Monthly Archives: October 2008

Nine Percent | Post Carbon Institute

Here’s the scoop: The Financial Times has leaked the results of the International Energy Agency’s long-awaited study of the depletion profiles of the world’s 400 largest oilfields, indicating that, “Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent.” This is a stunning figure. Nine Percent | Post [...]
Published: 29 October 2008 at 9:38pm | Posted in sustainability | Leave a comment

iTag – Tag and search your photos and movies

I’ve been looking for a free image tagging solution for some time. iTag is Windows only but it does exactly what I want: iTag is a free tool that adds title, description and keyword tags to your photos and movies. The captions you enter are embedded into each file using industry standard IPTC and XMP [...]
Published: 29 October 2008 at 10:00am | Posted in tech | Comments closed

Incredible 2.5″ Laptop Hard Drives

My laptop has just been upgarde with a 320Gb WD Scorpio 7200RPM hard drive. Very fast, silent and huge space, consumes about 1 watt of power and most incredibly costs £60 (GBP). Hitachi have a 5400RPM 500Gb laptop drive that I’ll be using for data when the price comes down a bit. Big heavy 3.5″ [...]
Published: 21 October 2008 at 6:55am | Posted in tech | Comments closed

google tech talk by richard heinberg!

ooh a one hour talk by richard heinberg… enjoy:
Published: 17 October 2008 at 9:52am | Posted in sustainability | Leave a comment

Garden Share

Here’s a great idea for people who don’t have a garden or who have the energy to garden more than there own space: The idea is simple. There are many older or busier people who have gardens they struggle to look after but which they like to see being used productively, and there are many [...]
Published: 17 October 2008 at 6:48am | Posted in growing | Comments closed

Millennium Seed bank ‘running out of funds’

Groundbreaking projects at the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place in Sussex may have to be axed because of a £100m shortfall. The money is needed over the next 10 years to maintain its work to store rare seeds from the whole plant world. BBC NEWS | Seed bank ‘running out of funds’ If the [...]
Published: 13 October 2008 at 7:25am | Posted in growing | Comments closed

EduGeek Journal: A Case For Ashynchronous Learning

I’d agree with Matt Croslin’s perspective about online learning: Asynchronous tools can solve this problem by giving all learners time to think and respond. This extra time will benefit all personality types, as even the sanguine learners will share greater insights if they are given more time to reflect. This is in contrast to synchronous [...]
Published: 13 October 2008 at 7:09am | Posted in tech | Comments closed

wot i said in july…

…still seems pretty accurate as stock markets crumble (as does the monbiot quote). but of course financial market meltdown isn’t anything compared to what it’ll be like as oil supply starts to fall by 7 to 20% per year. hold tight and get those veg in the ground!
Published: 8 October 2008 at 10:49am | Posted in sustainability | Leave a comment