Just in case anyone reading my previous blog post Got worms? wonders what composting and gardening has to do with engineering, here's the deal.
The National Academy of Engineering has developed a list of 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.
One of the challenges on the National Academy of Engineering's list, is Manage the Nitrogen Cycle.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Got worms?
Last week, I posted about the different kinds of wealth there are in the world, and about how self-sufficiency can be a kind of wealth.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Wealth
I've been reading S.M. Stirling's Change series lately, which begins with the book:
The premise is that in 1998, something happens around the world which eliminates all of Earth's high technology, particularly electronics and explosives. It's alternate "history," with both utopian and distopian elements.
But reading the series has had me thinking about wealth.
See, in the Dying Time that followed the Change, very few people in the cities survived. All our stockbrokers in New York? Turned cannibal and/or died. Wealth did not necessarily mean survival.
The premise is that in 1998, something happens around the world which eliminates all of Earth's high technology, particularly electronics and explosives. It's alternate "history," with both utopian and distopian elements.
But reading the series has had me thinking about wealth.
See, in the Dying Time that followed the Change, very few people in the cities survived. All our stockbrokers in New York? Turned cannibal and/or died. Wealth did not necessarily mean survival.
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