Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, computer science professor Randy Pausch, decided to give his last lecture in front of a full auditorium in September 2007. The lecture is about achieving your childhood dreams and inspiring others. I am not going to write so much more about it, but just recommend that our readers watch [...]
 
       
    
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Previously we have written about the Transition Movement as well as the TED conference here on “Green Tech the Open Source way” Here is Rob Hopkins of the Transition Movement delivering a speech at TED earlier this year. If you want to know a good approach to a world beyond oil dependency, and if [...] If I should name the one person that has influenced me the most in my life among those I have actually never met, then probably it would be the late Dr. Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996). Carl Sagan was an astronomer, author and educator, especially famous for the television series [...] Ecologist Richard Heinberg is the head of the Post Carbon Institute and the author of he Party’s Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. In this interview he talks about the future of the human species with a lesser and lesser supply of fossil fuels. He also points out that the [...] In their famous 1984 song “Do they know it’s Christimas” the artists united in Band Aid to raise money for Africa, described the continent as a place “where nothing ever grows.” Have you ever watched a film from a very warm place, like in Africa or India, and though to yourself that nothing can [...] Today we have embedded a BBC documentary in 5 episodes found on YouTube. Professional wild life photographer, Rebecca Hosking, returns to her childhood farm to see how she can work to transform it into a farm for a future without an abundant access to fossil fuel. Sphere: Related [...] The transition movement, which has been mentioned in a book review earlier on this blog, announce on their blog that they will be showing a preview of their movie “In transition” online later this week. It will be available from New Zealand’s midnight Thursday June 11th 2009 to Alaska’s midnight Sat June 13th . [...] Today we have embedded a series of 8 videos from YouTube showing a documentary named “Understanding peak oil”, that we strongly recommend everyone to watch. You will have to set aside approximately one and a half hour to watch the entire documentary. How many hours you will spend thinking about it afterwards [...] |
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