THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART II Chapter 2: Personal Limits: The Unrecognized Obsolescence of Modernism Before we set out to reform the world, we would do well to pause and see if we should reform ourselves. The inner limits …
2010 Diary week 31 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part III of the review of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery will be posted in the next few days. These are some snippets from the review: “The …
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2010 Diary week 29 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of the review of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery will be posted in the next few days. These are some snippets from the review: “The …
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2010 Diary week 28 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part I of the review of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery will be posted in the next few days. It starts with the foreword by Paul Anderson, …
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This year the American Farm School celebrates 40 years of its Greek Summer program, started by Christine’s father while he was director of the School. Christine was an unpaid junior counselor for many years and later directed the program for five years. Since that time she has remained close to the program, helping her parents …
2010 Diary week 27 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part III of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm will be posted in the next few days. These are some snippets: “Most of …
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2010 Diary week 26 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm will be posted shortly. These are some snippets: “Sea-level rise of 20 to 80 …
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2010 Diary week 24 Participation in workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change” From 31st May to 6th June Christine and I participated in a Grundtvig Seminar/Workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change”. The workshop was an EU sponsored Lifelong Learning Programme organised by Kolping College and took place in Troškūnai, Lithuania. David presented a …
2010 Diary week 23 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Participation in workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change” From 31st May to 6th June Christine and I participated in a Grundtvig Seminar/Workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change”. The workshop was an EU sponsored Lifelong Learning Programme organised by Kolping College and took …
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2010 Diary week 22 Global warming and food production Book Review Part II of The Greenhouse Effect points out that “During the dust bowl days the average July temperature in western Kansas, the nation’s largest wheat-producing region, rose from 79ºF to 82ºF. July precipitation diminished 57%.” “Much of the irrigation in the wheat belt comes …
