Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
High From Benzonatate
Prayer for priests
Lord, grant us priests of the new shaped on you.
Preti suitable to today's world,
that resist all the slippages and all fashions.
Preti filled with the Holy Spirit,
priests in love with you, the Eucharist, the Word.
Preti broken prayer.
Preti broken prayer.
Priests who do not watch the clock when they're in front of you,
priests able to pray day and night, ;
as Jesus able to pass the nights in prayer.
priests who teach us to pray.
Priests of young fans , the poor and the lowly.
Preti broken all the love,
Preti broken all the love,
who can receive the drugs, the prisoner,
the girl that abortion, homosexuality,
smashed the couple,
capable of tenderness and mercy
for all the desperation of today's world.
Lord, send us priests of battleships,
Lord, send us priests of battleships,
humble, no stories for the head,
humble and faithful to the church,
who teach us to love the church,
correcting themselves on the evils of the church,
you point the finger at him before you point it at the church.
Send us stories priests without bourgeois
trained to sacrifice, who can speak to the youth of sacrifice,
living evangelical poverty,
who can share everything they have with the poor.
Send us a theology priests to date with the shod boots
Send us a theology priests to date with the shod boots
who can resist the mode of thought and worldly compromise.
priests who are not yoked to the chariot
of who knows better of Bishops and the Pope
Send us a tip priests, priests creative
big heart as the heart of Christ,
tireless in teaching, in driving, in the form .
Preti constant, strong and tenacious. Send us
priests prophets
priests prophets
strong and humble and not be offended in any human misery.
Send us priests feel that sinners like us,
faithful and proud of their celibacy,
clear that priests will bring the Gospel printed in their lives than in their word.
Lord, grant us the courage to ask for holy priests
and deserve at least a little humble prayer, constant and courageous.
Mary, Mother of priests,
mother of the church,
you add what is lacking in this prayer, and present them to Christ for us.
Amen
P. Andrea Gasparino
Sunday, June 6, 2010
How To Get Phlegm Out From Baby
TECNOLOGIA PER LO SPIRITO
anthropological reflection on the websites of the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro
ROME, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 (ZENIT.org) .- Here is the interview with Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of The Civilization Catholic , appeared PaulusWeb (Year II No. 20 - May 2010).
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Paolo Pegoraro
on Wiki have kindly nicknamed "The Jesus 2.0". If you think a writer is not the person best suited to reflect new technology, you should make the acquaintance of Father Antonio Spadaro. In love with her white paper not less than iMac or iPhone that slips in your hand suddenly, Spadaro is a Jesuit vocation, critical for passion, new media expert for provocation. In the sense that his reflections on the Net approaches avoid the most common type of strictly technical or sociological. Is clear: "I think what maybe is missing at this moment, and think more broadly anthropological, consider that within the web of human experience and not as a" bubble ", an episode untied." An invitation a key to broader, so it probably comes from his own peculiar backstage ...
Father Spadaro, its formation does not immediately think of computer science. How did this passion for new technologies?
"I started going to the net a few years ago when my former student asked me to build a site with Geocities . Until then, it was quite alien technology. The thing I became curious. I felt that the interest in literature and one for the network were walking hand in hand, because the internet world was a world fundamentally text, though different from the linear communication of the written page. Later, writing for The Civilization Catholic, I looked at the online literary journals, that is how the interest in creative writing and the critical size were developing in the Internet By the way I was created in 1998 a, BombaCarta - www.bombacarta.com - which has since developed and evolved over time. Since then my interest has become more specific and has been progressively extended to other fields. Biological evolution, I would say, in which the worlds of literature and science have always intertwined, fertilising with each other. "
In his book Web 2.0 networks of relationships (FSP 2010) she points out that the Internet is not a half, but a context and environment. A turning point in the very conception of communication, therefore, that forces you to rethink the category of traditional media as mere "tools" to relate?
"Yes, the Internet is a tool that can be used or not, but an environment determining a style of thinking and learning of knowledge, and to develop relations. Both the knowledge that the reports are in fact modified by the use of the Net can not therefore be regarded as a mere tool, because it only serves to shape, but those who use plasma.
A second consideration. With devices like the pocket ' iPhone, which does not require access to, say, "formal" to the Net - how could it be turning on your computer, start a program, etc.. - Today the perception of the Internet is changing. From environment alongside other environments, the web is being increasingly integrated with the environment of ordinary life. Internet as a reality in itself is increasingly disappearing, as more is being integrated into the process relational, cognitive and communication of everyday life. "
His analysis on the web are very positive and emphasize the strong potential. However - with the advent of Facebook or Wikipedia - there was no lack of raised shield ...
'In this case threatens to divide the world between apocalyptic and integrated, but we try to consider things in their entirety. I do not see the Web primarily as a revolution. Or rather, if it is, is a revolution from the roots old. The web is a revolution in technology that does nothing, however, if not deepen and give new shape to desires that man has ever had. As the plane permission to fly as man has always wanted, so the network can create, or even better, heal and develop relations of friendship despite the distance that prevented a first contact often. The web has incorporated the standard size of writing and reading. So be careful to consider a completely new technology to answer a deep human desire.
addition, the technology is not separate from humanity deep man. The technology is very human. I'd also say that technology is a form of human spirituality. A person who had sensed with great strength and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ... perhaps the only author who has provided the categories ahead of time for a spiritual understanding - and sometimes even theological - the Network
Sure, there are many shadows on the Web, but in a process that he says need to report communication and deeper. In this sense they are optimistic the greater the progress, the greater the ambiguity, that we must not hide, but they are inevitable in a process that, in my opinion, is precisely a result of spirituality of man. "
web platforms are evolving quickly, and sometimes equally fast decline. But to make room for something more. A process that changes, then, but does not stop ...
'In the network there are realities to disappear into thin air, but rather the excess and integration into new forms and new elements. There is an evolution that does not proceed, however, to jump. Despite some attempts, crashing, usually the big trend not interrupted, but are absorbed by other phenomena that incorporate them, even correcting them. "
A setback is impossible, in fact. Indications of new anthropological scenarios?
"The only thing I see with some clarity is the supply voltage to be less and less a separate thing, something that occupies a specific space and a section of time in people's lives. Today we dedicate time to the web restricted (by this time to that other), and confined spaces (the presence of terminals), and is a good thing and that there is an education in this sense. But the tendency of the network is to disappear, that is fully integrated with the lives of ordinary people. That's because it is a great challenge for the Church.
How are we changed? We take the information process, for example, now systems like Twitter allow for instant communication on significant events and are difficult to news coverage. The information online does not make the newspapers do nothing, but the "Notes" to question their role and their significance.
This is also in personal communication: a time a letter takes days or weeks to come, not now. This change greatly our emotional impact. If, moreover, are constantly accessible online via a smartphone , my horizon relations changes. "
... but with the distances will not burn out the sense of suspense? Not everything turns into a dizzying cosmic synchronicity?
"Absolutely. It is potentially so. But this can be understood as a problem or as a resource. Let me explain. First, in the case of asynchronous communication, like email, will not necessarily respond immediately to a person who receives mail: indeed, it is usually not the case. The expectation remains. Then, in the case of synchronous communication - chat, Skype calls, etc.. - It is true that we need to create contexts suitable for communication. In short: the call or the chat can be waiting for hours or days. Innovation does not abolish the wait, as the net does not abolish the gap: it gives the possibility to overcome them or, better, to experience them differently. It gives them a different form, which requires certain, specific education and awareness. In the end even the invention of the automobile, train or aircraft have reduced the time travel, but I do not think this has not automatically translated into a deterioration of human relationships and their quality. "
The next big step will be carried out online from the web syntactic to the semantic web. What is it?
"Although still evolving, it begins to be interesting on the web that you can begin to specify their research questions. The research so far were syntactic, that is linked to the presence of certain words, dropped from their specific context. Now searches are increasingly specified by the mode of asking the question, through their context, sometimes even by the place where they are asked. So some search engines give answers geo , that is, that change depending on the language and place in which they are asked.
An interesting example is the engine Wolfram computational knowledge ", which interprets the words of the proposed application for an answer as accurate as possible. The semantic engines and then give clear answers, while the traditional syntactic engines do not pick and offer a wide range of answers as vague. It is an interesting passage, which will be studied better in the coming years to see the results. "
What are your impressions on the Message for 44th World Day of Social Communications?
"Certainly it is a very important message, because it focuses on the relationship between priest and pastoral ministry in the direction of the Network must therefore be read as an internet environment ... consideration that the Pope did in last year's Message. And being a human environment as others, the web is called to accept the Gospel.
This message also shows that there is an underlying genetic compatibility between the Network and the Church. The network is based on relationships and communication of a message, the Church is founded on relationships of communion and the message of the Gospel must be preached to all nations. The network also has a universal dimension radically, then Catholic ... In short, there are too many compatibility between the Web root and the Church. And the Holy Father's message marks a definitive reflection of this track. "
Is there a specific role for the priest, on the web?
"It depends on how you define" specific "and the contexts in which we find ourselves. But I think a part, including specific and defined, there is and there can be. "
Witnesses digital the conference, you mentioned the need for a "new form of apologetics" that considers the "changing categories of understanding the world and access to knowledge." In what sense?
"It is my belief that the Net, by modifying the knowledge and skills of reports, effectively implement change or at least the categories of understanding of reality as a whole. If this change has an impact on the ability of intellection of man, can not it also the ability to self-understanding of faith and the Church by Christians. We must therefore start a new reflection on how the logic of the network may have an impact on the logic of theology, that is the way to understand the faith. A challenging task, but also fascinating. "
About categories, the title of the meeting of the CEI - Witnesses digital - has highlighted a specific: the category of testimony.
"The witness becomes a fundamental category, because the logic of social networks is the basic element used generated content, that is user-generated content. Facebook would not exist if individual users uploading content that is, after all, the testimony. The content of press is no longer something objective in the sense of separate and independent, but still is closely tied to those who enter. Content placed in a social network is systematically testimony. "
Friday, June 4, 2010
Is Anal Fissure Curable?
"Ho acquistato un uomo dal Signore" (Gen 4,1)
Fathers and Mothers in Christ, the Bridegroom
to educate for life
Presentation
The training days to spirituality wedding proposals this year by the Centre "P. Enrico Mauri ", have the central theme urgent and essential education. Parents make the task entrusted to them by the Creator, creating children for life, not just biological, but spiritual and human. Walking with the children in the long and complex educational act and they are feeding the domestic church and advancing themselves in their identity with being married father and mother. The family, as the first guardian of the child's life, is the core of relationships from which stems their integral human growth. As a couple, with the sacrament of marriage preserve the mystery of Christ and the Church and show by their lives and practice of education as a whole, but engaging journey of love as the ultimate meaning of life.
The house is for their sons, the first growth in faith, in which mature awareness of their origin and their destiny. Each educational journey that involves both parents and children, finds its ultimate meaning and strength in God the Father and His Son Jesus, the Bridegroom of humanity through the work of the Spirit in every man and woman.
The days of the conference will be divided between the reports in the morning and afternoon workshops that, through dialogue and confrontation, and make accessible the current content.
Program
ARRIVALS Wednesday, 2007 07 - 11 July 2010
18:00 Opening Prayer
Conference Presentation
Thursday, 2008
9:00 Lodi meditation
10.00 The couple have children at the nuptial mystery
of God - Don Francis Pillsbury,
Coordinator of the Centre
11:15 socialized to be men and women -
Helena Mercader, Seminar of the People
of God
16:00 Workshop led by Furio Pesci,
Professor of Education at the Pontifical Institute
John Paul II and the University La Sapienza
Rome
Friday, 2009
9:00 Lodi meditation
10:00 Educating the love in the family -
Jordan and Teresa Barioni
11.15 The report educational experience
of the Servant of God Father E. Mauri - Don
Przemyslaw Kwiatkowski
16:00 Workshop led by Furio Pesci
Saturday 10
9:00 Lodi meditation
10.00 The place of Christian community growth
of faith - Robert Cheaib
11:15 Parents educators in the faith - Paul and
Barbara Fanti
Afternoon:
FAMILY LIFE AT SEA
21:00 VIGIL, S. MASS
Sunday 11 DEPARTURES
http://www.diocesitv.it/famiglia/documenti/Corso 20educazione%%% 20Chiara 20Mori.pdf
Fathers and Mothers in Christ, the Bridegroom
to educate for life
VIII CONGRESS OF THE SPIRITUALITY OF EDUCATION BRIDAL
Presentation
The training days to spirituality wedding proposals this year by the Centre "P. Enrico Mauri ", have the central theme urgent and essential education. Parents make the task entrusted to them by the Creator, creating children for life, not just biological, but spiritual and human. Walking with the children in the long and complex educational act and they are feeding the domestic church and advancing themselves in their identity with being married father and mother. The family, as the first guardian of the child's life, is the core of relationships from which stems their integral human growth. As a couple, with the sacrament of marriage preserve the mystery of Christ and the Church and show by their lives and practice of education as a whole, but engaging journey of love as the ultimate meaning of life.
The house is for their sons, the first growth in faith, in which mature awareness of their origin and their destiny. Each educational journey that involves both parents and children, finds its ultimate meaning and strength in God the Father and His Son Jesus, the Bridegroom of humanity through the work of the Spirit in every man and woman.
The days of the conference will be divided between the reports in the morning and afternoon workshops that, through dialogue and confrontation, and make accessible the current content.
Program
ARRIVALS Wednesday, 2007 07 - 11 July 2010
18:00 Opening Prayer
Conference Presentation
Thursday, 2008
9:00 Lodi meditation
10.00 The couple have children at the nuptial mystery
of God - Don Francis Pillsbury,
Coordinator of the Centre
11:15 socialized to be men and women -
Helena Mercader, Seminar of the People
of God
16:00 Workshop led by Furio Pesci,
Professor of Education at the Pontifical Institute
John Paul II and the University La Sapienza
Rome
Friday, 2009
9:00 Lodi meditation
10:00 Educating the love in the family -
Jordan and Teresa Barioni
11.15 The report educational experience
of the Servant of God Father E. Mauri - Don
Przemyslaw Kwiatkowski
16:00 Workshop led by Furio Pesci
Saturday 10
9:00 Lodi meditation
10.00 The place of Christian community growth
of faith - Robert Cheaib
11:15 Parents educators in the faith - Paul and
Barbara Fanti
Afternoon:
FAMILY LIFE AT SEA
21:00 VIGIL, S. MASS
Sunday 11 DEPARTURES
http://www.diocesitv.it/famiglia/documenti/Corso 20educazione%%% 20Chiara 20Mori.pdf
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Hair Salons Jcpenny Prices
La nuova strategia verde
Saving the planet can
Saturday the UN celebrates Environment Day. After the failure in Copenhagen, a flash of optimism. Three ideas to clean up the world from our correspondent Federico Rampini
NEW YORK - Artificial Life, microsensors, algorithms-governmental facilities: three technological innovations will save the earth. With us. The Green Economy is already a reality. Behind the prophets of the Apocalypse environment - Cassandre essential to awaken our consciences - moves an army of revolutionaries "positive" they are building the antidotes to environmental disaster. Our ways of life are evolving. Even the ruling classes (some) are less sclerotized than it looks. Behind the failures of global governance as the Copenhagen summit, behind the strength of lobby groups that seem to paralyze the government, glimpsed three alternative options towards sustainable development: America, China, Germany, with recipes completely different point toward the same goal.
VIDEO SPOT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION 1
HOPE FROM NANOTECHNOLOGY 2
And the competition between these systems will advance the world. A frontier of scientific research that promises great benefits to the environment has just opened two weeks ago. And 'the creation of a living organism (a bacterium) by the American biologists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith. Its potential is huge and so Venter is exploring the different directions. The generation of artificial life forms, for example, can materialize in new algae biofuel of the future will be: able to absorb carbon emissions and then convert it back into energy, just as do the trees. Using the ocean surface, much larger than the Earth's crust, the "good algae" will give the planet a lung replacement. Another challenge of biogenetic which received accelerated by the work of Venter and Smith is the creation of new species of cereal legumes and the cultivation of which consume a fraction of the water needed today. Agriculture is the largest dewatering of the planet, the crops consume 70% of water resources in the world, the creation of new species offers hope especially crucial for the most populous nations, China and India. In addition, the artificial creation of life can get an answer to the most serious environmental disasters like oil spills reversed by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. "Already in nature - says oceanographer Ken Lee of the Bedford Institute in Nova Scotia, Canada - there are bacteria that eat oil and crumble into organic cellular components. Albert Venosa, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, showed which helps with "condiments" on the basis of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, "the work of these bacteria accelerates miraculously, manage to destroy one summer in the crude oil that normally would remove five or six years." Now there is a real hope was born in the valley of genome research. After the first artificial bacterium Craig Venter, could be built in the laboratory of micro-killer of oil, capable of attacking and clean up oil spills with a voracious power.
The second edge of innovation does not come from the laboratories, but those of Polytechnics biogenetic computer. The development of nanotechnology has already given birth to new applications of microsensors that are formidable allies nature. One of the leading experts in this field is the American Robert Atkinson, president of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. "From the labs of Georgia Tech - Atkinson says - out of microsensors that can distinguish more than 100 chemicals in the water or air, and to exchange information between them." Some applications are encouraging. In Australia, the Springbrook National Park botanical scientists have shed the virgin forest of solar-powered microsensors. They are "eyes, ears and noses" invisible guardians of the delicate ecosystem of the immense forest, ready to transmit alarms videoacustici to report any damage to the natural environment. In Tokyo and San Francisco the same microsensors are being used in the new urban traffic control systems such SmartWay: their "intelligence" will eliminate traffic jams, redirect traffic, significantly reducing smog from urban transport. The Japanese version will link the network of microsensors to the onboard computers of cars, directing the driver towards more rational paths that reduce fuel consumption.
The third invests the urban revolution. Converge to favor changes of various kinds: technological, organizational, but also demographic changes, new lifestyles and value systems. A pioneer who designed the city "green" future is an American scientist that has formed on the theories of statistical mathematics, Charles Komanoff. He was born from his mind "the algorithm Komanoff, a system of equations more complicated than those used by NASA to explore Mars. His algorithm is used to decrypt and make govern all complex variables that feed traffic in Manhattan. On the one hand Komanoff data as part of the working population, the percentage of commuters, their geographical distribution, the opening hours of offices and shops. On the other introduces fuel prices, tolls for highways and bridges, the subway fare and parking. The algorithm operates on these variables, reprograms the flows and movements, and produces results drugs. Less congestion, cleaner air, and measurable economic benefits. "Almost 3 billion dollars earned - Komanoff says - including the removal of CO2 emissions, reduction of motor vehicle accident victims, the time saved in travel."
That is not an illusion, as demonstrated by the fact that its algorithm is currently studied by two cities of similar size in New York, Paris and Guangzhou (Canton). Its efficiency will be enhanced with the coming into operation of the new GPS (24 satellites controlled by the second generation) which will come to centimeter accuracy. The urban revolution is not just technology. The American who invented the shopping mall and residential neighborhoods in the suburbs, that is the pattern of housing and most energy consumer in the world, is heading back. The new trend is called Lifestyle Center: the rediscovery of what we call the historical center, pedestrian-based, small shops, family businesses on a human scale, local services. "It is linked to the dominant values \u200b\u200bin the Millennium generation - explains the sociodemographic Arthur Nelson of the University of Utah - because in their twenties and thirties today prefer the lifestyle of urban centers, universities want to walk to museums and theaters."
The environmental impact? A drastic 50% cut in energy consumption for transport. Main highways clogged with commuters, most subway and bicycle paths. Economies of scale that make it easier recycling. Another innovation is self-financing planning that is gaining momentum thanks to Arthur Rosenfeld, a scientist that America has won the Enrico Fermi Award and the founder of the California Energy Commission. He is promoting a worldwide campaign "white roofs." "Simply repainting the white roofs of the buildings - says Rosenfeld - the sunlight is reflected and returned to the atmosphere. This reduces the consumption of air conditioning from 10 to 20 percent. From Chicago to Sydney in 15 years, this means eliminating 15 billion tons of CO2, the equivalent a reduction of 40 percent in traffic. "It is the rediscovery of an ancient wisdom, since white is the dominant color in many hot spots of civilization, Aztec or Mediterranean.
to channel the resources of science and technology to foster positive changes in lifestyle collective political strategies apparently diverge. Obama's America relies on the model Silicon Valley: a mix of public research, incentives to private capital, entrepreneurial spirit. One hundred billion dollars of investment and two million jobs "is the promise of Obama's Green Economy. China is the challenge of incorporating environmental concerns into the planning of its ruling class, authoritarian and technocratic. It is a centralized model that is already able to invest $ 34 billion in renewable energy: the double of the United States. Germany, and with it the Northern Europe and Scandinavia, has opted for an approach to taxation "punitive", with the highest taxes in the world consumption of fossil fuels. And also made in Germany is the most advanced race on the frontiers of green technologies. It is a virtuous competition, in which we all have to gain. How do scientists explain the Massachusetts Robert Pollin and James Heintz, Green Recovery report's authors, all of a sudden "all the world's governments must recognize that there is no other area capable of leading the recovery and create jobs, how can do it the new economy environment. "
VIDEO SPOT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION 1
HOPE FROM NANOTECHNOLOGY 2
And the competition between these systems will advance the world. A frontier of scientific research that promises great benefits to the environment has just opened two weeks ago. And 'the creation of a living organism (a bacterium) by the American biologists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith. Its potential is huge and so Venter is exploring the different directions. The generation of artificial life forms, for example, can materialize in new algae biofuel of the future will be: able to absorb carbon emissions and then convert it back into energy, just as do the trees. Using the ocean surface, much larger than the Earth's crust, the "good algae" will give the planet a lung replacement. Another challenge of biogenetic which received accelerated by the work of Venter and Smith is the creation of new species of cereal legumes and the cultivation of which consume a fraction of the water needed today. Agriculture is the largest dewatering of the planet, the crops consume 70% of water resources in the world, the creation of new species offers hope especially crucial for the most populous nations, China and India. In addition, the artificial creation of life can get an answer to the most serious environmental disasters like oil spills reversed by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. "Already in nature - says oceanographer Ken Lee of the Bedford Institute in Nova Scotia, Canada - there are bacteria that eat oil and crumble into organic cellular components. Albert Venosa, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, showed which helps with "condiments" on the basis of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, "the work of these bacteria accelerates miraculously, manage to destroy one summer in the crude oil that normally would remove five or six years." Now there is a real hope was born in the valley of genome research. After the first artificial bacterium Craig Venter, could be built in the laboratory of micro-killer of oil, capable of attacking and clean up oil spills with a voracious power.
The second edge of innovation does not come from the laboratories, but those of Polytechnics biogenetic computer. The development of nanotechnology has already given birth to new applications of microsensors that are formidable allies nature. One of the leading experts in this field is the American Robert Atkinson, president of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. "From the labs of Georgia Tech - Atkinson says - out of microsensors that can distinguish more than 100 chemicals in the water or air, and to exchange information between them." Some applications are encouraging. In Australia, the Springbrook National Park botanical scientists have shed the virgin forest of solar-powered microsensors. They are "eyes, ears and noses" invisible guardians of the delicate ecosystem of the immense forest, ready to transmit alarms videoacustici to report any damage to the natural environment. In Tokyo and San Francisco the same microsensors are being used in the new urban traffic control systems such SmartWay: their "intelligence" will eliminate traffic jams, redirect traffic, significantly reducing smog from urban transport. The Japanese version will link the network of microsensors to the onboard computers of cars, directing the driver towards more rational paths that reduce fuel consumption.
The third invests the urban revolution. Converge to favor changes of various kinds: technological, organizational, but also demographic changes, new lifestyles and value systems. A pioneer who designed the city "green" future is an American scientist that has formed on the theories of statistical mathematics, Charles Komanoff. He was born from his mind "the algorithm Komanoff, a system of equations more complicated than those used by NASA to explore Mars. His algorithm is used to decrypt and make govern all complex variables that feed traffic in Manhattan. On the one hand Komanoff data as part of the working population, the percentage of commuters, their geographical distribution, the opening hours of offices and shops. On the other introduces fuel prices, tolls for highways and bridges, the subway fare and parking. The algorithm operates on these variables, reprograms the flows and movements, and produces results drugs. Less congestion, cleaner air, and measurable economic benefits. "Almost 3 billion dollars earned - Komanoff says - including the removal of CO2 emissions, reduction of motor vehicle accident victims, the time saved in travel."
That is not an illusion, as demonstrated by the fact that its algorithm is currently studied by two cities of similar size in New York, Paris and Guangzhou (Canton). Its efficiency will be enhanced with the coming into operation of the new GPS (24 satellites controlled by the second generation) which will come to centimeter accuracy. The urban revolution is not just technology. The American who invented the shopping mall and residential neighborhoods in the suburbs, that is the pattern of housing and most energy consumer in the world, is heading back. The new trend is called Lifestyle Center: the rediscovery of what we call the historical center, pedestrian-based, small shops, family businesses on a human scale, local services. "It is linked to the dominant values \u200b\u200bin the Millennium generation - explains the sociodemographic Arthur Nelson of the University of Utah - because in their twenties and thirties today prefer the lifestyle of urban centers, universities want to walk to museums and theaters."
The environmental impact? A drastic 50% cut in energy consumption for transport. Main highways clogged with commuters, most subway and bicycle paths. Economies of scale that make it easier recycling. Another innovation is self-financing planning that is gaining momentum thanks to Arthur Rosenfeld, a scientist that America has won the Enrico Fermi Award and the founder of the California Energy Commission. He is promoting a worldwide campaign "white roofs." "Simply repainting the white roofs of the buildings - says Rosenfeld - the sunlight is reflected and returned to the atmosphere. This reduces the consumption of air conditioning from 10 to 20 percent. From Chicago to Sydney in 15 years, this means eliminating 15 billion tons of CO2, the equivalent a reduction of 40 percent in traffic. "It is the rediscovery of an ancient wisdom, since white is the dominant color in many hot spots of civilization, Aztec or Mediterranean.
to channel the resources of science and technology to foster positive changes in lifestyle collective political strategies apparently diverge. Obama's America relies on the model Silicon Valley: a mix of public research, incentives to private capital, entrepreneurial spirit. One hundred billion dollars of investment and two million jobs "is the promise of Obama's Green Economy. China is the challenge of incorporating environmental concerns into the planning of its ruling class, authoritarian and technocratic. It is a centralized model that is already able to invest $ 34 billion in renewable energy: the double of the United States. Germany, and with it the Northern Europe and Scandinavia, has opted for an approach to taxation "punitive", with the highest taxes in the world consumption of fossil fuels. And also made in Germany is the most advanced race on the frontiers of green technologies. It is a virtuous competition, in which we all have to gain. How do scientists explain the Massachusetts Robert Pollin and James Heintz, Green Recovery report's authors, all of a sudden "all the world's governments must recognize that there is no other area capable of leading the recovery and create jobs, how can do it the new economy environment. "
(03 June 2010)
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