AlexSteffen(+) That said, I do think about 2/3 of the average person's possessions, by volume= planet-killing, credit-leveraged disposable crap... 2 hours ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Bright green living must involve neither too much stuff nor the complete absence of nice things: the right stuff, made well, used properly. 2 hours ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) The inability to distinguish between useful and useless stuff makes most anti-materialist/anti-consumerist stances uninteresting. 2 hours ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Quite clearly, some material objects make our lives better, and some are of great worth to people, on intangible terms. 2 hours ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Need good thinking on essential nature of intangible wealth (relationships, experiences, meaning), that isn't shallowly anti-materialist. 3 hours ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Not just energy... @drgrist(+) Underappreciated: huge overlap btwn rich & poor countries' energy needs. Small, fast, cheap, community-based 2 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Nanotech spawns unanticipated method of energy generation, raising renewed questions about regulation: http://bit.ly/thermopower 2 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Empire Espresso: drinking coffee, plowing through Monday morning email, writing while the happy soccer fans cheer Wigan/L'pool #lifedontsuck 2 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) My list of projects I could happily spend a year or two on keeps expanding: there's already no way I could do them all in this lifetime. 3 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Yes! Nine friends, five kinds of ice cream, one lamb; stories of penguin sex+ the dog who refused to die; epic Munchkin until the wee hours. 4 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Tonight's menu: rosemary leg of lamb (local, organic), new potatoes, spring greens salad, green peas, cheeses. 4 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Other suggestions for a decadent hearty Spring main dish? All guests are carnivorous. 4 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Was going to do Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon for dinner party, but apparently I would've had to have gotten up yesterday to start it. 4 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) This is the nonprofit journalism theme song! @drgrist(+) How many times can I listen to this song in one day? http://bit.ly/9RXA8g 5 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) This is quite possibly the most effective use ever made of the baby bunny, flower, peppy electronica combo: http://bit.ly/9uIil1 5 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Imagining a future for Australia: thinking about regional competitiveness and innovation http://bit.ly/cuVQKt 5 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Sarah Kuck's "Imagining a Carbon Neutral Seattle" post is getting lots of buzz here but applies to any city http://bit.ly/bLdvl2 5 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Methane melt found in Arctic. Big shifts on the way? Time to accelerate solutions: http://bit.ly/methanemelt (please RT!) 5 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Rock, meet hornet's nest. @alexismadrigal(+) Serious question: what's the libertarian answer for climate change? 6 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Applies to planetary futurism. 6 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Many people I admire most were, in their younger years, fans of Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy+ it's hero, Hari Seldon. 6 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Wow. Just getting through the first pass of email, sorting remaining inbox + writing complete to-do list took the whole morning. 6 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Watched last The Wire episode last night: even tho 5th season lagged a bit, still the best urban storytelling television I've seen. 6 days ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) And, ironically, in dismissing the very real role of veteran reporters, editors, we may lose the chance to make democratizing media powerful 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) There's plenty of crap in the media these days, but good journalists are not just stenographers+ cameramen. The craft is not easily learned. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) I find many techies eager to "replace" MSM with crowd-based approaches don't actually seem to understand what good journalism is. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Treat anyone who says different energy sources alone can save us as perhaps uniformed; anyone who says ONLY they can save us as suspect. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Lots of people would like us to believe that only massively subsidized investments in energy (renewables, nukes, CCS) can save us. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Think maybe, maybe there might be political agendas at work here? 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) MIght want to ask why the Jevons paradox has seen such a sudden intellectual vogue +why it is shorthanded to "efficiency don't work" 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) We know that rebound effects are limited, conditional and to some degree easily corrected with green taxes (even tax+dividend works). 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) People who argue that the Jevons paradox theory makes energy efficiency pointless might really want to actually learn what it is +isn't. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Flight back to Seattle: Think I'll play hooky and read a book for pleasure. 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Great! They can start by supporting transit in Seattle... @rmchase(+) Microsoft believes in addressing climate change http://digg.com/u1P2xe 1 week ago from web
AlexSteffen(+) Too many think problem w/ journalism is a deficit of facts. Journalism must be factual, but w/o story, it's lifeless. More data won't fix it 1 week ago from web