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The Methane Monster Grows New Teeth: Sea Level Rise Found to Cause Slope Collapse, Tsunamis, Methane Release 27 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Reblogged from robertscribbler: (Image source: Sea-level–induced Seismicity and Submarine Landslide Occurrence.) At the end of the last ice age as the climate warmed, glaciers began to thaw, and sea...
Richard J Williams podcast interview with Times Higher 26 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Reblogged from urbanculturalstudies: Follow link for 40 min. interview with Times Higher (UK) on the new book Sex and Buildings. Much discussion of US urbanism, modernism, and LA architecture, as we...
Local People, Global Forests 25 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Reblogged from Earth Baby: According to Positive News, the forest dwelling indigenous people in Indonesia may soon have the legal rights to control those forests. This means they would be private pro...
Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 - By J. Dana Stuster | Foreign Policy 23 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
Reblogged from DEMOCRACITIES: Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 - By J. Dana Stuster | Foreign Policy. "Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 From Cairo to Wall Street to the ...
Growth Shock, Going on Offense, and Setting an Example for Kindness Economics 22 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
Reblogged from robertscribbler: If anything, the upcoming book, Growth Shock, is a call for action. Confronting the combined threat posed by a rapid depletion of renewable and nonrenewable resources...
The value addition imperative in agriculture 21 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
Reblogged from Allana Potash Blog: By Adam Robert Green Local agricultural processing is vital as Africa’s food imports continue to rise – but not all commodities are well suited to domestic valu...
Foreign Landscapes Inspire Creativity 21 Aug 2013 | 10:42 am
Reblogged from Segmation-The Art of Pieceful Imaging: What comes to mind when thinking of foreign landscapes? Are these far off countries? Or different planets? Do they only exist in fantasy fiction?...
Glaciers 20 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
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The World Broken Down into Maps 20 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Reblogged from Progressive Geographies: Some interesting, partial, controversial maps of the world. Many would be good to begin discussions - I particularly like the one of Geopolitical Anomalies.
DE-GROWTH DEFINED: INTERVIEW WITH SERGE LATOUCHE 20 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
Reblogged from DEMOCRACITIES: At: http://www.stopwarming.eu/?news&id=203 Q&A: 'Time to De-Grow' IPS, August 3, 2009 Claudia Ciobanu interviews economist SERGE LATOUCHE BUCHAREST, Aug 3 (IPS) - Ser...
