Culture, Science/Tech
Why I’m no Longer Listening to Spotify
Posted on April 12, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | 6 Comments
Last week saw the passage of the Digital Economy Bill, now the Digital Economy Act. As parliament was winding down before dissolution the government forced through the bill, which had had no proper debate in the commons, during what’s known as it’s wash up period. Though 236 MPs voted at the third reading only around [...]
Are working class people just nicer?
Posted on March 16, 2010 by Gary Dunion | 4 Comments
Much bemused wryness in lefty workplaces across the land as an article in The Guardian goes slightly viral by reporting that people who buy ethical products are more likely to cheat or steal. The authors of the study construct a highly speculative model of “moral balancing,” postulating that having made one ethical decision we feel [...]
Green Party Conference Days 3&4: A sensible health policy
Posted on February 21, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | 1 Comment
After a certain degree of criticism last year around the time of the European elections, much of it fair, over some of our policies related to healthcare it was decided to conduct a full review of the relevant section of our, recently renamed, Policies for a Sustainable Society document. Jim and Stuart have blogged on [...]
Join the campaign against draconian disconnection
Posted on February 15, 2010 by Admin | 2 Comments
This is a guest post from Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns to protect rights and liberties in the digital age Will your MP be voting to disconnect innocent people from the internet, because of evidence that one of them may have infringed copyright? The chances are that they will [...]
Let’s have some crime denialism
Posted on February 3, 2010 by Peter McColl | 2 Comments
The ever interesting Sunny Hundal points out on CiF today that the BBC gave yet more air time to climate change denial on Newsnight last night. What the mainstream media describe as ‘balance’ has been a matter of concern for some time to me. The strategy deployed by climate change denialists is interesting. It has [...]
The surrealist overdose
Posted on February 1, 2010 by Naomi Mc | 6 Comments
This is a guest post from Naomi Mc, who blogs about science, politics and gender at Vagina Dentata. On Saturday at 10.23am hundreds of people across the country opened a small vial of pills and swallow them all. There was a group of 42 of these people in Edinburgh (video), but no emergency services were [...]
201st Decade Technology Part 3 – Transport after oil
Posted on January 22, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | 6 Comments
And so for our third, and for now final, tech review we head back to something physical and perhaps more stereotypically green. David McKay, who I’ll continue to source for most of my figures, and there’ll be a few here, suggests the typical affluent person uses around 195kWh/day of power (250kWh/day for an American). Of [...]
201st Decade Technology Part 2 – Free Knowledge and Free Culture
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | No Comments
For part 2 of our review of the the 201st decade best new technologies we turn to the internet and the forefront of the battlefield between a new form of communal and reciprocal ownership and the latest attempts at enclosing public space. 2.Wikipedia So it turns our writing a couple of thousand words on technology [...]
201st Decade Technology Part 1 – How to Power the Planet
Posted on January 20, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | No Comments
As my inaugural, and hopefully not last, contribution to Bright Green, it was suggested I write up a list of the ten most important inventions of the first decade of the 3rd millennium. It sounded like a good idea; after all, as Engels said: “in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in [...]
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