A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “environment”
“ Nature restores human nature, yet human nature underestimates the value of nature. This tendency precludes our ability to take advantage of nature’s restorative power while leading to nature’s destruction. ”
via ‘The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?’ on 77Zero.; citing from “Underestimating Nearby Nature: Affective Forecasting Errors Obscure the Happy Path to Sustainability. The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?” by Nisbet, E. K., & Zelenski.
(Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
‘Back to the start’ by Chipotle, Feat. Willie Nelson (cover of ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay); via Fast Company.
“ If what you are describing is even close to reality then we might be in for 5-10 years of oil flow at say 200,000 barrels a day. That’d … well, no point going further. ”
Hundimiento Zona 2 (1) by Gobierno de Guatemala. This is the 100 meter deep sinkhole that opened up and swallowed a house after the recent storms.
“ In the future I can see data centres becoming part of the [community] heating infrastructure, since what we do from a simple perspective is turn electricity into heat! ”
Blood, Sweat and Luxuries (BBC)
«Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods». «Contains some upsetting scenes.» Since ‘…and T-Shirts’, and what with ‘…and Takeaways’ (which I’ve just discovered and haven’t seen) the producer of this series seem to be on a roll. And the guys in this series are actually putting their back into it, which is more than can be said for some of the wimps on ‘…and T-Shirts’.
“ «There are only 4 fundamental positions available on (human influenced) climate change. Choose honestly and choose wisely […]» ”
