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team planned to develop a commercially-viable biofuel from algae.Since algae naturally generates oil in higher amounts than biofuel crops, it was believed algae could be the key to developing a sustainable biofuel.World's first algae-powered plug-in electric hybrid vehicle.Josh Tickellis the creator of the Veggie Van Organization and director of "Fuel," which was honored as best documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.Tickell created the Algaeus mobile, As the name suggests, it's the world's first algae-powered plug-in electric hybrid vehicle. Essentially, the Algaeus is a tricked-out version of the already fuel-efficient Prius. Tickell added a nickel metal hydride battery and a plug to the hybrid car. Instead of gasoline, the car's engine runs on algae fuel.The set-up is so effective that the Algaeus can run on approximately 25 gallons from coast to coast.Developed by the green startup company Sapphire Energy, algae fuel is produced on a farm in the deserts of New Mexico.Proponents of algae fuel claim that it has the potential to be a new source of 100 percent carbon neutral energy that won't require changing the country's current energy infrastructure..Low Maintenance Desert House Design by Gracia StudioHere is desert house with low maintenance based on the ones designed by Gracia Studio. This house featured with outdoor swimming pool and opened living room. The materials used in their construction are carefully chose to withstand hurricane and also need a minimum maintenance. Basically the house is one open floor plan for the common areas and the bedrooms are more enclosed to have privacy. Both houses have similar structure. It is composed of concrete matching the natural color of the local dirt. Some walls are covered with talavera in order to bring a traditional Nordestina architecture into its design. The floor plan is very easy and flexible because of the linear structure of each house. The simplicity of the floor plan matches the simplicity of the design of the exterior making the place perfect for enjoying the nature.
Blemya - The friction-free monster of collectivity.The core philosophy of Blemya blog lies in the beliefs that Super Collective composed by the beautiful and strong different individuals will achieve better present and tomorrow. The sympathetic character of the blemya monster is regarded to what we are now living; In the beginning, it can be very frightening, but if you can beat that little negative rejection to the monster of collectiveness, you will surely love her.http://www.blemya.com/ Housing cocoons over a century-old samaumeira - High-Tech Amazon.We must become more and more Yanomami thepe be fewer nape.We are so educated in European culture, that we think this is the only cultural language in the world, but things start to change and forest culture begins to unfold essential to our survival on the planet.leia esta materia em PortuguesRecently David Kopenawa the Yanomami ethnic group, which has been called the 'Dalai Lama of the Forest', accompanied by Fiona Watson, Director of Research of the NGO Survival International, and world expert on uncontacted tribes. They gave interviews to the American media and some lectures in and around San Francisco, talking about the tireless work to protect the land of his tribe in the Amazon, and how this experience can be applied to the world.The Amazon rainforest has long been recognized as a repository of ecological services not only for local tribes and communities, but also for the rest of the world. It is also the only rainforest that we have left in terms of size and diversity.But as forests burn and global warming worsens, the impact of Amazon deforestation continues to gradually undo the fragile ecological processes that have been refined over millions of years.The solution to this question of how to find the balance necessary for the survival of the forest and therefore the world, can not be found in science itself, but in science combined with philosophical issues of local people, such as the Yanomami.For the Yanomami world is divided into two groups of individuals, to the YANOMAMI THEPE (human beings, people) and the NAPE (us, white men, the the 'fierce' enemies)The Yanomami have been taken as a 'fierce' people in sensationalist and outdated work Yanomamo: The Fierce People, by American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, describing them as "sly, aggressive and intimidating. This book is considered the bible of the newly formed anthropologist, keeping bringing to the world highly prejudiced ideas.The good thing is that this has been changing over time, and we began to hear more and more the wisdom of the forest people - the Yanomami point of view the world is divided into two groups of individuals, to the YANOMAMI THEPE (human beings, people) and the NAPE (us, white men, the enemies 'ferocious').The forest does not burn and do not pollute the its rivers by itself, the NAPE is the one who does it.The pollution of rivers is the result an active attitude of NAPE, if we fail to throw pollutants in Tiete and Pinheiros rivers in the Sao Paulo urban area, for example, we would have clean rivers in a matter of weeks.
In fact, we the NAPE are proactive in polluting and devastating, directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously.If you ask a Yanomami Indian, what he thinks of the white man - NAPE, we end up being ashamed of his response.Swimming in the vastness of the Amazon and Tocantins rivers brought me into spiritual contact with the YANOMAMI THEPE culture. The white man considers themselves unique and different from other beings around them - The NAPE living under the concept of The eternal silence of these infinite spaces - Blaise Pascal we are alone, in a monologue. The Yanomami does not; they are able to love and to dialogue with everything and everyone around them.According to the Yanomami, the NAPE, does not think at all, does not love the land and the forest, they have an egoistic, reckless and short-term vision. The concepts of Yanomami appear to be much higher and very often is difficult for us to conceive, so I decided to classify them into groups:The concept of 'living being'The 'living being' of Yanomami is what we treat as 'people', expressed as YANOMAMI THEPE.The NAPE (white man) seems to care only about himself and in a secondary level, with their immediate family. This feeling tends to decrease with their remote neighbors and family and are almost nonexistent for the other people in the world, but the positive side does he takes pets and it seems to be a small clue of love to other 'living beings' that does not belong to the Homo sapiens classification.The Yanomami are able to love and to dialogue with everything and everyone around them.It is very common to see Brazilian natives breastfeeding her baby on one breast and a monkey or other animal in the other, a scene that causes incomprehension and disgust to the white man who witnesses it first time. To them these animals are also 'people' and are entitled to breast milk, which - by the way, does not belongs to the woman, but to nature itself.The white man consider himself unique and different from other beings around him - The NAPE living under the concept of The eternal silence of these infinite spaces - Blaise Pascal we are alone, in a monologue. The Yanomami does not; they are able to love and to dialogue with everything and everyone around them.For them, almost anything is 'living being' or 'people' - the animals are people, plants are people and even some artifacts are also deemed as 'people'. Make sure to never annoy all those 'people', and better still, they should never be offended.It is very common to see lady Brazilian natives breastfeeding her baby on one breast and a monkey or other animal in the other, a scene that causes incomprehension and disgust to the white man who witnesses it first time. To them these animals are also 'people' and are entitled to breast milk, which - by the way, does not belongs to the woman, but to nature itself.For the Yanomami, nobody likes to be offended and each time this happens, the offended people strike
back at the offender.Thus, there are some consequences and questions such as:- What happens if we kill an animal to eat? - Kill a living being is a very serious offense, even if it has the title of YARO (game animals). This does not stop them from killing YARO even aware that his death will have consequences.They think, "when someone kill these beings, wait for the reaction that can manifest itself in various forms, as little indigestion, or even in the form of the attack of others of the group, for example jaguars, partners of the dead animal.The concept of 'ownership'We have no land; the land is that it has us. The property of physical assets is intangible since our matter is perishable. All material possessions can lead to suffering (as in Buddhism).- Amazon is important because from her comes knowledge that we must have to overcome the civilization crisis, of environmental degradation.The concept of 'Evolution'The NAPE are less developed than the YANOMAMI THEPE (the Yanomami themselves), however there are more evolved beings, such as the YAI, forest beings exempt from name.This is where the reader is outraged - how could they believe that we are less developed than they?There are several ways to make us see how little evolved we are in comparison, take the issue of waste for instance.In nature, the garbage of any living being is incorporated as a utility to another living being (e.g. Mammalian feces are transformed into fertilizer for plants; oxygen purged by the tree becomes the air we breathe, etc.). We NAPE, produce a huge amount of waste that does more harm than good to other living beings.The relationship between YAI with THEPE YANOMAMI/NAPE is the same of the white men with amoebas.Man has four dimensions of perception, ability to reason about events around him, read books, build bridges and observes the amoeba under a microscope. Amoebas on the other hand live in a much more limited world, has diminished capacity of perception that allow only eat living forms around them, are unable to read or, much less to build bridges.The YAI observe us as we observe amoebas, and we haven't the faintest notion of it. They are infinitely superior and transit through different dimensions, inconceivable by us.The concept of 'URIHI' - Yanomami word for forest ecosystemThe word Yanomami UHIRI designates the forest and all that dwells in it, with endless connections and interrelations, IPA URIHI, "my land" can refer to the region of birth or current place of residence of the enunciator. URIHI can be also refers to the world's name: UHIRI A PREE, "the great land-forest".We 'the NAPE' are the only species on the planet that produce waste without this enters into balance with the ecosystem.The Amazon forest is the largest continued forest region on the planet, cut though nine countries, corresponding to 60% of the Brazilian territory, has nearly 6 million km2. The Amazon River has 4225 miles, 65miles longer than Nile according to the measurements of 2007; it has 20% of the world's fresh water.Currently 18% of the forest has been
part of the YANOMAMI THEPE philosophy is that 'garbage does not exist', we cannot throw anything away (out of where? The world?). That being said, all devices are 100% recycled to produce new equipment, substances that cannot be used on other equipment are reintegrated into nature by composting. All facilities have huge skylights as 80% of the equipment is solar powered.After so long catechizing our Indians according to European cultural heritage, now it's time to being catechized in the cultural patterns of the forest people, perhaps this way, we can save our souls and our lives.
Tiffany and Pagano have a strange encounter with a Triceratops - Unexpected events tend to have serious outcomes - to deal with the 'Black Swans' is fundamental to reach a Post-Scarcity scenario One of the great problems of Post-Scarcity is how we should deal with the unknown factors.When we look at the case of Romildo and their varying degrees of integration with the Post-Scarcity, we realize that if he were exposed to a fatal unknown factor, the whole story would be over. He could have been eaten by an onca (kind of Brazilian spotted jaguar) in the first few seconds, and would not have the chance to be exposed to the various stages of Post-Scarcity. That being said, what would be the best way to be prepared for the unknown?leia este artigo em PortuguesNassim Nicholas Taleb may have the answer in his book The Black Swan. The expression derives from the Old World presumption that all swans must be white once there is no historical records of black swans reported after Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh discovered them in Western Australia in the year 1697.The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain:The disproportionate role of high profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology.The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs.The first step to deal whith the Black Swan is knowing how to identify it.The event is a surprise (to the observer).The event has a major effect.The predictability of an event does not necessarily lead to a favorable outcomeAfter the first recorded instance of the event, it is rationalized by hindsight, as if it could have been expected; that is, the relevant data were available but unaccounted for in risk mitigation programs. The same is true for the personal perception by individuals.The main idea in Taleb's book is not to attempt to predict black swan events, but to build robustness against negative ones that occur and be able to exploit positive ones. Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous black swan events and are exposed to unpredictable losses. On the subject of business in particular, Taleb is highly critical of the widespread use of the Normal Distribution model as the basis for calculating risk.In probability theory, the Normal (or Gaussian) Distribution is a very commonly occurring continuous probability distribution a function that tells the probability that any real observation will fall between any two real limits or real numbers, as the curve approaches zero on either side. Normal distributions are extremely important in statistics and are often used in
the natural and social sciences for real-valued random variables whose distributions are not known.One problem, labeled by Taleb is the ludic fallacy, the belief that the unstructured randomness found in life resembles the structured randomness found in games. This stems from the assumption that the unexpected may be predicted by extrapolating from variations in statistics based on past observations, especially when these statistics are presumed to represent samples from a normal distribution. These concerns often are highly relevant in financial markets, where major players sometimes assume normal distributions when using value at risk models, although market returns typically have fat tail distributions.How should we deal with Black SwansThe answer to a Black Swan is invariably: "Oh yes, it was not possible to anticipate this one!".As all passed civilizations, we only master partially our life. it is not possible to predict a black swan, but there will always be unforeseen events.And, we are not aware that major unforeseen events have a larger impact on our life than the daily, foreseeable, minor trends!The strangeness of the black swans and the way we deal with them, make us stronger and more creative. Creativity, associated to the full knowledge, it is the best tool we have to thrive in a post-scarcity scenario.In popular usage, eccentricity (also called quirkiness) refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual. To distracted eyes, this behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, but be sure that when people see you recycling water, or using waves movements to generate energy to your house, you will be deemed as an eccentric guy.
conditions of nutrient-abundance, but compete with,and steal from, one another in conditions of nutrient-scarcity, so humans wouldexhibit co-operative behaviours in conditions of abundance, as surely as theygo to war in conditions of scarcity. For example, in a theatre we get along,laugh, clap and enjoy ourselves as the play proceeds. Should a fire break outwe become very different creatures indeed, trampling each other to death toescape the danger.Behaviours that seemso natural and inborn to us, such as lording it over others, seeking powerover others, Schadenfreude, and so on, are more accurately seen as theinevitable consequences of conditions of scarcity. Scarcity leads tocompetition, where obviously the victors benefit, which rewards aggressive andhoarding behaviours, this over millennia shaping our belief systems, our socialand economic systems, our politics and philosophy, profoundly. Of course aggressionand competitiveness are natural as is greed in that they exist in us aspotentials, but their chance of being expressed, and the manner in which theyare expressed, are determined by environmental factors.Imagine two puppiestaken from the same litter, one raised by wolves, the other by a loving humanfamily. How differently would these dogs end up? They might start outphysically and genetically identical, but their personalities would be asdifferent as chalk and cheese. So it would be with identical human twins, thewolf-boy being after seven years in the wild utterly different from his twinraised by loving human parents. So too with apple-seeds from the same apple,one planted in barren, the other in fertile soil, one grown with minimal water,nutrients and sunshine, the other with exactly the right amounts. The seedswould be genetically identical, but the fruit produced very different in tasteand sweetness, though of course still apples. Environmental conditions are noteverything puppies cant grow into cats, apple-seeds can never become orangetrees but they are extremely significant. Significant enough, in fact, tomake a post-scarcity world both feasible and desirable. We just have to take itseriously, then work towards it.It certainly wont beeasy, but will be well worth the effort.
The begin of year 1963 was a very important year for civilization as we know, Russian astronomer Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev ( born on April 25, 1932 in Moscow) was examining quasar CTA-102 in the first Soviet quest in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and started to philosophate about extraterrestrial life and all achievements of mankind.leia este artigo em PortuguesThe result was released 22 years later in his work "On the Inevitability and the Possible Structures of Supercivilizations" in "The search for extraterrestrial lifeThe basic ingredient for a decent standard life and to improve a society to prosperous levels is ENERGY. At the present moment we humans are getting most of the energy we need from dead plants and animals on the planet turned into coal, oil, etc.Karadshev has developed a scale that has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy that a civilization have at their own disposal, and the degree of space colonization. In general terms, a Type I civilization have achieved mastery of the resources of our home planet as seen in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, a planetary civilization, system. Star Trek with the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet colonization of few Star Systems correspond to Type II, a time when our civilization have achieved mastery of the resources of our own solar system. And Type III like the Empire in Star Wars, when we have achieved mastery of the resources of our own galaxy.We are now in type 0 (ZERO) civilization because at the present moment, we are not able to achieve mastery of the resources on Earth. Far from it, we had almost destroyed ourselves many times during cold war, the best known of these episodes was in 1962 when military intervention by the United States in Cuba, that almost triggered a nuclear war perfectably capable of human race annihilation. That was the so called Bay of Pigs episode.Japanese-American theoretical physicist Michiuo Kaku ( - January 24, 1947) says that the transition form type 0 to type 1 civilization could be the most dangerous period that a civilization can face. Mathematicians says that could exist thousands of Type 1 Civilization in the galaxy, and if is so, why we have not seen them yet?Kaku says that in one hand we have cultural tolerance, good scientific growth, integration, but in other hand we have nuclear weapons, terrorism that works as obstacles to reaching Type I Civilization status. Perhaps no other civilization could make it to transform itself from a Type 0 into a Type I.The current status of human civilization has thus been named Type 0. Although intermediate values were not discussed in Kardashev's original proposal, American astronomer Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 December 20, 1996) calculated in 1973 grades between 0 and 1 in HUMANITYS CIVILIZATION TYPE HCT he stipulated that at that point Earth was to be 0.7, in relationship to Kardashev's model for Types 0 and ISagan used the formula:Kaku posted that in 1900 our HCT was 0,58, in 2004 was 0,72
and that if we make use of large scale application of fusion power, Anti-matter production to be used in antimatter-matter collisions power plants, Solar energy, converting sunlight into electricity by either solar cells, etc. in the year 2100 we could get out of zero and reach HCT I.Earth in 2012 is a Type 0,72 civilizationThe Great leap into a Type I civilization also encompasses economical and political changes, maybe in year 2110 could be read in headlines of the newspapers Today was signed the first planetary trading block, we could buy antimatter from VULCANO with paying taxes or Despite all Chinese efforts English was approved as the new interplanetary official language.Even if in our Type I economy English would be the planetary idiom other languages will be spoken because people will have time and resources to stud and enjoy their own culture, cultural tolerance will tend grow with no limits because people learned from the process of reaching Type I that diversity was the great ingredient of evolution, poverty will be extinguished, because now we can explore other planets and make use of abundant resources , enterprises will not enter into a new business because of money; instead, they will pay more attention to improve employees personal skills, they will realize that this is the best way to prosper in a resourceful planetary system. Type I political system (adopted as one in the whole planet) is more equitable and maybe democracy will be replaced by total democracy (I have no idea how that would work).Understanding our reality and the forces that could lead us into a Type I, II or III civilization, we could be the race (maybe the first) that will prosper beyond the limits of a planet, solar system or galaxy.