Biosphere loveliness

We are finally in full-on production mode for the Biosphere online experience. It’s great to work with our committed and competent team.
We’ll shortly launch our ‘work in progress’ site – this is going to be the start of the community engagement plan. We hope we will be able to clarify, de-mystify and in some cases [...]

Enrique Peñalosa

PS: Enrique Peñalosa is speaking in Brisbane on the 7th of February. The event is booked out. If you are attending or know of any reports, pictures or notes from it afterwards – please drop me line. Thanks.

Where I live

KEEN – Big Bob and Joe Natoli show down
This was a good night (sorry not such a good photo) at Noosa Gallery – a meeting of Noosa’s Knowledge Entrepreneurs to pick the brains of the mayoral candidates for the post-amalgamation Noosa-Maroochydore-Caloundra Super Shire.
Coinciding with this I came across Enrique Peñalosa – former mayor of Bogota, [...]

Christopher Alexander – a most beautiful mind.

The IAI mailing list has been discussing the usefulness and approach of collating an IA pattern library. Christopher Alexander is one of the team of architects who wrote ‘A Pattern Language’ Victor Lombardi pointed to a keynote Christopher Alexander gave at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications. (Thanks Victor)
While the [...]

Basic Risk Management applied to Climate Destabilisation

Science teacher superstar explaining where it all ends.
Watch this video. Give him the time.
It’s time for the best of us to come out!

Bali summit applauds Rudd.

So do I.
Good write up by Crikey: Bali summit applauds Rudd.

Oh! Google to get involved in sustainable energy production!

Via ‘O’Reilly Radar’:
Google is going to invest tens of millions in renewable energy. The aim of yesterday’s announced RE<C is to produce a Gigawatt of renewable energy cheaper than coal.
All systems go!
A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).

Creative Class – Noosa

Mark Stockwell, Sarah, Bob Abott and Richard Florida
‘Knowledge and Creativity’ was held at the J., Noosa Junction, on 23/Nov/2007
I attended out of curiosity to check out what the ‘Noosa Creative Alliance’ is all about. After all:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing [...]

Step by step: Peter Singer ‘A Fair Deal on Climate Change

from Project Syndicate

Establish the total amount of greenhouse gases that we can allow to be emitted without causing the earth’s average temperature to rise more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the point beyond which climate change could become extremely dangerous.
Divide that total by the world’s population, thus calculating what each person’s share of [...]

Love Miles

…”But one idea in Heat that will gain momentum is that of ‘love miles’, analogous to the ‘food miles’ that are already part of the language. These are the miles we travel to be with far-flung friends and family, so feeding the aviation industry which is the world’s fastest-growing source of greenhouse gases. Monbiot offers [...]