According to George Monbiot,
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction and economic meltdown.
At any rate, both the UK and Europe are thinking longer-term than the [...]
Tag Archives: long term thinking
Environmental politics over the long term
October 21, 2008 – 5:35 pm
Bot-mediated reality
October 20, 2008 – 10:24 pm
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the Long Now Foundation’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT).
While SALT has hosted a bevy of [...]
Consequences of bot-mediated reality
September 17, 2008 – 12:36 pm
I have a lot of catch-up listening to do with regards to The Long Now Foundation’s excellent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) lecture and podcast series. I’m a charter member of the Foundation, which gets you a sweet membership card and access to video of their lectures, among other less tangible things like knowing you’re [...]