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Adam Bohannon

Americans Care More About Gay Marriage Than Global Warming (TreeHugger) - 0 views

www.treehugger.com/...americans_care.php

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 29 Aug 07 - Cached
  • 1) Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is occurring. 2) They don't care. "dealing with global warming" came 20th out of 23 policy priorities. 3) They won't give anything up. The cost of energy is more important than global warming.
  • Kevin Champion on 04 Sep 07
     
    I think it is funny too how faddy even belief in global warming and feigned care for the environment is becoming. I mean, literally over the course of 2-3 years we have gone from "global warming, what?" to "global warming, yeah that´s gonna screw us over". In a lot of ways I feel global warming has become the new excuse for things that go awry in the world. Especially funny to me are the people who do claim to care and are worried, but do not think about or make any lifestyle changes.
Kevin Champion

Ideas for research? - 103 views

Yeah, I don´t like that either. I think partially it is designed that way so that you can reply to any post on in the thread of the forum, rather than just being able to reply to the most recent. ...

started by Adam Bohannon on 17 Aug 07 5 follow-ups, last by Kevin Champion on 28 Aug 07
Kevin Champion

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph - 0 views

bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem

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shared by Kevin Champion on 21 Aug 07 - Cached
  • Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as "the" central graph owner.
  • A user should then be able to log into a social application (e.g. dopplr.com) for the first time, ideally but not necessarily with OpenID, and be presented with a dialog like, "Hey, we see from public information elsewhere that you already have 28 friends already using dopplr, shown below with rationale about why we're recommending them (what usernames they are on other sites). Which do you want to be friends with here? Or click 'select-all'."
  • Establish a non-profit and open source software (with copyrights held by the non-profit) which collects, merges, and redistributes the graphs from all other social network sites into one global aggregated graph.
Adam Bohannon

World Bank accused of razing Congo forests | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...congo.forests

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 04 Oct 07 - Cached
  • · An area of 600,000 square kilometres (232,000 square miles) of forest was earmarked for logging companies.· The bank failed to address critical social and environmental issues.
  • The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by the Guardian, also accuses the bank of misleading Congo's government about the value of its forests and of breaking its own rules.
  • It ignored between 250,000 and 600,000 Pygmies believed to be living in the Congolese forests, even though their presence was well known and documented.
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  • Criticism is made of the forestry reforms that the bank imposed in return for loans of more than $450m. Initially, said the panel, "the bank provided [to the government] estimates of export revenue from logging concessions that turned out to be far too high. This encouraged a focus on reform of the forestry system at the expense of pursuing sustainable uses of forests, the potential for community forests and for conservation.
  • In a scathing analysis of the bank's economic reasoning, the panel said the bank had "distorted the real economic value of the country's forests" by looking solely at the tax and revenue that increased industrial logging might generate. "There seems to have been little action to support alternative uses of the forest resources," it said.
  • The panel travelled deep into the forest to take evidence from the Pygmy communities, who told it they were not consulted before the bank launched its wide-ranging forestry reforms.
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