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It’s been bouncing around news and the net this weekthat the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in Massachusetts v. EPA today. This is an important case, but I’m not at all sure it’ll be resolved in any way that will actually prove useful in the fight against human-caused climate change.
The history of the case […]
Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player
Jesper Juul is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He used to be a media scholar at MIT, turned his dissertation into a book.
He’s talking about the relationships between video games and reality.
What we’ll talk about:* After “what is a game”* After ludology and […]
When I gave my talk at the Serious Games Summit, someone asked me if he could videotape it. I said yes. Well, he posted the video, and I just found it. If you have an hour with nothing else to do, there ya go. You can follow along with the slides if you like (amusing […]
He won pulitzer prize, wrote a book called The Heat is On, then another called Boiling Point. One of the top science books of 2004.
He runs theheatisonline.org.
Years ago this conf could have been held in a phone booth.
I’m renaming the talk: “Straddling between solutions and survivalism”
I’m not going to talk about disasters. But […]
Just to avoid losing any more posts or parts of posts, I’ll keep them as separate entries.
Next speaker is Kim Lundgren - regional director of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Northeast Regional Capacity Center.
Local Governments and the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
An international association of local governments interested in global environment issues through cumulative […]
Back for the afternoon breakout sessions…
Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
Climate Change in the Northeast
UCS has created Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA).
Collaboration between UCS and >40 experts to develop assessment of climate change impacts.
Two scenarios in analysis through 2100.
Documents are available.
History: annual temps in New England have warmed 2 degrees since 1970. Plants are […]
This is an attempt to live-blog the conference, but somehow I (or wordpress) borked the update and I lost the beginning of the document. Sorry about that.
Many towns have built climate action plans, several other towns working on them.
Big problem: government often has problems spending capital to save operating cost, even if the ROI is […]
I’m at MIT today (and yesterday) at the Futures of Entertainment Conference.
There are lots of links from that site about what went on. I started to live-blog it, but quickly realized that the rate of idea generation exceeded my ability to type them into coherent form. So all you’re going to get is the […]
A couple of weeks ago, I ordered three compact fluorescent spotlights from bulbs.com. These are non-dimmable fluorescents that have the same form factor as the spots in the ceiling of our office, our kitchen, our hallway, and our basement. I only bought three because I wasn’t sure how well they would work. I didn’t know […]
It took me two bike rides to get this right:
Autumn cycling chill:
Empty trees thrash overhead,
Leaves beneath my wheels.