DANCING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

On PBS Science Friday  3/27/15  I heard an interview with Paul Ehrlich and Karole Armitage about a dance performance attempting to portray humankind facing the climate change crises.  In this post I propose another dance to complement this dance with an alternative action proposal.     “With the premiere of “On the Nature of Things,” performed…

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FLOW CYCLES: MATERIAL & INFORMATION

  Comment to David Braden’s post in Living Systems MATERIAL CYCLES. The creation, flow, reproduction, annihilation of “information” follows quite different laws than the flow of matter/energy. Innovation changes material flow patterns, sometime quite radically. “The Infinite Resource” by Ramez Naam makes a strong case for the power of innovation.  Information flows are not in…

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