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| SUPERÁVIT (SURPLUS ENERGY) is an exhibit to be hosted in Barcelona, to feature painting, photography, books, short film, discussions, regarding ways in which pace of prevailing lifestyles causes breakdown in sense of cohesion, need to expend or dispose of excess energy without necessarily keeping balance in mind... show to include ecological analysis, information, discussions related to society's general approach to dealing with what Georges Bataille called "the accursed share"... |
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WORKING OUT THE KINKS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY'S GREATEST PROMISE: WIND POWER
CONSERVATIONISTS COMPLAIN WIND TURBINES CAN HARM THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT IT
11 July 2006
Opponents of wind-harvested power generation —usually lobbying for subsidies or public support for fossil fuels purveyors, but also including conservationists— like to crow that giant turbines kill birds, destroy pristine habitat and even "emit" carbon dioxide indirectly. The gist: that an "environmentally friendly" power source is in point of fact not so environmentally friendly. [Full Story]
GLOBAL WIND POWER EXPANDS IN 2006
28 June 2005 :: Joseph Florence
Global wind electricity-generating capacity increased by 24 percent in 2005 to 59,100 megawatts. This represents a twelvefold increase from a decade ago, when world wind-generating capacity stood at less than 5,000 megawatts. Wind is the world’s fastest-growing energy source with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last ten years. In contrast, over the same time period, coal use has grown by 2.5 percent per year, nuclear power by 1.8 percent, natural gas by 2.5 percent, and oil by 1.7 percent. [Full Story]
THE WORLD AFTER OIL PEAKS
26 May 2006 :: Lester R. Brown
Peak oil is described as the point where oil production stops rising and begins its inevitable long-term decline. In the face of fast-growing demand, this means rising oil prices. But even if oil production growth simply slows or plateaus, the resulting tightening in supplies will still drive the price of oil upward, albeit less rapidly, and in a world of declining oil production, no country can use more oil except at the expense of others. [Full Story]
BARCELONA: "THE GREAT ENCHANTRESS"
Updated 19 December 2005
Blessed with luxuriant geography, Barcelona is situated between two rivers, along the Mediterranean coast, and buttressed by the Collserrola massif. The landscape is naturally verdant and lush, and the present day city includes many barrios which used to be farming villages. Visitors can look out over the entire valley from Mount Tibidabo (a reference to the Biblical temptation of Jesus by the Devil, saying "this I give to you"). [City Page]
ECONOMY OF ERRORS: HOW ABUNDANCE MAY BRING SCARCITY
DISTORTIONS BUILT INTO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY THREATEN LONG-TERM STABILITY
22 November 2005
The global economy in its present form is not only full of and forced to deal with problematic distortions; it has come to depend a great deal on the "bubble" effect of certain miscalculations and manipulations. Assumptions built into weak threads in the economic web mean that markets are not able to set prices or distribute wealth at sustainable levels. [Full Story]
'TREE OF LIFE' MAKES USED WEAPONS INTO SIGN OF HOPE
11 July 2005
In the wake of Mozambique's long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists set up the Transforming Arms into Tools project in the nation's capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways to secure and advance civil society. [Full Story]
'THE HOURS' & THE MOMENT
22 March 2003
The common wisdom is that The Hours is about a writer, and about the effects of her writing over time... or else that it's about an emotional struggle that is transferred from person to person through a series of more or less tenuous or intimate relationships... or that it has to do with the victimization of innocent and fragile souls by a harsh and careless world. But I think it probes much deeper than any of the above crises, and touches a fundamental problem of human equilibrium, that is, an existential balance based in the enigma of an elusive raison d'être. [Full Text]
