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Tag Archives: globalization
Energy intensity convergence
In climate change discussions, energy intensity is the amount of energy required to produce a dollars worth of GDP. While there are big differences in energy intensity around the world. Generally poor countries are more energy intensive than rich, and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Visualization
Tagged convergence, energy intensity, globalization
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Cyber-Environmental Politics?
twitter.com/vgalaz Google and renewable energy? Hackers, deforestation and carbon emission rights? This might sound like an odd mix of events, but something is definitely in pipeline. Global environmental change and rapid information technological change have for a long time been … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Networks, Reorganization, Visualization
Tagged climate change, globalization, google, internet, twitter, video
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Nigeriatown
In a New Yorker article – the promised land – Evan Osnos about African merchants living in China. He also narrates an Audio Slide Show about the economic, social, and religious life of African migrants in Guangzhou. On his blog … Continue reading
Networks without borders?
Cloud computing presents challenges for national regulation – both for censorship, accounting, and privacy. From the Economist Computers without borders: Data Islandia, a local company, is trying to establish the island as a vault for a growing pile of data … Continue reading
Illegal logging, black globalization, and undercover environmentalists
Black globalization is an evocative name for how multi-nationals and mafias can blur together by using violence and global trade to avoid regulation, certification, and quality control. In the New Yorker article The Stolen Forests Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the … Continue reading
Shipping containers and world trade
The BBC is planning to follow and report on the progress of a container around the world for a year. They have painted a container and bolted a GPS transmitter to allow is readers to follow its progress around the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Economics, Networks, Reorganization, Visualization
Tagged globalization, Marc Levinson, shipping containers, the Box, world trade
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A giant pool of money flows into global agriculture
As part of its interesting Food Chain series, the New York Times writes Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming about how investment funds are pouring billions of dollars into agriculture. One investment bank has estimated that investments in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, food, fuel, globalization, investment funds, speculation
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