Category Archives: complexity

in general synonymous with intricacy, elaborateness and involution; herein the term is used to connote “collective intelligence”, i.e., the emergence of patterns within networks

Meanwhile, in the Banana Republic

2010-1-9 – 11:53 am

Stop-loss is a policy, Daniel Webster, which says the Military Industrial Complex can expend soldiers beyond the end of their signed contracts.

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Development of Renewable Energy Sources

2008-12-26 – 6:29 pm

As a commitment to a clean energy future, RePower America has as its goal 100 percent of our electricity from clean sources within 10 years.

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Etzioni Checks Obama’s Red and Green Lists

2008-12-19 – 7:32 pm

Hey, buddy, can you spare some change?

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Resilience Science

2008-12-1 – 8:32 pm

“A species disappears, by some estimates, once every 20 minutes. And collectively we can’t provide any estimate of the sort or substance of what we actually are destroying.”

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Scale, Scope and Speed

2008-12-1 – 2:52 pm

Some people are unable to wrap their heads around important climate change concepts.

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Vehicle Miles Traveled

2008-10-16 – 6:03 pm

VMT modeling suggests that such inter modal transportation development within urban settings in the United States could yield a 20 percent decrease in energy use.

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Solar Power Potential Mapping

2008-10-15 – 3:13 pm

Go RES, young Googlers!

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An Important Commercial Message

2008-10-2 – 11:57 am

Greater accommodation in urban and suburban settings of the growing number of slower, cheaper, and, in some cases, cleaner alternative transportation would seem an opportunity to consider the 3E’s (Ecology, Economy, and Equity).

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Is Portland green enough for BYD?

2008-9-13 – 6:14 am

“Oregon has a very good name in China in regard to sustainability,” says Jin Lan. “This would be a natural fit.”

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Qurrent

2008-4-7 – 5:09 pm

Surplus from distributed energy resources typically gets sold back to the main grid, but as with most electric power transmission, ~30% of it can get lost along the way. It could be better if the surplus electricity is managed locally.

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