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The Big Promise of the Small by Carolyn McConnell - small-scale technology for solving water shortage problems,

"In the 20th century, humanity achieved huge feats of water engineering, taming wild rivers, redesigning entire watersheds, and creating farmland from desert. But evidence has begun to mount that massive manipulations of water are not worth their costs. Huge dams have destroyed ecosystems and human communities, often waste as much water as they gather, put countries in unsustainable debt, and inevitably silt up, becoming useless, often before they have even been paid for. ...

Is human ingenuity useless in solving water shortages? Those who study the issue think there is still hope. The problem may be in scale; it was the mega-projects that failed. The most exciting solutions are small. All over the world, engineers, potters, and even children are coming up with inventions that are cheap, simple, locally attuned, and sustainable..." Carolyn McConnell; read more on cite

A New Framework for Environmental Scanning"

A new framework for environmental scanning, essay by Richard Slaughter

Environmental scanning (ES) is a methodology that stands at the juncture of foresight and strategy. It establishes organizationally relevant criteria that allow prepared human minds to discern information, knowledge and insight from the multitude of ‘signals’ that occur daily. In most cases the starting point for ES is the design of a scanning frame which helps practitioners decide what to look at and how to judge the usefulness of information. But, at the same time, there also needs to be an openness to new data, ‘lone signals’ and unconventional sources. ..." --Richard Slaughter,

Buddhism, Modernization, and Science

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Buddhism, Modernization, and Science

"The capacity of mature men and women for responding to the world as a whole, or at least taking more of it into account, is being radically upgraded. The day is apparently past when any of the great value systems of mankind could be appropriated by a particular community and applied with merely local significance. What McLuhan calls "the electric age" has "established a global network that has much of the character of our central nervous system." [4] Our central nervous system has been extended "in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned." [5] With its explosive proliferation of knowledge, stored in computerized technology, modernization more and more "becomes an almost automatic process driving development forward. The reality of the situation is blurred by saying that we are living through a new industrial revolution.... Indeed, we have good reason to expect that the great technological breakthroughs are yet to come." [6]

I am concerned in this essay with a different breakthrough. I am concerned with the emergence of a new style of life, a self-corrective process of inquiry which has become habitual and embodied in a global community already living under its direction..." --Nolan Pliny Jacobsion, "Buddhism, Modernization, and Science"; read more on cite

Water For All

--Public Citizen

"As the world's water becomes scarcer and corporations seek to exploit this scarcity for profit, people around the world are losing ownership and control of water resources on which they depend. Water is a human right; to the extent one has the right to live, one has the right to water. Public Citizen's Water for All Campaign is dedicated to protecting water as a common resource, stopping water privatization and bulk water sales, and defending access to clean and affordable water around the world. ..." --Public Citizen; read more on cite

Manual for Futants

Conscious Evolution in Designer Genes; Generic Self-Directed Conscious Evolution
by Neil Freer

" Are there humans who are genetically determined to be indicators of the next dimension of evolving human consciousness? Yes. We call them futants. This paper is intended to provide a name, sense of identity, concept, vocabulary, context, and suggestion of societal role-contribution..."

"...The technique for generic, constant, self-directed expansion evolution of consciousness is simple: Begin with one’s consciousness as it is. Turn that consciousness back self-reflexively on itself in self examination and analysis. Determine the statements it enables which cannot be proven by it, the questions it can engender but cannot answer, thereby determining the limiting parameters of this modality. Recognize, contemplate and explore the new kind of consciousness (perception / comprehension / experience / dimensionality) suggested and required by these statements and questions. Employ whatever techniques are appropriate to afford direct experience of this new expanded consciousness. Develop a vocabulary adequate to describe and explain its nature. Formalize its structure and rules, refine and expand its potential: use it as an exploratory tool and a criterion of truth. Use it to gain information about the universe which cannot be gained by lesser types of awareness. Determine how the elements of the previous levels of consciousness are subsumed into the new consciousness.

Repeat the cycle as above. ..." --Neil Freer, A Manual for Futants; read more on cite

An explanation of i-names

From the XDI Wiki

The success of the Internet has led to an explosion of different electronic addresses: email, SMS/MMS, instant messaging, etc. As powerful and convenient as these addresses are, they all have one serious flaw: they are extremely hard to protect from spam, viruses, worms, and other security and privacy violations.

A new type of address has been developed to solve this problem. Called an i-name, it is the first universal private address—a single address you can use for all types of electronic communications while always maintaining control of your privacy.

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cosmicastronomy.com

Link: Mainlist - visitastronomy picklist page links.

List 1 - Cosmic interstate highway
List 2 - Topics with captions
List 3 - Recent astronomy
List 4 - All the astronomy
List 5 - Sci fi short stories
List 6 - Charge polarities
List 7 - Cross references
List 8 - The pullmotors
List 9 - The overview
List 10 - All physics
List 11 - Spokes

List 12 - Illustrated dictionary of tympani properties
List 13 - Illustrated dictionary of galaxy properties
List 14 - World's fastest astronomy crash course
List 15 - Complete pick listing of every page
List 16 - Supersize galaxy bigmass pages
List 17 - Special interest galaxies

Moscow Neutron Monitor - 1-minute data

Link: Moscow Neutron Monitor - 1-minute data.

One- and five-minute Moscow neutron monitor variation for last 11 hours. Updated every hour.

Data2

Link: http://www.elfrad.com/">Data2

The graph on the next page --Link: http://www.elfrad.com/data2.htm">Data2.-- indicates the detection monitor of an experimental device used to record changes in the ionosphere. This particular design does not record electromagnetic impulses or changes in the magnetic field, however it does detect disturbances within the ionosphere itself. For instance, GRBs, Solar Flares, CMEs, Earthquakes, and other natural and unnatural phenomena are reflected and amplified, which enable us at ELFRAD to convert to a ULF frequency for a detailed analysis.

Using this technique it is possible to record major earthquakes at great distances, the moment a precursor occurs or a seismic event happens.

There is much on going work presently involved in this project such as perfecting directional equipment and networking many sites together for advance warning purposes. When our research proves to be very viable and 100 per cent accurate we will announce the project worldwide.