>From an email I received from their listserv
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Saul Griffith has a killer presentation, but that's not the main
attraction. The main attraction is realizing how far we are from
grasping what dealing with climate change actually entails.
MacArthur Genius engineer Griffith did the math, working backward from
the 16 terawatts of energy that humanity currently uses to run
civilization, and working forward to what amount and kinds of energy
it will take to even slow down climate change. Realistically, we
can't make it.
Now what?...
"Climate Change Recalculated," Saul Griffith, Cowell Theater, Fort
Mason, San Francisco, 7pm, FRIDAY, January 16. The show starts
promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free (a $10 donation is always
welcome, not required).
Inventor Saul Griffith is co-founder of Squid Labs, a "do-tank" based
in Emeryville, California. He was made a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.
Talks coming up:
Feb. 13 (Friday) - Dmitri Orlov, "Social Collapse Best Practices"
Mar. 20 (Friday) - Daniel Everett, "Endangered Languages, Lost
Knowledge and the Future"
April (sometime) - Mayor Gavin Newsom, "Cities and Time"
May 5 (TUESDAY) - Michael Pollan, "Deep Agriculture"
May 25 (MONDAY) - Paul Romer, "A Theory of History, with an
Application"
Aug. 17 (MONDAY) - Wayne Clough, "Smithsonian Forever"
Oct. 9 (Friday) - Stewart Brand, "Rethinking Green"
Nov. 18 (WEDNESDAY) - Sander van der Leeuw, "The Long and Short of
it..."
Special Long Now event: On February 17, 02009, from 7-10pm. Join
author Bruce Sterling, technology pundit Paul Saffo, and other special
guests on the UC Berkeley campus for the Funeral for the Analog
Television Signal. Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave., Berkeley,
CA. Also note: Apropos of the soap-operatic life of TV, there is a
chance that Congress may issue an 11th hour stay of the "do not
resuscitate order" on the Analog TV Signal. Stay tuned. (This URL will
be updated shortly with all the details: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/tvfuneral
)
High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits are available to
Long Now members. Membership, which costs $8/month ($96/year), helps
support the series and other Long Now projects. Joinable here.
This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
(SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audios and my
summaries of all previous talks are available for download here (or
stay up to date with the Podcast here). You'll find a range of long-
term thinking items on our Blog (RSS). If you would like to be
notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here to
sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long
Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, [email protected].
You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be
interested.
--Stewart Brand
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