"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
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Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint
04/19/2004 09:52 PMmyfootprint.org
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ecological art
ecological art
11/11/2003 06:58 AM Ecological art takes many forms,
fascinating,
beaut
iful,
provocative,
ephemeral
,
l
ive,
active, and even
bloggy. See
greenmuseum.org's featured
artists and visit the Getty's
Ecolog
ical Art Gallery (see also
Art and the Earth, six photo essays).
Ecological burial
Ecological burial
09/17/2004 02:36 PM
Capsula Mundi is an
Italian project to promote
ecological burial. Alternatively, those
who prefer the sea can become
reefs. A
Swedish company has come
up with a
freezing
method.
[Via Aeiou and MoFi.] "How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
08/09/2004 08:37 PMMCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
12/16/2003 04:12 PMThe carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of
Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.
Cray Expands Its Footprint
Cray Expands Its Footprint
03/08/2004 11:20 PMSupercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single
system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its
footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
09/18/2004 12:52 PMA recent <A
HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente
ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the
Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to
light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive
without the Apple brand?
While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it
remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without
their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs,
what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac?
Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod?
Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol
"would harm its prospects not one bit.
"The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as
that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any
expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything
terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)."
The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but
would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)?
Could Apple create better computers — or better music players
— if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker?
I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest
iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do
both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the
way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake,
but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one
— or even both — parties.
It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player
status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has
ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly
need each other to survive.
I mean, just take a look at <A
HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…
Regulations For Federal Service For
Ecological, Technological And Nuclear
Inspection Approved
Regulations For Federal Service For
Ecological, Technological And Nuclear
Inspection Approved
08/05/2004 02:01 PMRussian Information Agency Novosti Aug 5 2004 5:13PM GMT
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
11/01/2003 01:56 AMSunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
06/03/2004 06:30 PMExtensively researched paper describes scope of commercial, free, and
municipal wireless in London, England: Using maps, warflying,
stumbling, and other resources, Julian Priest has released an
exhaustive look at the state of wireless in London. He looks at the
lead that free networking has had in the city due to bans on
commercial deployment until early 2002; still, the commercial
footprint is extensive. Among many interesting facts and discussions
in the paper are the necessary geek per square kilometer density
necessary to fully cover London on average with free networks (about
1.25 geek activits per sq. km). Priest also review municipal projects,
none of which are rousing successes and many of which demonstrate the
limits of straitjacketed civic projects. Priest ends with a call for a
wireless festival in London that would celebrate the city's current
unwired state, while marketing and educating further to increase
density of deployment. [link via James Enck, Daiwa Securities SMBC
Europe Ltd]...
Increasing Great Lakes Regional Trade
Brings Increased Ecological Worries
Increasing Great Lakes Regional Trade
Brings Increased Ecological Worries
03/26/2005 01:01 PMTechnocrat.net Mar 26 2005 5:23PM GMT
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
07/06/2004 03:12 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 6 2004 7:11AM GMT
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
05/06/2004 02:45 PMDynamic Network Factory has released the FireFly 4800 RAID tower.
Sporting a 9-inch footprint, the FireFly 4800 features USB 2.0 and
FireWire 400/800 connectivity. It stripes data across four IDE drives
simultaneously, and it supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 and 5+hot spare.
It's compatible with Mac OS 9.x or OS X v.10.x or higher and comes in
320GB, 480GB, 640GB, 800GB and 1TB capacities for US$1,794, $1,957,
$2,046, $2,290 and $1,995, respectively.
MWH Soft Releases InfoSWMM for ArcGIS,
Delivering Unprecedented Power and
Reliability for Improving the Ecological
Health of the World's Waterways
MWH Soft Releases InfoSWMM for ArcGIS,
Delivering Unprecedented Power and
Reliability for Improving the Ecological
Health of the World's Waterways
12/19/2004 03:46 PMIn its ongoing effort to provide the global wastewater industry with
the world's most comprehensive and innovative GIS-centric modeling and
design solutions, MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water
resources applications software, today announced the worldwide
availability of InfoSWMM for ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA). [PRWEB Dec
17, 2004]
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
08/18/2004 02:34 AMGood Technology expands internationally, opens a Canadian office.
Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs
[PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
12/19/2004 02:54 PM
Global Footprint Stress
Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow
1-3), Low (white <1)
Last month I wrote an article
suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence,
i.e.
the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned
and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what
Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven
aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their
population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall
explains
that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population
of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the
ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when
opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated<
/a>
a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by
multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate,
and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another
blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country.
As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress
index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and
demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has
as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now
computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above,
which is computed as follows:
- First, I calculated the Resource Use Index
by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in
hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's
population), and dividing it by the number of habitable
hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser
of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area'
data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each
country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources
available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An
index
of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability,
it
needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing
per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below
shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed.
- Then I
multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated
annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint.
For
this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the
EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at
roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth
rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much
faster than its population, for example).
Resource Use Index: Sample
Countries
80 Japan
60 S.Korea
40 Israel, Palestine
35 Switzerland
25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK
16 Germany
13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela
11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden
|
9 China, Philippines
8 Congo
6 World Overall
6 S.Africa, New Zealand
5 Brasil, Iran, Mexico
3 Canada, India, Iraq, Russia
2 Australia, Argentina
1 A few equatorial African nations |
Footprint Stress Index: Sample
Countries
40+ Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait
30 China
18 Congo
12 Venezuela,
Columbia
10 US
8 Chile
6
India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq
4.5 World Overall
|
4.0 Mexico, Iran, UK
3.0 New Zealand, Sweden
2.0 Brasil, Argentina, Japan,
France
1.5 Canada, Australia
1.0 S.Korea, Switzerland
0.5 Germany,
Italy
0.0 S.Africa, Russia
|
The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern
nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries
embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China
where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that
are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming
vastly more resources than what they have available domestically,
their
populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning
they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed
the soaring need.
Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource
Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and
because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not
increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they
all
depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural
resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting
countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these
nations'
unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that
will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these
scarcities
become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that
point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress
Index.
What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies
are using resources at more than ten
times
the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find
the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are
not
available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of
the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of
this
article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for
increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right
side of that table then become invasion targets.
We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources
to
finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require
natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources,
that
pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies,
so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate
deficit
spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of
economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives
for having no children, or maybe one.
Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The
corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness
that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for
the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal
force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep
civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur
fast enough to stave off disaster.
Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into
collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from
the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If
the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine
three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth,
global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in
innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a
social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great
Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of
huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market'
isn't going to fix this mess.
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The LGF Quiz
The LGF Quiz
04/13/2004 04:55 AMLGF Quiz Blog .. blog
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Pop Quiz #2
Pop Quiz #2
01/16/2004 10:59 AMWhat does your
aggregator do with
this?
Is it
valid<
/a>?
Once again, I suggest that results be gathered before an attempt
is made to interpret the data. Oh, and because this feed is a
live one, I've captured a
snapshot.
P.S.
Hint.
"Go-Quiz.com"
"Go-Quiz.com"
05/25/2004 03:56 AM"quiz"
"quiz"
12/16/2003 08:48 PMIP Pop Quiz
IP Pop Quiz
06/05/2005 11:52 PMName a type of intellectual property that the owner can't practice?...
Pop Quiz Hotshot
Pop Quiz Hotshot
02/25/2003 01:22 PMQuestion 1 (true or false): Being against the war in Iraq is giving
?aid and comfort? to Saddam Hussein. Question 2 (true or false): Being
Old Year's Quiz
Old Year's Quiz
01/05/2004 10:58 AM Old Year's Quiz. Another
chance to feel un-informed and clueless, or smug and well-informed,
depending. Answers next week... or
"when we have time to make them up."
Spiderman Quiz
Spiderman Quiz
06/30/2004 06:09 PM
Let's make it 3 Spider Man links in a day.
How much do you really
know about Spiderman? I thought I was well-prepared for this but
it was actually kinda hard. [Warning: MSN]
New Google Quiz!!
New Google Quiz!!
08/21/2002 09:09 PMThanks to Thomas Scott for the scoop on a brand new Google Quiz! It
doesn't appear to be announced yet, but join in on the fun now! You
can win a free Timbuk2 messenger bag sporting the Google logo and
other prizes....
The Metrosexual Quiz
The Metrosexual Quiz
12/05/2003 04:23 PMthe metrosexual quiz ..
metrosexual
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Estimation Quiz
Estimation Quiz
08/27/2004 01:42 PMEstimation Quiz
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"Estimation Quiz"
"Estimation Quiz"
08/28/2004 03:02 PMFA to quiz Eriksson
FA to quiz Eriksson
08/02/2004 10:44 PMThe FA's acting chief hints the England coach might keep his job, a
day after the chief executive quit over an affair.
Movie Quiz #2
Movie Quiz #2
03/11/2003 09:44 AMUpdate: The answers have been revealed.
Ok, it's about that time of the year again. Here's another movie
quiz.
- Cool Hand Luke: "What we have here is a failure to
communicate."
- They Live: "I came here to do two things: chew some bubble
gum and kick some ass. And I'm all outta bubble gum!"
- Highlaner: "...also left a man's decapitated body lying on
the floor next to his own severed head. A head, which at this time,
has no name." "I know his name!"
- The Matrix: "Throughout human history, we have been
dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a
sense of irony."
- Bringing Up Baby: "Anyway, David, when they find out who we
are they'll let us out." "When they find out who you are they'll pad
the cell."
- Four Weddings and a Funeral: "Do you think there really are
people who can just go up and say, 'Hi, babe. Name's Charles. This is
your lucky night'?" "Well, if there are, they're not English."
- Die Hard: "A hundred million terrorists in the world and I
gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister."
- X-Men: "The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for
three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. It's the same with
you."
- Go: "Just so we're clear, you stole a car, shot a bouncer,
and had sex with two women?"
- Swingers: "Yeah, man just kinda... you know, you got these
claws and you're staring at these claws and you're thinking to
yourself, and with these claws you're thinking, 'How am I supposed to
kill this bunny, how am I supposed to kill this bunny?'"
Yes, it's the BOFH quiz!
Yes, it's the BOFH quiz!
11/13/2003 07:46 AMEpisode 28 Do you know your Computing Personalities?
Return of Quiz of the Week
Return of Quiz of the Week
05/28/2004 07:51 PMMark-Jason Dominus's quiz of the week mailing list is back, and we
bring you the questions and solutions for the past week's quizzes.
Business Week Quiz
Business Week Quiz
05/12/2004 01:21 AMic Wales,UK-2 hours ago ... morning? 4. Name the Welsh director of
search engine Google, who is a partner in Silicon valley venture
capital firm Sequoia Capital. 5 ...
"Where did all the time go? Take this
quiz and find out!"
"Where did all the time go? Take this
quiz and find out!"
06/11/2004 12:09 AMAre You a Polyolefin Optimizer? Take
This Quiz!
Are You a Polyolefin Optimizer? Take
This Quiz!
04/16/2004 06:16 AMDow Chemicals VP Kurt Swogger has found a way to purify the creative
process in R&D.
"
What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This
Quiz :-)"
"
What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This
Quiz :-)"
05/12/2004 01:25 AMD-Day 60th anniversary quiz
D-Day 60th anniversary quiz
06/05/2004 02:50 AMYour chance to test your knowledge of D-Day and find out more about
one of the most significant military actions in history.
US secret agents quiz boy over art
US secret agents quiz boy over art
04/29/2004 05:01 AM
US secret agents quiz boy over art. Secret service agents
questioned a US high school pupil about anti-war drawings he did for
an art class, one of which depicted George Bush's head on a stick. Who
will be next? Cartoonists?
GNU GPL and LGPL Licensing Quiz
GNU GPL and LGPL Licensing Quiz
08/18/2002 12:39 PMI took the GNU GPL and LGPL Licensing Quiz and only got 4 out of 9
correct. I don't know if this quiz is such a great idea, after doing
so poorly on the test and reading my mis-interpretations of the
licenses I'm pretty leary of using the GPL or LGPL for any project
-- Joe Gregorio. Link from
Sam
Ruby
"tri" I now prefer releasing open source using a BSD-style
license because it has no political agenda. PHP uses such a
license.
"zeldman.hwo"
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