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Did You Miss Our Conversation with Stewart Brand?

February 22, 2010 by Energy Collective
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On Friday, February 18, 2010, the Energy Collective's Marc Gunther sat down with Stewart Brand, author of the Whole Earth Catalog, and Whole Earth Discipline. Ever the independent thinker, Brand weighed in on issues from renewables, to nuclear power and genetically modified crops. Click here to listen to the entire interview. [read more]

Is geoengineering inevitable?

February 9, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Geoengineering, says scientist David Keith, “is like chemotherapy. It’s something nobody should like.” But if you can’t avoid cancer, chemotherapy may be your best option. And, if it becomes evident that the earth can’t avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change, it is not merely possible that governments will turn to... [read more]

Why Stewart Brand’s new book is a must-read

January 5, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Many books shaped my thinking about business, economics and the environment during 2009. Last year was the year that I discovered Nassim Nicholas Taleb and The Black Swan, to my great delight, as well as the year that I began to explore behavioral economics by reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational and Nudge by Cass Sunstein and... [read more]