Graphic: Panarchy Pace Layering (Stewart Brand)
“The back loop is the time of the Long Now,” writes Resilience Alliance founder Buzz Holling. It is a time “when each of us must become aware that he or she is a participant.” Source
Graphic: Consciousness + Eight Processes
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Graphic: The Global Brain
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Google Muffs the Bunny: Search 2.0 Emergent
O’Brien: Search undergoing biggest disruption since the dawn of Google Phi Beta Iota: From day one we have been expressing concern over Google placing excessive emphasis on math hacks and ignoring both humanity and the needs of humanity. It is now clear to the broader public, as it has been clear to us from the …
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Half of US Nuclear Reactors Over 30 Years Old….
Half of U.S. nuclear reactors over 30 years old By Steve Hargreaves, senior writerMarch 15, 2011: 3:37 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Half of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors are over 30 years old, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Most of the remaining reactors are at least 20 years old. Originally granted …
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Graphic: US DoD Budget 1948-2011
Source: Winslow Wheeler, Straus Military Reform Project Powerpoint Version of Above Current Table of DoD Costs Now
The Real “National Security Budget: $1.2 Trillion
Tomgram: Chris Hellman, $1.2 Trillion for National Security Here’s the thing: the House Republicans are going after their version of unsightly pimples on the body politic — the programs they and their billionaire sponsors find ideologically unpalatable — without seriously considering where our money really flows. We at TomDispatch thought we might lend a hand …
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