Milliongenerations:Twitter/millionGen

An archive of old tweets by @millionGen (irregularly updated, check the original for an up to date version):

• RT xphilosopher Experimental Philos Workshop on the Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness next week in NYC. http://tinyurl.com/6l4u492 13 Mar
• RT Bill McKibben Watching with awe the horror in Japan, reminded that modernity lives on a thin margin (which we should stop making thinner still).13 Mar
• RT Diana den Heldstrateeg Diana den Held Into Eternity http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com... de BESTE docu over nucleair afval die ik ooit heb gezien: http://tinyurl.com/5wamjwk13 Mar
• Tim DeChristopher on the power of nonviolent civil disobedience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqHYem6zqM (Leave oil in the ground.)8 Mar
• Let ideas bring life! 7 Mar
• RT @europeanhistory: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard 6 Mar
• RT Tom Whitbytomwhitby Tom Whitby In a system based on competition, collaboration may be considered cheating.Why would we characterize an education Plan as a Race to the Top?6 Mar
• and a wise generation... RT @BradAcker22: "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." ~Sir Francis Bacon #fb4 Mar
• RT @BradAcker22: "Today, value goes to those who know how to create, store, manipulate and use information."~Adam Hartung #fb24 Feb
• 'Fighting racists' repeats the mistake. Remembering that there is only one kind of human on earth might help.23 Feb
• Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel): There is only one kind of human on earth!23 Feb
• RT @philoquotes: While there's life, there's hope. ~ Cicero22 Feb
• RT @djjoustra: Cradle to cradle festival Berlin 9 march theme architecture with William McDonough, Michael Braungart, Thomas Rau and more.22 Feb
• RT @davidahood: The Happy Planet Index... "because GDP measures everything except that makes life worthwhile" http://on.ted.com/8wAX22 Feb
• Marks: The Happiness Manifesto! RT @nefwellbeing ...new book based on ... #TED talk via Amazon Kindle Singles http://bit.ly/hXBAbS28 Jan
• RT Philosophy Tweets Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. -Cicero27 Jan Un
• RT Igor Kluin Prachtige zin van @dezaakhanssen over green washing: 'Als de aarde het straks begeeft, gebeurt het in elk geval op een duurzame manier.'27 Jan Un
• human energy requirement about the same as a candle's. One gallon of fuel means food for several weeks.23 Jan
• many talk about knowledge economy. Where is something about the economy of knowledge?23 Jan
• Is reputation key to everything? RT @GuardianSustBiz How the science of behaviour change can help with sustainability http://bit.ly/e8DxQy22 Jan
• RT @philosophytweet: Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.- Seneca19 Jan
• Onkalo: nuclear waste in Finland documented by M. Madsen's 'Into Eternity' http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/ - think 100.000 years!18 Jan
• SoyEcoistaSoyEcoista SoyEcoista Onkalo, un cementerio nuclear para la eternidad - 14/01/2011: Onkalo, que en finÇs significa oculto, es ... http://bit.ly/hjNYUI #soyeco15 Jan
• Renaissance: science searches for truth. Popper: can't know truth, science is about utility. Kuhn: No, it's all about reputation.15 Jan
• RT @philosophytweet: Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -Euripides8 Jan
• RT Symbiosis Economics It took 100 million hours to create all the content on Wikipedia. US adults watch 200 Billion hours of TV each year. http://bit.ly/d8WKJR8 Jan Un
• RT Philosophy Tweets For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.-FEYNMAN29 Nov
• Will be interesting to see how far we get by dismissing the only thing we know for sure. http://tinyurl.com/25y8qmf3 Jan
• RT @eileen_gunn: I'm intrigued by the thought that a neuroscientist says I may not actually exist: http://tinyurl.com/25y8qmf3 Jan
• RT @JenniferSertl: The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau3 Jan
• The number of people does matter. But how people consume resources matters a lot more. Population is not the problem, it is the goal.3 Jan
• ...how people consume resources matters RT @dailydish: People V. Planet... Robert Kunzig considers a growing population http://bit.ly/i9451R3 Jan
• RT Appropedia.org Whatever happened to SustainapediaNW.org - it's been offline for ages, but does someone have the content? #green #permaculture #pacificnw
• Copying identity? Hmm. Speculative #philosophy on #singularity by David Chalmers http://consc.net/papers/singularity.pdf Thx, @Cervido 2 Jan
• RT @fer_ananda In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we loved one another. Daphne Rose Kingma 29 Dec
• Be a good ancestor. Useful thoughts should survive a singularity. Predicting is too difficult. Look back from the assumption of existence. 1 Jan 11
• Conscious experience seems to require consumption, is competitive & limited http://milliongenerations.org/wiki/index.php/Population_growth 1 Jan 11
• RT @BillGates: I wrote up a review of “The Rational Optimist” by Matt Ridley. Some notes here: http://bit.ly/hFdzZC 1 Jan 11
• @davidhodgson humanity's collective purpose? To continue. Sounds better than it is. To perpetuate knowledge, so individuals can be. 28 Dec
• RT @davidhodgson: if humanity should be said to have a collective purpose - what would it be? #question 28 Dec
• "The end is nigh" they say, and we consume what we can get. What if we truly believed "The end is far"? 27 Dec
• great discussion on post growth economy, exnovation: Niko Paech & Fred LUKS http://bit.ly/h0rL4N (German) via @pleger 26 Dec
• RT @Mushin: Conscious - what a way to be! 19 Dec
• Gaaf! RT @thisischris10e: Mensen in de bijstand de nieuwe duurzame voorhoede? Ja, iig wel als ze een volkstuin hebben. http://lnkd.in/3xytRu 18 Dec
• Old wisdom, still unneeded. RT @philoquotes: Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. ~ Saint Augustine 17 Dec
• RT @TomZiglar: You measure success by how much good you do for others. Zig Ziglar 17 Dec
• No more secrets: if knowledge continues to increase, future individuals will know almost everything about each of us (#WikiLeaks). Behave! 17 Dec
• Brave effort... RT @paulborn: Tasting the Future | Seeking Community shar.es/XsxQ7 - great new blog by Vanessa Reid 16 Dec
• RT @strateeg Wauw... mooi... Roept vragen op. RT @Pritt Foto. IJsbeer vs IJsbreker: http://tinyurl.com/237k9uk 16 Dec
• On the history of a perspective on the future RT @futureaware: There?s More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil http://bit.ly/i1Tncq 13 Dec
• @felixbbopp The future of Happiness - watch the webcast http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=827 12 Dec
• RT @daily_good "We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." --Native American Proverb 29 Nov
• Ruut Veenhoven and Nic Marks at Club of Amsterdam tomorrow night! http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=827 24 Nov
• RT @greenskeptic: Liang Congjie, China's 1st environmentalist, died on Oct 25. His obit from this week's @TheEconomist http://econ.st/bnYL8B 20 Nov
• Mankind does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. Nietzsche :-) http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=82720 Nov
• A first glimpse of what might be lasting technology: all carbon fuel cells, and solar cells, by Dr. Shelley Minteer from Saint Louis Univ.! 20 Nov
• See Nic Marks discuss the 'future of Happiness' Thursday 25 Nov 19:00 in A'dam! http://bit.ly/a5yclA @nefwellbeing @theneweconomics 20 Nov
• Happiness Professor Ruut Veenhoven will discuss the 'future of Happiness' Thursday 25 Nov 19:00 in A'dam! http://bit.ly/a5yclA - other's h.! 20 Nov Un
• RT @ideahive How do we create an economy based upon empathy? #iff 17 Nov
• RT @davidhodgson Without empathy society cannot exist. Martin Hoffman #iff 17 Nov
• Silence was brief after bredolab botnet was uncovered. Vandalism on wiki's has resumed. Too bad free efforts are so quickly exploited. 18 Nov
• RT @felixbbopp Is “eudaimonia” - happiness - the highest desirable good? http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=827 6 Nov
• RT @ONEworldcitizen: The only real prison is fear. And the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Aung Sang Suu Kyi1 4 Nov
• Is there really no way to combine the growth of useful knowledge with long term existence? Brilliant video: http://tinyurl.com/yasxdrq 12 Nov
• ...the more urgent the problem. People are the goal! RT @environmentinst: 'The more of us there are-the tougher the problem' Paul #Ehrlich 11 Nov
• RT @conservbytes Why don't we care about the people 5-10 generations from now - myopic empathy (discounting by distance & time) - Paul #Ehrlich 11 Nov
• Maarten Vendrik will join the discussion on the future of Happiness Nov 25 in A'dam http://bit.ly/a5yclA10 Nov Un
• Keep going & make it last RT @Wildcat2030: 8 Ways in Which the Human Condition is Improving http://amplify.com/u/eqfc 8 Nov
• If knowledge continues to increase, future people will know almost everything about us. Shouldn't that make us ensure they flourish? 6 Nov
• Tim Mulgan: Utilitarianism for a broken future. For the Club of Amsterdam 25 Nov http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=827 6 Nov
• measure & increase happiness NL: http://www.nilsroemen.com/sevendaysofinspiration-project-bruto-nationaal-geluk-vergroten/ #7di @roemen 23 Oct
• RT @nefwellbeing: Report ...: internat devlpmnt based on 'ultimately harmful' acquisitive view of flourishing http://bit.ly/cet45h (pdf) 22 Oct
• RT @DalaiLama: When we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.20 Oct
• RT @jascharohr: Hermann Scheer: rest in peace - you showed us the way towards the sun: http://is.gd/g37dD 20 Oct
• RT @anildash Anil Dash To be clear: Crowdsourcing is improving a process by making it more inclusive. Getting others to work for you for free has a different name. 7 Oct
• RT @Jeremy_Williams Richard Heinberg is writing a book called The End of Growth and you can read an introduction here http://bit.ly/9K3vjx #postgrowth 2 Oct
• RT @strateeg een goeie video over de fosfaatproblematiek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOfcUufyzQ 28 Sep
• @benjaminaaron Thanks! Interesting thoughts. Nice video you mention "Das Rad" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT13GuPZHMA 2 Oct
• Justice as enabling advancement! Joerg Chet Tremel: A Theory of Intergenerational Justice. earthscan 2009 1 Oct
• Keep wondering! RT @Wildcat2030: "Consciousness poses two main problems. First, what are the necessary ... http://tumblr.com/xt8kanjt1 1 Oct
• RT @longnow: Check out the list of speakers in the Long Conversation: http://bit.ly/longplayer - (Oct. 16!) #longplayer 1 Oct
• Food for thought - and posture morph game RT @benjaminaaron: social algorithms, deep social innovation: http://wp.me/pyPX5-7j 1 Oct
• RT ideas4all ideas4all Where good ideas come from' by Steven Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU #ideas via @mberzosa 30 Sep
• Is Fermi's paradox solved by the notion that the experience of existence is a better use of resources than travel? 1 Oct
• RT Maru_123 Maruping Mangwedi It's amazing how with all the stuff we have and have access to, it's life's simple treasures that most move and fulfil us. 25 Sep
• RT robintransition Rob Hopkins Gorgeous chilly early cycle ride to the station, near-full moon still out, Orion hanging large in the sky, Totnes slowly coming to life... 27 Sep
• nefwellbeing centre 4 well-being Listen again to Nic Marks on happiness on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours http://bbc.in/agGoDT 21 Sep
• RT @VenessaMiemis: Update: First Round of Interviewees for #FutureofMoney Project http://bit.ly/aGfJ95 #sibos 22 Sep
• gabrielshalom gabrielshalom RT @neilhimself: I dreamed that people from Wikipedia came round to your house to adjust reality if it differed from what they had online. 23 Aug
• justice towards future beings... does it help to think of opportunities? Opportunity for existence. For passing on knowledge. indefinitely. 10 Sep
• Joerg Chet Tremmel: A Theory of Intergenerational Justice http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=92802&v=198 10 Sep
• Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations http://srzg.de/ 10 Sep
• Nic Marks at TED on how there can be more happiness http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html 9 Sep
• RT Jeremy_Williams Jeremy Williams The Wilberforce Award – because endless growth is not sustainable http://bit.ly/bCPesv 23 Aug
• There's only one type of human on earth. Empathic civilization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g #1typeofhuman 9 Sep
• What is happiness and what will it be in the future? The future of happiness. Please let me know who could say something sensible about it. 30 Aug
• environments, societies and species change. can conscious knowledge remain? will those alive here in a billion years still know what we know 27 Aug
• there is only one type of human on earth. and there are about seven billion individuals, no two alike. 27 Aug
• RT paulocoelho Paulo Coelho You are what you do, and not what you think you should do. 26 Aug
• What do we owe to our descendants? Tim Mulgan: Future People. 24 Aug
• Now that we are stewards of this planet, we are responsible for maintaining life's possibilities in this cosmic neighborhood. MRees@longnow 5 Aug
• How can information remain available as long as life is possible? What are requirements for lasting civilization? How to serve posterity? 19 Jul
• What are you leaving to posterity? 4 Jul
• Updated links to happiness researchers: http://milliongenerations.org/wiki/index.php/Happiness 4 Jul
• RT NurtureGirl Jean Russell @VenessaMiemis http://www.twinoaks.org/ is long standing resilient mostly sustainable community cc @johnrobb 30 Jun
• RT TheTransitioner TheTransitioner Download pdf -how the commoners build a digital republic of their own -Viral Spiral- http://ow.ly/26GeX -Creative Commons- 3 Jul
• How do we make ourselves care about those who could exist? The yet-to-be-born? 3 Jul
• @treyka Long Now events in Brussels! Very interesting. Please let us know about future events. 26 Jun
• RT heOilDrum The Oil Drum A Road Not Taken: "A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an exam... http://bit.ly/b4nsT9 23 Jun
• RT CoCreatr Bernd Nurnberger The 6 forces behind @umairh’s law: “In a hyperconnected world, the costs of evil explode." http://amplify.com/u/6u3q 11 Jun
• RT robintransition Rob Hopkins The list of this month's new 'formal' Transition initiatives... http://tinyurl.com/y7qkpt3 11 Jun
• RT Kunstvanleven Kunst van Leven Als je het idee loslaat dat je echt iets weet,kun je de rest van je leven in verwondering genieten.Nin Sheng 9 Jun
• What would I have done had I had her genes and experiences? 4:07 PM Jun 4th
• "Science is not about truth" - CERN's Sergio Bertolucci at Club of Amsterdam tonight. He's right. It should be about benefit instead. 2:34 PM Jun 3rd
• RT @ruthannharnisch: "Find people who think differently than you do to create a thrivable society because diversity creates strength," s ... 2:11 PM Jun 3rd
• RT @timoreilly: oops. "It's time for our community to move beyond the campaign...and start thinking about actually solving problems." @c ... 2:08 PM Jun 3rd
• Steady state economy? Growth may not be the problem after all - as long as knowledge increases. But consumption certainly can't exist. 12:49 PM May 27th
• RT @philosophytweet: Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. - Tacitus 12:14 PM May 26th
• RT @strateeg: Toch wel een bijzondere observatie... D66 noemt C2C letterlijk IN het verkiezingsprogramma. 2:19 PM May 24th
• RT @stephen_hinton: Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson 2:15 PM May 24th
• RT @Kletskous: Progress and Innovation Cannot Be Stopped -- Mereley Hindered - http://is.gd/ckbAh 2:32 PM May 22nd
• RT @philosophytweet: Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Popper 4:03 PM May 17th
• A musical composition lasting an entire millenium. Reminds us that someone should exist to hear it played out. http://longplayer.org/ 5:53 PM May 16th
• Improvement on 'how can there be most happiness?' front: ask for video entries rather than essays. Thx Felix. http://mosthappiness.be 5:44 PM May 16th
• RT @philosophytweet: Yet a preoccupation with power distracts us from paying attention to what is at the foundation of the world…. -Godel 5:37 PM May 16th
• RT @strateeg: Spaarlamp (uit tijd dat ik nog dacht dat die ok waren) heeft de geest gegeven... zit ik dus mooi met stuk chemisch afval z ... 5:35 PM May 16th
• What can one do against #botnets spamming links to external pages on wiki's? 2:15 AM May 14th
• Nice. Progess isn't always obvious. RT @DougMcInnes Hey folks, I made an Asteroids clone in HTML5 http://is.gd/c7y7G 12:54 AM May 14th
• RT @thousandnations: New blog post: Obeying is Low Status, So How Do We Convince People to Obey?: A.J. Ayer says political philosophers. ... 2:41 PM May 13th
• nor does it find truth. but it surely is useful. RT @philosophytweet: Science is not certain 9:16 AM May 13th
• RT @rstevens: Next time someone asks your ethnicity, you should say "adorable." 5:16 AM May 13th
• RT @rstevens: Life is a good problem to have. 5:12 AM May 13th
• inevitable: http://storyofstuff.org/ Let's conceive what can last. Thanks @storyofstuff 4:37 PM May 10th
• RT @hnauheimer: Can we design cities for happiness? http://bit.ly/aoQDf5 3:56 PM May 10th
• Surprised many r comfortable with the idea of collapse in the next century. Why could knowledge not remain and grow while life's possible? 3:17 PM May 10th
• RT @postcarbon: Wes Jackson "If you're working on something you can finish in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough" http://bit. ... 2:01 PM May 5th
• A living clock that ticks out a thousand years! Time made visible. Go Greg Blonder! http://www.tiwalkme.org 10:00 AM May 5th
• costs of energy determine minimum price of food. Price of food limits carrying capacity. get RE<C! 12:49 AM Apr 30th
• Freedom(TM). Hmmm. Some interesting ideas. but sometimes one novel is better than two. 12:16 PM Apr 29th
• RT @chispeak: [We should] entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. [People shouldn't] believe any philosophy, not even mine. ... 12:12 PM Apr 29th
• RT @myparable: Labels divide, titles alienate and status rejects." 3:53 PM Apr 28th
• RT @aroncramer: Continuity is not natural. It is an act that requires attention and thought. The world is full of change. #tyf2010 3:54 PM Apr 27th
• RT @aroncramer: We are not well suited to considering the non-linearity we are producing by our actions. #tyf2010 3:50 PM Apr 27th
• RT @stephen_hinton: Work isn’t working. We need to redesign it for the sustainable future http://bit.ly/9Crrve 3:05 PM Apr 27th
• RT @LesMcP: May make more sense to build up national index of happiness than build up national economic index based on production capabi ... 12:14 PM Apr 27th
• RT @tiffanyshlain: We have the same amount of water that the dinosaurs had. it's about sanitation and distribution #TYF2010 12:05 PM Apr 27th
• RT @chris23: "The way that people become happy is not by consuming stuff but by giving stuff away." - Raj Patel #TYF2010 12:01 PM Apr 27th
• Derek Parfit's repugnant conclusion doesn't seem to hold if one assumes continued existence. Stretching the limits risks reducing capacity. 7:08 PM Apr 24th
• RT @philosophytweet: Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. Plato 2:41 PM Apr 21st
• Wouldn't we live right, if all possible future generations lived? RT @philosophytweet It is not living that matters, but living rightly. 9:36 PM Apr 20th 2010 via web
• What will it take for our descendants to look back at our decisions today and judge us good ancestors? - Jonas Salk 2:31 AM Apr 19th via web
• RT @grimsgreen Want peace? Solve the energy crisis!: The hard energy path is the path we are on — with near-total reliance on non... http://bit.ly/93TqaD 3:31 PM Apr 18th via twitterfeed Retweeted by MillionGen
• The Rest Saving the West - 2010 Inter­na­tional Year of the First World in Need http://designforthefirstworld.com/ - compliments @dx1w 12:03 AM Apr 19th via web
• RT @Worldchanging: Keeping Oil in the Ground http://bit.ly/9qyN3e 2:26 AM Apr 16th via Echofon
• RT @pleger Top 15 Policies for Achieving a Steady State Economy - http://bit.ly/cKRPAg 7:21 AM Apr 10th via TweetDeck Retweeted by MillionGen
• RT pleger Pattern Dynamics - creating cultures of sustainability - http://www.patterndynamics.com.au - http://tweetphoto.com/18569271 11:50 PM Apr 15th via TweetDeck Retweeted by you
• RT nachhaltig_ev Nachhaltigkeit ist auch ein ethisches Grundkonzept, so Abtprimas Notker Wolf in der WirtschaftsWoche http://ow.ly/1v31G 1:30 PM Apr 6th via HootSuite Retweeted by you and 1 other
• how can there be most happiness? 1:21 AM Apr 14th via Echofon
• RT barbarosa1 There R an increasing # of world problems that cant B solved by hierarchy. Collaboration is the only chance 4 a solution. #Senge #closym #fb 9:01 PM Apr 12th via UberTwitter Retweeted by you and 1 other
• RT philosophytweet For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh 7:00 PM Apr 12th via web Retweeted by you and 22 others
• look at the news: we seem to be much more sensitive to status than to well-being. a shame: happiness could scale and is more relevant. 9:20 AM Apr 12th via Echofon
• great news: photovoltaic competitive in 2015 RE<C 2025 http://bit.ly/dvdFSu 9:07 AM Apr 12th via Echofon
• Can stones in the street inspire like a clock of the long now? http://bit.ly/9mhwRJ 3:41 AM Apr 12th via Echofon
• RT BettinaYuliko "The only place where 'SUCCESS' comes before 'WORK' is in the dictionary." 8:20 AM Apr 7th via HootSuite Retweeted by you
• RT redutten If you really want to understand something, try to change it! 8:04 PM Apr 11th via TweetDeck Retweeted by you
• lasting civilization, or enduring information? http://bit.ly/9lkcdI 2:59 AM Apr 12th via Echofon
• @_Philosophy_: Do we have a moral duty to preserve the environment? More useful & easier to ask about consequences rather than morals? 1:36 AM Apr 5th via Echofon
• It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere, actually. -- Keith Richards (dank aan Ingmar Heytze) 1:24 AM Apr 5th via Echofon
• How can there be most happiness? Help organize a search for beneficial answers. http://mosthappiness.be/ 2:43 AM Mar 29th via Echofon
• RT philosophytweet Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. -Kant 7:39 PM Mar 23rd via web Retweeted by you and 17 others
• there's only one sort of human on earth. why is that so difficult? how many do you think there are ? 12:18 AM Feb 26th via Echofon
• RT @Revkin Poverty, not scarcity, driving rise in proportion of humans who are hungry (>1 billion now) http://j.mp/PovHunger #poverty #development #eco 7:49 PM Feb 20th via web Retweeted by you and 8 others
• whoever pays? whoever profits! RT @dotearth: When Coal Flows Between Countries, Who 'Owns' the CO2? http://nyti.ms/bDewKq 12:28 AM Feb 10th via Echofon
• RT @DeanLetfus The important thing is not to stop questioning. 9:32 AM Feb 4th via web Retweeted by you and 1 other
• "to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them...available until the politically impossible becomes...inevitable." M.Friedman 10:02 AM Feb 4th via Echofon
• @stevebomford keeping something running and being able to rebuild after a crash: both important. still, avoid the crash when possible. 11:31 PM Feb 2nd via Echofon in reply to stevebomford
• @stevebomford thanks for the link. Curious choice of examples, especially the surgeon. nice, but why reduce 'sustainable'? 11:28 PM Feb 2nd via Echofon in reply to stevebomford
• Resilience for what's beyond control & sustainability for what's within.RT @stevebomford: Forget sustainability - it's all about resilience! 12:10 AM Feb 2nd via Echofon
• no meat, less travel, smaller appartment. way to go to slow climate disruption. RT @mikeanissimov: http://tinyurl.com/yck5gqh 11:30 AM Jan 30th via Echofon
• Can't know if we're right. Can try to be useful, though. RT @DeanLetfus: It is much easier to be critical than correct. 11:23 AM Jan 30th via Echofon
• Avner de-Shalit: Why Posterity Matters. Routledge, 1995 11:15 AM Jan 30th via Echofon
• RT @DeanLetfus "When you're finished changing, you're finished" 6:40 AM Jan 24th via web Retweeted by you
• RT @Cervido directory of online articles in philosophy http://philpapers.org 6:18 PM Jan 21st via web Retweeted by you
• RT @philosophytweet The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.- Heidegger 1:16 AM Jan 23rd via web Retweeted by you and 6 others
• @HDSolarguy @NickKristof Standard of living = power supply. Some say > 2000 kWh per capita per yr is the tipping point. http://bit.ly/6hnCTy 11:52 PM Jan 22nd via web in reply to NickKristof Retweeted by you
• RT @HDSolarguy @NickKristof Standard of living = power supply. Some say > 2000 kWh per capita per yr is the tipping point. http://bit.ly/6hnCTy 11:52 PM Jan 22nd
• Intergenerational justice. Tim Mulgan: Future People - a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations. 2006 12:41 AM Jan 23rd
• Competition for zero emission C2C floating home designs. Go Amsterdam! http://www.duurzaamoostamsterdam.nl/ 12:32 AM Jan 23rd
• Sometimes a few letters more would make things easier: milliongenerations' tweets were just renamed, from MGenerations to millionGs. 12:14 AM Jan 23rd
• Many seem comfortable with the idea of extinction of the human species. Fewer desire it for their own lifetime, though. 11:57 PM Jan 18th
• what will remain for our children if we just strive for a bigger house and a faster car? 10:57 PM Jan 10th from Echofon
• All future humans will be shared descendants. There's only one type of human being on earth. 11:08 AM Jan 4th from Echofon
• Future? That's for people with kids. Why should I worry about it? (thanks to Boudewijn) 7:52 AM Jan 3rd from Echofon
• the issue attention cycle RT @dotearth: The Greatest Story Rarely Told http://bit.ly/4SIM2f 7:05 AM Jan 3rd from Echofon
• Existence is a useful proxy for future wellbeing, happiness, thrivability, flourishing etc... Required & no discussion. 10:54 AM Jan 2nd from Echofon
• RT @whylife: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.- Mark Twain 10:43 AM Jan 2nd from Echofon
• Imagine that civilization in some form or other will continue on this planet for as long as the sun shines. http://milliongenerations.org 11:53 PM Jan 1st from web
• inspiring call by Rob Hopkins at TED http://on.ted.com/468W via @davidhodgson, and on resilience http://bit.ly/5b79fF via @stephen_hinton 10:46 PM Jan 1st from Echofon
• RT @ShannonMayers “Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.” -Marian Wright Edelman 9:49 PM Jan 1st from Echofon
• Goodbye Holocene, here's Anthropocene. What if it lasted? RT @revkin:... More on humanity's planet: http://j.mp/PlanetUs 9:27 PM Jan 1st from Echofon
• The way forward to peace and prosperity is reason and thoughtful dialog: http://ow.ly/QA7R - RT @jimmy_wales 11:43 PM Dec 30th, 2009 from Echofon
• How the focus on continued existence can benefit utilitarianism http://milliongenerations.org/wiki/index.php/Related_topics 2:41 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from web
• Honor our children's children. The rest follows. RT @davidhodgson: "Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother.Honor the Elders... 6:38 PM Dec 27th, 2009 from Echofon
• $10,000 for the most beneficial answer to "How can there be most happiness?" How to organize that? 9:51 PM Dec 3rd, 2009 from web
• RT @yokoono: Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years. 1:07 AM Nov 23rd, 2009 from Echofon
• for society the two are identical: RT @ingerleg: It is not living that matters, but living rightly. Socrates 12:14 AM Nov 22nd, 2009 from Echofon
• RT @realaphex: Wovon lebt der Mensch? ...Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral! 12:07 AM Nov 22nd, 2009 from Echofon
• RT @ingerleg: The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. Edward de Bono 12:15 AM Nov 21st, 2009 from Echofon
• Hear @strateeg on the future of waste Thursday at the Club of Amsterdam http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=803 3:03 AM Nov 18th, 2009 from web
• RT @virtueelp Een publieke dialoog georganiseerd door de Club of Amsterdam op 19 november over de Future of Waste - http://zdbzn.tk 12:22 PM Nov 11th, 2009 from TwitterBar Retweeted by you and 1 other
• How can there be most happiness? http://mosthappiness.be/ 2:54 AM Nov 18th, 2009 from web
• how many ancestors do you have in his generation? RT @josecamoessilva: general attacking Masada was Flavius Silva. An early ancestor, maybe? 12:36 AM Nov 14th, 2009 from Echofon
• who will pay for our debt? 11:48 PM Nov 6th, 2009 from Echofon
• RT @EmergentCulture "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 6:02 PM Nov 4th, 2009 from Echofon
• Just another useful term on the way to meaninglessness? RT @postcarbon: Why is RESILIENT more powerful than SUSTAINABLE? http://bit.ly/PCI15 10:44 AM Oct 31st, 2009 from Echofon
• How can there be most happiness? - 3:03 PM Oct 29th from Echofon
• as knowledge grows, collecting energy from renewable sources becomes cheaper. let's learn quickly. - 3:08 PM Oct 28th from Echofon
• What rights must we grant to those who can live in the future? Contribute to a bill of rights of future generations: http://bit.ly/OM2nm - 5:28 PM Oct 14th from web
• an idea that will become mainstream RT @steadystater: The rights of future generations: http://tinyurl.com/lx63q3 - 10:20 PM Oct 12th from Echofon
• "The end is nigh" they say, and we consume what we can get. What if we truly believed "The end is far"? - 9:30 PM Oct 12th from Echofon
• RT @DeanLetfus: We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror - 10:47 AM Oct 11th from Echofon
• Interesting discussion on the future of civilization. http://tinyurl.com/o3w8ez Liberal Democracy 2.0. Go George Monbiot! Via @steadystater - 9:23 AM Oct 9th from web
• Quick reductions of population came with loss of knowledge in the past. Might therefore be irreversible in the future. - 5:37 PM Oct 7th from web
• Give a hungry man a fish? Assume that in a very long time there still is a man who can fish. The rest follows. - 5:30 PM Oct 7th from web
• Why we must assume that power from nuclear fusion will remain more expensive than solar: http://milliongenerations.o... - 5:24 PM Oct 7th from web
• @umamexico My pleasure. Best wishes for your good work, many useful thoughts that spread and help us be good ancestors. - 1:56 PM Oct 5th from Echofon in reply to umamexico
• Knowledge is useful. Life on earth seems possible for billions of years. How can sharing of knowledge continue for so long? - 2:14 PM Oct 4th from web
• @EricRWeinstein: Anti-Utopianism, sounds cool. What does it stand for? - 5:55 PM Oct 3rd from Echofon
• What goals are there for intellectual activity? (Beyond impressing others) - 4:43 AM Oct 2nd from Echofon
• Why so much bs about resilience vs sustainability? Resilience for what's beyond control. Sustainability for what's within. - 4:42 PM Oct 1st from Echofon
• Copenhagen: could they give the Olympics to the place that reduced its emissions most? What we really want changes what we do. - 4:26 PM Oct 1st from Echofon
• Number of children proportional to number of parents: easily solvable differential equation for population. - 3:03 PM Sep 27th from Echofon
• Why is "overpopulation" so often cited as a cause of problems? Population is what we want to keep. Over depends on how we go about things. - 3:00 PM Sep 27th from Echofon
• RT @Hansro: Length of life in Indonesia 2007 = Length of Life in Netherlands 1950, Family size Indo 2007 = NL 1970 http://is.gd/3HFIe - 7:19 AM Sep 27th from Echofon
• RT @Spaceweaver: Survival of the Kindest http://ff.im/8MJJk - 7:17 AM Sep 27th from Echofon
• RT @EndOvershoot: Avoiding 10 miles of driving every week eliminates about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year! - 7:13 AM Sep 27th from Echofon
• Go to new earths when this one is up? Think again, please. http://tinyurl.com/y8lcxac - 3:47 PM Sep 26th from Echofon
• "is this what we are going to give to our future generations?" RT @lonniehodge: ... http://tinyurl.com/ybjsxzj - 3:17 PM Sep 26th from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: paul ehrlich: Even the most educated can’t possibly store more than a tiny part of the group’s culture http://tr.im/zAhv - 3:46 PM Sep 24th from Echofon
• RT @energyandcapita: Alternative Energy Growth : Renewables Sail Past Nuclear - http://bit.ly/2m8a0w - 3:35 PM Sep 24th from Echofon
• RT @redutten: And old African proverb says "If you want to preserve knowledge and enable it to travel through time, entrust it to children". - 3:16 PM Sep 24th from Echofon
• Energy to reach speeds for interstellar travel will cost >$10bn/person. Better find ways to survive on earth longer. - 2:08 PM Sep 23rd from Echofon
• What ways exist to spend money without causing consumption of any resource? - 9:07 AM Sep 22nd from Echofon
• "You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs" - Norman Borlaug (1914-2009) - 1:46 PM Sep 20th from web
• The conditions that allow continued sharing of information provide useful insights for lasting civilizations. - 6:50 AM Sep 14th from Echofon
• A phone call for you. A descendant of yours living in the far future. Saying thank you. What for? - 2:56 PM Sep 12th from Echofon
• @paulthoran thank you for the lemonade yesterday, the peppers, lemons and wonderful ideas. - 2:46 PM Sep 12th from Echofon
• Any suggestions for honest & useful programs to offset fossil fuel consumption? - 2:40 PM Sep 12th from Echofon
• Any suggestions for honest and useful programs to offset greenhouse gas emissions? - 2:39 PM Sep 12th from Echofon
• Future generations have a right to existence. How can we be good ancestors? - 3:45 PM Sep 10th from web
• Fermi's paradox notwithstanding, intelligence ought to be able to find ways to continue while life is possible. - 3:43 PM Sep 10th from web
• "...campaigning groups for the environment or anything else are in the marketplace." http://tinyurl.com/mdbheu (thx @davidhodgson for link) - 2:46 PM Aug 29th from Echofon
• RT @thinkintuit: Believing either catastrophe or positive transformation is inevitable leads to inaction. choose engaged, conscious optimism - 2:27 PM Aug 29th from Echofon
• RT @outofthejar: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work." -Daniel Burnham - 3:46 PM Aug 28th from Echofon
• How many individuals could there be? http://bit.ly/TBdMs - 8:55 AM Aug 28th from web
• @sdm81838890 Carrying capacity depends on how we go about it. Might be more useful to ask how to have the most individuals in long run. - 8:54 AM Aug 28th from web in reply to sdm81838890
• RT @EricRWeinstein: Speaking "truth to power" is not interesting. Listening to power speaking to truth is utterly fascinating. - 8:42 AM Aug 28th from Echofon
• Discuss vision and values: http://tinyurl.com/mzcssv - 1:17 PM Aug 26th from Echofon
• Useful vision?: "milliongenerations expects that intelligence can find ways to continue while life is possible (and humans ... can, too)" - 1:15 PM Aug 26th from Echofon
• @PursueSustain John R. Ehrenfeld defines #sustainability as the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on Earth forever. - 11:54 AM Aug 22nd from web
• A practice is #sustainable if it can be continued indefinitely within a system. http://milliongenerations.o... - 11:42 AM Aug 22nd from web
• @PursueSustain #Sustainability was when our common descendants still exist on earth after millions of generations - 11:40 AM Aug 22nd from web
• @PursueSustain A practice is #sustainable if we could do it here on earth for five billion years (barring events beyond our control). - 11:39 AM Aug 22nd from web
• @PursueSustain #Sustainability is being able to continue all practices indefinitely (whereas resilience is surviving events beyond control) - 11:38 AM Aug 22nd from web
• RT @PursueSustain: Let's make today Sustainability Saturday! How would you define #sustainability in 140 characters or less? - 11:14 AM Aug 22nd from Echofon
• Can intelligence find ways to continue while life is possible? How can humans and their descendants be part of that? - 4:23 AM Aug 22nd from web
• RT @millionGx The phone rings, one who lives a million generations in the future calls you. What will you ask this person? - 3:27 AM Aug 22nd from web
• RT @larrybrilliant: BusWeek says it is smart to be optimistic, smallpox eradication reason to feel good about the future http://bit.ly/ofxlY - 10:48 PM Aug 18th from Echofon
• Moving: met aquaintance from 1994 work with MSF in refugee camp yesterday. Refugee to businessman! Wonderful. - 2:58 PM Aug 17th from Echofon
• Ways for intelligence to grow while life is possible do not necessarily include humans. But we should try. - 8:38 AM Aug 15th from web
• RT @davidhodgson: Is all that you know all that you need to know? - 11:26 PM Aug 7th from Echofon
• Why do many enjoy the thought that life/nature and intelligence/civilization have no common future? Pessimism: luxury we can't afford! - 11:24 PM Aug 7th from Echofon
• Why should it be foolish to assume civilization can continue on earth? Really continue. Life probably continues for billions of years. - 4:14 PM Aug 5th from Echofon
• Strange to be alive, wonderful. My existence lets me hope that others will continue to share the experience. - 12:19 PM Aug 4th from Echofon
• When I get a phonecall from someone living on this planet in a million years, what will I ask? - 3:24 PM Aug 3rd from Echofon
• Wouldn't be if all those before me hadn't been the way they were. Can't thank them any more. Can pay it forward! - 2:13 AM Aug 2nd from Echofon
• @TheOilDrum: civil, evidence-based discussions about energy and its impact on our future # FollowFriday #FF - 1:05 AM Jul 31st from web
• Mining the asteroids or returning to subsistence agriculture? http://europe.theoildrum.co... Entropy & the universal mining machine - 12:45 PM Jul 30th from web
• meet for milliongenerations tomorrow 17:00 http://bit.ly/AYDQa - 12:12 PM Jul 30th from web
• Existence of civilization while life is possible. Millions of generations with individuals realizing life is wonderful. - 3:53 PM Jul 28th from Echofon
• Happiness is complicated. Existence. Precondition to happiness. - 3:50 PM Jul 28th from Echofon
• How can there be most happiness? - 3:47 PM Jul 28th from Echofon
• That's who we work for. Or rather all their possible decendants. http://www.6billionothers.org - 4:12 PM Jul 24th from Echofon
• What purposes does civilzation serve? What is its goal? - 5:50 AM Jul 24th from Echofon
• RT @evangineer: What is Question Box? Launched in #uganda - ... project backed by @GrameenAppLab & Foundation http://bit.ly/LOro0 - 2:47 PM Jul 23rd from Echofon
• RT @strateeg: Lijstje van C2C producten die specifiek voor 'gewone' consumenten ... zijn gemaakt: http://tinyurl.com/nv8jnt- 2:41 PM Jul 23rd from Echofon
• RT @millionGx: Something to be truly proud of: http://www.6billionothers.org - 2:22 PM Jul 23rd from Echofon
• How long before aluminium becomes illegal? - 1:00 PM Jul 17th from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: every idea is the answer to a question: always make sure you know the question you are trying to answer... - 12:54 PM Jul 17th from Echofon
• Life in some form will most likely be on earth for as long as the sun continues to provide the right conditions. - 3:53 AM Jul 17th from Echofon
• Cradle to cradle is great. How would technical cycles remain closed? Might be easier to only use natural cycles. #C2C - 2:27 PM Jul 16th from Echofon
• RT @strateeg:wil graag in contact komen met mensen (overheid, ondernemers, studenten) in Overijssel die bezig zijn/gaan met Cradle to Cradle - 3:37 AM Jul 16th from Echofon
• Discounting future assets is standard. Should the value of future life be discounted? Is so, how? - 3:20 AM Jul 16th from Echofon
• Who is happier: one who lives 200 years or two who live to 100? - 2:41 PM Jul 15th from Echofon
• What is the greatest ambition? - 11:58 AM Jul 15th from Echofon
• In a billion years there still is life on earth. Conscious knowledge, too? - 3:24 PM Jul 10th from web
• Nobility? Everyone stems from Charlemagne, at least in Europe. There's only one type of human on earth! - 3:13 PM Jul 10th from web
• How long till races vanish? Someone alive in 300 yrs has more than 1,000 ancestors alive today. People move! - 3:22 PM Jul 6th from Echofon
• One day it'll be illegal to use substances unless we know that 100% will be recovered for use by our children - 8:52 PM Jun 28th from Echofon
• RT @sheriherndon: In terms of design principles for change, understanding the natural laws that govern all networks, is a good starting pnt - 5:23 PM Jun 26th from Echofon
• Michael Jackson: how would you have lived had you had his genes and experiences? - 10:18 AM Jun 26th from Echofon
• Let's help to create conditions for knowledge to be passed on while life is possible. - 6:39 AM Jun 26th from web
• July 31: meeting for milliongenerations http://bit.ly/yhYTU - 6:36 AM Jun 26th from web
• Assuming there still is at least one civilization on this planet in a billion years, what has been the average population growth? - 11:32 AM Jun 25th from Echofon
• milliongenerations.org finally has a customized navigation bar: http://milliongenerations.org/ - 4:13 PM Jun 24th from web
• By changing the perception of status. Hollywood to the rescue! RT @davidhodgson: how do we tweak our system to incent the doing of good? - 2:12 PM Jun 24th from web
• Assuming there still is a civilization a million generations from now, how much can each generation consume? - 3:40 PM Jun 23rd from Echofon
• RT @TheOilDrum: * How Will Knowledge of Collapse Impact Collapse?: ... http://tinyurl.com/nojjlg - 7:51 PM Jun 21st from Echofon
• RT @yokoono: Imagine a peaceful world: that's something we can all do, even when we have different opinions about how to get there. - 7:40 PM Jun 21st from Echofon
• Ideal society? If civilization evolves long enough it might be found. - 7:06 PM Jun 21st from Echofon
• Can knowledge increase forever? - 6:25 PM Jun 21st from Echofon
• Holland Tsunami, brilliant challenge to perceptions of cultural identity: http://bit.ly/12JIaF #Oerol - 5:17 AM Jun 21st from Echofon
• RT @yokoono: Let's carry the clearest vision of a peaceful world. - 4:21 AM Jun 21st from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: rt @odemagazine: How can we create a more compassionate world? http://ow.ly/eRWY - 4:01 AM Jun 21st from Echofon
• If kids exist, they'll be glad. RT @FullySustainabl: ... 500m yrs to make the Oil we're burning in 200 years - our kids will be Mad at us! - 1:02 AM Jun 20th from Echofon
• If everyone acted like me, would civilization be able to continue? Not with probable developments. Need better ideas! - 2:19 AM Jun 19th from Echofon
• Less is green. E.g., a smaller house. For everything that entails consumption. Which still is almost everything. - 3:11 PM Jun 17th from Echofon
• Who wants to build and #opensource environment for a focused and collaborative online discussion? - 3:02 PM Jun 16th from Echofon
• There is only one type of human on earth. - 10:20 PM Jun 14th from Echofon
• Will civilization inevitably last while life is possible? If that is not certain, what follows if one assumes civilization stays for good? - 1:28 PM Jun 14th from web
• RT @TheOilDrum: * Right Sizing the Economy: Can Herman Daly's Prescription ... accomplish this Task?: Th.. http://tinyurl.com/lreuk2 - 3:48 PM Jun 13th from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: how do we tweak our system to incent the doing of good? - 3:26 PM Jun 13th from Echofon
• Why milliongenerations must end: http://bit.ly/Pfcuh - 11:23 AM Jun 12th from web
• How best to create an #opensource platform for a focused #discussion with a #prize awarded by the contributors themselves? - 3:58 PM Jun 11th from Echofon
• Formalized foundation, finally. Let's get going!- 5:53 AM Jun 11th from Echofon
• RT @millionGx: Consumption can't survive. - 3:39 PM Jun 10th from Echofon
• Identifying conditions required for civilizations to continue for as long as life is possible. - 1:37 PM Jun 10th from web
• If destruction remains easier than preventing it, how can we survive progress? - 2:04 PM Jun 9th from Echofon
• What would I do, if I had her genes and experiences? - 12:01 PM Jun 8th from Echofon
• RT @millionGx: Let's keep civilization while life is possible! - 8:43 AM Jun 8th from Echofon
• How starting with "meeting the needs of the present..." prevents sustainability: http://milliongenerations.o... - 7:34 AM Jun 8th from web
• Inspiring! RT @designersaccord: Just read Paul Hawken's 2009 commencement address at University of Portland: http://tinyurl.com/ry5ug5 - 11:10 PM Jun 7th from Echofon
• Thought provoking & daring! RT @TheOilDrum: * Herman Daly: From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy http://tinyurl.com/lpcbnx - 10:59 PM Jun 7th from Echofon
• Change in perceived status brought down birth rates. Now consumption! - 2:58 PM Jun 5th from Echofon
• How many individuals could there be? http://bit.ly/TBdMs - 2:49 PM Jun 3rd from web
• A start for a Dutch version was made. Nederlandse versie: http://milliongenerations.o... - 2:37 PM Jun 3rd from web
• Picking cherries. Life IS wonderful. Thank you. - 8:36 AM May 30th from Echofon
• Good meeting today! http://bit.ly/5s4cG Hope future generations benefit. - 11:55 AM May 29th from web
• RT @NurtureGirl: "Don't fight forces, use them." R. Buckminster Fuller - 1:40 PM May 25th from Echofon
• RT @TheOilDrum: * Report Review: Prosperity without Growth: This is a guest post by Luís Queirós... http://tinyurl.com/q3zpmq - 5:38 AM May 23rd from Echofon
• Ray Anderson's Mission Zero! Check it out http://missionzero.org/ (@missionzero) - 4:34 AM May 21st from web
• Impressed by Ray Anderson's talk at TED 2009 http://bit.ly/aXA19 - 4:30 AM May 21st from web
• Status is still linked to and expressed by consumption of resources. How to change that? http://milliongenerations.o... - 3:06 AM May 19th from web
• Imagine there still are intelligent beings on this planet in a billion years... - 4:01 AM May 14th from web
• What is necessary for #civilization? Can the definition be reduced to the sharing of information? - 3:43 AM May 12th from Echofon
• RT @appropedia:"the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."Toynb - 2:38 PM May 6th from Echofon
• RT @TheOilDrum: "Minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements of hope" http://bit.ly/19EPYk (resource depletion) - 12:55 PM May 4th from Echofon
• Going by bike today. - 6:35 AM May 3rd from web
• New car today. 2x mileage, 57mpg on paper. Next car should double again etc. Less bad, not good. Buy time to find solution. Like it too much - 2:11 PM May 1st from Echofon
• Want your fuel, not your word. RT @Algaeventure: Trying to network more people and get the word out that the energy crisis has been solved!! - 10:04 PM Apr 30th from Echofon
• Save the earth? The earth will stay. RT @GlobalWarming12:...is the only way to save the earth to get rid of the humans? http://s3nt.com/f39g - 2:14 AM Apr 30th from Echofon
• How strangely wonderful to be aware - 6:28 AM Apr 29th from Echofon
• What if civilization on earth continues? Where will the waste go to? - 2:50 PM Apr 28th from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: Negative thinking is a luxury we can't afford. (via @yokoono) - 9:08 AM Apr 28th from Echofon
• RT @davidhodgson: How can we get topics like climate change & peak oil into full public view? - http://tinyurl.com/czrqkk (via @wutsnu) - 5:02 AM Apr 28th from Echofon
• Our longing for status helped us reproduce. Will it keep us from finding ways to continue? - 3:00 AM Apr 25th from Echofon
• @GlobalWarming12 "population" is what we'd like to keep, and "over" depends on how we go about things, so it is not a reason for gl.warming. - 12:34 PM Apr 24th from web in reply to GlobalWarming12
• @davidhodgson: sustainable, thrivable, ok. Continued existence of civilization is what matters. The rest follows. To be, or not to be... - 11:54 AM Apr 24th from Echofon
• Returning from impressive speech by Michael Braungart. Calm and convincing. C2C! http://tinyurl.com/zjedh - 9:08 AM Apr 22nd from Echofon
• No one there to prosecute rapist drakes... Civilization might not be such a bad idea. - 5:03 AM Apr 22nd from Echofon
• Ducks in the canal. Noisy. Several males pursuing a mother duck. She abandons her ducklings to escape being raped. - 5:00 AM Apr 22nd from Echofon
• @noxhanti compromise? Need both: e.g., resilience to survive climate change & sustainable practices that don't cause it. - 10:53 PM Apr 20th from Echofon in reply to noxhanti
• @seankershaw Resilient is for events beyond control, sustainable for practices we control. Need both! - 4:28 PM Apr 20th from Echofon in reply to seankershaw
• @noxhanti: RT @corezion Sustainability need not be static. Resilience accepts that change is inevitable. But must not excuse inactivity! - 4:15 PM Apr 20th from Echofon
• Resilience is about events beyond control, sustainability about practices we can control. Must not use resilience to justify inactivity! - 3:53 PM Apr 20th from Echofon
• I hate to have to block spammers, it's so hierarchical. Hope with the prize & competition we can let the spam just sink to oblivion. - 12:08 AM Apr 20th from Echofon
• Life is wonderful. - 12:58 PM Apr 19th from Echofon
• Can civilization remain as long as there is life on earth? - 12:09 PM Apr 19th from web
• Expect life to continue on earth while the sun provides a suitable environment. A biosphere for billions of years! - 12:08 PM Apr 19th from web
• Save the earth? The earth will stay. -12:09 AM Apr 19th from Echofon
• A grey huron (reiger) just flew in over the canal. Bad news for all the cute ducklings. Nature's beautiful. And certainly brutal. - 12:02 AM Apr 19th from Echofon
• believes knowledge can be passed on while the sun shines, and civilization can remain - 8:47 AM Apr 18th from web
• asking how there can be most happiness - 8:42 AM Apr 18th from web