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Copenhagen Diary, Dec. 5, 20091 comment

transitionwestmarin wrote 1 week ago: Copenhagen Diary by Bing Gong & Eleanore Despina of Point Reyes Station, CA, USA photo from http … more →

Tags: News, Climate action, UNFCCC, climate change, James Hansen, Copenhagen Convention on Climate Change

Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?

jeremy wrote 1 month ago: People in 181 countries are coming together today to take part in arguably the most widespread day o … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Climate, 350.org, Clive Hamilton

Christopher Columbus and the First Mover Advantage

Mitch/Ralph wrote 2 months ago: It’s the Columbus Day holiday here in the U.S. and it got me thinking about the “first m … more →

Tags: first mover advantage, Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus, iPhone vs Newton, who discovered america, coming to market too early

paper: Tipping points

ocmpoma wrote 2 months ago: Theory versus Data: How to Calculate R0? … more →

Tags: Breban Romulus, Vardavas Raffaele, Blower Sally, Complexity, Disease

Tipping Points Call for a Climate Neutral World

Carlos Rymer wrote 2 months ago: Originally published in It’s Getting Hot In Here. Suppose you’re a business major attending a … more →

Tags: climate change, poor, Developing Countries, climate neutrality

No Frogs Here

justabovesunset wrote 2 months ago: Ah, this was the week of the Glenn Beck frog scandal – read all about it here (with the video clip): … more →

Tags: climate change, glenn beck, Global Warming, Beck's Frog, Frog in Hot Water Metaphor, James Inhofe, cap and trade, waxman-markey, European versus American Conservatives

How useful are "planetary boundaries"?1 comment

Holly Doremus wrote 2 months ago: The latest edition of Nature has an interesting article and accompanying commentaries (freely availa … more →

Tags: Misc, Thresholds

1980 ➤ Mankind’s first taste of musical freedom

ontheliner wrote 3 months ago: Sony Stowaway: the pioneering stereo cassette-player was launched in London at Regine’s nightclub. H … more →

Tags: Culture, London, media, Pop music, Social Trends, Evening Standard, technology

Tipping Points: What Wall Street and Nature Have in Common

The Center for Global Leadership wrote 3 months ago: Okay, so this is definitely in the early research stage, but an interesting concept none-the-less … more →

Tags: climate change, Global Warming, Martin Fox, Center for global leadership, lead globally, leadglobally.org

1980 ➤ For an angry new decade a new breed of comedy puts trendiness itself within its sights

ontheliner wrote 3 months ago: First published in Over21, January 1981 The satire boom of the Sixties chose as its targets politici … more →

Tags: Culture, London, media, Social Trends, 1980, Comic Strip, SOHO

IRS Gets Tougher on Offshore Tax Evaders...More Tipping Points!

expatcatalyst wrote 4 months ago: In the past when I have read warnings from what appeared to be conspiracy theorists about the ever e … more →

Tags: Expatriation, Tax, Freedom, constitution, I.R.S.

Waterloo Region LRT as a tipping point for transit

Michael D wrote 5 months ago: On June 24, Waterloo Regional Council nearly unanimously endorsed the plan for light rail between Wa … more →

Tags: transit, BRT, GO Transit, hamilton light rail, Infrastructure, inter-city transit, Light Rail, region of waterloo rapid transit, southwestern ontario

Turning Points Or Tipping Points?

Peter O'Dell wrote 5 months ago: I was watching a Frank Kern video last night, where he talked about making a decision that changed h … more →

Tags: NLP, Turning Points

Divided We Stand (a true tipping point)

expatcatalyst wrote 6 months ago: Take a look at this and tell me this isn’t a tipping point!  Again with the WSJ.  I started ge … more →

Tags: Expatriation, mental shift, Freedom

Q #149: What are “trigger points,” “inflection points,” “tipping points” etc?

Bob Morris wrote 6 months ago: In this series, Bob Morris poses a key question and then responds to it with material from one or mo … more →

Tags: Bob's blog entries, Malcolm Gladwell, Trigger Points, inflection points, Michael Kami, Andrew Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, broken window theory, James Q. Wilson

Tipping Points

expatcatalyst wrote 6 months ago: I know in my last post, I talked about mental expatriation vs. physical expatriation.  Today when I … more →

Tags: Tax, Cell, injustice

The Tipping Points of Life4 comments

Katie Charland wrote 6 months ago: Two very important conversations took place today on very opposite ends of the spectrum. However, bo … more →

Tags: Me, Myself & I, Life, Moving, Transition, Ford, car repairs, Clean Slate, School

1981 ➤ Blue Rondo create a new buzz with Latin sounds and an extreme suited dude look

ontheliner wrote 7 months ago: Blue Rondo a la Turk was among the first of the Blitzworld’s new image bands to change the musical g … more →

Tags: Culture, London, media, Pop music, Social Trends, 1981, Blitz Kids, New Romantics, New Sounds New Styles

Climate Urgency and Opportunity6 comments

Geoff Davies wrote 7 months ago: [This was sent to the Canberra Times Tuesday. I've been busy with my day job for a while, but expec … more →

Tags: Global Warming, links / ECONOMICS, climate dominos, emission reductions, green jobs


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