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Tag: Society

Demand side management to help build a renewable power grid

December 8, 2010June 10, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Demand side management helps make our power grid more cost-effective and aids in the transition towards renewable energy. It can also be considered as a very green policy on its own, as it reduces the amount of power we need to produce, and thus our impact on the environment.

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How trolls and extremists are damaging our public discourse

December 5, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Trolls and extremists contaminate our public discourse with falsehoods, logical fallacies, irrational argument, poisoning the well, false expertise, and the creation of de-facto knowledge. Individuals must learn to resist the onslaught of ideas driven by these sections of society.

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Power system performance metrics

November 26, 2010July 23, 2019 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Everything has its price. Every form of power production has costs in dollars, time, land, materials, pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, and human deaths. We look at the most important factors for analyzing the feasibility of a proposed power project. Considering only some of these factors will lead to an incomplete picture of power system costs.

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Lindsey Simpson of TEDxMcGill on volunteerism and planning major events

November 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 1 Comment

Lindsey Simpson, one of the organizers of TEDxMcGill, talks in this interview about why she likes to volunteer and work hard to plan such big events. TEDxMcGill is an externally organized TED event in the city of Montreal, Canada on November 20th, 2010.

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Interview with wind power guru Paul Gipe

November 15, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Wind power expert Paul Gipe advocates that we deliberately create our green energy future rather than wait around for it to happen. He says that we should aim to democratize our energy production for a more prosperous future.

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Lifestyle brands: Selling people a constructed dream

November 13, 2010February 23, 2016 Kyle Laskowski 6 Comments

Lifestyle brands are designed to create the impression that their product is part of a way of life that is desirable. They do this through connection to people’s employment, ethnicity, religion, class, region, etc. Lifestyle brands are artificially created value design to allow inferior or average products masquerade as superior ones.

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Helpful tools for understanding nuclear fusion

November 8, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 7 Comments

These are the concepts I found to be very useful during my fusion research. Here we define ignition state, Lawson criterion, fusion performance parameter, and energy gain factor Q.

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Science denial: Vaccines, vitamins and GMOs

November 2, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Michael Specter delivered a clear and powerful message in his talk at TED in 2010. Vaccines save lives, yet people fear them. GMOs are primarily opposed for reasons unrelated to the method of their construction.

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How can you deliberately change your society?

October 30, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 7 Comments

How do people try to chance society? Why do these methods work? How can they be resisted? Progressive and regressive change can depend on many of the same basic techniques.

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How the common explanations for poverty are incorrect

October 26, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 6 Comments

The common ideas that purport to explain the fact of poverty are in fact not the primary causal factors of poverty.

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National and cultural issues that contribute to poverty and hamper development

October 23, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 6 Comments

Now we are going to discuss the issues that shape the development of extremely poor nations and cultures.

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What keeps communities locked in the extreme poverty trap?

October 22, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 8 Comments

Extreme poverty is a state of subsistence living in which most, if not all, efforts are directed towards survival. Extreme poverty has many direct consequences. What we are discussing here are the direct feedback effects that tend to cause cycles of deepening poverty on a community level.

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Our global human tribe: How we must extend empathy beyond our religion and nation

October 21, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 5 Comments

Jeremy Rifkin implores us: “to begin rethinking human nature. To bring out our empathic sociability, so that we can rethink the institutions and society and prepare the groundwork for an empathic civilisation.”

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Jim Elliott shares his thoughts on sustainability, community, and living green

October 20, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack Leave a comment

Jim Elliott is a notable figure in the sustainability movement in Regina and Saskatchewan. He is involved with many environmental action groups, poverty-reduction groups, and the Citizen’s Public Transit Coalition for Regina.

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The foundations of personal change

October 20, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 2 Comments

How do we change as people? Why do we change as people? This work is intended to be an earnest discussion of the realities of personal change.

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Laura Pfeifer on urban ecology and community leadership

October 19, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Laura Pfeifer is the founder and editor of Regina Urban Ecology, and is the Regina organizer of Jane’s Walk.

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Fixing our media hypnosis

October 18, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 6 Comments

We have an ever-accelerating journalism cycle that is making mistakes, shortening our attention spans, presenting opinion as news, and trivializing our political debates. We are learning that even though we have an unimaginable wealth of information at our fingertips, our trust can be easily misplaced.

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Hans Rosling: Health, wealth, and progress of the world

October 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

While demonstrating the changes on his graphs, Rosling delivers a rapid-fire description of the major political choices and world forces that are driving the change.

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Media speed’s negative effect on politics

October 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 5 Comments

The advent of intense media speed and opinion masquerading as news have had some damaging effects on our political system. This is especially evident in the coverage leading up to and during elections.

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The dangers of news media speed

October 15, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 5 Comments

We have an ever-accelerating journalism cycle that is making mistakes, shortening our attention spans, presenting opinion as news, and trivializing our political debates. Media literacy is the only reliable cure, and we all need to learn it. Fast.

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