Rajesh Kasturirangan

Daily Planet #5: Tooze on China's Energy transition

I want to understand how China is (if?) becoming an Ecological Civilization and what the rest of us can learn from that transformation. BTW, this doesn't have to give us warm fuzzy feelings because:

1. It's totally possible to combine authoritarian politics with ecology, but of course, that's better

Daily Planet #4

I am partial to veggie burgers. In fact, I had a couple yesterday night for dinner. These days my go to brand is Boca, which has been around for a while, but the two big kids on the block are Beyond and Impossible. And as you might know, they are both struggling to maintain their valuations and the massive amounts of investment.

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The Daily Planet #6: Network Wars

The planetary is not just about trees and coral reefs, but also about chips and rare earth minerals and economic sanctions. Social scientists - and physicists in their own way - keep reminding us that all information is material: a data center is a physical entity after all.

We can expand that claim to say: all

The Daily Planet #8: Edwards and Hecht on the Technosphere

Yesterday's Daily Planet was on Peter Haff's idea of the Technosphere. Today's link is a discussion of Peter Haff's ideas between Gabrielle Hecht and Paul Edwards.

Paul has written evocatively about the development of Computing Systems and the Earth Systems Sciences in the (first) Cold War