Former Vice President Al Gore changed my life. It was his slide show that stopped me dead in my technical career track to change course and devote the rest of my life to environmental causes.
...In 2010, the late humanitarian and scientist, Dr. Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, was addressing a roomful of skeptics on climate change in Australia.
...Since AIT focused on the symptom, it identified the fossil fuels that we burn to drive our industrial civilization as the root cause of our predicament.
...Suppose that AIT's prescription of a rapid revamping of the energy infrastructure to renewable sources in a World War II style effort had been adopted.
...I had a memorable childhood growing up in a Hindu Brahmin household with considerable exposure to the myths and fables from the great Epics and the Puranas of India.
...I wish I could go back and relive my childhood. For a few decades, like the idiot in the Chinese proverb, I had been focusing on the wise man's finger and missed all the heavenly glories of the moon that he was pointing to.
...In the Hindu view, the absolute Truth is never fully comprehensible. The story of the six blind men and the elephant illustrates this view.
...In the Hindu view, the absolute Truth is never fully comprehensible. The story of the six blind men and the elephant illustrates this view.
...A court in The Hague has ordered the Dutch government to cut its emissions by at least 25% within five years, in a landmark ruling expected to cause ripples around the world....
The Caterpillar culture is the culture of the overweening, chest-thumping human ego.
..."The G.M.O. experiment, carried out in real time and with our entire food and ecological system as its laboratory, is perhaps the greatest case of human hubris ever. It creates yet another systemic, “too big too fail” enterprise — but one for which no bailouts...
Soon after the Financial crisis of 2008 unfolded, I was attending a conference in Bangalore, India, where the Keynote speaker was an economic adviser to the Prime Minister of India.
...Yet another absurdity that forms the basis of modern industrial culture is our assumption that we humans can dominate and bend Nature to our will.
...The Caterpillar culture is built on the use of "winner takes all" style competitions as the engine for progress.
...Since around 1960, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project has been scanning the electromagnetic spectrum using radio telescopes, looking for signatures of intelligent alien Life from elsewhere in the cosmos
...In an inspiring lecture at TEDx Amazonia in Nov. 2010, Prof. Antonio Donato Nobre was explaining the "Biotic Moisture Pump" that keeps the Amazon rainforest so lush.
...As someone living in an urban area and as a conscious consumer, I consider the most important thing that I can do to promote a Butterfly culture is to consume an Organic, plant-based Vegan diet and I have been quite vocal about my reasons for...
The second most effective step is to go local, to strengthen local communities, to build up the Transition Towns and to grow our organic produce locally.
...Tell them and they will forget. Show them and they may remember. Involve them and they will understand
...The Lighting Project was started to address just the lighting energy needs of the rural poor in a distributed manner so that they don't have to depend upon kerosene and other fuels for that purpose.
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