being an environmentalist does not equate with self-loathing. Nope.

For accuracy's sake let's say you are not an environmentalist.

That'll do.


-- the cryptic is necessary for brevity --

questions I asked today

Electric vehicles in India

Does USAID monitor the involvment of American corporations in developing countries where it concerns the readiness of nations to accept non-traditional technology in a market for which a regulatory environment may not be readily available?

Mission-critical blows away wind power

This discussion occurred on Sunday, April 4th, 2004 commencing at approximately 8:17 p.m. and ending at 8:35 p.m.

Kelly: Hello! My name is Kelly, and I am a (Live) Fanatical Service Specialist with Rackspace. I am here as a site guide to answer any questions you may have about our products and services.
Kelly: Are you researching a new hosting project or looking to replace or upgrade an existing solution?

Guest53215: i was kind of interested to learn a bit about your hosting. I wanted to find some host that is focused on using only renewable energy
Guest53215: hello?
Guest53215: Kelly, are you there?

Kelly: Hello,

Guest53215: hey

Kelly: sorry just got that through, one moment

Guest53215: np

Kelly: Okay I am sorry abou the delay
Kelly: well as to your requirements I think they are wondeful, or your interest

Guest53215: s, ok
Guest53215: thanks

Kelly: I am not aware of any hosting company doing that.

Guest53215: really?
Guest53215: well, that's not good

Kelly: at this time renewable engergy is just not cost effective in a production environment, servers take a lot of power.
Kelly: and they require absolute redundancy

Guest53215: i guess they must
Guest53215: how many do you have on site?

Kelly: even a second of downtime and doctors lose patient records, sytems and applications fail, etc.
Kelly: we have around 9,300 across 4 locations.

Guest53215: so, i guess wind power is out of the question then
Guest53215: you don't suppose I could have you send me an email with this information do you?

Kelly: Yes, well I think there may be a market for mixing in renewable resources with traditional power at some point, but with data centers, they focus more on 100% availabilty, redundant power grids, etc..

Guest53215: i am tim.****@sympatico.**

Kelly: I can send you an overfview pdf.

Guest53215: i can't capture this conversation

Kelly: yes I can send this to you.
Kelly: and an overview.

Guest53215: can you describe the problem with renewables?
Guest53215: ok, that would be great

Kelly: well I think I just did, but I am not an engineer.

Guest53215: i am still interested in your company
Guest53215: is there a way to become a reseller?

Kelly: As I see it, essentially it costs serveal times more to use that type of energy

Guest53215: can you be absolutely sure you are giving me valid information

Kelly: and in a competitive market place that is a difficult number to add to themix.

Guest53215: someone's career may depend on this
Guest53215: not yours

Kelly: I cannot be sure, however I know that we do not have solar powered servers or wind powered servers, and immediate plans for that in the future.
Kelly: Do I know it is more expensive and less reliable at this time, of course that is a given.

Guest53215: what about purchasing electrical power from companies that provide energy from renewable sources?

Kelly: do I know servers take a lot of power and that if they are mission critical, yes.
Kelly: Well I think most providers do that, I know the our local power service uses some wind generatros.
Kelly: generators.

Guest53215: ah, well that's different then

Kelly: not sure of the mix, just that they do R&D and work with renewable resources.
Kelly: as to reseller programs
Kelly: we do not offer them in the commons sense, meaning

Guest53215: do you know the name of your power company?
Guest53215: is it the same for each of the four locations?

Kelly: you cannot buy our servers and reseller them with your own branded name.

Guest53215: oh, ok

Kelly: No it is not, we are based in San Antonio, and that would be City Public Service of San Antonio,

Guest53215: you can just move registered IP addresses then, i guess, right?

Kelly: I have no idea who it would be in Virgina, or London.

Guest53215: London, England?

Kelly: I am not sure what you mean, we assign IP addresses, you move domain names.
Kelly: yes London, England.

Guest53215: whoops, sorry

Kelly: You can resell from our servers.

Guest53215: where is your other location?

Kelly: to smaller webhosting clients
Kelly: we have 2 data centers in San Antonio.

Guest53215: oh, ok. and you are based in San Antonio?

Kelly: our servers start from the low $400's a month.
Kelly: yes we are based in San Antonio.

Guest53215: do you also do development?

Kelly: Is that the kind of price range you were considering?

Guest53215: as in database development and such

Kelly: we do not, we have clients who do that, we do not compete with them.

Guest53215: well, i was hoping for something a little less expensive

Kelly: Typcially hosts who do development either do not do it well.
Kelly: Or they do not host as well as they should

Guest53215: so what's on your typical backend then?

Kelly: yes again we are geared toward mission critical environments, we host for a great number of high profile clients.
Kelly: we have 4-5 Tier providers per data center.
Kelly: Tier1
Kelly: I meant

Guest53215: lol
Guest53215: right
Guest53215: ok

Kelly: AT&T, Spring Qwest

Guest53215: wow
Guest53215: big names

Kelly: no transit stuff like Level 3, Internap, or Abovenet etc
Kelly: and of course Sprint, no spring and TimeWarner, UUnet etc.

Guest53215: so you are a major part of the backbone i would guess

Kelly: anyway, we do have a company loosely affiliated with us
Kelly: www.serverbeach.com

Guest53215: what do they do?
Guest53215: hosting?

Kelly: they start around $100 a month
Kelly: yes, dedicated self-managed servers

Guest53215: that's getting down around my price range...
Guest53215: is it better if I talk to them or can you do that for me?
Guest53215: and are we talking in USD?

Kelly: I would check them out, they do nice work, you would have to contact them.
Kelly: Yes in uSD
Kelly: they were started by our founder
Kelly: but a totally indpendent company

Guest53215: i guess i'll take the recommendation...
Guest53215: can you still send me this conversation?

Kelly: Yes I can do that.

Guest53215: that would be fantastic...


World renowned wind expert Paul Gipe is also making a presentation on wind energy to the Ontario Rural Council at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough on April 6th, 2004 at 1:00 pm.
Mr. Gipe has shown Ontarians how they can win big with wind under advanced renewable tariffs.

-- and my sister-in-law calls ME a shit disturber... where did she come up with THAT!! --

-~`craZy talk -- free energy -- craZy talk`~-

> I would also like to experiment with on-board electrolyzers
> for vehicles but I don't think there is much public interest
> there. For example, since I had gotten an invite to the
> DARPA/Army power sources conference this year I emailed
> the head of the U.S. Army lab about on board electrolyzers
> and asked if they had ever looked at them or might be
> interested in the concept.
>
> Seeing as a 30% boost in mileage would equate a 30%
> increase in range for vehicles in the field. That was 3 weeks
> ago and so far no response. That same guy answered me
> in 2 days when I wrote to him previously regarding the cost
> of attending the conference.
>
>
> MJ


MJ,

People don't believe that 'free energy' crazy talk. I know, I've tried it.

But don't think that the idea of onboard eletrolosys is publicly unacceptable. You're just going to find it very difficult to engineer a system for which the size of the fuel cell and a tank in a production vehicle conveniently fills all the available space. They won't give you an inch. Better you design both the fuel cell and the electrolyser from scratch to retrofit a new system onto the mounting brackets (too bad the news designs are going to be integrated skateboards).

As always responding to the gaps in the market is the best way to approach market viability. If you can squeeze 30 per cent more out of it and extend range by onboard eletrolosys there will be people to buy it. Just don't expect the government not to feel cheated out of revenue on the fuel they are 'missing' out on.


Sincerely,
tim


-- the pearls of discussion are beaded on the string of wisdom --

_\~ ecoAlien ~!~ neilAoce ~/_

Imagine a world in which people are rewarded with fuel today that is less expensive than it was yesterday because it is more cost effective to make it containing more poison justified by the fact there is less supply and more need.

Imagine a world in which natural gas is legally declared a renewable resource by government so that it can appear investment in renewable energy is greater on the basis that doing so will stimulate renewable energy development.

Imagine a world in which I am considered free to make energy choices of my own but am not allowed to get my friends together to compete with corporations who produce energy -- even when that corporation is a public utility owned by me and my tax paying friends.

You aren't dreaming. You aren't imagining. You're sleeping in the real world. Wake me up too, will you?

-- 'efficacy' is a word in the dictionary --

aPrIl FoOlS ~*energy fear mongering~* ApRiL fOoLs

April Fools on a procrastinator's schedule means it ain't for foolin'. Get it?

...click for more...




...to hoax or not to hoax. that is the question...

Please send any blackout picture submissions you may have just kicking around. Specifically, I'd like to see something from the outages in Britain and Europe that have portable power advocates bursting forth over there.

-- over there is an over here perspective when acting globally and thinking locally --

the critic in us all

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Sir Peter Ustinov 1921-2004

famous environmentalist shot in corridor

Shoot Your Favorite Environmentalist


Ed Begley Junior

Wave to Ed...

Have a picture to share of your favorite environmentalist that you snapped yourself?

Please send your shots from the wilds along with the person's A/S/L and the interesting environmental facts that tuned you into this special person's activism in the first place.

A link or two to the major work of your captured environmentalist should accompany any submission.

celebrity@stippletrout.com

Thanks.

culture vulture tutorials

His book is free. Author Lawrence Lessig is not likely to be looking for Disney-style copyright kickbacks on this one.

Lessig, an influential scholar and Stanford University law professor, has joined with the ranks of authors who are dabbling in the fine art of licensing. Among them are Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Dan Brown and Cory Doctorow.








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