December 16, 2010 Wondering what went wrong, much of the world is still gassed by bloat deflating from the global financial bust. A Compression view of the global economy as a physical entity helps explain it. Financial valuation is a human overlay on physical...
December 16, 2010 On December 15, the Department of Energy released its Critical Materials Strategy Report which is downloadable. Many horses escaped before this barn door started to close, but within the last few months, imagination began to perk up. For example, the...
December 2, 2010 A new book, Global Resource Depletion by Andre Diederen, reads much like the opening chapter of Compression, only better. Although published in the Netherlands, it’s written in English, and available from on-line booksellers. You can glean the gist of...
December 2, 2010 Dealing with Compression is a wooly undertaking. Just contemplating so many new factors in making decisions taxes any individual’s intellectual comprehension beyond its limit, and emotional strain may be more draining. To make it humanly possible to...
November 16, 2010 Went to the Pegasus conference last week. Attendees were deep into systems thinking, methods of organizational change, and environmental issues. Most seemed to underestimate the challenges facing industrial societies, but not the depth of human...
November 16, 2010 Global Compression is necessary to globally reduce the consumption of resources. But from a conventional business and economic view, Compression's operational goal is unimaginable: By 2040 globally develop a quality of life somewhat like industrial...
November 3, 2010 The world is full of environmental movements. Some like the World Wildlife Federation, Worldwatch Institute, and The Rocky Mountain Institute are well established, each in its way undertaking “doable” projects to better the environment. Activist...
November 3, 2010 Historically, most hot wars were partly motivated by grabs for land and resources, as with colonial wars and World War II. For example, early in the 20th century Japan aspired to industrial power status, but lacked the natural resources for it and was...