The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Grid parity in 2016 will result in a very rapid shift in power infrastructure. If you could heat and electrify your house and run your car more cheaply why wouldn't you do it? The market will kill carbon energy faster than government regulation. It is government stimulation, not regulation that is the leverage point.
The Coming Solar Power Boom: Charts Tell The Story, Grid Parity In 2 Years
Fossil fuel follies: Massive subsidies underpin oil, coal exploration
Intel is doing something new and useful. They have introduced a Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) to migrate toward assuring Intel consumers that its offerings are free of minerals from conflict environments — tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are the ones they are focusing on.
What Intel is doing impresses me for two reasons.
First, they are re-introducing strategic ethics into their business model. As a professional intelligence officer and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction I will assert with confidence that Will and Ariel Durant nail it in their capstone work, Lessons of History, when they write to the priceless value of morality. Morality — ethics — is “root” for human consciousness and the transmission of core cultural, economic, and social lessons from one generation to the next. I am certain that Ethics, which embodies the intangible value of being right with one another and right with Nature, is going to be a 21st Century stand-out.
Continue reading “Reflections: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?”
A possible model for true cost economics movement.
What's in your technology may shock you…
Your daily life requires vital minerals that may originate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other countries.
Tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are referred to as conflict minerals.
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Sunken Soviet Submarines Threaten Nuclear Catastrophe in Russia's Arctic
According toĀ a joint Russian-Norwegian report issued inĀ 2012, there are 17,000 containers ofĀ nuclear waste, 19 rusting Soviet nuclear ships andĀ 14 nuclear reactors cut out ofĀ atomic vessels atĀ the bottom ofĀ the Kara Sea.
My name is Steven He, and I am an instructor in translation at Xiāan Fanyi University in Xiāan, Shaanxi Province, China.
I majored in English at SIAS International University in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and after graduating in 2004, I went on to pursue my Ā postgraduate studies in translation at Xiāan International Studies University, with a view to doing more professional translation and interpretation.
In my current position at Xiāan Fanyi University, I am able to continue my own academic pursuits while teaching, and also to take on translation projects that I feel good about. I am honored and happy to translate this important work into Chinese and hope that it can be read and appreciated by more people here.
A little talk on why we should decentralize the internet…
From the Speaker: As technology is being used to control humanity more and more there lies an unsuspecting beacon of hope that will change everything. The decentralized internet! Watch as this lamen explains these concepts for other lamen. Spread the hype!
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: YouTube (4:29) Decentralized Internet”
Information Governance Standards Group Suggests Caution in Approaching eDiscovery
The records management group ARMA International weighs in about search with an article in their Information Management magazine: āEnterprise Search vs E-Discovery Search: Same or Different?ā The short answer, not surprisingly, is ādifferent.ā Writer Kamal Shah explains:
āTo date, most enterprises have used the same search technologies for both tasks. However, a recent trend among large and small enterprises suggests that a significant divergence is occurring between enterprise searches and e-discovery searches. Both start by entering a search term in a search box, but thatās where the similarities end. The business requirements are different and, as a result, each needs different capabilities.ā
The article goes on to elaborate on the reasons traditional enterprise search is not sufficient for most eDiscovery needs.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Enterprise Search Fails to Meet Legal Standards”
