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Monbiot: We can't both conserve more and consume more

George Monbiot, one of the great environmental writers and thinkers, introduces us to some economic theory ("decoupling") that addresses the question of how to achieve a »

Henrik Bechmann on Economics, Environment 25 November 2015

European Commission moving toward a circular economy

The European Commission is planning to present a new "circular economy" strategy late 2015. It's an approach that seems to be gaining some traction. The Guardian »

Henrik Bechmann on Economics, Environment 25 November 2015

eBanking could cut bank staff by half

There's an article in the Guardian quoting a former Barclay's executive to say that banks could lose up to half their staff (and branches) to e-banking »

Henrik Bechmann on Business, Technology 25 November 2015

Coming soon: widespread antibiotic resistance

It's been known for some time that liberal use of antibiotics among both humans and agricultural animals has caused increasing resistance in bacteria of these remedies. »

Henrik Bechmann on Health 24 November 2015

Bezos beats Musk: toward recycling rockets

Who knew? Bezos (head of Amazon) is in the space race too with Blue Origin, and what's more has just beat Musk (and his SpaceX) in »

Henrik Bechmann on Technology 24 November 2015

CRISPR makes genetic engineering available to garage labs

According to Huffington Post a genetic engineering technology called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has become inexpensive and reliable enough to become available to »

Henrik Bechmann on Technology 23 November 2015

Atmospheric CO2 above 400ppm

According to many sources (like climate central) atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) has passed the 400ppm (parts per million) mark as of March 2015 or so. The »

Henrik Bechmann on Climate 22 November 2015

OpenCon2015: About the Academic World

I just spent the day at OpenCon2015 Toronto (about open access and open data), at the well-used and welcoming Mozilla meeting space near Spadina and Adelaide. »

Henrik Bechmann on Open Data 21 November 2015

Brand New Site Software: Ghost

I've just installed this Ghost blog software for my personal website. Was curious about a nodejs cms. So far so good, and pretty easy to set »

Henrik Bechmann on Software Stacks 20 November 2015
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