On the Viridian design list, Bruce Sterling says farewell to the ten years of relative peace and beauty we had in the 1990′s.
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Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
August 31, 2001 – 12:00 am
Gwyneth Jones’ new novel, Bold as Love, concerns an attempt by a New Labour-esque government to manufacture an alt.rock group to distract attention from the rather successful anti-globalization, pro-environmental brand. The book’s website combines pieces of the world of the book (tour t-shirts, playlists, history) with credits for the actual book.
Help President Cheney Protect the American Way of Life!
June 21, 2001 – 12:00 am
Cartoonist Mark Fiore demonstrates First Industrialist Dick Cheney’s plan to preserve the American-Way-Of-Life ™ at all costs. [ Flash ]
Sterling on the Houston Floods
June 12, 2001 – 12:00 am
Houston–home to several companies who’d rather not deal with climate change if it means pissing off the stock holders–was overrun by floods due to an early storm. Bruce Sterling provides annotation to wire stories on the incident.
NOAA Presentation on Climate Change to House of Reps
June 12, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via the Muted Horn ] A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration presentation on the state of knowledge about climate change. Another interesting thing about this document is that apparently when you’re important, you don’t get PowerPoint slides, but a hand-drawn presentation.
America becomes a Rouge State with Kyoto Snub
April 1, 2001 – 12:00 am
Now that we’re a Rogue State, does that mean we have to embargo ourselves? And if the civilized nations of the world must launch airstrikes against us in order to bring us back into line, it’ll make rolling blackouts look tame. “Suddenly, in the space of two short months, America, the ”indispensable nation”, begins to [...]
We need a Sierra Club for the Internet
February 1, 2001 – 12:00 am
Tim O’Reilly says that with all the ‘land grabs’ we need a Sierra Club for the Internet. Maybe someone can write about Jay Walker and Eben Moglen arguing about patents while floating down the Charles River.
The Auckland Blackouts
January 24, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ via FoRK ] Split Endz has a song, “History Repeats,” which is apropriate here. In 1998 the city of Auckland, NZ was blacked out due to corporate incompetence. On the FoRK list, we were talking about the feasiblity of using shipboard nuclear generators for supplemental power. They tried that in Auckland, and it didn’t [...]
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackout
January 24, 2001 – 12:00 am
[ by suggestion ] Bruce Sterling looks at California’s energy crisis.
California Power Crisis at Plastic
January 19, 2001 – 12:00 am
Plastic has a good discussion going on the causes of the California Power Crisis. Ignore the mean spirited initial post by the smug Northwesterner and go to the comments.
We will need 10 million years to recover from extinctions
March 14, 2000 – 12:00 am
A pair of UC Berkeley biologists have worked out the mean time it takes the planet to recover from a mass-extinction (rock from space, climate change, Pacific Lumber…,) and the news is depressing. It takes around ten million years for evolutionary processes to fill in all the niches exposed in a mass-extinction event. The takeaway [...]
The Coal-Fired Internet
December 17, 1999 – 12:00 am
[ via Nettime ] More on the proposition that the Internet may be contributing to energy demand, and consequently more fossil fuel use.
NYT OpEd on Seattle Protests
December 2, 1999 – 12:00 am
Great NYT [registration required] editorial on Seattle which articulates why and what people are protesting. “The W.T.O. has consistently sought to sever trade, quite unnaturally, from everything and everyone affected by it: workers, the environment, culture. This is why President Clinton’s suggestion yesterday that the rift between the protesters and the delegates can be smoothed [...]
Antarctic Ice Sheet Steadily Melting
October 7, 1999 – 12:00 am
A study published in a forthcoming issue of Science reports that the Antarctic ice sheet has been melting steadly for several thousands of years.
California Smog Fee Refund
October 2, 1999 – 12:00 am
[ via the Mercury News ] If you brought a car into California since 1992 and paid the $300 smog fee, you may be entitled to a refund. A state appeals court overturned the fee on Friday, October 1st. I thought the rationale for the fee was fair, but the court disagreed. I may donate [...]