Comments for Paul GildingPaul Gilding - Independent writer & advisor on sustainability. http://paulgilding.com Independent writer & advisor on sustainability. Tue, 15 May 2012 08:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Substitutions… | Doomstead Diner http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15589 Substitutions… | Doomstead Diner Tue, 15 May 2012 08:37:36 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15589 [...] observations regards limits and are familiar to readers here, at the same time he doesn’t scare the [...] [...] observations regards limits and are familiar to readers here, at the same time he doesn’t scare the [...]

]]> Comment on Public speaking experience by Patricia Littlefield http://paulgilding.com/public-speaking-examples/comment-page-1#comment-15583 Patricia Littlefield Mon, 14 May 2012 20:51:27 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?page_id=726#comment-15583 I just read your book, and liked it. I agree with you and think you have written probably the best of the sustainable living topic books I have read. I am interested in sustainable living, and the interrelations of urban and rural areas as important parts of my life experience. I would really like an online forum to dialogue with other people, and hopefully, you would "check in" to provide some perspective. I spend most of my time in urban Oakland, outside of San Francisco, but am planning to retire to Lake County in the north, near to where I grew up. I would like to see Lake County explored as a community under these conditions. It really has issues now with poverty, and the crisis of the Great Disruption could actually shake things up enough to give a complete replanning and reorganization. I would like to discuss this. Thank you for an excellent book. I just read your book, and liked it. I agree with you and think you have written probably the best of the sustainable living topic books I have read. I am interested in sustainable living, and the interrelations of urban and rural areas as important parts of my life experience. I would really like an online forum to dialogue with other people, and hopefully, you would “check in” to provide some perspective.
I spend most of my time in urban Oakland, outside of San Francisco, but am planning to retire to Lake County in the north, near to where I grew up. I would like to see Lake County explored as a community under these conditions. It really has issues now with poverty, and the crisis of the Great Disruption could actually shake things up enough to give a complete replanning and reorganization. I would like to discuss this.

Thank you for an excellent book.

]]> Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Substitutions … | Economic Undertow http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15581 Substitutions … | Economic Undertow Mon, 14 May 2012 18:09:02 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15581 [...] observations regards limits and are familiar to readers here, at the same time he doesn’t scare the [...] [...] observations regards limits and are familiar to readers here, at the same time he doesn’t scare the [...]

]]> Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Kelly http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15576 Kelly Mon, 14 May 2012 10:25:37 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15576 Dear Paul keep up the good work. I forward all your mail outs and videos to my networks and ask people to listen to 'the most sensible man on the planet.' Let the philosophy students argue about the meaning of optimism. It's not worth expending energy over words that we'll all apply according to our personal framework of references anyway. Your messages are getting across, keep them coming. cheers Dear Paul
keep up the good work. I forward all your mail outs and videos to my networks and ask people to listen to ‘the most sensible man on the planet.’ Let the philosophy students argue about the meaning of optimism. It’s not worth expending energy over words that we’ll all apply according to our personal framework of references anyway. Your messages are getting across, keep them coming.
cheers

]]> Comment on Occupy Wall St is the Kid in the Fairy Tale – The Emperor Has No Clothes by Martin Lightle http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/occupy-wall-st.html/comment-page-1#comment-15565 Martin Lightle Sun, 13 May 2012 10:43:58 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=626#comment-15565 Do you seriously accept your baseless rantings as considerable? This negative fear mongering will be the deth of genuine efforts to achieve a sustainable world. Your madness is regional, fix Aus and let us in the sane world know how that works out. Do you seriously accept your baseless rantings as considerable? This negative fear mongering will be the deth of genuine efforts to achieve a sustainable world. Your madness is regional, fix Aus and let us in the sane world know how that works out.

]]> Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Bill Bunting http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15355 Bill Bunting Wed, 02 May 2012 03:40:17 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15355 Eric, if you are good at what you do send me an email bill@keztek.com . The fact is that your industry is entirely the hope for the future....all time...no materials. This is what at least 30% of the 7 billion need to engage in in order to preserve resources. The art is to develop products where the user....and the developer can achieve economic activity through applied skill/creativity and time. I have some ideas. Eric, if you are good at what you do send me an email bill@keztek.com . The fact is that your industry is entirely the hope for the future….all time…no materials. This is what at least 30% of the 7 billion need to engage in in order to preserve resources. The art is to develop products where the user….and the developer can achieve economic activity through applied skill/creativity and time. I have some ideas.

]]> Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Techno-Optimism: Everything Will Get Better « James Bedsole http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15332 Techno-Optimism: Everything Will Get Better « James Bedsole Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:14:50 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15332 [...] innovation. Gilding delivered a recent TED talk entitled “The Earth Is Full.” In his blog, he contends that “a major economic crisis is now being triggered by humanity passing the limits [...] [...] innovation. Gilding delivered a recent TED talk entitled “The Earth Is Full.” In his blog, he contends that “a major economic crisis is now being triggered by humanity passing the limits [...]

]]> Comment on Occupy Wall St is the Kid in the Fairy Tale – The Emperor Has No Clothes by Eric http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/occupy-wall-st.html/comment-page-1#comment-15295 Eric Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:06:07 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=626#comment-15295 Hi Paul, everyone, I read the Great Disruption recently, and like some other commenters here I'm over my "grieving" period and am now ready to get to work. However, I'm a little lost on exactly how to do that. I'd like to get in contact with people in the know and see what sort of jobs/opportunities are out there. I'm a game designer by trade and currently have a job producing web and mobile apps. I'd be happy to leverage that (games can be powerful tools for change) or to make a change if something with more direct impact presented itself. Anyone have any suggestions? ...or can just point me in the right direction? Hi Paul, everyone,

I read the Great Disruption recently, and like some other commenters here I’m over my “grieving” period and am now ready to get to work.

However, I’m a little lost on exactly how to do that. I’d like to get in contact with people in the know and see what sort of jobs/opportunities are out there. I’m a game designer by trade and currently have a job producing web and mobile apps. I’d be happy to leverage that (games can be powerful tools for change) or to make a change if something with more direct impact presented itself.

Anyone have any suggestions? …or can just point me in the right direction?

]]> Comment on Will the techno-optimists save the world? by Eric http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-the-techno-optimists-save-the-world.html/comment-page-2#comment-15294 Eric Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:04:41 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?p=684#comment-15294 Hi Paul, everyone, I read the Great Disruption recently, and like some other commenters here I'm over my "grieving" period and am now ready to get to work. However, I'm a little lost on exactly how to do that. I'd like to get in contact with people in the know and see what sort of jobs/opportunities are out there. I'm a game designer by trade and currently have a job producing web and mobile apps. I'd be happy to leverage that (games can be powerful tools for change) or to make a change if something with more direct impact presented itself. Anyone have any suggestions? ...or can just point me in the right direction? Hi Paul, everyone,

I read the Great Disruption recently, and like some other commenters here I’m over my “grieving” period and am now ready to get to work.

However, I’m a little lost on exactly how to do that. I’d like to get in contact with people in the know and see what sort of jobs/opportunities are out there. I’m a game designer by trade and currently have a job producing web and mobile apps. I’d be happy to leverage that (games can be powerful tools for change) or to make a change if something with more direct impact presented itself.

Anyone have any suggestions? …or can just point me in the right direction?

]]> Comment on “The Great Disruption” by The Future Is Real Abundance | the ecology of happiness http://paulgilding.com/the-great-disruption/comment-page-2#comment-15211 The Future Is Real Abundance | the ecology of happiness Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:31:16 +0000 http://paulgilding.com/?page_id=313#comment-15211 [...] The Future Is Real Abundance By Gerald ⋅ 04/22/2012 ⋅ Post a comment Filed Under  abundance, creativity, local economies, riches of nature var addthis_product = 'wpp-264'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}Techno-optimists have been proclaiming the beginning of the age of abundance, given how fast computing power is growing and how many solutions the power of the crowd will supposedly make possible. Meanwhile, realists point out that raw materials – not just the fossil fuels that power (so-called) modern civilization, but also the rare earths and other minerals necessary to produce high-tech tools and toys (including those that would be necessary for many a dreamed-of high-tech sustainable society) – are becoming scarce; environmentalists proclaim the beginning of the Great Disruption. [...] [...] The Future Is Real Abundance By Gerald ⋅ 04/22/2012 ⋅ Post a comment Filed Under  abundance, creativity, local economies, riches of nature var addthis_product = 'wpp-264'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}Techno-optimists have been proclaiming the beginning of the age of abundance, given how fast computing power is growing and how many solutions the power of the crowd will supposedly make possible. Meanwhile, realists point out that raw materials – not just the fossil fuels that power (so-called) modern civilization, but also the rare earths and other minerals necessary to produce high-tech tools and toys (including those that would be necessary for many a dreamed-of high-tech sustainable society) – are becoming scarce; environmentalists proclaim the beginning of the Great Disruption. [...]

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