Horticultural Consciousness

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What is Thinkism? And what does it have in common with Peak Oil Doomerism? Was agriculture a good idea? What are the prosepects for giving it up? KMO discusses these and other burning questions with Toby Hemenway and Eric Boyd in this week's installment of the C-Realm Podcast. Show notes: http://kmo.livejournal.com/378511.html

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We can´t survive without them -- and we´ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality.

Ecotopia Revisited

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Ernest Callenbach, Author and Visionary "Ecotopia Revisted" Saturday, June 14, 2008 Alameda Free Library, Conference Rooms A&B 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA Today everyone knows that the future of human society is threatened by global warming and other environmental disasters. Imagine a society where community consciously makes ecological choices over profit! Bay Area author Ernest Callenbach's seminal novel, Ecotopia (1975), does imagine such a world. Ecotopia, the portrait of an ecologically sustainable society in a future ages, was initially rejected by virtually every publisher in New York. Callenbach then self-published the book. It went on to become an underground classic, was ultimately issued in mass-market paperback by Bantam, and is still used in classrooms all over the country. It has sold over a million copies, has been translated into nine languages, including Japanese, and was influential in Germany at the time their Green Party emerged. In 1981, Callenbach published a prequel, Ecotopia Emerging, which tells how 'Ecotopia' comes into being.

http://www.anu.edu.au/mac/podcasts/Audio/woods0307.mp3

It’s Every Monkey for Themselves 07 March 2007 Vanessa Woods Writer, researcher, freelance journalist Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed a lethal allergy, and the monkeys she was to study were evasive, mean and aggressive. The only difference between them and her housemates was that at least she could tell her housemates apart. In this talk, science writer Vanessa Woods will explain how to survive a year in the jungle: a world of love, loss, bitter rivalry and vicious battles – and that’s just the monkeys.

Living On Earth: Nuclear Power Politics

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Nuclear Power Politics John McCain says the best way to battle global warming is to build more nuclear reactors. But his proposal raises questions about safety, waste storage, and cost.

Living On Earth: The Clean Tech Challenge

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The Clean Tech Challenge

As Wall Street tumbles, is it taking nascent clean industries with it? Matthew Nordan of Lux Research Inc. says it depends on the industry. Nordan talks with host Bruce Gellerman about green winners and losers and the future of clean technology. (6:00)

Cloud Dragon Skies

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EP114: Cloud Dragon Skies Published by SFEley on 12 Jul 2007 at 12:30 pm. 13 Comments.  Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG. By N.K. Jemisin. Read by Máia Whitaker (of Knitwitch’s Scifi/Fantasy Zone). First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2005. Closing music: “The Fall,” by Red Hunter. I was a child when the sky changed. I can still remember days when it was endlessly blue, the clouds passive and gentle. The change occurred without warning: one morning we awoke and the sky was a pale, blushing rose. We began to see intention in the slow, ceaseless movements of the clouds. Instead of floating, they swam spirals in the sky. They gathered in knots, trailing wisps like feet and tails. We felt them watching us. We adapted. We had never taken more than we needed from the land, and we always kept our animals far from water. Now we moistened wild cotton and stretched this across our smoke holes as filters. Sometimes the clouds would gather over fires that were out in the open. A tendril would stretch down, weaving like a snake’s head, opening delicate mist jaws to nip the plume of smoke. Even the bravest warriors would quickly put such fires out. Rated PG. Contains passing nudity and apocalyptic themes

James Lovelock

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Forty years ago, British scientist James Lovelock put forward the first elements of what he would come to call the Gaia theory. At first many biologists scoffed. Today, Lovelock’s ideas are more widely accepted, even in circles where he was initially scorned. Last year, he published "The Revenge of Gaia", and in this week's podcast, we present a profile of James Lovelock.