Bin Laden spoke sense on Climate Change

  Bin Laden spoke sense on Climate Change                                        ……”It has become clear to all that they are the real tyrannical terrorists. In fact, the life of all of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations. Despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the resulting death and displacement of millions of human beings, especially in Africa. This greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to the lives of humans is taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being dominated by the ‘democratic’ capitalist system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their representatives…….”

….Bin Laden ends his address by suggesting that Americans choose Islam as the ‘alternative upright methodology’ he mentioned, but I can hardly imagine the average citizen of America bowing down five times a day in the local mosque to pray in the direction of Mecca, stoning adulterers, and cutting off the hands of shoplifters…..

via Osama on 9/11 – What the Perp is Saying these Days about the Empire, Capitalism, and JFK by Michael Dickinson.

Anarchist Library publishes ‘The Free’

Just an hour ago a text version of The Free was added to The Anarchist Library.

Thanks a trillion M for your help.

This version is excellent for printing off in your office at lunchtime.

Includes EPUB version for handheld. Download from here

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Mike_Gilliland__The_Free.html

Permaculture – Nature as our Teacher

In my first blog, I introduced the ethics of permaculture. This time I want to explain the principles. We need these principles to provide a set of universally applicable guidelines that can be used in designing sustainable systems. Otherwise, permaculture becomes merely a lifestyle choice within an existing unsustainable system.
These principles can be inherent in any permaculture design, in any climate, and on any scale. They have been derived from the thoughtful observation of nature, and from earlier work by ecologists, landscape designers and environmental science.

Each principle can be thought of as a door that opens into a whole system of thinking, providing a different perspective that can be understood at varying levels of depth and application. David Holmgren, the co-originator of permaculture, redefined permaculture principles in his seminal book, Permaculture – Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.
 When I started giving talks about permaculture to all sorts of different audiences, I decided to write my own explanations and apply the principle not only to designing gardens and farms but to business, society and culture…. CONT/

via Introducing The Principles of Permaculture Design – Using Nature as our Teacher.

‘The Free’..out in 5 days..as free download

 

Download here

 https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/testing-downloads/

 

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Also view The Free on Authonomy here  : http://www.authonomy.com/books/4458/the-free/
And on Issuu, with a real cool reader:http://issuu.com/thefreemikegilli/docs/the_free_
In the Anarchist Library, also from May 1st:http://theanarchistlibrary.org/


 And now on Google Books as open source:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=UJmwz4zO6lEC#v=onepage&q&f=false


The Free onFarsebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720678269

Also the Kan Pascual video here:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY3hZI2Zy5w

FRACKING ‘worse than coal’ for climate

The new kid on the energy block, shale gas, may be worse in climate change terms than coal, a study concludes.

Drawn from rock through a controversial “fracking” process, some hail the gas as a “stepping stone” to a low-carbon future and a route to energy security.

But US researchers found that shale gas wells leak substantial amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

This makes its climate impact worse than conventional gas, they say – and probably worse than coal as well.

via BBC News – Shale gas ‘worse than coal’ for climate.

Real green living ??

degrowth



by HeatherRogers

The eco-village of Vauban in Germany signposts one answer to climate change, reports Heather Rogers

Over the past decade, an eco‑friendly marketplace has been unleashed across the west. Thanks to consumer demand, the organic food business has grown by double digits every year for the past 15 – waning only briefly in 2009 due to the recession. Automakers are turning out more gas-electric hybrids and full electrics than ever before; biofuel markets are escalating every year; and the global carbon trade is now worth over $30 billion annually.

The promise implicit in these changes is that global warming can be stopped by swapping dirty products for green ones, with little disruption to daily life. Getting behind the wheel of a gas-electric hybrid is not so different from driving a regular car. Ethanol and biodiesel are the same as ordinary petrol. And paying a little extra for an airline ticket to cancel out CO2 emissions takes almost no effort at all……  /cont..

via Real green living | Red Pepper.

Waste Heat to Power Carbon Capture

NOTE.. This for me is a typical ‘tech fix’.. it could work,but if they can harness waste heat from power stations they’re much more likely to turn it into electricity and make more money!   mikegilli).


…The IEA just said we’ll need 3000 carbon capture and storage projects by 2050 if we’re too reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert potentially catastrophic global warming. Considering that there are just five currently operating and 75 in planning stages, and there’s a strong contingent of researchers expressing doubt about that scale of CCS being feasible, it’s a daunting challenging ahead, no doubt. Well, Greentech Media is highlighting an interesting way of meeting that challenge:

[Global Thermostat] essentially captures the heat from power plants and/or industrial equipment to drive its CO2 capture equipment…..ETC ETC

via Waste Heat Powers Novel Carbon Capture Scheme : TreeHugger.