Green Blog at The New York Times

Just in case you missed it, The New York Times online has a Green Blog.

Make sure to note the long list of resources and blogroll they have on the lower right area of the page.

The New York Times – Green Blogs >>

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Thinking, fast and slow

From NPR.org

“In 2002, Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize in economics — but he isn’t an economist.

Kahneman’s field is the psychology of decision-making, and that’s the topic of his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Kahneman tells NPR’s Robert Siegel about the two systems that make up what he calls “the machinery of the mind:” System 1 — or fast — and System 2 — or slow — thinking.

Kahneman says one of his favorite examples of System 1 thinking is what happens when you hear an upper-class British voice say, “I have large tattoos all down my back.”

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Related in this blog: Types of thinking (diagram) >>

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Do Schools Kill Creativity?

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Visualization hitting the mainstream?

Related on the web:

Visualizing change:   http://www.gapminder.org/

Idiagram.com >>

understandingusa.com >>

dynamicdiagrams.com >>

Center for Graphic Facilitation >>

Fritjof Capra: The Web of Life (video)

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Dr. Russell Ackoff Videos on Systems Thinking

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10 Emerging technologies to watch

So much is happening what should we pay attention to?

• Solar Fuel
• Mobile 3-D
• Light-trapping Photovoltaics
• Green Concrete

These are the ones I think are interesting. You can view the rest at the original post in Workplace Learning Today.

Comparative news. One issue – multiple perspectives.

I’m excited. The tools that I have been expecting are starting to arrive.

Tools that contrast multiple perspectives and make them accessible to any individual.

Tools like these are key to the next revolution in thinking and everything else that depends on thought.

Use the drop-down menu at the top of their page to select a news topic being covered by different news sources around the world.

http://www.mondokio.com/story.aspx

Related:

My Father’s Greatest Gift: Multiple Truths by Tamara J. Erickson

Diaspora the open source social network

I like these nerds. I mean guys. Geniuses. Delivering just in time when Facebook has reached a point where they are making people beg for privacy. (Facebook has forgotten that they’re nothing without the people they serve. Keyword “serve”.)

All these Diaspora dudes need to do now is tone down the geekspeak. Translate the diaspora manifesto into 6th grade English so that we can all understand the social media doohicky they’re building.

Go to their website to see a video, and follow updates on their project.

http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html

How the BP oil spill would look like over your area

I captured this image from a website that allows you to enter any city name and the image of the oil spill will move over the chosen area in the map.

This helps you understand the magnitude of the disaster.

Go to the site…type in the name of your city and watch the slime make it’s way over Arizona or other place you don’t like.

Image of the BP oil spill superimposed over a map of the metropolitan Los Angeles area