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Showing results 16 - 20 of 29 for the month of October, 2008.
I had the great pleasure over the weekend of attending the 2008 Schumacher Lectures in Bristol. I will write more about it tomorrow, but one of the highlights for me was a talk by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature (one of the most distressing books I ever read) and Deep Economy (one of the most exhilarating).
US national debt clock runs out of digits. From NDTVProfit.
Thursday, October 09, 2008. Thanks to Tom Barnett for sending me this…
Such is the surge in America’s debt that even technology is finding it difficult to measure its level as a clock earmarked for keeping a tab on country’s national debt has run out of digits! The operator of the National Debt Clock, installed at Times Square in New York, has now dropped the dollar sign in the total figure to accommodate a ten trillion dollar figure. A replacement for the clock with two additional digits that would be able to account for up to quadrillion dollars of debt is expected only by the next year. The existing clock can accommodate up to 9,999,999,999,999 dollars (just one dollar short of $ 10-trillion) of debt with a dollar sign ($) preceding it, but the clock has started showing the figure without the dollar sign after the debt level recently reached the 10-trillion dollar level.
Two participants on the first day discussing Rudy's 'peak everything' presentation.
So yesterday I posted Joanne’s reflections on the early stirrings of Transition in LA. Today I want to share with you an email from Rudy Dhont in Flanders, on the beginnings of Transition work there….
The early inspiration
“I was a course participant at Schumacher College on several occasions the last two years and I got very inspired by Transition Town Totnes.
Here is an email I received from Joanne Poyourow in LA about the early steps that are being taken to kick start Transition ideas in the city. Hope this is interesting/encouraging for other Transition city groups. Just to remind you, the Transition Cities Conference takes place in Nottingham on the 27th – 28th November. Full details to follow next week, but do put those dates in your diary.
“Sometimes the question of “what to do about Los Angeles” seems just too big — both to those on the outside looking in, and even at times to the brave Permaculturists and Transitioners who are here working from the inside. Los Angeles is huge.
The title of this post makes solar panels sound a bit like some unfortunate ailment, but moving from the instant hot water world to the solar world is definitely a process of learning a new way of doing things. It is now nearly a month now since our solar hot water system was installed by Sungift Solar of Exeter, as part of the Transition Town Totnes Solar Heater Challenge scheme.
