Rooftop Wind Turbines Ready For Commercial Use
posted on: May 3rd, 2007posted by: gasparin
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From Rooftop Wind Turbines Ready For Commercial Use : MetaEfficient:
I've been thinking a lot lately about appropriate technology and sustainable energy, and all the other aspects of a hypothetical 'urban ecovillage'. It turns out that I'm not the only person to be thinking along those lines and there's actually a lot of information relevant to the subject and already a lot of technology developed that would be suitable to the purpose. (continued...)
Quotable Sources: Raoul Vaneigem
posted on: May 2nd, 2007posted by: gasparin
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"To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection"
Quotable Sources: Thomas Hardy
posted on: April 30th, 2007posted by: gasparin
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Cul-de-Sacs: Suburban Dream or Dead End?
posted on: April 30th, 2007posted by: gasparin
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I don't exactly remember how, but I ended up reading the wikipedia entry for "Cul-de-sac" and the footnotes led me to this very interesting article about the ill-consequences of that icon of suburbia with the funny French name. (continued...)
Quotable Sources: The Politics of Experience
posted on: April 29th, 2007posted by: gasparin
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What has been, what might have been, what should be or might be. Can we describe the present in terms of its becoming what it isn't yet”- a term so frightening, so ominous, so cataclysmic, that it is sometimes easier to see the present already darkened by the shadow of a thermonuclear apocalypse than either envisage further declensions from that which our nostalgia absents us, or to see a redemptive dialectic immanent in the vortex of accelerating change.
