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Interview with Lisa Jackson, Apple's "VP of Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives" on how the private sector is embracing the clean energy revolution. Fascinating given Apple's giant carbon footprint and consumerism & planned obsolescence "leadership".
"What are your environmental goals in the next 5y?" - "Europe started the circular economy. I think that is the holy grail, dematerialising our sector. We are already forest neutral & love to become forest-positive"
- Lisa Jackson, Apple VP of EnvironmentCan Apple close the loop? Tech giant targets 100% recycled material: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-apple-close-loop-tech-giant-targets-100-recycled-material
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"China's Religious Landscape: Models of Religious Pluralism" - talk by Dr. David A. Palmer, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong
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"Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04421-3 https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/volcano-antarctic-ice-melting-pine-island-glacier-sea-level-climate-change-global-warming-a8423131.html #ClimateChange
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Art of the day: "Kunstformen der Natur - plate 72: Muscinae" - by Ernst Haeckel (1899): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur
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The Swedes have a word that has no direct translation into English - one we should borrow: "Lagom":
The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as “enough, sufficient, adequate, just right”. Lagom is also widely translated as “in moderation“, “in balance”, “perfect-simple”, “optimal” and “suitable” (in matter of amounts). Whereas words like “sufficient” and “average” suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of appropriateness, although not necessarily perfection. The archetypical Swedish proverb “Lagom är bäst“, literally “The right amount is best”, is translated as “Enough is as good as a feast” in the Lexin dictionary. That same proverb is translated as “There is virtue in moderation” in Prismas Stora Engelska Ordbok (1995). (source)
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Computational Creativity: "Tools to ease the transition from mass-consumption to mass-creation"
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"IKEA will take back your old furniture, resell it & give you the money":
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/ikea-will-take-back-your-old-furniture-resell-it-and-give-you-the-money“If the last decades were about mass consumerism, now we are getting towards mass circularity.” - Jesper Brodin, CEO of IKEA
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“More or Less: The Fundamental Principle of Flexibility” - talk by Niti Bhan (@prepaid_africa) on "Understanding the underpinnings of financial & social contracts in the informal economy"
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"Efficiency and Madness Using Data and Technology to Solve Social, Environmental and Political Problems" - an essay by Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski: https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/efficiency_and_madness.pdf
Technologies help us do more with less, they defy boundaries of space, time and self. We experience them as both magic and loss. This essay begins by adopting broader conceptual analysis from the work of academics and theorists, applied from the position of practitioners working internationally on technology deployment for social change. It then looks at how data-driven technologies are currently deployed to solve problems. Lastly, it makes a case for why we cannot leave the challenges posed by data-driven technologies to technologists.
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Redesigning Computationally Creative Systems For Continuous Creativity - ICCC 2018 Talk:
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Community Engagement:
https://www.slideshare.net/salishsea/community-engagement-presentation
The way to heal a living system is to connect it to more of itself
- Humberto MaturanaHave a powerful question to which you don't know the answer
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Truth and Trust: Maturana and Von Foerster - 30min chat about Science and Reality:
Future to be Determined, Maturana and von Foerster - 30min chat about Education:
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"China launches Spy Bird Drone to boost Government Surveillance": https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/china-spy-bird-drone-government-surveillance-a8415766.html
