Worth a Look: Life Cycle Assessment Made Simple

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool used to evaluate the potential environmental impact of a product, process or activity throughout its entire life cycle by quantifying the use of resources (“inputs” such as energy, raw materials, water) and environmental emissions (“outputs” to air, water and soil) associated with the system that is being evaluated. …

Search: Counterintelligence & Capitalism

Great search!  We’ve been thinking recently about writing a piece on Strategic Counterintelligence that begins with Sun Tzu’s guidance to “know oneself.”  Your search is encouraging.  It boils down to one word: INTEGRITY.  The problem emerges when we fail to invest in education (as opposed to rote Weapons of Mass Instruction), this ultimate produces a …

Review: Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution

Beyond 6 Stars–And a Seventh for Accessible Pricing December 5, 2009 Peter A. Corning I could spend a lifetime reading and re-reading this book, and each of the cited sources, and not waste the time at all. This is one of the most extraordinary works I have encountered, and while I cannot do it justice, …

Reference: Open Innovation vs. Dinosaur Defenses

The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation Wendy Seltzer, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 25, 2010 Digital Rights Management, law-backed technological control of usage  of copyrighted works, is clearly imperfect: It often fails to stop  piracy and frequently blocks non-infringing uses. Yet the drive to  correct these imperfections masks a …

Search: Strategic Analytic Model

A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.  Their report,  A More Secure World–Our Shared …

Worth a Look: Literature in Rebuttal of Global Warming

Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations’ Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming In language that a layman can understand, Ralph Alexander explains how the whole global warming claim got started, who started it, and how it has been maintained by too many scientists (and others) using deliberately false or …