Resilient Network Design Lessons: Increase in connectivity leads to an increase in resilience only to a point - after which more connectivity leads to a decrease in resilience. Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant
Resilient Network Design Lessons: Increase in connectivity leads to an increase in resilience only to a point - after which more connectivity leads to a decrease in resilience. Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant
Beyond Sustainability - talk by Thomas Homer Dixon:
Olafur Eliasson’s Eco-Project ‘Little Sun’ Partners with Ikea to Design Solar-Powered Tools:
https://frieze.com/article/olafur-eliassons-eco-project-little-sun-partners-ikea-design-solar-powered-tools #FFHCI #Regenerative
Plants Sense (2018) - "an installation that allows the public, through an intelligent interface-suit, to know and experience the secret language of plants" - by María Castellanos & Alberto Valverde @LABoral: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/es/exposiciones/the-plants-sense
"The Green Promise of Vertical Farms": https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/the-green-promise-of-vertical-farms "Indoor farms run by AI and lit by LEDs can be more efficient than field agriculture, but can they significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions?"
Ecologic Studio: http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/index.php #FFHCI #Architecture
Artificial Intelligence—A Game Changer for Climate Change and the Environment:
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/06/05/artificial-intelligence-climate-environment/
Artificial intelligence is helping us manage the impacts of climate change and protect the environment in many ways.
David Abram is an interesting man: https://www.humansandnature.org/david-abram
@vakibs tweets: "Who is interested in planting trees ? And growing gardens ? And welcoming wild life to settle down, so that in 100 years time, we can build a forest that can save our planet ?
To which someone replied: "I know that it was a rhetorical question but i thought that a real answer will do more justice to the question."
@vakibs: It is not a rhetorical question. I am asking for people: Who is interested in building a longterm computing culture? Please learn from the history of AI (both artificial intelligence & augmented intelligence), know who else is working on these projects, and team up for 100 years"
My reply: "Who is interested in building a long-term computing culture?" ← good question. Who is interested in building a regenerative global culture, where computing is used in service life, and not the other way around?
"Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why":
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jeremy-lent/steven-pinker-s-ideas-are-fatally-flawed-these-eight-graphs-show-why
What is "Solarpunk"? This 20min talk by @thejaymo gives a great overview of the emerging eco-futurist movement.
Real Value - #Documentary about #Economics, Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship:
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
From Sustainable to Regenerative Design:
Regeneration: A Webinar with Fritjof Capra, Simon Robinson and Daniel Christian Wahl:
Transformative Change, Sustainability and Regeneration:
Follow up links: https://transitionconsciousness.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/discussing-the-earth-charter-regeneration-and-meaningful-disturbances-with-fritjof-capra/
Regenerative design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_design
"Designing Regenerative Cultures" - book: https://www.triarchypress.net/drc.html
Great reply by @nntsn on the question "how can machine learning help with climate-change related issues:
Most environmental issues are fundamentally policy issues that currently are poorly tackled because of socio-economical and political reasons. To me it's unclear whether ML can (or should) fine-tune policies that struggle to even be brought up to legislators / the public.
If so, we should use ML to make a _better_ case for tackling such issues. Maybe we should chat with the orgs involved in lobbying policymakers and provide data analysis tools to strengthen their cases. Would be great to have a joint workshop on this at NIPS/ICML/AAAI/IJCAI.
My reply:
Well said & agree. Would love to participate in a new virtual conference (airplane travel wrong symbol) focused on the topic of Flora-Fauna-Human-Computer-Interaction (FFHCI) - Bringing together CS,ML,HCI people with NGOs, activists & policy makers to discuss climate change challenges & solutions.
SustainableBrands: "The bridge to better brands": http://www.sustainablebrands.com/
Sustainable Brands is home for the global community of business innovators who are shaping the future of commerce world wide. Since 2006, our goal has been to inspire, engage and equip today's business and brand leaders to prosper for the near and long term by leading the way to a sustainably abundant future.
Deep Time Walk: "a mobile app that enables anyone, anywhere to experience a walking audio history of the living Earth": https://www.deeptimewalk.org/kit/app/
The idea of the Deep Time Walk is simple but incredibly powerful: When dealing with the vast dimensions of time and space, we are often unable to grasp the magnitude quantitatively, just through studying the numbers. A Deep Time Walk allows us to walk the timeline of the history of the Earth and also universe, and thus for example, on a walk of 4.6km, if we start with the birth of Earth, each one-metre step represents one million years. Read more...
"Microsoft tests Project Natick, self-sustaining underwater datacenter":
"The Pricing of Everything" - talk by @GeorgeMonbiot:
"This is a pursuit of what could be called the natural capital agenda. The pricing & valuation, monetisation and financialization of nature - in the name of saving it. Nature is now called Natural Capital. Ecological processes are called Ecosystem services. And hills, forests and oceans - are now called green infrastructure. Bio-diversity, we now call asset classes in an eco-system market" - @GeorgeMonbiot.