Christiania Normalizing the freetown
Posted 04/06/10 by Matt B in the Online category
Christiania is possibly the biggest and longest running experiment in alternative culture and practices. This might not be the way that every one of us choose to live our lives but it represents the chance for people to live lives that are not the same as everyone elses. What would it mean tot he world if this were to be lost?
Me on health issues.
Posted 05/04/10 by Matt B in the Online category
The Future Of Sustainable Farming?
Posted 17/03/10 by Matt B in the Online category
The idea for vertical farming was born in 1999 in a Columbia University classroom when Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbology, offhandedly mentioned the idea to his students. Inspired by the idea, Despommier and his class made the first outline of a vertical farm in 2001, and created the website verticalfarm.com to chronicle their research.
What Matt did next
Posted 17/02/10 by Matt B in the Online category
I have more news than a single blog post should rightfully try and hold but here goes anyway.I have been working out more and have been checking out health supplements. Additionally I have been looking into getting a small allotment patch with a friend towards which end I have purchased a shed load of books. Furthermore I have taken up a new role as guest blogging in residence here and will be willing to guest blog for others too.
Phew... one day I might even get to blog here on a somewhat regular basis.
Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Posted 25/01/10 by Matt B in the Online category
You hear it all the time, one of the most frequently voiced excuses for Western countries failing to radically cut carbon dioxide emissions: Taking any such action would hand a massive competitive advantage to fast-industrializing China.
Yet evidence is piling up that the very opposite is the case. The main challenge from the world’s new industrial superpower is not that it will continue to use the dirty, old technologies of the past, but that it will come to dominate the new, clean, green ones of the future.
As developed nations fail to put an adequate price on carbon, and thus to stimulate clean-technology development themselves, they risk handing market supremacy to the rival they most fear. Indeed, it could even be hypothesized that China’s blocking of agreement on rich-country emission targets in Copenhagen was intended to hold back the development of cleantech by its Western rivals.
Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Gordon Brown - defender of the earth?
Posted 21/10/09 by Matt B in the Online category
Gordon Brown (the UK PM) has told some of the worlds leading nationsOnce the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choicehe added that
The costs of failing to tackle the issue would be greater than the impact of both world wars and the Great Depression combined(source).
So why is the head guy in the UK choosing now to stand up for the planet?
Post Greenbelt 2009 Random Links.
Posted 04/09/09 by Matt B in the Online category
I've recently gotten back from Greenbelt 2009 and will have something new for (both of) you soon.In the mean time here are a few interesting links that you might like to follow.
Could we see TLD .eco soon? (if so I want one).
Lord Matt (info) a web version of my CV.
Hybrid cars are not sustainable it seems
@LordMatt - my twitter account - let's chat.
Eco Geek report on a new solar power plant.
Join my Squidoo Fan Clud
Could this be the first sustainable new settlement?<>/a>
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