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Professor Asbørn Kjønstads presentasjon: Bestill boka (+smakebiter) her! Jeg har den store glede og ære å presentere vinneren av Tobakksfriprisen 2011 -Tone Bergli Joner. Hun har ført en utrettelig kamp for å avdekke tobakksindustriens mange uredelige metoder, og for å gjøre dette forståelig for det norske folk. Det er flott at vi i dag kan krone hennes verk med den største herder som vi kan gi henne.  Tones Joners offentlige innsats mot tobakken knytter seg først og fremst til de siste ti årene. Hun har utgitt to viktige bøker og skrevet en rekke artikler om tobakk. Dette skal jeg komme tilbake til, men først skal jeg framheve noe av det hun har gjort i sitt tidligere liv, slik at vi kan bli litt kjent med hvem hun er.  Tone Joner har utdannelse innen psykologi, motetegning og dukkespill. Hun har også en mangesidig yrkeserfaring - motedesign, dukketeater, TV-serier med mer. Hun har skrevet ca 60 fagbøker om en rekke ulike emner, blant annet musikk, formgivning, hobby-virk...

Flott artikkel av Rob Avis om hevede grønnsakssenger! Wicking beds are a unique and increasingly popular way to grow vegetables. They are self-contained raised beds with built-in reservoirs that supply water from the bottom up - changing how, and how much, you water your beds. In this article, we'll talk about how wicking beds work and why we love them. We'll also show you some great examples and leave you with ideas and instructions for creating your own. Les hele artikkelen her  eller her .

Nb! This article contains several errors both for localizations and the use of different buildings, and major projects are not mentioned. I'll try to fix this later. Meanwhile I'll not recommend reading this article, but going straight to the new interactive map of all the upcoming projects of downtown Oslo, which is to be found here . (The little quota from Alexander is of course worth reading, but don't go on for "les mer...") People used to say that just as the twentieth century had been the century of physics, the twenty-first century would be the century of biology… We would gradually move into a world whose prevailing paradigm was one of complexity, and whose techniques sought the co-adapted harmony of hundreds or thousands of variables. This would, inevitably, involve new technique, new vision, new models of thought, and new models of action. I believe that such a transformation is starting to occur…. To be well, we must set our sights on such a future....

I denne videoen redegjør Eli Pariser for hvordan google filtrerer søkene våre på interntt, og at vi derfor mer og mer lever i hver våre internettbobler. Personlig tror jeg ikke dette kun er googles skyld, men fordi informasjonsstrømmen i dag er så stor har vi alle et behov for å filtrere informasjon. Det er da nærliggende at vi filtrerer vekk den informasjonen som ikke gir oss kognitiv disonnans , og slik går vi alle i stadig større grad rundt i hver våre filterbobler, eller virkelighetsoppfatninger, mer og mer fremmede for hverandre.

The researchers found that participants who played one of several popular violent games, such as "Call of Duty," "Hitman," "Killzone" and "Grand Theft Auto," set louder noise blasts for their opponents during the competitive task -- that is, they were more aggressive -- than participants who played a nonviolent game. In addition, for participants that had not played many violent video games before completing the study, playing a violent game in the lab caused a reduced brain response to the photos of violence -- an indicator of desensitization. Moreover, this reduced brain response predicted participants' aggression levels: the smaller the brain response to violent photos, the more aggressive participants were. Participants who had already spent a lot of time playing violent video games before the study showed small brain response to the violent photos, regardless of which type of game they played in the lab. - Science Daily This is disturbin...

The new proposal for bringing "life" back to the area around Oslo Central Station No doubth, my politicians and our architects are still stuck in a heroic city-destroying mode, destroying my beloved nation's capital city . Jeg vil sitere en ypperlig leserkommentar til dette prosjektet: Steinørken blir glassørken...Hva er det som er så utrolig stas med høyhus, er det et New York-kompleks? Høyhus er så gammaldags. Nå har vi nettopp fått opp barcode, i revidert utgave. Så skal det bli kamp om hvor høyt dette skal bli...Høyhus stjeler enormt med lys og er det noe vi ikke har overskudd av i Norge, så er det lys. Vi kan ikke fornye byen for å danke ut andre byer. Oslo skal fornyes for de som bor der og jobber der. Hver dag, hele året. Ikke for de som kommer innom. - Pelikan The article in Aftenposten about this life destroying project, one out of a long list of new city destroying projects to be forced upon central Oslo and its sea side, is to be found here . W...

Et spennende nytt essay av James Quilligan , hvor han diskuterer den hellige kua privat eiendomsrett på bekostning av allmennheten. Jeg ble gjort oppmerksom på essayet gjennom P2P Foundation , hvor Michel Bauwens gir følgende strålende sammendrag: This article focuses on the sacred cow of private property in liberal philosophy and politics and its catastrophic impact on the commons. Numerous liberal thinkers (mostly male) have attempted to base social systems, moral obligations and property rights in human nature using the laws of the natural universe. They share the blame for the devastation of the commons. No one has influenced the rules, institutions and concepts of modern individualism more than John Locke. It was Locke, the 17th century philosopher and political scientist, who formulated the central tenet of liberalism: that property should be organized through individual ownership by excluding others. Locke’s source code, both at the meta-level and physical level, is still drivi...

In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.

First of all, if capitalism has always relied on non-competitive practices, if the prices for its commodities have never been objectively set by demand/supply dynamics, but imposed from above by powerful economic decision-makers, then capitalism and the market have always been different entities. To use a term introduced by Braudel, capitalism has always been an "antimarket". This, of course, would seem to go against the very meaning of the word "capitalism", regardless of whether the word is used by Karl Marx or Ronald Reagan. For both nineteenth century radicals and twentieth century conservatives, capitalism is identified with an economy driven by market forces, whether one finds this desirable or not. Today, for example, one speaks of the former Soviet Union's "transition to a market economy", even though what was really supposed to happen was a transition to an antimarket: to large scale enterprises, with several layers of managerial strata, in w...

This meditation by Derrick Jensen answers the questions negatlively: our civilisation will never change and become sustainable. So what do we do? I don’t (necessarily) agree with the ideas presented here, but, it definitely forces us to think: Further reading: Transition and the collapse scenario

The two videos below are much about scaling up mangrove systems for sustainable sea water farming, done in a true permaculture spirit from which both people and nature benefit. Sadly this is in stark contrast to industrial aquaculture, where they throw cheap energy on unsustainable systems to maximize profit. Today mangroves are disappearing fast . Thirty-five percent of mangrove ecosystems disappeared between 1980 and 2000, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment . Shrimp farms have been a primary cause of mangrove loss, as well as urbanization and agriculture. This is why the message from The Seawater Foundation is of such an importance, as they show how to change and provide hope for the future. Greening Eritrea — Part 1 Greening Eritrea — Part 2