Tech Skeptics United
Confronting technology risks
Technology is a risk; risk determines what the future will be. Just one impact on the world's ecosystem by technology can be summed up in one word – coal. Technology is now, even more pervasive with the rampant development of almost every aspect of human endeavor. Technology needs to be assessed from a new and different perspective. This group is a start ...learn more
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Created: Jan 12, 2009
Updated: Feb 07, 2010
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Olympic and Tar Sands green washing
All Out February 13th!Call out for solidarity actions across Canada against Olympic and Tar Sands green washing! We all know the Olympics are about more than fun and games but we need your action to ...more
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Depletion of Key Resources (essay by Peter Goodchild)
Jonathan Owen notes: Peter Goodchild presents a definitive essay. Learn why:
• "Those who expect to get by with 'victory gardens' are unaware of the arithmetic involved."
• "There are already to ...more
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The Climate Solution: Got Cows?
Now that official leadership in Copenhagen has predictably
failed us, for no agreement ever on the table was anywhere near close to what
we need to salve the savage climate, what do we do?
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Discussions
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Bill McKibben and the Technofixers' Tragic Myopia
"Hi Frank
I am not sure what is Bill upto. Here is a post of mine in another forum on climate change that you might find interesting.There is also a movie called The great global warming swindle (wi" ...more
mita commented 5 months ago
Tiny Tech Can Leave a Big Mess
"Tiny Tech Can Leave a Big MessScientists try to clean up nanotechnology before it becomes a big business--and a big problemBy Sara Goodman Nanotechnology's image is sleek, modern and clea" ...more
frankpatton commented 10 months ago
Vertical Farming or tomatos in the sky.
"Hi friends,
This is Jim Thomas from the ETC Group. I'm writing to share a column just published in this months' Ecologist magazine about so-called 'vertical farms'. Surpr" ...more
frankpatton commented 11 months ago
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Technology the impactor. How could it be? Carbon runs wild,in the land of the free?
A zoom into the Mandelbrot Set, from 1:1 scale to a 6th-level mini-set.
IBM Smart Planet ad. @ JAPAN Subway
Resources
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African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out Against...
Voices From AfricaAfrican Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in AfricaOakland, CA: A new report from the Oakland Institute, Voices from Africa: African Farmers &a ...more
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the innovative turn
The video The Innovative Turn has been prepared by the partners of the project Zer0-M, funded by the European Union under the
Euro-Mediterranean Regional Programme for Local Water Management. The Vide ...more
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Is There a Technology Resistance?
Survey Invitation By Peter Crabb The driving force behind the anthropogenic destruction of Planet Earth islocked inside our skulls. Neuroscientists are just beginning to identifythe neural networks ...more
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Let's try forward gear!
Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blind ...more
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I have real problems with Tech Fixs as the be all and end all for sustainability. It's a kind of madness that seems to end in allot of dead ends. frankpatton 10 months ago
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Albert Einstein: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Martin Regelsberger 10 months ago
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Technology can be an excellent tool. But I think sometimes people spend too much time on-line and not enough on life! Janine 9 months ago
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I've been reading a book by John Zerzan, Future Primitive and Other Essays. Has anyone else been read anything by him? frankpatton 6 months ago
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“Presence and representation constantly call each other into question, revealing the underlying system as infinitely fissured, and this in itself is an important contribution,” John Zersan. I wonder at times if presence can every be experienced in the representations that are concocted by our information services that technology has, is and is going to play. There is an ad that is presently running on TV by IBM, what they are saying is they are creating a ‘smarter planet’. Is that what technology is about, creating a smarter planet? frankpatton 5 months ago
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Climate Change and COP15 is a joke tell coal is confronted - head on. Warren Buffett placed a huge bet on coal, so he bought railroad so he could make massive amounts of money halling the stuff around. It's time to get in his face. frankpatton about 1 month ago
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Business Ethics Network
Activities: Activist
Scope: international
Type: Network/ Coalition/ Collective
Scope: international
Type: Network/ Coalition/ Collective
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BlindSpot (global revival think-tank)
Activities: Research
Scope: international
Type: Research Institute
Scope: international
Type: Research Institute
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Washington Toxics Coalition
Scope: regional
Type: Non Governmental Organization
Type: Non Governmental Organization
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