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Daniel LaLiberte's Blog – April 2010 Archive (5)
Women's Issues Explored with GapMinder
Hans Rosling has used GapMinder to demonstrate what is happening with several issues concerning women.
Three issues are closely related: maternal mortality, childhood mortality, and population growth.
Maternal mortality
It is estimated that half a million women die during pregnancy and childbirth, but the uncertainty makes it difficult to determine if we are doing the right things that will reduce the number… Continue
Three issues are closely related: maternal mortality, childhood mortality, and population growth.
Maternal mortality
It is estimated that half a million women die during pregnancy and childbirth, but the uncertainty makes it difficult to determine if we are doing the right things that will reduce the number… Continue
Added by Daniel LaLiberte on April 14, 2010 at 3:00am — 4 Comments
Global Network for Neighborhood Energy Self-sufficiency Teams
There many ways to save energy, generate it more cheaply, and use renewable sources. How I would do it is focus on adding much more insulation to my house, switching over to heating, cooling, and hot water heating with geothermal energy from below my house, and telecommuting rather than taking the commuter train. Many people should be doing similarly, and we would save a huge percentage of our energy.
Helping my neighbors do the same kind of things will help me as well, because then we… Continue
Helping my neighbors do the same kind of things will help me as well, because then we… Continue
Added by Daniel LaLiberte on April 12, 2010 at 6:16am — No Comments
Money will always have some value
This is partly a response to a comment by Ezra in my blog "Money is information, but does it want to be free?" in which I asked that question, and this blog will provide my answer. Part of Ezra's argument regarding money is in "An Irrelevant Problem in a Resource-based Economy"
If I understand correctly, Ezra claimed that money was invented to provide a… Continue
If I understand correctly, Ezra claimed that money was invented to provide a… Continue
Added by Daniel LaLiberte on April 6, 2010 at 4:30am — 4 Comments
Sustainability = Renewable Energy + Time
Everything we need to do to become 100% sustainable boils down to having two things: enough renewable energy and the time to use it.
The good news is that we have more than enough renewable energy available to us to do everything we need. The question is whether we will have enough time to use it, to clean up our global messes before numerous ecological crises become… Continue
The good news is that we have more than enough renewable energy available to us to do everything we need. The question is whether we will have enough time to use it, to clean up our global messes before numerous ecological crises become… Continue
Added by Daniel LaLiberte on April 2, 2010 at 6:42am — 4 Comments
Money is information - but does it want to be free?
First, let's understand how money is information.
Money is a representation of value that we use to trade for other things of value, that is, when we buy and sell things. We could do without the abstraction of money, by trading the things themselves, such as trading your baseball cards for a skateboard, or bartering your gardening services for a home cooked meal. Money was invented as just a fancy kind of… Continue
Money is a representation of value that we use to trade for other things of value, that is, when we buy and sell things. We could do without the abstraction of money, by trading the things themselves, such as trading your baseball cards for a skateboard, or bartering your gardening services for a home cooked meal. Money was invented as just a fancy kind of… Continue
Added by Daniel LaLiberte on April 2, 2010 at 5:00am — 6 Comments
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