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From the Los Angeles wildfires at the start of last year, to Trump’s recent televised summit with oil executives, evidence has continued to mount that the dominance of fossil fuels, and the catastrophic effects of climate change they continue to accelerate, is not going to be broken anytime soon. Yet the lithium industry is booming, and critical ‘green’ minerals continued to be on the frontlines of geopolitical wrangling. What are we to make of all this? Are we helping to solve the ecological crisis by buying electric cars if their construction necessitates opening hundreds of new mines in the next decade? If zero emission energy remains an urgent global need, how should we navigate these existential dilemmas?

Thea Riofrancos and Gabriel Winant will grapple with these questions and consider what a path toward a just and effective green transition could look like.

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Speakers: 

Thea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Previously, she has been an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, as well as holding research positions at institutions in Santiago, Chile and Quito, Ecuador. The author of Resource Radicals and coauthor of A Planet to Win, her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Cultural Studies, World Politics, and Global Environmental Politics, and her essays in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, n+1, and Jacobin, among other outlets.

Gabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741, a member of the Dissent editorial board, and author of The Next Shift.

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This event is co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books and Haymarket Books, and is part of the Haymarket Presents speakers series. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-02-16T01:17:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary. Several issues back, Morozov [https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/socialism-after-ai/ ] launched a grenade by suggesting that socialist attempts to harness AI have treated it like other basic tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected—rather than as a transformative force that actively shapes social values and human capacities.

We now have two responses to Morozov’s original essay, one from the Cornell historian Aaron Benanav [https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real-political-economy-of-technology/ ], a target of Morozov’s earlier salvo, and another from the NYU scholar Leif Weatherby [https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/automate-the-c-suite/ ]. For Benanav, humanity stands between two technological revolutions—generative AI and the green energy transition—and how we choose between them will determine the shape of the future.  His essay develops a broader project of designing a post-capitalist “multidimensional economy” (for more see his coruscating essays in New Left Review [newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1 ] this past year ) while rebutting Morozov’s claim that such a framework would stifle technological “worldmaking.” 

Weatherby, who looks at both Morozov and Benanav, argues that contemporary Marxist and socialist analyses of technology fail to engage adequately with the entanglement between technological rationality and capitalist ideology. To understand AI and the digital economy, Weatherby suggests, one must see them as the logical outcomes of a longstanding merger between mathematics, computation, and neoliberal governance—a fusion that has turned “optimization” into both the logic and the theology of capitalism itself.

Morozov [https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-socialist-charcuterie-board/ ] responds in analytically stentorian tones asserting misrepresentation. His rebuttal is a blistering defense of his original essay on socialism and AI. Morozov accuses Benanav of no less than misreading his arguments, erecting straw men, and evading core challenges. His piece blends close textual analysis and cultural critique to argue that Benanav’s institutional blueprint remains trapped in capitalist categories and fails to inspire a desirable post-capitalist life.

Our curated section puts forward two stellar pieces from a recent issue of the London Review of Books, both of which we deem to be required reading. The first, from the acclaimed writer and critic Adam Shatz [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country ], is a magisterial tour d’horizon of the parlous state of the United States, where imperial monstrosity is coupled with racial violence, yet where an underlying promise of sublime innovation and cosmopolitan possibility somehow remain.

The second is an essay by Iza Ding [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/iza-ding/studying-is-harmful ] in which she examines meritocracy’s enduring failures in both China and the US. Ding interweaves historical context and philosophical reflections to argue that high-stakes exams like the gaokao perpetuate inequality under the guise of fairness while fueling global disillusionment with elite selection systems. The lessons for today are myriad.

Our musical selection for Issue 57 comes from Maurice Ravel, that great master of orchestral precision and vivid color. Our focus is on the adagio from his second piano concerto. The music is hypnotic—both intimate and timeless. Nobody owns this piece like Martha Argerich, who performs it live here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeuYd8nltBo].

—Leonard Benardo, senior vice president at the Open Society Foundations"

[See also:

"Morozov on AI: A Trip Down Academia Lane - YouTube" [Dwayne Monroe]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUby9eTbsuM 

"In this video, I read from Evgeny Morozov's essay, published in Ideas Letter magazine, titled, Socialism After AI. Or rather, I read as much of it as I could take.

Links:

Bluesky post
https://bsky.app/profile/sonjadrimmer.bsky.social/post/3mebkr7mfyk2l

Socialism after AI by Evgeny Morozov
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/socialism-after-ai/

An Unresolved Issue: Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism"
https://leevinsel.com/blog/2014/10/11/an-unresolved-issue-evgeny-morozov-the-new-yorker-and-the-perils-of-highbrow-journalism" ]]]></description>
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    <title>Could 'degrowth' save the world? | BBC News - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-13T07:17:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596dU6pDEU8</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A group of academics and activists are questioning the possibility of endless economic growth on a finite planet and are advocating a bold solution: degrowth. 

Originating in France, the degrowth movement has spread to places like Japan, the UK and Barcelona, taking root in academia, grassroots organisations and among university students. 

The movement argues for a 'democratisation of the economy' and for collectively managing key resources, like housing. 

Critics argue that opposing economic growth is impractical and warn of negative consequences, especially for the most vulnerable. 

We take a look at the theory - and ask what the practice might look like.

00:00 Intro
02:32 The Barcelona School of Ecological economics: the roots of degrowth
05:39 Is GDP a good measure of our economies?
06:45 Could the economy be more democratic?
08:07 A net-zero housing cooperative
10:16 What can grow, and what needs to degrow?
12:31 Could green growth be a solution?
13:29 Degrowth and social justice
17:18 Challenging degrowth"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Paul Kingsnorth argues that much of today’s culture is intent on eroding what it means to be human."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/EaXNq ]

"If Against the Machine is one of the most insightful works on culture, technology, and the environment published in some time—and I believe it is—it is not so much because Kingsnorth is persuasive, or likely to win acolytes to his cause. It is not even because I think the limits he chooses to draw are necessarily the right ones. It is valuable because he sees with uncommon clarity that not only nature, but human nature, is being redefined by an anti-limit culture, economic system, and technology sector that treat minds, bodies, and environments as ripe for plundering and optimization in the name of progress. “What progress wants is to replace us,” Kingsnorth writes. “Perhaps the last remaining question is whether we will let it.”"

...


"What is novel about Against the Machine is Kingsnorth’s account of what is at stake in the 21st century: what he calls the “unmaking of humanity.” Human biology, as he sees it, is rooted in a few basic facts: We are born to sexed bodies on a planet with finite resources, endowed with minds capable of exercising creativity and seeking wisdom, and then we die. His book attempts to demonstrate that much of today’s scientific, economic, technological, and cultural activity is predicated on an effort, sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit, to overcome these realities. He offers several examples of ideas and innovations that he believes are part of this effort: biotech for billionaires seeking immortality; state-assisted suicide for the suffering; IVF and other results of “the technologisation of sex”; hormone therapy that allows children to change their gender; plans to geoengineer the planet and to abandon it and colonize Mars; robot “priests” that can preside over funerals. In isolation, the importance of any one of these examples may be easy to downplay. But Kingsnorth argues that, in the aggregate, they point toward a future in which the realities of human life—sex, death, environment—are negotiable.

The English writer G. K. Chesterton, a favorite of Kingsnorth’s, once argued that “the thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet the things we do not like or do not expect.” It is these sorts of “great plain limitations” that Against the Machine frames as being undermined today. Kingsnorth encourages his readers to ask: If civilization is accelerating down a freeway that’s taking us away from our shared humanity—not to mention destroying the ecosystems we depend on—at what exit do we get off? Artificial intelligence, new medical interventions, and other modern marvels allow us some choice about which natural limits we accept, and which we decide to blow past. According to Kingsnorth, each person must make individual decisions about where to begin “drawing a line, and saying ‘no further.’”

Will you watch television shows written by large language models? Will you let the machines craft your emails, your college essays, obituaries for your loved ones? Will you get an AI-enabled virtual girlfriend? Will you let AI into your life knowing that data centers are metastasizing, while already-parched deserts are drained dry to cool them, while content moderators in Africa labor in quasi-slave conditions, sorting through images of beheadings and child abuse? Will you draw the line at letting algorithms design your baby? When the time comes, will you get your chip? Your brain-computer interface? Will you upload your consciousness to the cloud?

Kingsnorth’s most contentious claims concern his insistence that technoculture and its products—large language models, genetic engineering, and so on—share a great deal in common with progressive ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender. They all, in his telling, attempt to use technology to overcome what were once hard natural limits. Unlike some other critics of the transgender movement, however, Kingsnorth shows compassion for those struggling with their identity and does not scapegoat them for larger problems in society. “People with gender dysphoria, girls with short hair, boys who play with dolls, people whose sexualities differ from the norm: they are not, in fact, the real issue,” he writes. But he rejects assertions that “biology is a problem to be overcome” and that the “body is a form of oppression.” These ideas, first aired on his Substack, have, not surprisingly, alienated some fans of his earlier environmental writing. The writer, green activist, and former Kingsnorth enthusiast John Halstead said that Kingsnorth has become a “transphobic proto-fascist.” Specifically, Halstead argues that Kingsnorth confuses sex with gender, and is mistaken to call binary sex “natural,” given that other species have more sexual variation.

For my part, I don’t find Halstead’s objections especially persuasive. Rather, the principal problem with Kingsnorth’s gender analysis is that it mostly ignores the ways that those of us who live in the aftermaths of the industrial, scientific, sexual, and digital revolutions are all already “cyborgs,” as the science and technology theorist Donna Haraway would put it. Microplastics permeate our bodies, birth control courses through our veins, smartphones rewire our neural pathways, medical devices keep our hearts pumping. If, as Kingsnorth claims, gender-affirming medicine is an assault on human nature and the human body, then so, too, are pacemakers and prosthetic limbs, or Botox and condoms, for that matter.

But even though some of Kingsnorth’s claims may be too simplistic, and vulnerable to these kinds of rebuttals, and even though some readers may understandably be turned off by some of his stances, I do think he is getting at something important. William F. Buckley famously said that the purpose of his conservative magazine, National Review, was to stand “athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so.” It is a quip that Kingsnorth himself invokes, yet he is no true conservative. His philosophy has less in common with Buckley than with the refusenik scrivener of Herman Melville’s short story, a man who does not shriek or resort to violence or cruelty or name-calling, but who looks at what is being asked and offered by modernity and says, simply, “I would prefer not to.” For Kingsnorth, this ethic has led him to go off the grid, moving to Ireland, converting to Orthodox Christianity, and toiling on a subsistence farm with his wife and homeschooled children.

Kingsnorth knows full well that this hermit’s path is closed to most of his readers, just as he knows that he himself is no purist. He acknowledges that he makes his living off The Machine as a Substacker: “Even we romantic Luddites are doing much of our lamenting on the internet.” What is most provocative about Against the Machine is not Kingsnorth’s diagnosis of modernity but his insistence that, if you are troubled by a culture of no limits, you can still take some stands, even if they’re only small ones: Shun the chatbots and don’t engage with AI unless you have no choice. Lose the smartphone and “bring your children up to understand that the blue light is as dangerous as cocaine.” Seek out wild places and remember that your body is not made to be hacked or optimized but to connect you to the earth beneath your feet. Touch grass, quite literally, and do your best to connect with other people who want to do the same."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Bill Gates went full Llomborg. Never go full Llomborg."

...

"Bill Gates and his pals were never going to be anything but fair-weather-friends to the climate movement, because they lack the political vision to imagine that the problems of global climate change are also problems of the global social hierarchy that they sit comfortably atop.

It’s a reminder of a basic truth about political contestation: power yields nothing without demand. We won’t create the world we want to live in by relying on the cognitive largesse of philanthropic tech billionaires. We’re going to have to build it ourselves."]]></description>
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    <title>Lithium Extraction and “Green Capitalism” | Thea Riofrancos | The New York Review of Books</title>
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    <title>Electric cargo bikes are rewiring people for the better - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. Parents are using them to take their kids to school, businesses are using them for last-mile delivery, seniors are using them to improve their mobility, and cities are using them to replace traditional car- and truck-based services, like snow plows and garbage pickup. #Transporation  #Technology #Bikes 

0:00 Intro
0:25 The cargo e-bike revolution
2:47 Visiting Propel bike shop in Brooklyn
3:57 Bike infrastructure challenges
5:51 Interview with Arleigh Greenwald, Electric bike specialist 
6:37 Bike bus 
7:35 Conclusion"

[See also:

"Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike
Cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. And they’re also really fun to ride. Plus: bike bus!"
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/781908/electric-cargo-bike-car-replace-bike-bus

"A couple of years ago, I helped start a bike bus in my suburban town in North Jersey. The pandemic was still raging, and we were all looking for ways to get our kids out of the house and on to their bikes so they could get a little physical activity before school.

One of the things that helped me get the bike bus started was an electric cargo bike. At the time, my kids were too small to ride the two-and-a-half miles to our school by themselves, so the cargo bike — a first-gen Flyer L885 with a rear-hub motor and a plethora of fun accessories (now renamed the Flyer Via Pro) — was an elegant solution to this problem. Now, three years later, they can ride their own bikes, but I still find myself using my cargo bike to lead our growing bike bus pack every Friday. And it’s replaced my car anytime I need to run a local errand. It’s my “daily driver.”

Ever since the pandemic, electric bike sales in the US have been on a rocket ship trajectory. They are the fastest growing bike category for the past several years, according to recent statistics. And while there was some concern that the e-bike boom would fade post pandemic, or that tariffs and trade wars would put a dent in them, sales have held strong. It looks increasingly likely that electric bikes are here to stay.

E-bikes tend to stir up a lot of passion — They’re too fast! Teens are riding them unsafely! Bike lanes are already too crowded! What about faulty batteries? — but their utility is unquestionable. Owners talk a lot about using their e-bikes in unique and creative ways. But the best use for an e-bike is to replace a car trip. And the data suggests that e-bike owners are doing exactly that.

The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. Parents are using them to take their kids to school, businesses for last-mile delivery, seniors to improve their mobility, and cities to replace traditional car- and truck-based services, like snow plows and garbage pickup. We’re even starting to see electric cargo bike share programs emerge as a solution for anyone who can’t afford one of their own.

And perhaps the most joyful application, cargo bikes are playing a central role in the global movement to encourage more kids to ride their bikes to school. These bike buses that are springing up in cities and towns across the world are exposing more people to the joys of electric cargo bikes as well as the need for better infrastructure, slower speed limits, and communities that are oriented around the smallest and most vulnerable among us.

There’s still a long way to go before electric bikes, and cargo bikes in particular, are seen as legitimate forms of transportation in the US. Europe has made a lot more progress in that regard. Cities need to build safer systems, like protected bike lanes and convenient bike parking, to encourage more people to ride. And that requires taking space away from cars, which is a politically fraught proposal. Governments need to ensure their citizens are protected from faulty batteries that have been known to catch fire. And drivers and cyclists alike need to give each other a little bit of grace and make room for new people in the community — especially children — so everyone feels welcome, included, and valued.

Cargo bikes won’t solve every problem we have. But they can certainly help make our communities more livable."]]]></description>
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    <title>Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos</title>
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[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-e17-the-aesthetic-revolution-will-be-beautiful/id1472733566?i=1000474649630
https://open.spotify.com/episode/350bhPLlRJLgrDipWJzcVI ]]]></description>
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[Also here:
https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com/p/redneck-gone-green-episode-5-with 

See also:
https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com/p/kali-acuno
https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com/p/build-and-fight-with-kali-akuno ]]]></description>
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    <title>PART I: WTF Happened to Europe? Yanis Varoufakis, Grace Blakeley, Katie Halper &amp; Melanie Schweizer - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-09T00:21:18+00:00</dc:date>
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From Gaza to Ukraine, the EU’s complicity in global atrocities mirrors its failures at home: rising poverty, authoritarianism, and despair. Its slavish alignment with U.S. imperialism has stripped Europe of independence and purpose, making it complicit in the New Cold War that may well prove humanity’s final undoing. 

It’s time to fight back. 

This event is a defiant call for an independent, justifiably proud Europe promoting everywhere a just peace, sensible demilitarisation, cooperation serving humanity’s common good. A Europe that serves its people – not one that turns them against each other or against other peoples. With uncompromising voices from politics, activism, and the arts, we’ll throw light onto the EU’s darkest truths… and chart a path to a brighter future. 

This isn’t just a conversation—it’s the spark of a revolution.

Speakers: Yanis Varoufakis, Katie Halper, Grace Blakeley and Melanie Schweizer. Moderated by Mehran Khalili.

Please note that the event will be in English."

[See also:

"PART II: WTF Happened to Europe? Yanis Varoufakis, Grace Blakeley, Katie Halper & Melanie Schweizer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Oma0D6JcM ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-12-01T21:41:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism
 
For two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land by preventing forest clearing for agricultural expansion, has dominated tropical forest conservation. Land sparing policies transform landscapes and livelihoods with the promise of reconciling agricultural development with environmental conservation. But that land sparing promise is false.
 
Based on six years of research on agrarian frontiers in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia, this book traces where and how land sparing becomes policy and charts the social and ecological effects of these political contests. Gregory M. Thaler explains why land sparing appears successful in some places but not in others and reveals that success as an illusion achieved by displacing deforestation to new frontiers. The failure of land sparing exposes a harsh truth behind assurances of green capitalism: capitalist development is ecocide."]]></description>
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    <title>Great Green Wall | The Polycrisis</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically target green goods, most notably electric vehicles, duties on which have now quadrupled to 100 percent. Tariffs on lithium-ion batteries, critical minerals, and solar cells will also be substantially increased. The measures are set to take effect in 2024 (with the exception of graphite, where Chinese dominance is most stark and tariffs begin 2026).

[chart: "The Biden administration has raised tariffs on roughly $18 billion of imports of goods from China"]

Why now? There is no doubt that the announcement of these tariffs are performative. With Trump leading the polls in several swing states, Biden’s decision to fly the protectionist flag is intended to win over voters.

The performative aspect is also to reassure investors in domestic manufacturing, who despite the IRA’s generous manufacturer and consumer subsidies, are worried about the flood of cheaper Chinese imports outcompeting domestically made green goods. The combination of new protective tariffs plus IRA subsidies is meant to buy time for US-based firms to catch up in green technologies.

Biden’s tariffs are more targeted than those on over $300 billion of Chinese imports introduced by Trump in 2018. But the signal they send is that tariffs on China are bipartisan; given this broad anti-China sentiment in Congress, they will be almost impossible to unwind.

[Tom Gauld cartoon: "Top Biden officials – Janet Yellen, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken– have delivered the “our blessed homeland, your barbarous wastes” message to China."]

Tariffs on EVs are already at 27.5 percent (Trump slapped an extra 25 on top of the standard 2.5 percent US tariff). That combined with the IRA’s anti-China tax credit design has meant that only Polestar (owned by China’s Geely) has been exporting Chinese EVs to the US. Chinese batteries, on the other hand, are still being imported but the IRA’s “foreign entity of concern” rules aim to bar the $3,750 tax subsidy from going to EVs containing battery metals processed in China, whether by foreign or Chinese firms.

[explainer diagram]

US risks becoming a technological backwater

China is the world leader in EV production and innovation. The Cambrian explosion of Chinese EV firms over the last five years—there are now over 200 EV manufacturers in a darwinian competition for margins and market share—has meant that Chinese EVs are now better and cheaper than their Western counterparts, resembling smartphones on wheels.

Biden’s intention is to stave off the Chinese and stimulate a domestic and friendshored buildout of the EV supply chain, stretching from mines to the factory floor. Side deals with friendly governments have been made; Canada and Australia have both been deemed eligible for Defence Production Act support for their battery metals. After their howls of outrage, Europeans, Japanese, and Koreans received a leased vehicle exemption meaning that the “made in America” rules don’t apply to them, and their firms’ vehicles could still qualify for subsidies if they were leased rather than bought. Since the exemption was finalized in December 2022, EV imports from Korea, Japan, and Germany have surged.

[chart]

For the US, this is too big to get wrong. American car makers survived the competition from Japanese and Korean imports in the 1970s and 1980s but this time, the business model of the entire industry is shifting. Firms are no longer competing for dominance on the level of vehicle technology, but for the entire ecosystem. For Bidenists, There Is No Alternative to walling off US production. 

After all the Administration’s chatter about following in Alexander Hamilton’s footsteps, the US may have to do what every developing country that wants its industry to catch up has done: form joint ventures with leading foreign firms and throw the best engineers at the shop floor to absorb their technology. 

This is what the US has done with chips. CHIPS Act subsidies attracted all the world’s best manufacturers to set up fabs in the US (see South Korea’s Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona). By contrast, Biden’s auto policy of infant industry protection without technology transfer is a recipe for bloated and lazy domestic firms making unaffordable, unattractive green goods. 

US car companies are not oblivious to that risk. While the government walls off production, US firms are acquiring Chinese knowhow by simply licensing the superior technology of lead firms BYD and CATL. Ford (in Michigan) and Tesla (in Nevada) are partnering with CATL to make batteries. CATL says that it has structured its licensing deal with Ford so that it is compliant with “foreign entity of concern” rules. For its part, Tesla already uses BYD cells in Germany; Ford and GM use BYD batteries. Even Trump doesn’t like the idea of a great wall against Chinese FDI in America. Speaking at an Ohio rally in March, he signalled an openness to Chinese firms building plants “in Michigan, in Ohio, in South Carolina”—so long as they were prepared to employ American workers.

The story is similar globally. Hungary and Germany, Brazil and Chile, have no intention of falling behind in the technological race. They don’t want to buy batteries from China, but have instead attracted Chinese firms to do FDI in Europe so they can make batteries themselves, thus creating jobs, know-how, and local value-added. CATL has opened a $7.3 billion gigafactory in Europe. According to the Rhodium Group, the goal of EU’s probe on Chinese EV subsidies last year was to force Chinese investment into the EU.

Cat and mouse

The new tariffs come as no surprise to Beijing. In anticipation, Chinese firms have been busy putting facts on the ground. Chinese firms have been rerouting supply chains through third countries with pre-existing Free Trade Agreements with the US—Morocco, Mexico, and Korea chief amongst them. Their goal is to ensure backdoor access to the vast American market and obtain IRA subsidies from the US Treasury. That outbound investment strategy, duly supported by the Chinese government’s NEV Industry Development Plan (2021–2035),means that Chinese firms and their joint ventures with local partners in third countries are well prepared to bypass Biden’s latest round of 25 percent tariff on batteries and the 25 percent tariff on the critical minerals inside them.

[table: "Auto firms headquartered in US, Europe and East Asia have built transnational battery production networks with leading Chinese firms like BYD and CATL. (Source: Gavin Bridge)"]

Chinese firms employed a similar strategy in the 2010s when they bypassed US solar tariffs by rerouting into Southeast Asia. Over 80 percent of solar cells imported into the US now come via Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Will the rerouting strategy work for the far larger and more politically consequential auto industry? US politicians are already planning countermeasures to Chinese circumvention. In a letter to Biden’s trade chief Katherine Tai last November, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote that the US “must also be prepared to address the coming wave of [Chinese] vehicles that will be exported from our other trading partners, such as Mexico, as [Chinese] automakers look to strategically establish operations outside of [China].” 

Earlier this month came the Treasury’s final “Foreign Entity of Concern” ruling. Its intention is to reduce US reliance on China for battery components and critical minerals. Automakers won’t be able to receive IRA tax credits if any company in their battery supply chain has 25 percent or more of its equity, voting rights or board seats owned by a Chinese government-linked company.

This cat and mouse game will continue for years to come. China will continue to have a dominant position in all parts of the EV and battery supply chain even if Chinese-branded EVs will be a difficult sell in the nation with the biggest “overcapacity” in crude oil.

Geopolitics all the way down

The tariff war is ultimately about geopolitics, not the cat and mouse game of supply chains. No one knows if China will respond performatively or powerfully. The Ministry of Commerce response was “China will take resolute measures to defend its rights and interests.” China’s geopoliticians will have to calculate the extent to which forbearance is in their interest, and where to draw lines at which China responds far more aggressively.

What will the new tariffs mean for other countries in the US sphere of influence? What might happen if the US tells its allies and neutral countries to stop using Chinese green technologies? It would not be new for the US to extend its technological containment internationally; see its efforts to get allies to lock out Huawei’s 5G infrastructure. 

But the differences between 5G/Chips and green technologies are many. The US restriction of Huawei 5G technology was only partial, and good US-friendly alternatives existed. By contrast, when it comes to green technologies, the whole world lags dramatically behind China, which has revolutionized green industries. For now, there is nowhere else to go but China, and if the US were to insist other countries refrain from partnering with Chinese firms, it would only face isolation. Germany’s Chancellor Scholz just cautioned that it won’t blindly follow the US; we can expect countries to offer “different perspectives.” "]]></description>
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    <title>Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism | Future Histories International</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here:
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Examining near-shoring and extractivism in Latin America"

...

"China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has gained traction in Latin America, with 21 countries from the region signing on to the initiative. This development aligns with its strategic objective of deepening the People's Republic of China geopolitical influence. BRI projects offer investment openings in various sectors, including 5G technology, energy production, transportation, and «safer» cities via surveillance technology. And despite resistance from countries like Argentina due to concerns over potential backlash from the United States, China continues to persuade Latin American heads of state to participate in these arrangements by presenting attractive investment packages. These often involve long-term Chinese engagement, paving the way for long-term economic dependency and potential loss of sovereignty for recipient countries.

The trade relationship between China and Latin America relies on primary commodity extraction. In 2016, 72 percent of Latin American exports to China were raw materials, compared to only 27 percent for the rest of the world. This imbalance reflects a general mode of economic compulsion, whereby Latin America must export its resources while China monopolizes the manufacturing sector.

Moreover, Chinese firms have increasingly replaced Western extractive corporations, perpetuating the well-known unequal ecological relation. This process mirrors the Western method of depletion of nonrenewable resources, leading to significant natural wealth outflows from regions of the Global South to China. Notably, China has protected its multinational corporations through 128 bilateral investment treaties (BITs), ranking second globally after Germany. These contracts provide legal protection for Chinese investments, ensuring the interests of PRC’s multinational corporations. Furthermore, the Asian nation-state’s growing diplomatic leverage in Latin America is tied to its campaign to isolate Taiwan. Beijing has pressured countries to sever associations with the East Asian territory, resulting in dwindling support for the island. Only seven Latin American countries currently recognize Taiwan, with recent switches by Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua."

...

"The US's pursuit of a "green industrial policy" paradoxically contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and hinders global decarbonization efforts. Its demands for international alliance membership while engaging in policies aimed at decimating competitors further highlight the incoherence of its economic nationalism. By leaning on strategies that perpetuate stagnation and global instability, the northern neighbor reflects the exhaustion of its own system and the futility of extreme economic nationalism. The dominance of primary commodity exports and the replacement of European and North American extractive corporations by Chinese firms parallels the Western extractive methodology, adding to the depletion of nonrenewable resources. The exclusion of China, the leading investor in clean energy technology, from global markets through protectionist policies in the West further undermines cooperative 'green' efforts. By forcing producers to operate outside the global productivity frontier, the US's destabilizing approach significantly increases the costs associated with decarbonization. "

...

"Over the past three years, the global supply chain landscape has undergone significant transformations due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent geopolitical events. As the pandemic disrupted factories, halted production, and created logistical challenges, companies worldwide experienced the consequences of relying heavily on distant and centralized supply chains. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and mounting tensions between China and Taiwan, many companies are exploring the possibility of re-shoring their production to the United States or near-shoring to neighboring regions.

As countries like China and Vietnam faced prolonged shutdowns while the U.S. began reopening, the imbalance between supply and demand became evident. American brands experienced delays in receiving products, leading to empty store shelves and panic among manufacturers and retailers. Given the challenges associated with Asian supply chains, Latin American countries emerged as attractive alternatives. Major apparel brands, including Levi's, Nike, Patagonia, and Adidas, already have production facilities in these regions. Compared to the lengthy six-week lead time from Asia, Latin America offers global capitalists in the West a much shorter 10- to 14-day lead time.

Considering the potential economic growth wrapped in near-shoring and extractivism, one can’t help but rejoice at the news. After all, who needs drinking water in the face of progress, industry, and development?"]]></description>
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"‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
Exclusive: new database shows 1,500 US lobbyists working for fossil-fuel firms while representing universities and green groups"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists ]

"A damning new database reveals thousands of lobbyists are working for fossil fuel companies at the same time they represent hundreds of cities, universities, tech companies and even environmental groups that claim to be taking steps to address the climate crisis. We speak with _The Guardian_'s environmental reporter Oliver Milman. "It's clear that the wielding of political power and influence is far more important to them than staying true to any kind of ideals of distancing themselves fully from the fossil fuel industry," says Milman.

Transcript:
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    <title>Beuys conceived this late multiple on the island... - STML</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-06T18:45:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Beuys conceived this late multiple on the island of Capri in Italy, while staying at the villa of his art dealer in Naples, Lucio Amelio.1 Though humorous in appearance, the work’s coupling of a lemon with a light bulb makes a serious ecological statement. By employing the lemon as a power source for the yellow bulb, Beuys emphasised that all forms of energy derive from nature. Since the resources of nature are finite, they should accordingly be used with care.

Beuys often created artworks in the form of batteries, for the most part using stacks of felt and copper. In keeping with his theory of sculpture, these objects served as instruments for storing and transmitting spiritual warmth, the form of energy he saw as a catalyst for change and creativity. With the Capri Battery, however, he departed from this practice, employing new materials to convey an ecological message. This shift reflected his growing interest in Green politics, which had moved to the forefront of his work in the late–1970s.2 Equivalent in size, shape and colour, the two elements that constitute the Capri Battery remain in perfect equilibrium, suggesting that a balance might be struck in modern life between the finite capacities of nature and the needs of technological development.

A few months after its creation, Beuys’s sculpture was transformed into a multiple, which was housed in a small wooden box. On the side of the box, the following instructions were printed: ‘After 1000 hours, change the battery.’ Here, in one of his final multiples, Beuys not only addressed the need to strike a balance between nature and technology. By means of his instructions, he also encouraged owners of the Capri Battery to actively contribute to this process."]]></description>
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    <title>Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-01T17:03:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnsKfdnKZVk</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lithium-ion batteries are a transformative technology in the fight against climate change. Most notably, they power electric vehicles, which have the potential to replace emissions produced by road transportation. 

But there’s a problem. These batteries require nickel. And in Indonesia, where the majority of nickel is produced, the production process emits large amounts of carbon and pollution. It’s impacting the people who live by the production centers, who are registering an increase in respiratory illnesses. The US is essentially outsourcing carbon emissions and pollution in exchange for green energy. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. Indonesia sits along the Ring of Fire, one of the most geologically active regions in the world, making it an ideal place to produce geothermal energy.

Geothermal energy taps into the heat beneath the ground mostly found in volcanic regions. To use the heat beneath the earth’s surface, we need to drill into the ground, draw up the hot water, and use it to turn turbines that produce electricity. After, the water is funneled back underground, making geothermal a mostly clean and renewable energy source. 

While the exploration and development process of geothermal energy can be expensive, Indonesia already has more than 30 active geothermal facilities. 

As the world’s need for lithium-ion batteries increases, Indonesia and the companies invested in the region have the opportunity to make their processes greener from start to finish — and protect the people that live next to nickel production centers.

To understand the repercussions of nickel production in Indonesia and how geothermal energy could help fix the air pollution and emissions it produces, watch our video."]]></description>
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So what does greener death care look like?"]]></description>
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    <title>OPINION: The second-hand watch boom and the elephant in the room</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-20T02:01:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A watch is a curiously intimate possession. It’s worn on a person’s skin right next to their beating pulse as they engage in all the filth and fury of daily life. Thankfully, this close proximity (and occasional wrist cheese) turns out to be no barrier to the rocketing appeal of second-hand watches.

The Deloitte Swiss Watch Industry Study 2021 found that, right now, people are keener than ever on buying pre-owned watches. In an online survey of 5,558 consumers from all over the world, almost one in three (32%) said that they are “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to buy a second-hand watch in the next 12 months. That’s an increase of almost 50% from last year’s survey.

[screenshot of graph: "How likely is it that you will buy a pre-owned/second-hand luxury wristwatch in the next 12 months?"]

Delving a little deeper, Deloitte found that pre-owned watches appeal to consumers often because of the lower prices (44%), the opportunities to buy a specific discontinued model (31%), the investment potential (26%) and, last but not least, the sustainability reasons (25%).

This spiralling trend was also backed this year by a McKinsey’s report that predicted the pre-owned market will expand by up to 10 per cent per year between 2019 and 2025, reaching annual sales of $29 to $32 billion.  How does this compare to the new watch market? When McKinsey’s zeroed in on the premium to ultra-luxury category, they estimate it will grow by just 1 to 3 per cent a year during the same period.

[image: two vintage Tudor Submariners]

This is, of course, one almighty ball-ache for watch brands, whose primary income has traditionally been selling brand-new pieces. As a result, Deloitte found that almost two-thirds (65%) of executives surveyed plan to implement some type of strategy for the certified pre-owned market.

“The automobile industry has been using certified pre-owned for decades,” said Karine Szegedi, Head of Consumer and Fashion & Luxury at Deloitte Switzerland. “It is great to see that the watch industry is embracing this as well. It will give greater assurance to brands and consumers on the pre-owned market, in terms of quality, reliability and authenticity.”

[image: vintage Vacheron Constantin]

It’s hardly news that watch brands have been infiltrating the second-hand market for a while now. Richemont, for example, acquired the Watchfinder platform in 2018 to try and develop its pre-owned business. Richard Mille got into bed with the retailer Ninety to open a mono-brand store in London devoted to selling their certified pre-owned timepieces. Meanwhile Vacheron Constantin has Les Collectionneurs, a concept that sees vintage Vacheron pieces — acquired through “auctions and personal connections” — reconditioned by their in-house watchmakers and sold with a guarantee and two-year warranty.

All of this makes good sense, too. But it’s also notable that “sustainability” is repeatedly cited as a key driver of the pre-owned boom. As Deloitte’s Szegedi points out: “With consumers more conscious about the environment, the pre-owned market plays a vital role in creating a more circular and sustainable approach for the luxury watch industry.”

It’s a persuasive argument. So persuasive, in fact, that it highlights the inconvenient truth behind many watch brands’ purported green credentials. Whether its watches made from recycled plastic or Carl F. Bucherer’s efforts to save manta rays in The Maldives, most brands are now ostensibly doing something to run their businesses in a more environmentally friendly way. For a luxury brand in 2021, conscious consumerism is a business imperative.

[image: "Oris Aquis Date Upcycle: The Oris Aquis Daye Upcycle has a dial made of recycled ocean waste"]

In a way it seems churlish to knock such good intentions, even if some do seem a bit tokenistic. Every little bit counts, I suppose. Except that such efforts gloss over the underlying problem, which is that buying lots of shiny new things that you don’t really need is a major contributor to the ecological mess we’re all in.  As this University of Arizona study suggests, from a sustainability perspective, buying less is better than buying green.

You could argue that a good watch will always be a relatively conscientious purchase because it’s the antithesis of a throwaway product.  Your iPhone, for example, is built with “planned obsolescence” in mind and designed with a shelf-life that deliberately ensures it will become out of date within a set period of time. A watch, on the other hand, can tick away for multiple generations with the right care and servicing. Unfortunately, in our digital world, a watch’s basic time-telling purpose is now largely redundant. Your timepiece may indeed be built to last, but it’s now a stylistic indulgence rather than a necessary acquisition.

Therein lies the paradox that the industry must find a way to wriggle out of (don’t put it past them either – they saw off the Quartz Crisis, after all). But in the light of this dilemma, one can appreciate the growing appeal of a pre-owned watch as a guilt-free way to scratch that horological itch.  Unless you think we are, in fact, going to save the planet with ethically sourced watch-straps.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom.

Capital has a tendency to get invested at the perceived highest rate of return, and so we have a tendency towards doom.

Getting human civilization into a healthy and sustainable balance with the biosphere is going to be expensive. It will never be the most profitable investment out there, being a matter of mitigations, infrastructure replacements, decarbonization, and the creation of new and cleaner technologies. The market misprices things such that none of these activities will turn the largest short-term profit, so they are insufficiently attractive to private investment, and we are therefore headed for a mass extinction event.

Oops! Just the way it is! Nothing to be done but proceed!

But not really. An adjustment is needed, and more people are becoming aware of that necessity. It has to be big, and yet something that the currently existing legal and economic order can execute. And now, months into the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re seeing both the scope of the need and that the world can turn on a dime when there’s a perceived need this serious. Government fiscal policy can get very creative when things are overwhelming. That may be the story of this century. 

We have to save the biosphere from catastrophic heating. We also have a market that won’t invest enough in this project. So governments need to do it, by way of creating new money specifically targeted to pay for rapid decarbonization.

You can think of this proposal as “carbon quantitative easing,” in tribute to the quantitative easing undertaken by central banks in the teeth of the 2008 recession. All told, central bankers in the U.S. and Europe spent over $5 trillion dollars buying up bonds. That QE was mostly given to the banks without restrictions, and many used it simply to save their asses. The program did maintain liquidity and, by saving the banks, saved the economy. But because of the lack of targeting for this new money, inequality was increased and investment in fossil fuels by big banks continued. 

This time, QE would have to be specifically directed to save the biosphere itself.

“Everyone on Earth could be paid for doing good work for the biosphere”

Delton Chen, a civil engineer and geo-hydrologist who co-founded the Global 4C project, has elaborated on a carbon QE system with Joel van der Beek and Jonathan Cloud. Put briefly, carbon quantitative easing suggests that big central banks work together to create new money for decarbonization projects. This injection of new money would also redirect the ordinary economy toward biosphere health.

What might this look like in practice? All around the world, anyone from individuals to nations would be paid to sequester carbon in the ground for an agreed-upon time. A century is often proposed, which is possibly not long enough, but it would be a decent beginning.

The sequestration of carbon would have to be certified, possibly by a public-private bureaucracy like bond rating agencies. It could even be administered, perhaps, by a body created under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Once certified, a carbon coin would be paid out. These coins would trade on currency-exchange markets, and the central banks would set a floor value, perhaps by issuing long-term bonds for investors. With the proper arrangement, the value of the carbon coin could be defended, and everyone on Earth could then be paid for doing good work for the biosphere and the generations to come.

“Anything that kept carbon in the ground would earn carbon coins”

At the national level, it might work like this: A petro-state such as Venezuela or Saudi Arabia or Russia or the U.S. could declare it was going to sequester its fossil fuels, leaving proven reserves in the ground and getting paid in carbon coins instead. These payments could be made on a timetable matched to how quickly the countries would have extracted and sold the fuels. (Now there could be a weird precedent for this: The Trump administration is considering paying U.S. oil drillers to leave it in the ground, as way to protect oil prices, not the planet.)

Cities could change infrastructures and get paid. Mass-transit projects, electric car recharging stations, infill construction, city agriculture, de-suburbanization efforts, clean power generation—anything that kept carbon in the ground would earn carbon coins.

Individuals could do what individuals do: some could start kelp beds, if they live by the right kinds of coasts; some change their farms to no-till agriculture, and compensate for the smaller yields by getting paid for growing soil itself; others can winnow down cattle herds; or create a peat bog; or swap out any carbon-burning machine for a cleaner one.

Many kinds of activities will sequester carbon, and more would be found. Growing forests would count under carbon QE, so would caring for biomes like swamps. Engineers and designers who figure out how to pull carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere and then turn it into carbon nanofiber materials, thus replacing cement and steel, would be earning carbon credits in multiple ways. One could imagine windmills that create clean power devoting some of that power to a CO₂ drawdown device coupled to it, with the captured CO₂ then transformed cleanly into a substance that could be used for car bodies or house foundations. It would be a trifecta.

“It would be complicated and messy, sure, but not as complicated and messy as a mass extinction event”

The opportunities would be endless. People could devote their working lives to decarbonization and make a living at that, and the biosphere that is our only home would be better for it.

Of course, any single rubric of economic success will create distortions as people try to game the system for an advantage. Balances would emerge as we got used to paying ourselves for making the biosphere healthier. It would be complicated and messy, sure, but not as complicated and messy as a mass extinction event.

In many ways this idea is a return to John Maynard Keynes’s idea of a government stimulus in times of economic trouble, an idea that has been used successfully many times before. Now it’s our ecology that’s in trouble, and the method is being revived again for this larger purpose. Whether its carbon coin, or the suggested funding methods for Green Deal, or the European Union’s new “Green Recovery” plan for a post-Covid-19 reboot, these are attempts at stimulus that adapt Keynesian concepts to our particular crisis.

This is the work that is facing us. We have to change, because the direction we’re headed now leads to disaster. And that change will have to involve figuring out ways to pay ourselves to do good work. Carbon quantitative easing is one big step on that path.”]]></description>
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    <title>Capitalism and the Urban Struggle | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-28T20:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“One of the things that interests me is the simultaneity of what goes on in the urban network. Occupy Wall Street was about Wall Street, but Occupy movements sprung up in a hundred odd cities in the United States, and you can find Occupy movements in Europe and around the world. So the urban network is actually a very powerful set of political possibilities. Part of my argument is that we should be thinking about how to use the urban network and how to use the political power that lies with closing cities down or intervening in cities as part of what political struggle is all about.”

…

“DJ: Mainstream liberals who talk about urbanism focus a lot on environmentalism and culture. Cities promise greener forms of living, since they offer greater density and more efficient energy use. And these liberals obsess over green architecture, high-speed rail, and so on, as well as about cities as centers of “creative culture.” Would you say they’re guilty of a certain fetishism over green living and culture?

DH: Very much so. As I try to point out in the book, the culture industries are very much caught up in the search for monopoly rent. It’s interesting that they’re called “industries” these days, which means that there’s a commodification of culture and an attempt to commodify the cultural commons and even commodify history, which is an astonishing process.

A lot of the green stuff is about planting trees and making things look greener. But I’ve yet to see a really radical reconfiguration of urbanization that would really confront the questions of global warming. So the liberal view does that, but what it doesn’t pay attention to is the tremendous social inequalities that exist. In New York, the social inequalities are dramatic, and we have huge concentrations of what we call precarious and insecure, employed people in these cities. In a way it’s an urban proletariat that is engaging in the production and the reproduction of urban life, and I don’t see the liberals taking any notice of that as being a problem. I mean, the levels of social inequality in New York City are far, far greater now than they were 30 years ago, and I would not be at all surprised to see an urban insurrection going on over those levels of inequality.”

…

“DJ: There you argue that Murray Bookchin had a more reasonable answer to the problem of how to organize for large-scale reform, given the limits of horizontal, anti-hierarchical political structures.

DH: One of the things I criticize the left for is what I call “fetishism of organizational form,” and it’s not only anarchists. The communist parties of yore used to have a democratic centralist model from which they would never depart, and it had certain strengths and it had certain weaknesses. Now there are certain elements within the anarchist movement that now believe totally in this horizontality idea and will not contemplate anything that is hierarchical. So I say, “Well, look, you’re disempowering yourself by sticking to that as the only organizational form which is viable.”

Again, there are certain anarchists who think that it’s reasonable to negotiate with the state or to try to reform the state and certain anarchists who say they want nothing whatsoever with anything that looks like state power. I have problems with that. My concern would be to say, “Let’s try to think of an organizational form that can confront the nature of the problems that we face,” which include, by the way, the one that you talked about earlier about the global nature of the struggle. You cannot imagine that we could simply have socialism in New York City and nowhere else. We’ve got to start thinking about all of the international relations and international divisions of labor and the like. So I’m more concerned with finding a practical form of organization, which can confront the nature of the problems we face, and I find that these rather dogmatic assertions by the communists, on one hand, and some of the anarchists, on the other, that “This is the only form of organization which is acceptable” get in the way of a fluid discussion over what would be a good form of organization for political mobilization right now.

DJ: Do you think that we’ve come to any sort of promising conclusions about organizational form, or is this a debate that needs to take place over the course of many years?

DH: Oh, I think it’s a debate that’s unfolding, but it can unfold very rapidly. I mean, there are places in the world where people seem to have found ways to pin together both the horizontal and the hierarchical. I mention the case of El Alto in Bolivia, where that seems to have happened. There are other cases; I’ve been very impressed by the example of the Chilean student movement, which is very democratic and horizontal but at the same time accepts that there is a need for decisive leadership. As more and more models of that sort come to our attention, I think that more and more people will start to converge on a practical organizational form. At least that’s my hope. And I think what I was trying to do in the book was to contribute to that process by both critiquing fetishism and then talking about examples where it seems some mixture of organizational forms has been very successful.

DJ: Now that we’re in Spring, people in the Occupy movement are wondering, “Where do we go from here?” Can there be an Occupy movement without occupation—without actually occupying public spaces? It seems as though occupying public spaces is a very powerful form of protest that has succeeded in Egypt and elsewhere. So why not just continuing occupying?

DH: Well, I think there are intermediate forms of it. One example that I was talking about with some people the other day is the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina who, instead of occupying all the time, turned up once a week to a particular space to demonstrate over the question of what had happened to their disappeared children and grandchildren. Of course, they suffered a great deal of police harassment and in some cases violence, but they just kept coming there every week. We could do something like that: we could go to Zuccotti Park once a week and say, “Look, we are still here!” It could be a visible thing. Some weeks, there’d be 500 people there; maybe occasionally there’d be 5,000 people there. But if it became a tradition, that once a week we all went there to reassert the significance of our political movement, then this would be a very good step.

I think that one of the problems we have in New York City is that we have a vast amount of public space in which the public is not allowed to do what it wants. We have to liberate public spaces for these sorts of common political actions, and this is one of the arenas of struggle.

DJ: In terms of changing our politics, are there any steps that you think are promising? For example, some critics, such as Lawrence Lessig, point to money in politics as a central problem. There are others who talk about how we need more participatory democracy in place. Is there a political step that you think will make progress?

DH: There’s a political step that I think that we should take and be very clear about. This is what was so impressive about the Chilean student movement. They recognized very clearly that the situation they’re in was defined by what happened under Pinochet. Now Pinochet is dead, but they’re still living with the legacy of Pinochet. What they are struggling with is what you might call “Pinochetism.” In this country Reagan is long gone, but Reaganism has been doubled down on by the Republican Party in particular, but also accepted by large chunks of the Democratic Party. So we’ve got to go after Reaganism. In Britain, Thatcher is long gone, but we’ve got Thatcherism. In Egypt, Mubarak is gone, but Mubarakism is still there. So we’ve got to go after the systems of power and the systems of appropriation of wealth that have become pretty universalized right now, and we’ve got to see this as a real serious point of confrontation. As Warren Buffett says when asked if there’s class struggle, “Sure, there’s class struggle. It’s my class, the rich, who have been waging it, and we’ve been winning.” Our task, I think, is to turn it around and say, “His class shall not win.” And in order to do that, we’ve got to get rid of the whole neoliberal way of organizing contemporary capitalism.“]]></description>
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    <title>Why a hipster, vegan, green tech economy is not sustainable | Canada | Al Jazeera</title>
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    <title>Indigenous Knowledge Has Been Warning Us About Climate Change for Centuries - Pacific Standard</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-12T23:17:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psmag.com/ideas/indigenous-knowledge-has-been-warning-us-about-climate-change-for-centuries</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Insofar as mainstream American society reckons with indigenous intellectual/scientific practices, it's as "non-overlapping magisteria," i.e. if they're true then they're not true in a way that would directly challenge our truths. So when Simpson speaks of the need for "ethical systems that promote the diversity of life," I think most Americans would understand "diversity of life" as an unquantifiable abstraction that we can translate into liberal ideals like interpersonal tolerance and non-conformity. But what if we took it literally instead?

The mass death of insects is an observable and measurable disrespect for the diversity of life on Earth, to which we can and should compare other patterns of human practice.

"Indigenous knowledge systems are rigorous, they pursue excellence, they are critical and comprehensive," Simpson says. "The global roots of the climatic crisis and the exploitation of natural resources are issues indigenous peoples have been speaking out against for hundreds of years." The proof is in the pudding: Colonists were warned by word and weapon that a system of individual land ownership would lead to ecological apocalypse, and here we are. What more could you ask from a system of truth and analysis than to alert you to a phenomenon like climate change before it occurs, with enough time to prevent it? That is significantly more than colonial science has offered.

The devaluation of indigenous political thought has nothing to do with its predictive ability. The ruling class produced by accumulation society simply will not put its own system up for debate. Thus the climate change policies we discuss—even and perhaps in particular the Green New Deal—take for granted not just the persistence of commodity accumulation, but its continued growth. As the economists Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm complain in their analysis of proposals for "green growth": "The belief that any of this half-hearted tinkering will lead to drastic cuts in CO2 emissions in the future is plain self-deceit." Economic output as we understand it, they say, must shrink.

If the indigenous critique sounds like an anti-capitalist one, it should. Drawing on the work of communist Glen Coulthard from the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Simpson recognizes the language of Marxism as her own. "There is an assumption that socialism and communism are white and that indigenous peoples don't have this kind of thinking," she writes. "To me, the opposite is true." In As We Have Always Done, Simpson makes a gentle case for non-native comrades to follow this lead. For their part, contemporary Marxist scholars like Silvia Federici and Harry Harootunian have been reassessing doctrinaire ideas about the progressive nature of capitalism and the supposed backwardness of indigenous societies, a line of revision that's supported by recent changes to anthropological assumptions regarding the sophistication of pre-colonial technology and social organization.

Green growth, even in its social-democratic versions, isn't going to save the insects. But there exist alternative examples for the left, and for the world. While America's beehives are bare, Cuba's are thriving, which led to the tragicomically western Economist headline: "Agricultural backwardness makes for healthy hives." "We" are just now reactivating the millenia-old Mayan practice of harvesting from wild stingless bees ("meliponiculture"), which used to produce an unimaginably large variety of honeys. These entomological examples support Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani's audacious claim about the history of African thought: Those who study what has been suppressed can see the future.

As for what is to be done about climate change, there's no real mystery. "The issue is that accumulation-based societies don't like the answers we come up with because they are not quick technological fixes, they are not easy," Simpson says. "Real solutions require a rethinking of our global relationship to the land, water, and to each other. They require critical thinking about our economic and political systems. They require radical systemic change."

To this end, Simpson has called for a shift in focus from indigenous cultural resurgence to the anti-colonial struggle for territory. That unsurrendered conflict has continued for hundreds of years, and we should view our living history in its firelight. The best environmental policy America can pursue is to start giving back the land."]]></description>
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    <title>The surprising pattern behind color names around the world - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book on a pretty groundbreaking idea: that every culture in history, when they developed their languages, invented words for colors in the exact same order. They claimed to know this based off of a simple color identification test, where 20 respondents identified 330 colored chips by name. If a language had six words, they were always black, white, red, green, yellow, and blue. If it had four terms, they were always black, white, red, and then either green or yellow. If it had only three, they were always black, white, and red , and so on. The theory was revolutionary — and it shaped our understanding of how color terminologies emerge.

Read more on the research mentioned in this video: 

Cook, Kay, and Regier on the World Color Survey: goo.gl/MTUi9C
Stephen C. Levinson on Yele color terms: goo.gl/CYDfvw
John A. Lucy on Hanunó'o color terms: goo.gl/okcyC3
Loreto, Mukherjee, and Tria on color naming population simulations: goo.gl/rALO1S

To learn more about how your language's color words can affect the way you think, check out this video lecture: goo.gl/WxYi1q "]]></description>
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    <title>Translations by Kathryn Nuernberger | Poetry Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-01T07:49:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I want to believe we can’t see anything
we don’t have a word for.
 
When I look out the window and say green, I mean sea green,
I mean moss green, I mean gray, I mean pale and also
electrically flecked with white and I mean green
in its damp way of glowing off a leaf.
 
Scheele’s green, the green of Renaissance painters,
is a sodium carbonate solution heated to ninety degrees
as arsenious oxide is stirred in. Sodium displaces copper,
resulting in a green precipitate that is sometimes used
as insecticide. When I say green I mean
a shiny green bug eating a yellow leaf.
 
Before synthetics, not every painter could afford a swathe
of blue. Shocking pink, aka neon, aka kinky pink,
wasn’t even on the market. I want to believe Andy Warhol
invented it in 1967 and ever since no one’s eyes
have been the same. There were sunsets before,
but without that hot shocking neon Marilyn, a desert sky
was just cataract smears. I want to believe this.
 
The pale green of lichen and half-finished leaves
filling my window is a palette very far from carnation
or bougainvillea, but to look out is to understand it is not,
is to understand what it is not. I stare out the window a lot.
Between the beginning and the end the leaves unfolded.
I looked out one morning and everything was unfamiliar
as if I was looking at the green you could only see
if you’d never known synthetic colors existed.
 
I’ve drawn into myself people say.
We understand, they say.
 
There are people who only have words for red
and black and white, and I wonder if they even see
the trees at the edge of the grass
or the green storms coming out of the west.
There are people who use the same word for green
and red and brown, and I wonder if red
seems so urgently bright pouring from the body
when there is no green for it to fall against.
 
In his treatise on color Wittgenstein asked,
“Can’t we imagine certain people
having a different geometry of colour than we do?”
 
I want to believe the eye doesn’t see green until it has a name,
because I don’t want anything to look the way it did before.
 
Van Gogh painted pink flowers, but the pink faded
and curators labeled the work “White Roses” by mistake.
 
The world in my window is a color the Greeks called chlorol.
When I learned the word I was newly pregnant
and the first pale lichens had just speckled the silver branches.
The pines and the lichens in the chill drizzle were glowing green
and a book in my lap said chlorol was one of the untranslatable
words. The vibrating glow pleased me then, as a finger
dipped in sugar pleased me then. I said the word aloud
for the baby to hear. Chlorol. I imagined the baby
could only see hot pink and crimson inside its tiny universe,
but if you can see what I’m seeing, the word for it
is chlorol. It’s one of the things you’ll like out here.
 
Nineteenth century critics mocked painters who cast shadows
in unexpected colors. After noticing green cypresses do drop red
shadows, Goethe chastised them. “The eye demands
completeness and seeks to eke out the colorific circle in itself.”
He tells of a trick of light that had him pacing a row of poppies
to see the flaming petals again and figure out why.
 
Over and over again Wittgenstein frets the problem of translucence.
Why is there no clear white?
He wants to see the world through white-tinted glasses,
but all he finds is mist.
 
At first I felt as if the baby had fallen away
like a blue shadow on the snow.
 
Then I felt like I killed the baby
in the way you can be thinking about something else
and drop a heavy platter by mistake.
 
Sometimes I feel like I was stupid
to have thought I was pregnant at all.
 
Color is an illusion, a response to the vibrating universe
of electrons. Light strikes a leaf and there’s an explosion
where it lands. When colors change, electromagnetic fields
are colliding. The wind is not the only thing moving the trees.
 
Once when I went into those woods I saw a single hot pink orchid
on the hillside and I had to keep reminding myself not to
tell the baby about the beautiful small things I was seeing.
So, hot pink has been here forever and I don’t even care
about that color or how Andy Warhol showed me an orchid.
I hate pink. It makes my eyes burn."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Shifting Color Meanings

“Blue” traffic lights come as a shock to many students of Japanese. If one learns that midori is “green” and ao is “blue,” it is surprising to find that the clearly green traffic lights at Japanese intersections are described as aoshingō. This demonstrates that even common words may not have simple translations. Japanese traffic lights are not actually blue; they are ao, a word that usually means “blue” but can also mean “green.”

Ao, one of the oldest color words in Japanese, was once much broader in application. In several still common words, it denotes the vivid green of fresh vegetation, as in early summer. Examples include aoba (fresh foliage), aona (leafy green vegetables), aomame (green soybeans or peas), and even the prefectural name Aomori, which according to one explanation originally referred to the green juniper bushes covering a small hill in what is now the prefectural capital. The word ao has also been used historically for a broad range of colors tending toward other shades, including black, white, and gray.

The shifting meanings of the past can be fascinating, if potentially confusing. In the earliest records of the Japanese language, ao and aka (now red) were indicators of brightness. While kuro (black) denoted darkness and shiro (white) light, ao was used for darker and aka for brighter shades in between. Just as kuro and kurai (dark) share the same etymological root, aka is related to akarui (bright).

Long after much of this early linguistic uncertainty had settled down, the use of ao to mean “green” persisted into the age of traffic lights. Japan’s first electric traffic light was installed in Hibiya, Tokyo, in 1930. It was imported from the United States and featured the three standard colors. The original legislation actually designated the “go” color as midori, but the Japanese public insisted on calling it ao and the naming stuck. In 1947 aoshingō was written into Japanese law as the official name of the “go” signal.

A Colorful Tradition

English influences colors as it shapes other parts of the Japanese language. It might seem unlikely that burū (blue) and gurīn (green) could ever replace ao and midori, even though the katakana terms are now often heard. Yet orenji (orange) is arguably more used than the traditional daidai, which takes its name from a similar citrus fruit. Pinku (pink) is also firmly entrenched in the language, and more common than its loose synonym momo (peach).

The Japanese color shu (vermilion) is sometimes described simply as “red” or occasionally “orange,” the lack of precision reflecting its lesser importance in the English-speaking world. In Japan, though, as in other parts of East Asia, it is deeply rooted in the culture. It is the color of torii gates at Shintō shrines, the shuniku inkpads paired with personal seals, and the ink used by calligraphy teachers when annotating students’ work. It is also a common color for lacquerware.

Shu is one color to catch the Western visitor’s eye, but Japan has many more traditional hues. Murasaki (purple) was long the color of clothes worn by the ruling class. In the Heian period (794–1185), the pale purple of fuji (wisteria) became prominent, in part through association with the powerful Fujiwara clan. Author Sei Shōnagon repeatedly praises the flower in her classic Heian collection The Pillow Book, as when she includes “long, richly colored clusters of wisteria blossom hanging from a pine tree” in her list of “splendid things.”

The Heian aristocracy’s keen interest in color is epitomized in the jūni hitoe ensemble worn by ladies of the court. The name literally means “12 layers,” but the number was not fixed and could reach as high as 20. The colors were visible at the sleeves and hems, where progressively shorter layers overlapped, and matching them aesthetically was a fine art. There were complex rules about what colors were suitable for each layer based on the season, the occasion, and the wearer.

A contemporary equivalent to the rule-makers of the past may perhaps be the organization that runs the Shikisai Kentei, a popular test of color knowledge. By creating multiple choice questions for budding designers and artists in a range of fields, it acts as a force for standardization. This includes quizzing test-takers on exact shades for traditional colors as defined by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee.

Standardization makes life easier, but the pleasures of language lie in its idiosyncrasies. Although it may seem odd to native-English learners that traffic lights are “blue,” accepting this encourages a new viewpoint on the world. Each new point of knowledge about a different culture represents a small step along the road to a broader perspective.

[with image]

A Palette of Traditional Japanese Colors

beni (crimson)moegi (yellowish green)
momo (peach)hanada (light blue)
shu (vermilion)ai (indigo)
daidai (orange)ruri (lapis lazuli)
yamabuki (kerria)fuji (wisteria)
uguisu (bush warbler)nezumi (mouse)

Note: This table displays shades defined by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee. Historically the colors may have varied widely, especially when named after dyes, where the process can greatly affect the final color. They may also vary on different monitors. Not all have common English names."]]></description>
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Since 1947, San Francisco Beautiful, a non-profit 501c3 organization, has been instrumental in creating and delivering community-centered artistic public benefit and preserve neighborhood character. San Francisco Beautiful is a trusted partner to the city’s diverse neighborhood communities and the only organization in San Francisco that brings community based organizations together with regional government, philanthropic, and business sectors to improve and artistically beautify the public realm. We count on and efficiently leverage public, private, and philanthropic funds, volunteers and gratefully accept in-kind contributions that enable us to continue to keep San Francisco Beautiful.

Accomplishments
We are proud of our history and our impact. Some of our successes include:

• Saving San Francisco's cable car system.
• Launching the first citywide tree planting program.
• Capping the number of billboards in the city.
• Legalizing sidewalk seating.
• Creating developer and business tax set asides to fund public art & greening.
• Bringing art to our Muni buses."]]></description>
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    <title>Color Goes Electric - Triple Canopy</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Greener grass, bluer skies: How photography came to capture the world that we want to see, and how our memories have been fashioned by industry."

…

"Interviewers at polling stations in malls and other locations around the US and overseas would invite consumers to examine images in return for a modest fee or token gift. Certain predilections became clear: Almost all viewers preferred films with finer grain structures. Caucasians tended to prefer skin that appeared tanner in reproduction than in reality, although opinion varied slightly according to region; for example, those on the West Coast generally preferred rosier skin tones. At different times of year, test subjects often selected somewhat different balances of warm and cool colors. They were also picky about the hue of the sky at the horizon; when shown a pair of photographs, one with an accurately reproduced horizon—in which the color might be almost white, due to a high degree of light-scattering by the atmosphere—and one with a horizon nearly
as saturated with blue as the sky overhead, consumers reported that the latter “looked right.” The strongest, most consistent finding among all subjects was a strong preference for bright, snappy versions of well-known colors, with saturations far exceeding their actual colorimetric values.
None of this was any surprise to Kodak, where photographic researchers had been studying such preferences for a number of years. As Kodak researcher C. James Bartleson explained in 1960, in his foundational essay “Memory Colors of Familiar Objects,” skin, grass, sky, and other “objects with which we have frequent visual experience” are indelibly imprinted in our memory. Memory colors are hues that we can recall easily, and thus they would seem to provide the imaging industry with a straightforward heuristic for judging accuracy; for example, slight hue shifts toward green or purple in the familiar color of flesh are immediately detectable to the human eye. But Bartleson found that test subjects consistently remembered the saturation of familiar colors with exaggerated intensity, or to be “more characteristic of the dominant chromatic attribute

of the object in question.” In other words, “grass was more green, bricks more red.” Rather than increasing accuracy, our familiarity breeds a kind of mnemonic distortion. And because most people consider themselves quite capable of judging the colors in photographs “taken by people other than themselves, of objects that they have never seen, at times when they were not present,” as the scientist R. W. G. Hunt puts it, the crucial industrial mandate in photographic color reproduction is accordance with memory, not reality. Thus the technologies that record our memories have been materially imbued with memory’s subtle alterations."

…

"In 1981, five years after MoMA’s Eggleston show, New York’s International Center for Photography mounted a group show called “The New Color Photography.” In addition to Eggleston, the exhibition featured such artists as Stephen Shore, Jan Groover, Joel Sternfeld, and William Christenberry, all of whom had put on prominent solo shows in the previous decade. A movement was afoot, and it was time to gather its adherents and make a canon, under the informal rubric of “newness.”

In her catalogue essay, curator Sally Eauclaire attempted to account for some of the aesthetic issues that may have previously militated against the acceptance of color photography in the art world. Film’s “exaggeration of subject hue” was one problem, because it “gave the medium an aura of vulgarity.” Color photography had an unfortunate inclination “to alter rather than duplicate the world’s colors, producing extravagantly lush, festive hues from less flamboyant sources.” But Eauclaire believed that a decisive shift had occurred in the 1970s, after color photographers “modified their traditional naturalistic priorities . . . by careful framing of a selected section of the world,” and in so doing “learned to anticipate and enlist color film’s hue exaggerations.”

Others argued that the admission of color photography into the rarefied realm of fine art had more to do with the medium’s evolving capacity to depict the world accurately—that the removal of various technical obstacles led to images that seemed more acceptably natural. But, in fact, the attainable level of saturation in color films increased throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s; Kodak and Fuji battled for market dominance, with Kodak’s engineers amping up the chromatic effects and Fuji developing its own films that were popular for their hypersaturated, nearly psychedelic colors, which even entailed occasional “mistakes” in the rendering of memory colors. In the accounts of imaging scientists, during that time period, both consumers and professionals in preference testing always asked for as much (credible) saturation as the scientists could squeeze from the chemical medium—and scientists delivered. So if there was no quantum leap in color film development from the 1960s to the 1970s, just the same struggle to increase color as much as possible within the naturalness constraint, how did color come to seem more “natural” under the skeptical, unforgiving light of the white cube? As Malcolm wrote in her Eggleston review, the American visual environment was now full of “recently made structures, machines, and objects; by people dressed in clothes of the cheap, synthetic democratic sort; by the signs and the leavings of fast food, fast gas, fast obsolescence.” Fast, cheap—and bright.

What has been considered synthetic, exaggerated, or natural in color photography only reflects our preferences, our ideas about the desirability of a look. These received forms have become pure content, since classic analog-era looks can now be applied to any digital image at all. Numerous programs and apps have experimented with algorithmic simulations of specific film products that had so carefully mediated between preference and pleasingness, between the naturalness constraint and the constraint of chemical materials. Instagram’s early filters were designed to mimic degraded analog renderings as a means of masking the obvious errors of poor-quality first-generation phone cameras, but no longer: As one Instagram engineer says, their objective now is “just to figure out what’s pretty.”

In 1971, Stephen Shore, one of the “New Color” photographers, decided to shoot pictures of the decidedly unglamorous town of Amarillo, Texas, and produce postcards from the resulting urban landscapes. He sent his images to a professional postcard printer in upstate New York. Though the summer heat had yellowed the grass in front of the Amarillo courthouse, the postcard edition depicted it as green. And though Shore shot his image of a local barbecue joint on a cloudy day, the printed card showed a brilliant blue peeking out from behind the clouds. Rather than complain about the distortions that the printers had wrought on his work, Shore shrugged it off, explaining to a curator years later that the printers “never asked, they just did it. They’re the pros. They know how postcards should look.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The massive plastic trash gyre isn’t an island, it’s the disaster of capital circling the globe on ocean currents"

…

"Missing from that myth is a key series of related facts. That the debris breaks down into microscopic pieces. That the garbage actually constitutes more of a “plastic soup” than any kind of patch or island, and that its pollutants are, as a result, widely dispersed. That what breaks down doesn’t remain solely in the Garbage Patch; that anywhere ocean currents converge is this toxic soup. That this soup is suffused with Bisphenol A, pthalates, polychlorinated biphenyls, persistent organic pollutants, and other remainders from discarded commodities that contribute directly to the ocean acidification killing fragile ecosystems from the coral-based Great Barrier Reef off of Australia to Inuit territories in the Arctic. Far from a solid, particulate island, the Garbage Patch is, along with the rest of the ocean’s water, in constant motion. And it doesn’t necessarily stay at surface. In 2010 a team of ecologists, studying ocean garbage patches, observed that the plastic in them accounted for only a small portion of the plastic that has been produced since World War II. “[W]e don’t know what this plastic is doing,” said marine biologist Andres Cozar Cabañas, who worked on the team, adding only that it “is somewhere — in the ocean life, in the depths.”"

…

"Green capitalism is still capitalism, fundamentally unsustainable and exploitative, and while the world’s most privileged consumers insulate themselves, its devastating ecological effects hit poor communities living in the world’s severest locations especially hard. While Americans and Europeans with money can fill their diets with certified “ethical” fish, this isn’t really an option for native people in the circumpolar North—including the Inuit of Greenland and Canada, the Aleuts, Yup’ik, and Inupiat of Alaska, the Chukchi and other tribes of Siberia, or the Saami of Scandinavia and western Russia—whose cultures as well as diets depend on the ocean. Living, working, and fishing at the edge of glacial sheets, these people can’t really choose not to eat fish with plastic embedded in their scales, or the exorbitant concentrations of pollutants in the larger marine mammals high up in the food web—the ringed seals, walruses, narwhals, and beluga whales—that are both dietary staples and sources of clothing and building materials. Because of the cold and low Northern sunlight, pollutants break down especially slowly – over the course of decades or even centuries, according to Marla Cone, author of Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic. Cone has also noted that even in the 80s Arctic mothers had seven times more PCBs in their milk than their counterparts in Canadian cities.

“At the periphery of the global capitalist system,” writes Chris Chen in “The Limit Point of Capitalist Inequality,” “capital now renews ‘race’ by creating vast superfluous…populations from the…descendants of the enslaved and colonised.” It’s no accident that plastic pollutants pool in the communities that capitalism has historically treated—and continues to treat—as refuse. Somewhere in that convergence—in the attitude that everything that gets thrown away stays far away—lies the second myth of the Garbage Patch.

“It’s been the end of the world for somebody all along,” says writer, spoken-word artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Simpson. Recent studies show that marine pollution and ocean acidification, once thought a separate if parallel disaster to climate change, are in fact contributing to global climate disruption, suggesting that, ecologically speaking, there is no such thing as somebody else’s end of the world. Although the idea of the Garbage Patch is entrenched in the collective imagination, we can use language to help dislodge it. We can begin this process by rejecting the myths of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We must stop thinking and talking in terms of an island that captures everything we throw away in a faraway fever dream of plastic bags and marine birds, and begin to map out the deeply interconnected web of plants, animals, humans, and non-living things in which we actually exist. We must recognize that capitalism depends on us not seeing this web and that capitalism will never fix marine pollution or climate change. As long as, like Andres Cozar Cabañas’ missing plastic, there are lives whose fates remain distant and unaccounted for, everybody’s fates are at risk."]]></description>
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    <title>What Use Is the Future? | Boom: A Journal of California</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-10T00:34:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/03/the-boom-interview-alex-steffen/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["California is a set of circumstances that I don’t think can happen again: this weird thing, a place, sort of without history—and “without history” in air quotes here, because our history was erased; it was ripped out by the roots—a place without history, made vastly wealthy then suddenly landed right in the middle of the global cultural discussion and the global economic future, and it has been there for eighty years, arguably more. That, I don’t think, is a thing that can happen again, because there’s nowhere left without history. There’s nowhere left where there’s a fresh start, with “fresh start,” again, in air quotes.

California is, by its very nature, the end of one kind of possibility. We got to the coast and we ran out of frontier. That means that California has stayed the frontier for a very, very, very long time. In fact, the frontier is a thing of our past, everywhere on Earth. You won’t find it in the Arctic or Antarctica or the deepest Amazon or the Sahara. They’re not landscapes of human possibility. They’re simply the most remote places left."

…

"But failure is not our only future. We might, instead, choose to reinvent ourselves again, to become the people who can reconcile prosperity, sustainability, and dynamism. We could raise our vision to take in the whole state and imagine for it and ourselves new ways of life that fit its realities and our own. Because failing exurbs and potholed freeways, government bankruptcies and climate chaos, eroding clear-cuts, dwindling salmon runs and drought-ravaged crops, a permanent underclass and a massive housing crisis—these aren’t the only way to live. We know enough to know that remaking all of that is at least possible. We could rebuild our cities with lots of new green housing and new transit and infrastructure, run our state on clean energy, remake forestry and farming, and look at water in a more sane way. We might even find a future for the suburbs, because if the twenty-first century has a frontier, it will be, as Bruce Sterling says, in the ruins of the unsustainable. All of these things would make us richer, and done properly they would actually become an export industry, because the whole wealthy world needs to figure out all this stuff, too. So those who figure it out can sell it, and should. We need the scale and speed of change that comes with a boom, and the self-transformation you see unleashed in democratic revolutions.

The practicalities of how we build a bright green state are tough, but even tougher is the cultural question: Who are “we” when we talk about ourselves as a group? The questions of who we are together are thorny and deep-rooted here in California, and we need a new and better answer."]]></description>
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    <title>Mystery of Bulgaria's green cat finally explained - Weird News - News - The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-01T22:00:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["He's been making other cats green with envy but a Bulgarian moggy's mysterious emerald coat may finally be explained.

Locals believed that the green feline, who was first spotted in the Bulgarian seaside town of Varna, had been attacked and painted the unusual shade by vandals, even setting up a Facebook group to catch the perpetrators.

But it has now emerged that the – as yet unnamed – moggy has been sleeping on the top of an abandoned pile of synthetic green paint in a garage. 

Gradually, it is believed that the paint slowly covered the entire cat – giving him his unusually vibrant appearance.

The colour also appears to show no sign of wearing off as each nap the cat takes just makes the colour stronger.

Although widely reported by local and international media, it remains unclear whether the green feline has an owner or is another stray on the Varna streets. The city is Bulgaria’s third largest and a well-known holiday resort on the Black Sea coast."]]></description>
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    <title>Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto | Project Hieroglyph</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-06T18:49:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s hard out here for futurists under 30.

As we percolated through our respective nations’ education systems, we were exposed to WorldChanging and TED talks, to artfully-designed green consumerism and sustainable development NGOs. Yet we also grew up with doomsday predictions slated to hit before our expected retirement ages, with the slow but inexorable militarization of metropolitan police departments, with the failure of the existing political order to deal with the existential-but-not-yet-urgent threat of climate change. Many of us feel it’s unethical to bring children into a world like ours. We have grown up under a shadow, and if we sometimes resemble fungus it should be taken as a credit to our adaptability.

We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.

The promises offered by most Singulatarians and Transhumanists are individualist and unsustainable: How many of them are scoped for a world where energy is not cheap and plentiful, to say nothing of rare earth elements?

Solarpunk is about finding ways to make life more wonderful for us right now, and more importantly for the generations that follow us – i.e., extending human life at the species level, rather than individually. Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have (instead of 20th century “destroy it all and build something completely different” modernism). Our futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, generativity, independence, and community.

And yes, there’s a -punk there, and not just because it’s become a trendy suffix. There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance. We’re already seeing it in the struggles of public utilities to deal with the explosion in rooftop solar. “Dealing with infrastructure is a protection against being robbed of one’s self-determination,” said Chokwe Lumumba, the late mayor of Jackson, MS, and he was right. Certainly there are good reasons to have a grid, and we don’t want it to rot away, but one of the healthy things about local resilience is that it puts you in a much better bargaining position against the people who might want to shut you off (We’re looking at you, Detroit).

Solarpunk punkSolarpunk draws on the ideal of Jefferson’s yeoman farmer, Ghandi’s ideal of swadeshi and subsequent Salt March, and countless other traditions of innovative dissent. (FWIW, both Ghandi and Jefferson were inventors.)

The visual aesthetics of Solarpunk are open and evolving. As it stands, it’s a mash-up of the following:

• 1800s age-of-sail/frontier living (but with more bicycles)
• Creative reuse of existing infrastructure (sometimes post-apocalyptic, sometimes present-weird)
• Jugaad-style innovation from the developing world
• High-tech backends with simple, elegant outputs

Obviously, the further you get into the future, the more ambitious you can get. In the long-term, solarpunk takes the images we’ve been fed by bright-green blogs and draws them out further, longer, and deeper. Imagine permaculturists thinking in cathedral time. Consider terraced irrigation systems that also act as fluidic computers. Contemplate the life of a Department of Reclamation officer managing a sparsely populated American southwest given over to solar collection and pump storage. Imagine “smart cities” being junked in favor of smart citizenry.

Tumblr lit up within the last week from this post envisioning a form of solar punk with an art nouveau Edwardian-garden aesthetic, which is gorgeous and reminds me of Miyazaki. There’s something lovely in the way it reacts against the mainstream visions of overly smooth, clean, white modernist iPod futures. Solarpunk is a future with a human face and dirt behind its ears."

[via: https://twitter.com/jqtrde/status/519152576797745153 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Moxie Marlinspike &gt;&gt; Blog &gt;&gt; The Worst</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-28T04:17:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Worst

So I’d like to respond with an alternate philosophy that I will call “the worst.” The worst stands in direct contrast to Dustin Curtis, and suggests that one is actually more likely to engender a liberated life by getting the very worst of everything whenever possible.

The basic premise of the worst is that both ideas and material possessions should be tools that serve us, rather than things we live in service to. When that relationship with material possessions is inverted, such that we end up living in service to them, the result is consumerism. When that relationship with ideas is inverted, the result is ideology or religion.

Any reasonable person wouldn’t feel liberated by a $50 fork, but constrained by it. One wouldn’t be able to help but worry: is it being cared for correctly, is my friend going to mess it up when absentmindedly tapping the table with it, is it going to get dropped or stepped on if a dance party erupts in the kitchen? After all, it is the perfect fork, what if something happened to it to make it… not perfect? The point shouldn’t be the cutlery, but the meal — and more importantly the relationships involved with preparing and sharing it.

Partisans of the worst will get 15 sets of cutlery (out of a bucket that’s an overflowing fucking sea of cutlery) for fifty cents at the neighborhood thrift shop, and as a result, won’t have the slightest reservation if five of their housemates simultaneously decide to start a band that uses nothing but spoons for instruments. Partisans of the worst won’t give a shit if someone drops a dish while people are hanging out in the kitchen. They can push their crappy bicycle to the limit without worrying if it gets scratched — without even being too concerned about it getting stolen. They can play a spontaneous game of tag in the park without worrying about their clothes getting messed up, or go for an impromptu hike without worrying about their shoes getting scuffed or dirty. Partisans of the worst will have more fun occasionally sneaking into the hot tub on the roof of a random apartment building than owning a hot tub of one’s own which is available for daily use.

The logic of the best is so pernicious because it’s poised to monopolize — an emphasis on the consumption of material goods can easily translate into a life of generalized consumption. A whole language can start to develop around not just the consumption of goods, but the consumption of experience: “We did Prague.” “We did Barcelona.”

“The best moments of my life, I never want to live again.”

Dustin Curtis also suggests that as a partisan of the best, he is taking on the hardship of truly understanding a domain in order to identify the best consumer good within that domain. Presumably, this means he now knows more about forks than any partisan of the worst ever will.

But internet research isn’t necessarily the same as understanding. No matter how much research they do, a partisan of the best might not ever know as much about motorcycles as the partisan of the worst who takes a series of hare-brained cross-country motorcycle trips on a bike that barely runs, and ends up learning a ton about how to fix their constantly breaking bike along the way. The partisan of the best will likely never know as much about sailing as the partisan of the worst who gets the shitty boat without a working engine that they can immediately afford, and has no choice but to learn how to enter tight spaces and maneuver under sail.

The best means waiting, planning, researching, and saving until one can acquire the perfect equipment for a given task. Partisans of the best will probably never end up accidentally riding a freight train 1000 miles in the wrong direction, or making a new life-long friend while panhandling after losing everything in Transnistria, or surreptitiously living under a desk in an office long after their internship has run out — simply because optimizing for the best probably does not leave enough room for those mistakes. Even if the most stalwart advocates of the worst would never actually recommend choosing to put oneself in those situations intentionally, they probably wouldn’t give them up either.

Green & Responsibility

Some amongst the best will resort to a resources perspective and say that in this increasingly disposable world, it’s refreshingly responsible for those of the best to be making quality long-term buying decisions. But we’re a long way away from a shortage of second-hand forks in the global north — let’s take care of those first.

Simplify

Hacker News could possibly be drawn to Dustin Curtis’ cutlery because it’s reminiscent of “simplify.” The makers of the cutlery took the concept to its core essentials, and nominally perfected them. But to me, “simplify” is about removing clutter — about de-emphasizing the things that are unimportant so that it’s easy to focus on the things that are. We shouldn’t be putting any emphasis on the things in our life, we should be trying to make them as insignificant as possible, so that we can focus on what’s important.

In a sense, the best gives a nod to this by suggesting that getting the very best of everything will somehow make those things invisible to us. That if we can blindly trust them, we won’t have to think about them. But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other.

Perhaps P.O.S. said it best in their recent video: “Fuck Your Stuff”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FY6VcJR2PE ] "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/essays/essay-in-distrust-of-movements-by-wendell-berry/">
    <title>Essay : In Distrust of Movements by Wendell Berry « the irresistible fleet of bicycles</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-26T02:44:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/essays/essay-in-distrust-of-movements-by-wendell-berry/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130504093416/http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com:80/essays/essay-in-distrust-of-movements-by-wendell-berry/

also here:
https://orionmagazine.org/article/in-distrust-of-movements/ ]

"The movements which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place."

"And so I must declare my dissatisfaction with movements to promote soil conservation or clean water or clean air or wilderness preservation or sustainable agriculture or community health or the welfare of children. Worthy as these and other goals may be, they cannot be achieved alone. I am dissatisfied with such efforts because they are too specialized, they are not comprehensive enough, they are not radical enough, they virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can remedy or control effects while leaving causes in place. Ultimately, I think, they are insincere; they propose that the trouble is caused by other people; they would like to change policy but not behaviour."

"The callings and disciplines that I have spoken of as the domestic arts are stationed all along the way from the farm to the prepared dinner, from the…"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.earthcorps.org/">
    <title>EarthCorps</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-20T04:50:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.earthcorps.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You may have heard in the news recently that People for Puget Sound – the preeminent voice for Puget Sound – has closed its doors. We are honored that People for Puget Sound turned to EarthCorps to take on their habitat restoration program.

EarthCorps has worked side-by-side with People for Puget Sound for more than 15 years. We collaborated on habitat restoration projects throughout Puget Sound, led thousands of volunteers together, shared GIS interns and international “externs,” presented together at national conferences, and tapped into each other's expertise. We have deep respect for their work.

EarthCorps has 20 years experience in community-based environmental restoration and is a leader in applied ecological science…"]]></description>
<dc:subject>local restoration pugetsound earthcorps ngo via:steelemaley green servicelearning environment seattle</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2012-07-16T00:16:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/27267935736/but-the-city-has-to-its-credit-lavished-money-on</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The greening of New York, and to a far lesser extent other cities, has indeed been wonderful to see. But a city can’t “lavish money” it doesn’t have. Bruni needs to acknowledge that all this beautification has resulted from (a) the concentration of more and more wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, and (b) the increasing preference for urban living among the super-rich. Again, I love the new New York, but more than ever before it’s a city run by rich people for rich people."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.low2no.org/">
    <title>Low2No Blog - Low2No</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-03T06:32:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.low2no.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Low2No project is designed to help transition our cities to a low carbon future. We aim to balance economy, ecology and society through strategic investments and interventions in the built environment."]]></description>
<dc:subject>urban society ecology economics cities low2no justinwcook bryanboyer danhill sitra responsivespaces green design architecture urbanism sustainability</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://slowmoney.org/">
    <title>Slow Money: Investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century - Slow Money</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-29T17:13:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://slowmoney.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Thousands of Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the economy. It’s called Slow Money.

Inspired by the vision of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered, published in 2009, the Slow Money Alliance is bringing people together around a new conversation about money that is too fast, about finance that is disconnected from people and place, about how we can begin fixing our economy from the ground up... starting with food."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:litherland slow green socialjustice local money sustainability food community</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.helsinkibeyonddreams.com/">
    <title>Helsinki Beyond Dreams</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-11T03:53:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.helsinkibeyonddreams.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Helsinki Beyond Dreams is a new book about urban culture and how it can make a difference."

"Discover how new social innovations and grassroots initiatives can make cities more open, green and inspiring.

Helsinki Beyond Dreams explores new perspectives on a city in transition. The Finnish capital of Helsinki, recently cited as the world’s most livable city, is bubbling with new ideas and creative endeavors.

Find out how the rediscovery of traditional “everyman’s rights” is turning into an enchanting new narrative of community responsibility, participatory planning, urban farms and food carnivals.

This book is for anyone interested in making cities better places to live – for citizens, designers, decision makers and planners alike. Embedded in inspiring stories by urban activists, thinkers and artists, Helsinki Beyond Dreams presents ideas for better future cities that can be applied anywhere in the world."]]></description>
<dc:subject>slow creativemisuse okdo bryanboyer worlddesigncapital 2012 design foodcarnivals food socialinnovation grassroots sustainability green activism urbanfarms urbanism urban participatoryplanning communityresponsibility community hellahernberg toread books helsinki cities</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d1aae598ed88/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_in_language">
    <title>Distinguishing blue from green in language - Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-02T22:16:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_in_language</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The English language makes a distinction between blue and green, but some languages do not. Of these, quite a number, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black either, while there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green.[1] Also, some languages treat light (often greenish) blue and dark blue as separate colors, rather than different variations of blue, while English does not."

[via: http://bobulate.com/post/21832744467/everything-you-know-lost-in-translation ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>blue languages linguistics perception green psychology color language</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:73a94154a501/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bobulate.com/post/21832744467/everything-you-know-lost-in-translation">
    <title>Everything you know lost in translation - Bobulate</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-30T06:01:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bobulate.com/post/21832744467/everything-you-know-lost-in-translation</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue. In the modern language, however, ao has come to be restricted mostly to blue shades, and green is usually expressed by the word midori (although even today ao can still refer to the green of freshness or unripeness — green apples, for instance, are called ao ringo). when the first traffic lights were imported from the United States and installed in Japan in the 1930s, they were just as green as anywhere else. Nevertheless, in common parlance the go light was dubbed ao shingoo, perhaps because the three primary colors on Japanese artists’ palettes are traditionally aka (red), kiiro (yellow), and ao. The label ao for a green light did not appear so out of the ordinary at first, because of the remaining associations of the word ao with greenness. 

But over time, the discrepancy between the green color and the dominant meaning of the word ao began to feel jarring. Nations with a weaker spine might have opted for…"]]></description>
<dc:subject>history symbolism symbols description guydeutscher language color blue green lizdanzico japanese translation</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/">
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    <dc:date>2012-04-14T08:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.transitionnetwork.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Transition Network supports community-led responses to climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, building resilience and happiness."

"Transition Network's role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions."

“What is a Transition Initiative? It's a place where there's a community-led process that helps that town/village/city/neighbourhood become stronger and happier.”

[Also here: http://pinboard.in/u:steelemaley/t:transition/ ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>resilience via:litherland via:steelemaley energy culture peakoil green activism environment transition community sustainability</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.doorsofperception.com/handouts/38-alternatives-to-university-and-design-school-in-the-americas-canada/">
    <title>38 Alternatives to University and Design School in the Americas &amp; Canada</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-14T07:59:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.doorsofperception.com/handouts/38-alternatives-to-university-and-design-school-in-the-americas-canada/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To do things differently, it helps to connect with new people and contexts. Universities and design schools seldom make that easy. Our xskool and City Eco Lab encounters aspire to meet this need – but there are many other experimental schools, courses and events out there. This handout contains the most interesting ones we’ve found so far.  It includes [with their permission] the findings of a scoping study for Schumacher College in England.  No quality judgment is implied by inclusion in (or omission from) this list. If we have made any mistakes here,or you would like to suggest an addition to this list, please email: john (at) doorsofperception dot com"]]></description>
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    <title>How Aerotropolis May Destroy Us Yet | varnelis.net</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-08T06:47:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://varnelis.net/blog/how_aerotropolis_may_destroy_us_yet</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the most annoying & pervasive myths pundits like to spout today is that living in cities is, de facto, greener.

All things is being equal, yes, it would be.

It disturbs me, however, that these same pundits spend jet around the globe much of the year, bragging about how many miles they've logged.

Check out Getting There Green, a fascinating report from the Union of Concerned Scientists that I came across in our research for rebuilding the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It turns out that plane travel is much, much worse for the environment. Try it out for yourself at the Terrapass Carbon Footprint Calculator. Alas, that calculator doesn't include first class travel, which pundits prefer, but if we can assume that one first class trip is equal to two coach trips (it may be worse than this), all it takes is 2 first class trips from NY to Europe to equal a year of carbon output from an SUV. 

Is there a surprise in Getting There Green? Yes, the bus is the greenest mode of travel."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/10/a-conversation-with-allison-arieff-writer-and-editor-on-sustainability/246440/">
    <title>A Conversation With Allison Arieff, Writer and Editor on Sustainability - Nicholas Jackson - Life - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-08T23:42:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/10/a-conversation-with-allison-arieff-writer-and-editor-on-sustainability/246440/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Making sustainability a trend has minimized its relevance and stymied its progress. Climate change, declining resources, peak oil -- these aren't passing fads. "Green is the new black," "eco-chic," "eco-fabulous," -- I even got a pitch from Eco-Stiletto! All that marketing-speak has done little for sustainability except validate old behaviors. It's a notion that you can go green by buying more stuff. We'll always need things, but we need a real focus on making those things less expendable, less, well, "trendy," and more efficient, healthier, durable, built to last."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mammothschool.com/">
    <title>Mammoth School | Knee High Media Japan</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-19T07:38:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mammothschool.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Google Translate:<br />
<br />
"School and Mammoth, Mammoth's proposed concept for children continue to lead the future. Magazine, WEB, be linked to events, and explores a new STANDARD for education. These are the basic principles of a mammoth school. Learn from both parents and children, to disseminate the ideas that we will foster a rich opportunity.<br />
(1) PLAY to LEARN what there is to learn to play inside.<br />
(2) HANDS on LEARNING lead to a deeper understanding of experience to stimulate the mind and body.<br />
(3) GREEN LEARNING connection with the earth, learn how to live eco-friendly.<br />
(4) BILINGUAL CONVERSATION create an environment to learn from each other adult and children."<br />
<br />
[See also Knee High Media: http://www.khmj.com/contact ]<br />
<br />
[via: http://a-small-lab.com/projects/look-a-round ]]]></description>
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    <title>Making Cutting-Edge Animation On A DIY Homestead : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-19T09:45:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/2011/07/17/137680605/making-cutting-edge-animation-on-a-diy-homestead</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It's pretty common these days for young people to live with their parents after college, but few have managed to transform their old homestead quit like filmmaker Isaiah Saxon has.

With the help of filmmaking buddies Sean Hellfritsch and Daren Rabinovitch, Saxon has transformed 10 hilly acres surrounding his mother's house in Aptos, Calif. into Trout Gulch, a kind of rural hacker space where they build their own houses, grow organic vegetables, milk goats and produce state-of-the-art digital animation.

Saxon explains how his group of 21st-century pioneers takes a do-it-yourself approach to just about everything."]]></description>
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    <title>a reGeneration (a unique documentary from leave it better) by Graham Meriwether — Kickstarter</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-26T06:37:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All across the world, youth are beginning to take action.

Kids are building gardens, sharing stories, inspiring friends and family to change the way we relate to our food, to our community and ultimately, to our planet.

Our unique documentary project provides children with gardening supplies and cameras, and allows them to share the story as they learn to compost, plant seeds and ultimately harvest food they've grown themselves.

Throughout the project, footage will be shared on Leave It Better, so you can follow the incredibly inspiring youth who are the stars and co-directors of our documentary.

Starting in New York City, we will see the story grow organically as kids share stories with other youth gardeners in other states, countries, and continents.

In the 2010-2011 school year, our pilot/research year, we've given gardens and cameras to 10 schools in New York…"]]></description>
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    <title>Small Wooden Shoe: Upper Toronto</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-21T23:44:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://smallwoodenshoe.org/2010/performance/upper-toronto/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Upper Toronto is science fiction design proposal to build a new city in the sky above Toronto.

Imagine a city resting on the Bay Street towers or the CN Tower as a walk up restuarant.

Once Upper Toronto is finished, Lower Toronto will be abondoned and turned into a combination of national park, farmland and intentional ruin.

This is, of course, a terrible idea.

But it’s a terrible idea that allows us to imagine a new city. To ask what would happen if, knowing what we now know, we could start fresh.

While clearly infeasible, it is important that all the proposals that make up Upper Toronto are good ones, even if forced relocation to the sky is not.

This has to be a city that we, the people planning it, want to live in."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/15573/ariane-prin-from-here-for-here.html">
    <title>ariane prin: from here for here</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-10T04:04:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/15573/ariane-prin-from-here-for-here.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["french designer ariane prin has created 'from here for here' as a part of her master's program at the royal college of art. with the aim of supplying drawing tools for students, this project produces pencils sustainably by using waste from various departments of the school: each writing utensil has a center filled with graphite from the glass department, and its body comprised of sawdust from the wood workshop, clay from the ceramic department, and flour from the cafeteria. aligning human activities with environmental principles, this efficient production process makes use of available materials and can be adapted to various contexts.

as prin explains, 'the 'from here for here' project include two main issues:

 1. create useful products specific to a site from the waste generated there. 

2. the legitimacy of creating new objects by keeping the enjoyment of making without the guilt.'"

[via: http://blog.radandhungry.com/post/7387757503/from-here-for-here-pencils-made-by-royal-college ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We believe that everyone in the world should have access to the technologies they need to escape poverty and generate natural wealth for themselves and their communities.  This belief compels us to put together a free and open information resources that explains how to convert sunlight and land into food, shelter, energy and fabrication capacity for oneself and one's community.  By reducing the amount of time people must put aside to meet their own material needs, OpenEcology enables people to spend more time developing their own unique skills, generate more economic value and become more active participants in their own communities as well as our collective social evolution."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["copenhagen-based BIG architects have unveiled their design of 'vilhelmsro primary school', an academic facility which focuses their curriculum on nature and sustainability in asminderoed, denmark. taking the undulating hillside of the site as a point of departure, the design features a series of bands which pleat and crisscross to merge with the surrounding topography.

the oscillating roofline is experienced from both the inside and the outside. outdoor green terraces and courtyard spaces are generated in between buildings. though all one-storey, the alternating peaks and ceiling heights allow natural daylight to stream into every class room. the sod makeup facilitates passive energy measures such as mitigating heat island effect, acting as thermal mass and evaporative cooling qualities. rain water runoff is reduced, collected and stored for non-potable usage. cross-ventilation is also encouraged through operable windows and overlapping openings."]]></description>
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The latter may be the more audacious of the two. While plenty of companies have jumped on the smarter city bandwagon (as I’ve written about ad nauseum), no one has sought to make the construction business look more like the technology one."]]></description>
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    <title>The Viridian Design Movement</title>
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    <link>http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The items that you use incessantly, the items you employ every day, the normal, boring goods that don't seem luxurious or romantic: these are the critical ones. They are truly central. The everyday object is the monarch of all objects. It's in your time most, it's in your space most. It is "where it is at," & it is "what is going on."

 [I must have this bookmarked in some other way or with some other URL, but doing so again doesn't hurt. Update: Yup. Here it is: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/18/viridianisms-last-no.html ]]]></description>
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    <title>Worldchanging: Bright Green: Seeing Past the BP Spill</title>
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    <link>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011286.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Shouldn't a site whose purpose is to explore solutions to planetary problems be all over the planet's most visible current problem?]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher. The phrase "Small Is Beautiful" came from a phrase by his teacher Leopold Kohr.[1] It is often used to champion small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people more, in contrast with phrases such as "bigger is better"."

[see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher ]
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Perpetual economic growth is neither possible nor desirable. Growth, especially in wealthy nations, is already causing more problems than it solves. Recession isn't sustainable or healthy either. The positive, sustainable alternative is a steady state economy."

[via: http://doblog.tumblr.com/post/640466040/enough ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization. According to anarcho-primitivism, the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion, and alienation. Anarcho-primitivists advocate a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialisation, abolition of the division of labour or specialization, and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies. There are other non-anarchist forms of primitivism, and not all primitivists point to the same phenomenon as the source of modern, civilized problems."
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