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Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: A Global View of Peopled Nature","bookmark_notes":"Today, domestication does not stop with species but rather extends to entire landscapes, biomes, and even entire continents.","ub_date":"1228866759","bookmark_date":"1208537307","tags_str":"article<\/a>, domestication<\/a>, ecology<\/a>","se_id":"worldchanging-tools-models-and-ideas-for-building-a-bright-green-future-a-global-view-of-peopled-nature","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/003842.html","bookmark_desc":"WorldChanging: Geothermal Heat Pumps","bookmark_notes":"It's not quite a renewable system, although the power requirements are sufficiently low as to make geothermal heat pumps a viable pairing with solar and\/or wind generation.","ub_date":"1228866759","bookmark_date":"1208537307","tags_str":"energy<\/a>, 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Why the We Campaign Needs Change.","bookmark_notes":"It's a shame that actual systems shift is difficult to find in the campaign, and that a lack of imagination in the content is apparently being met by a lack of innovation in the delivery.","ub_date":"1228866682","bookmark_date":"1208537259","tags_str":"2008<\/a>, activism<\/a>, advertising<\/a>, article<\/a>, gore<\/a>, steffen<\/a>, worldchanging<\/a>","se_id":"worldchanging-can-we-solve-it-like-this-why-the-we-campaign-needs-change-","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/007941.html","bookmark_desc":"WorldChanging: Neighborliness, Innovation and Sustainability","bookmark_notes":"Bright green lives will not look like the lives we live today. That doesn't mean that they'll be less attractive. On the contrary. 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It's estimated that the grain fed to food animals in the USA could instead feed 800 million humans.","ub_date":"1228866683","bookmark_date":"1208537259","tags_str":"2008<\/a>, article<\/a>, biofuels<\/a>, diet<\/a>, food<\/a>, meat<\/a>, scarcity<\/a>, sustainability<\/a>","se_id":"worldchanging-meat-and-the-biofuels-debate","user_name":"meryn","user_img":"","user_count":"1"},{"data_type":"bookmark","bookmark_url":"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/004873.html","bookmark_desc":"WorldChanging: Is Capitalism Growing More Socially Conscious?","bookmark_notes":"As long as investors can maintain a good conscience without sacrificing profits, socially responsible investing is likely to flourish. 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