http://neweartharchive.org Inspiring Student-Led Innovation and Solutions for the Future Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:07:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://neweartharchive.org/people/psychology/clock-of-the-long-now-a-critical-review http://neweartharchive.org/people/psychology/clock-of-the-long-now-a-critical-review#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:33:51 +0000 NEA Moderator http://neweartharchive.org/?p=3606 • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Now is shorter; soon comes swifter; and the past marches closer to the present. This is the theme of Stewart Brand’s manifesto “Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, the Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest Computer”. He brilliantly makes the case that the human perception of time has become excruciatingly limited and focused, and [...]]]> http://neweartharchive.org/people/psychology/clock-of-the-long-now-a-critical-review/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/reality-is-broken-why-games-make-us-better-and-how-they-can-change-the-world http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/reality-is-broken-why-games-make-us-better-and-how-they-can-change-the-world#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 02:06:10 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/?p=3566 • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Janine McGonigal There is an undeniable power in games for harnessing the best attributes of humanity - and a great potential in directing those attributes towards improving the quality of our work, our lives, and our environment.]]> http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/reality-is-broken-why-games-make-us-better-and-how-they-can-change-the-world/feed 2 http://neweartharchive.org/people/music-art/waste-land http://neweartharchive.org/people/music-art/waste-land#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:21:19 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/?p=3555 • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.]]> http://neweartharchive.org/people/music-art/waste-land/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/people/culture-society/a-short-history-of-progress http://neweartharchive.org/people/culture-society/a-short-history-of-progress#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:29:50 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/?p=3548 • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Ronald Wright Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on?]]> http://neweartharchive.org/people/culture-society/a-short-history-of-progress/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/2012-new-earth-archive-books/in-defense-of-food-an-eaters-manifesto http://neweartharchive.org/2012-new-earth-archive-books/in-defense-of-food-an-eaters-manifesto#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:09:41 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/people/food-health/in-defense-of-food-an-eaters-manifesto/ • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Michael Pollen What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.]]> http://neweartharchive.org/2012-new-earth-archive-books/in-defense-of-food-an-eaters-manifesto/feed 3 http://neweartharchive.org/environment/bio-eco/the-future-of-life http://neweartharchive.org/environment/bio-eco/the-future-of-life#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:09:37 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/environment/bio-eco/the-future-of-life/ • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Edward O. Wilson Knopf; 1 edition (January 8, 2002) Amazon.com Book Description: From one of the world’s most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth’s biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue. Today we [...]]]> http://neweartharchive.org/environment/bio-eco/the-future-of-life/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/economics/business/natural-capitalism-creating-the-next-industrial-revolution http://neweartharchive.org/economics/business/natural-capitalism-creating-the-next-industrial-revolution#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:37 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/economics/business/natural-capitalism-creating-the-next-industrial-revolution/ • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution. Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests […]]]> http://neweartharchive.org/economics/business/natural-capitalism-creating-the-next-industrial-revolution/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/ibms-new-neurosynaptic-chips-technology-inspired-by-the-brain http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/ibms-new-neurosynaptic-chips-technology-inspired-by-the-brain#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:43:01 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/?p=3529 • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Called cognitive computers, systems built with these chips won’t be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity. ]]> http://neweartharchive.org/science/technology-humanity/ibms-new-neurosynaptic-chips-technology-inspired-by-the-brain/feed 0 http://neweartharchive.org/environment/climate-change-environment/eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet http://neweartharchive.org/environment/climate-change-environment/eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:09:38 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/environment/climate-change-environment/eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet/ • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS Bill McKibben Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already […]]]> http://neweartharchive.org/environment/climate-change-environment/eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet/feed 3 http://neweartharchive.org/environment/systems/thinking-in-systems-a-primer http://neweartharchive.org/environment/systems/thinking-in-systems-a-primer#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:09:46 +0000 New Earth Archive http://neweartharchive.org/environment/systems/thinking-in-systems-a-primer/ • Facebook • Twitter • Reddit • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS by Donella H. Meadows In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of [...]]]> http://neweartharchive.org/environment/systems/thinking-in-systems-a-primer/feed 0