Category Archives: Environment

The twelve days of minimalism/sustainability…

By Daniel | Published: December 25, 2009
Check out 12 minimalist ways to reduce your carbon footprint. I’m taking advantage of the author of  mnmlst’s ‘uncopyrighted’ policy and posting the whole durn thing below: 1. Eat less. Wrote about this recently. Less food consumed means less resources used up and pollution used to create the food and get it to you. 2. Eat less meat. [...]
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[LA only] Huntington succulents plants symposium Sept. 4

By Daniel | Published: August 30, 2009
Huntington succulents plants symposium Sept. 4 | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times. Have you taken permaculture seriously today?
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Flashwalk : Walk 40 miles from Brooklyn to Staten Island Sunday

By Daniel | Published: June 18, 2009
I really hope it doesn’t rain this Sunday, but even if it does, I plan on joining my friend Matt for the 1st annual Flashwalk from Brooklyn to Staten Island. It’ll be a 40 hour, slow-food style walk during which time I hope to see for the first time–with no sense of haste or pressure–a [...]
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Datavis/gis art – Alastair Clark and the ‘Skylight’ series [art]

By Daniel | Published: April 3, 2009
Check out Alastair Clark’s portfolio. The above images are from the ‘Skylight’ series, a sort of ‘found image’ series of weather sat images and meditation on cyclone destruction as seen from space. via Data Mining
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Seasteading, and the Ivory Tower [alternative societies]

By Daniel | Published: June 10, 2008
Now that I have buckets of free time to explore in my post-college life, I’ve become fascinated with the Seasteading institute. Their mission is to establish offshore communities as a sort of nation-less [read groundless] society. The trouble is, all they have is ideas and money–no willing groups or appropriately disgruntled and motivated libertarians to [...]
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New Environmental Assessment: Running out of Metaphors

By Daniel | Published: December 5, 2007
If politics is built by language, there are words in the right policies, and a vacant silence in the tongue of the opposing policies. An excerpt from: Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech World Р{NYTimes } by | By Andrew C. Revkin, 12.4.2007 It’s no wonder that scientists immersed for decades in this problem are [...]
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