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by spodek 8y ago
> food industry When you refine the addictive, pleasure-causing white powder out of a plant and make cocaine or heroine we call it a drug. For historical reasons when we do it to make sugar we call it food, but it seems more of a drug. M
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1. If only energy were the only problem. Extinctions, resource depletion, overcrowding, etc. I like futuristic technologies. I also like kids playing on grass, not astroturf, however space-age. 2. Consuming less doesn't require austere
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For those who have read Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Power Broker , most of this article tells history you already know. After that part, it's about applying her principles to today's issues beyond cities to
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For a container, these lids https://www.amazon.com/Maintenance-silicone-waterless-fermen... on mason jars make me glad to be alive just after their invention, given that people have fermented food for millennia. Dead simple
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I guess the "mostly plants" part of "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" was to leave room for fungi.
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Does keeping your windows shut all the time in New York mean you have an air conditioner on all summer? Could there be other problems with everyone using air conditioning all the time?
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The irony of a New Yorker article on the blandness of an institution lacking the punch of its early life is sadly obvious to long time New Yorker readers.
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Low Tech Magazine: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com . There's no tech like low tech. Also Slashdot.
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I agree writing daily helps, far more than just writing. I've written at least daily in my blog every day since January 2011. Here are the 3,000+ posts: http://joshuaspodek.com/archives . Some side benefits: when I appl
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I Haven't Eaten for 3 Days and It's Amazing(inc.com)
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With your username, I bet you've had that one ready for years.
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Whoever wants it already has it.
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> "Every industry sector [that] has looked at this initiative considers it a very serious threat to the ability to do business in California," says Robert Callahan, vice president of state government affairs for the Internet A
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What does it take for people to see that for all the problems technology and markets have solved, they have unintended side-effects that, after enough time, can become global problems? Pesticides and population growth expanding into more an
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Prices are generally determined by what the market will bear. The high-end art market is bearing those prices. At the same time as those fairs and nearly the same place are sometimes dozens of satellite fairs with lower prices. Impressionis
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> Technology like this is why The Wall is a waste of money when it comes to deterring drug trafficking. One of many many reasons. While it's sufficient, it's far from the top of the list.
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Flotation devices. They wouldn't save the boat but could help people in the water and don't weigh much. Not sure the technology then for self-inflating boats for people to get out of the cold water, but today you could make self-i
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Another way to help is for users to conserve energy. Most people and companies can reduce their consumption while gaining quality of life by paying more attention to their use. While conserving doesn't solve everything, it seems an ess
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I recommend my book, "ReModel: Create mental models to improve your life and lead simply and effectively" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F2RS1G6 , which gives you an exercise to write out your mental models so y
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Prices are set more by supply and demand than what a supplier does. In this case, government-enforced monopolies called copyright limits supply, which inflates prices.
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The story you link to describes interactions with two women. One ends with > "Just as we’re coming out of the bar, here comes Ann, running across Route 66 toward me. She puts her arm in mine, and says, “Come on, let’s go over to my
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by spodek 8y ago
1. Individual action and legislation are not exclusive. 2. Legislation will happen faster if people act. Politicians know that when people say one thing and do another, they'll vote consistently with their behavior. News of waste like
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I write about it a lot in my blog. Here's a collection of posts to start: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin... .
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Here's a video I made of my garbage, recycling, and composting: http://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-environment-podcast-5 Here are more posts on my evolving practices http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogserie
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There is no substitute for you, the person reading these words, to stop accepting plastic bags and as much similar things -- coffee cups, utensils, etc. Each reduction makes the next easier and simpler. Eventually you work up to fewer cars
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> putting in 12-14 hour days of pulling a sled in minus 40C, you have to Oddly they include the redundant "C" for -40 but don't include it, or the "F," in the next paragraph: > by running outside naked in m
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> This outcome is in a particularly distorted badly operated market, one where for no very good reasons regulatory power is not being applied . . . You described most energy markets on the planet.
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I wrote my book to fill the gap I saw between teaching about leading people and developing leadership practices. Amazon has the preface and first chapter in the "look inside" link above the picture of it https://www.a
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"If you want X, Y works" doesn't imply that "doing Y means you want X," which, unless I misunderstand you, is what you were reacting to. Speaking of SEALs, I just wrote about them in the draft of my next book, on be
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If a penny saved is a penny earned, then conservation is the safest of all. I'm not saying we don't need sources, but most Americans could reduce their energy use by probably 50% - 90%, probably improving their standards of livi

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