FW -- net net baud rate

I'm taking a short break from simulation and matching work to post a couple of messages stimulated by recent discussions and web pages visted about Gross Progress Indicators and about population. I started out to address those topics, but instead wrote a preamble discussing a related question.

Canada redefines poverty (fwd)

Any comments... M -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 03:39:06 + From: Janet M. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Canada redefines poverty http://www.nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=981214/2100894 National Post Monday December 14, 1998 Canada

Re: REGIONAL PLANNING DILUTES AND ULTIMATELY DEFEATS DEMOCRACY

>excerpt from a paper by Albert Bartlett published in Population >& Environment, Vol. 20, No. 1, September 1998, Pgs. 77 - 81. > >REGIONWIDE PLANNING WILL MAKE THE PROBLEMS WORSE > > > >REGIONAL PLANNING DILUTES AND ULTIMATELY DEFEATS DEMOCRACY > >

Re: FW -- net net baud rate

dpw writes: > Of all the things I have to say, if there is only one thing you take > seriously let it be this: > >We can maximize the global net baud rate for interpersonal >communications by using combinatorial optimization to match people >based on personality, interest, and e

resilient communities

Greetings - I saw the below post on a listi; I would like info on Resilient Communities. . . Thank you, Martha E. Ture -- --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Stilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SAVE OUR PLANET. STATUS

Dear Ole, At 2:09 PM +0100 12/17/98, you wrote: >According to the Internet, at least the following other >broadly and globally aiming potential TERMINATORS exist. [i.e.: 1. Karnataka State Farmers Association, KRRS The Cremation Monsanto action of KRRS in South India

Re: Douthwaite's Version

At 4:16 PM -0500 12/16/98, Edward Weick wrote: > > >In an essay forwarded to this list, Richard Douthwaite paints a >potentially disastrous picture of the modern world. <> >But lets poke at it a little and see how real it is. > > > <> >Growth did not, as Douthwaite appears to imply, stagnate b

Re: Newsletter Highlights

At 5:11 PM -1000 12/16/98, Jay Hanson wrote: <> >In other words, send the economists on permanent vacation and call >in the engineers and the scientists. Here is an "engineering" sketch >for a >new society: > >KEY DEFINITIONS > GLOBAL PROBLEMATIC (after The Club of Rome, 1972): Global trag

Re: FW -- Re: Genuine Progress Indicators (was FW -- simulation update)

There's an interesting survey of "alternatives to GNP" on the web page for my institute -- www.tufts.edu\gdae On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Douglas P. Wilson wrote: > Caspar Davis wrote: > > > I assume you know about the various Genuine Progress Indicators that > > have been proposed at various levels

Seventh Generation Bill

This brief statement by Mike Nickerson summarizes the thinking behind the "Seventh Generation Bill" that he and Joe Jordan, Liberal MP, are working on for eventual tabling as a private member's bill. It is one of the more promising initiatives around. Caspar Davis * FORWARDED MESSAGE *