Viridian Notes from the Viridian Design List
by Bruce Sterling
- 00001: Viridian Design Speech
- 00002: Viridian List Mechanics
- 00003: Viridian Design Principles
- 00004: Historical Awareness
- 00005: Viridian Aesthetics
- 00006: Floods 1
- 00007: Floods 2
- 00008: The Science Press on Global Warming
- 00009: The Science Press on Global Warming, Rewritten
- 00010: Comments from Viridians
- 00011: Viridian Mascot Contest
- 00012: Web Links
- 00013: Link Criticism
- 00014: Remembrance Agents
- 00015: Weather Violence
- 00016: Bio-Refineries
- 00017: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00018: The Viridian Model Family
- 00019: Viridian Domains of Interest
- 00020: Energy Reform, the Swedish "Solution"
- 00021: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 1
- 00022: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 2
- 00023: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 3
- 00024: Kelly's Koan
- 00025: German Greens
- 00034: Researching Andy Goldworthy
- 00035: Viridian Aesthetics: Landscape Transformation
- 00039: Stark's New Catalog
- 00044: The Viridian Service Station
- 00026: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00027: Viridian Graphics
- 00028: Viridian Gardening
- 00029: The Interfund
- 00030: The View From Ecotopia
- 00031: Self-destructive Jungles
- 00032: The Viridian Refueling Project
- 00033: Viridian Aesthetics: Andy Goldworthy
- 00036: Offshore Wind Power
- 00037: Viridian Commentary
- 00038: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00040: German Politics
- 00041: The Viridian Product Catalog
- 00042: The Viridian Alcohol Cellphone
- 00043: The Viridian Electrical Meter
- 00045: Twentieth-century Thinking
- 00046: German Bankers Love German Greens
- 00047: Viridian Imaginary Products Exhibition
- 00048: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00049: Submerging Carbon
- 00050: Wired Urban Forests
- 00054: The Festo Stingray
- 00060: Viridian Strategy
- 00051: Viridian Commentary
- 00052: Human-Assisted Wildlife Migration
- 00053: The Ecosystem Game
- 00055: Biodiversity Maps
- 00056: Viridian Commentary
- 00057: Extinct Megafauna
- 00058: Grass Gas
- 00059: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00061: Web-site Power Banner Contest
- 00062: What I Did for Earth Day
- 00063: Real-World Projects
- 00064: Viridian Finances
- 00065: Burning Man Festival
- 00066: Freeplay's Wind-Up Power
- 00067: Eco-Disaster Tourism
- 00068: Household Localizers
- 00069: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00070: The Coal-Burning Net
- 00071: Greening the US Govt.
- 00072: Viridian Couture Contest
- 00073: Viridian Commentary
- 00074: Browning the US Govt.
- 00075: Kyoto Politics
- 00076: American Power Brokers
- 00077: IDSA Speech
- 00078: The Greening Earth Society
- 00079: Virtuous Corporations
- 00080: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00081: Summer Health Warning
- 00082: Viridian Commentary
- 00083: The Viridian Botanisphere
- 00084: Viridian Disasters
- 00085: Viridian Individual Projects
- 00086: Kingpins of Carbon
- 00087: The Coal-Burning Net
- 00088: Viridian Disasters
- 00089: The Viridian Military
- 00090: Design Principles for Virtual Worlds
- 00091: Viridian T-Shirt
- 00092: First Things First Manifesto
- 00093: The Deep Hot Biosphere
- 00094: Texas Energy Law
- 00095: Biotech Legal Liability
- 00096: 2000 Objects Exhibition
- 00097: Austin Software Speech
- 00098: The Net and the Weather
- 00099: Viridian Time and Light
- 00100: What Is to be Done
- 00101: Design Undersides
- 00102: Viridian Solar Switchplate Contest
- 00103: Religious Objections to Carbon Dioxide
- 00104: Viridian Wine-Tasting
- 00105: Viridian Disasters
- 00106: Massively Distributed Climate Modelling
- 00107: Viridian Disasters
- 00108: More Distributed Climate Computing
- 00109: More Solar-Powered Booze
- 00110: Computers and Trees
- 00111: The Orrissa Super-Cyclone
- 00112: The Organic Novel
- 00113: Pervasive Computing
- 00114: Viridian Disasters
- 00115: Internet Energy 1
- 00116: Internet Energy 2
- 00117: Internet Energy 3
- 00118: Viridian Commentary
- 00119: BP Amoco's Glasnost
- 00120: Viridian Disasters
- 00121: Les Tempetes 1999
- 00122: Viridian Commentary
- 00123: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00124: Viridian Movement Officially Begins
- 00125: Viridian FAQ
- 00126: The GCC Crumbles
- 00127: Austin's Green Choice
- 00128: Viridian Commentary
- 00129: Portable Fuel Cells
- 00130: Portable Chips
- 00131: Fuel Made From Carbon
- 00132: Treated Algae Spews Pure Hydrogen
- 00133: Greenhouse Credibility
- 00134: Energy from Ocean Slime
- 00135: Viridian Meter Competition
- 00136: GreenChoice Editorial
- 00137: Papal Schedule 2000
- 00138: Viridian Disaster
- 00139: Mudslide Landmines
- 00140: The GCC Crumbles Further
- 00141: Other People's Contests
- 00142: Global Climate Coalition in Purge Frenzy
- 00143: Vanishing Glaciers
- 00144: Greening Earth Prexy Publicly Despairs
- 00145: Space Weather
- 00146: Viridian Web Log
- 00147: Greenhouse Disaster Symbol Contest
- 00148: Anti-Viridian Web Log
- 00149: A Visit to the Makrolab
- 00150: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00151: Viridian Table of Contents
- 00152: Martin Johnson Heade
- 00153: Micro Fuel Cells
- 00154: Robot Bugs
- 00155: PlaNetwork Speech
- 00156: Viridian Energy Meter
- 00157: Atomic Greenhouse Fires
- 00158: Biodiversity Part 1
- 00159: Biodiversity Part 2
- 00160: Los Alamos Flood Threat
- 00161: Toyota's Green Power
- 00162: Piezoelectric Shoes
- 00163: Dire FEMA Predictions
- 00164: Viridian Disaster Catalog
- 00165: Mad Cows as Fuel
- 00166: Chernobyl Wildlife Park
- 00167: Doors of Perception Conference
- 00168: Energy Kleptocracy
- 00169: Multimedia Gulch Brownouts
- 00170: Snowballs in Summer Webcast
- 00171: Engine Evolution
- 00172: 10-K Clock
- 00173: Fossil Fuel Shoes
- 00174: Viridian Commentary
- 00175: Viridian Magazine Cover Contest
- 00176: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00177: Carnivorous Robot
- 00178: Texas Renewable Roundup
- 00179: Viridian Plant Genetics
- 00180: Infrared House Paint
- 00181: Infotech and Creativity
- 00182: Military Green
- 00183: North Pole Melts
- 00184: Viridian Commentary
- 00185: Disgorging Glaciers
- 00186: Wildfires of 2000
- 00187: Solar in LA
- 00188: Texas Wind Power
- 00189: Urban Heritage and Weather Violence
- 00190: Austin Heatwave
- 00191: Euro Fuel Shock
- 00192: Viridian Commentary
- 00193: Corporate Green Feud
- 00194: Balanced Power Org
- 00195: The Greening Earth on US Elections
- 00196: Fredericksburg Speech
- 00197: What's Nuon Green Mountain?
- 00198: Viridian Neologue Contest
- 00199: Meter Contest Winner
- 00200: Neologue Contest Entries
- 00201: Viridian TOC/FAQ
- 00200: More Neologue Contest
- 00203: BP Helios Logo
- 00204: Dutch Solar Parliament
- 00205: Weird Vintages of 2000
- 00206: The Sunburnometer
- 00207: Extreme Weather Normal
- 00208: BP Logo Hunt
- 00209: Doors of Perception
- 00210: Wave Generator
- 00211: Sewerspace
- 00212: Time Digital's Viridian Issue
- 00213: Wired Design Issue
- 00214: House of the Future
- 00215: Design Fiction
- 00216: Piezoelectric Eel
- 00217: CIA 2001
- 00218: California Crisis, Part 1
- 00219: California Crisis, Part 2
- 00220: California Crisis, Part 3
- 00221: Viridian Aphorisms
- 00222: Cali Crisis Weblog
- 00223: Serbian Energy Crisis
- 00224: Price Spikes
- 00225: Reddy Kilowatt Makeover
- 00226: Bug News
- 00227: OPEC Greens
- 00228: BP Logo Designer
- 00229: Fetzer Gloats
- 00230: Greening Earth Redux
- 00231: Earth to Exxon-Mobil
- 00232: Bush and CO2
- 00233: Mutant Space Fungus
- 00234: Korean Involuntary Park
- 00235: Whole Earth Magazine
- 00236: Editor at Work
- 00237: Digital Decay
- 00238: Hex on Exxon
- 00239: Eurogreen Boycott
- 00240: News from Europe
- 00241: Furniture Fair
- 00242: German Involuntary Park
- 00243: Community Mobility
- 00244: Viridian Hot Rod Contest
- 00245: Weather Poisons Horses
- 00246: ExxonMobil Climate Villain
- 00247: Houston Flood of 2001
- 00248: The Great Flood Art and
- 00249: Cultures Killed by Climate
- 00250: Bacterial Dataphage
- 00250: Bacterial Dataphage
- 00251: Houston Mosquitoes
- 00252: Viridian Whole Earth
- 00253: Air-Conditioned Clothing
- 00254: Europe Doubles Green Power
- 00255: Exxonmobil Global Day of...
- 00256: Political Developments
- 00257: Sewer Fat Crisis
- 00258: Kyoto Redeemed
- 00259: Solar Vultures
- 00260: Viridian Couture Series
- 00261: Cellphone Nailpolish
- 00262: Bio-Active Fabrics
- 00263: Vitamin Fabrics
- 00264: Powered Clothing
- 00265: Silly Clothing
- 00266: Viridian Commentary
- 00267: Texas Renewable Energy
- 00268: West Nile Virus
- 00269: Savannah Ecology Lab
- 00270: Hiding the Garbage
- 00271: Kuwaiti Clean-up
- 00272: Au Revoir, Belle Epoque
- 00273: A Beautiful Toy and a Nice PARTY
- 00274: Pope in Atlanta
- 00275: Bananthrax
- 00276: Khaki Green Power Boots
- 00277: Khaki Green Wind-Up Radios
- 00278: Kyoto Soldiers On
- 00279: Cheery Good News
- 00280: Weird Sequestration Schemes
- 00281: Enron Disappears
- 00282: Maghreb Floods
- 00283: Geeks and Spooks
- 00284: Enron Logo Contest
- 00285: Enron Wind
- 00286: 2001 AD — Grim Yet Toasty
- 00287: Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge
- 00288: Coffee Toys
- 00289: The World is Becoming Uninsurable, Revisited
- 00290: Sun Erupts
- 00291: Enron Stock
- 00292: Core 77 Parody
- 00293: Cosmic Spectrum Green
- 00294: Brutal Afghan Winter
- 00295: Jarking
- 00296: Planetary Rotation
- 00297: The Persistence Problem
- 00298: DNA Motor
- 00299: Viridian Enemies Die!
- 00300: Viridian Table of Contents
- 00301: Science Says Fumes Will
- 00302: The Larsen B Ice Shelf
- 00303: Steffen's Wild Sloth Chase
- 00304: Polar Sequoias
- 00305: Texas is Number One
- 00306: World Environmental Organization
- 00307: Loss of Local Character
- 00308: CFP 2002
- 00309: CFP Speech
- 00310: Disgorging Glaciers
- 00311: Carbon Extraction
- 00312: Viridian Computer Security
- 00313: Internal Biofuel Cells
- 00314: Bug News
- 00315: Cloud Bugs? Me, Too!
- 00316: Hubbert's Peak
- 00317: Political Activism
- 00318: Dirty Bombs
- 00319: Grand Challenges
- 00320: Global Civil Society
- 00321: Vultures and Furniture
- 00322: Shopping for Furniture
- 00323: Viridian Trusted Camera
- 00324: 911.net
- 00324: Open Source Speech
- 00326: Air-Conditioned Tokyo a weird, hand-waving Nipponese mega-scheme
- 00327: Rooftop Garden Tokyo another Nipponese scheme which seems rather more practical than the one in Viridian Note 00326
- 00329: Poor Prague Dismal events in a distant country that Neville Chamberlain didn't much care about
- 00330: Ocean Bugs Continues the Viridian obsession with ecologically active micro-organisms
- 00331: Contest Winner Our contest judge has rendered her verdict
- 00332: Biofuture Robot Dog Contest it's our new, howlingly ambitious Viridian Design Contest
- 00333: Doors of Perception
- 00334: Bitter Reality
- 00335: Pedal-Powered Wi-Fi If it's so great for the Third World, how come rich people aren't using it already?]
- 00336: Zero-Gravity Art Yes this Viridian Note is out of order since 00337 has already been mailed. Furthermore, this Note is about a far-out Russo-European art scheme at a cosmonaut training center
- 00337: American Summer 2002 Imminent warfare hogging headlines as American heartland fries and parches
- 00338: Sustainable Metropolis an invitation to green viewers and designers from Metropolis, a magazine the Pope-Emperor reads faithfully
- 00339: Green Power Nitwits Conveys the annoying, dispiriting spectacle of green power advocates shooting off their own feet
- 00340: Ossetia Glacier Horror A weird, scary anecdote about lethal climate change
- 00341: Web NGOs A whole lot of links and events vaguely having to do with web activism. Cut to chase, come to house party, network, drink some beer
- 00342: German Greens it's very German
- 00343: More German Greens It's even more German than it was in Note 00342
- 00344: The Judges Speak It's the announcement of the winner of our latest Viridian Design Contest
- 00345: Energy Scandals It's an alarming expose of the universal corruption of the energy business
- 00346: California's Vengeance Over 2,500 words of more tiresome blither about corporate corruption in the energy biz
- 00347: Ivan Ubiquovich Papal-Imperial speech delivered in Amsterdam.
- 00348: Viridian Potpourri Pope-Emperor empties the vats. These data morsels bear almost no relation to one another. A great way to waste time websurfing, though. Heaven knows I did.
- 00349: SensorNet It's very scary
- 00350: Renewable Energy Notice: Of particular interest to green energy wonks
- 00350: Renewable Energy Notice: Of particular interest to green energy wonks
- 00351: Decaying Media It's really a "Dead Media Project" note disguised as a Viridian Note
- 00352: Bug News continues the long-standing Viridian obsession with single-celled organisms
- 00353: Holiday Cheer You can come over here for New Years and witness our renewably-powered Xmas display
- 00354: Paging Thomas Gold a note researched and written by Michael Semer, a Viridian who took the trouble to actually talk to Dr. Thomas Gold
- 00355: More Biopshere Bugs Science journalist Oliver Morton weighs in on the subject of strange new notions of single-celled life
- 00356: The Year in Review It's a political assessment of the past year in global affairs. Over 2,500 words. Might be considered somewhat contrarian as it is Canadian and fails to chew over the usual sets of shibboleths
- 00357: Tomorrow Now Tour The obligatory labor of stoking the starmaker machinery
- 00358: Canberra in Flames You'd think it would be a big "national security issue" if your capital city was on fire, but, oddly, nobody seems to spin it that way
- 00359: Canberra Flames Subside Various interested Viridian parties weigh in on the subject of the recent fires around the capital of Australia. Over 2,700 words. The earlier note was painful, ugly and scary, but this one is worse. Large numbers of dense, brain- clogging links
- 00360: Venezuela's Curse A FORTUNE magazine article points out that carbon mining has ruined Venezuela. But why wasn't this helpful tip delivered much earlier? And what about all those other formerly prosperous countries massively harmed by corrupt carbon domination in their centers of government? Not that we're naming any names
- 00361: Beautiful Things Could keep you websurfing for months on end
- 00362: The Mood at Davos It's charming personal gossip about the rich and powerful that the gossiper didn't intend for us to hear. So I feel kind of bad about letting on to it to 1,800+ people. On the other hand, Viridians need to hear this, so that you can go buy duct tape, survival weapons and bags of rice
- 00363: SXSW Interactive Involves free beer! You're invited!]
- 00364: Pretty Butterflies Deliberately makes no mention whatsoever of desert warfare, raging street protests, or giant thermobaric bombs
- 00365: Pope Appears on Earth Day News primarily of local Austin interest
- 00366: Embrace the Decay Contest It's yet another in a series of Viridian contests
- 00367: Here Comes PlaNetwork I really want to go and I can't, so you should go
- 00368: More Involuntary Parks Part of a flurry of Viridian Notes, as we catch up on backlog. This won't last long
- 00369: Windpower '03 It's very windy
- 00370: Embracing Decay Finally, some contest entries
- 00371: Hex on Exxon it's political
- 00372: Ted Saves the World Lots of links
- 00373: Microengines Includes a party invite to the Viridian Vatican
- 00374: Viridian Beer-Tasting Announces winner of our latest contest. Wind-powered or no, excessive beer consumption can cause one to wreck large fossil-fueled vehicles
- 00375: Mass Dieback Probably the least satisfying "I told you so" experience that a Viridian might have
- 00376: Europe Burns Is the human race too stupid to live? This mayhem should be front-page news every day. 2,349 words of a whole continent in heavy weather
- 00377: Viridian Commentary Lengthy accounts by various interested Viridian parties on the morale- denting mayhem of weather violence. Almost 2,500 words
- 00378: British Involuntary Park Scarcely mentions the temperature breaking 100 degrees F in Britain, or the "carloads of dead" from the unnatural heat in Paris
- 00379: Blackouts and Diebacks Conflates a number of different Greenhouse phenomena into a 3,250-word screed. Grim, glum, scary, savagely partisan
- 00380: So Long Mont Blanc Likely to cause sensations of dread
- 00381: Starvation Nothing new about environmental activists hand-wringing over prospects of mass starvation. Kinda new to wonder if this might go from the unthinkable to a real-life truism in such short order, though
- 00382: WaveFront Newsletter includes the entire text of a lengthy, multiply-linked newsletter written by somebody else == a work that is annotated even further and festooned with extra, attention-hungry links
- 00383: Silent Coup at EPA Involves the increasingly noisome subject of domestic American politics
- 00384: Climate Prediction Net Software not available for Mac or Linux, so hapless climate predictors are likely to be wrecked at random intervals by Microsoft-based viruses and worms
- 00385: Pope's Vacation Pix is there anything in the world more boring than some guy showing you his vacation photos?]
- 00386: House Party Basically an invitation to drop by and drink beer. Lots of semi-random links
- 00387: Australian Super Drought Who cares about the miserable fate of doomed Australia? I'm going to Norway and Holland, starting tomorrow!]
- 00388: The Eerie Revival of Dead Media has nothing to do with environmental issues, even though a patch of California the size of Rhode Island is on fire
- 00389: Beyond the Beyond Blog yet more about the Pope-Emperor's non-Viridian activities; involves weblogs, notoriously an effort in which other people have to do all the work
- 00390: Drowning in Mecca New English-language news sources seem to care much that Mecca is briefly subaqueous
- 00391: Another World is Here You should definitely take the time to read this Note. This is good news of high importance to the Viridian scene
- 00392: The Look of Tech Nouveau Nice pics. Also includes a cheery invite to a Viridian Vatican party this weekend
- 00393: More Look of Tech Nouveau Nice pics. Leans heavily on a new Victoria and Albert Museum show and a spectacular new book by British-American design journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Lots of links. Basically a huge primer on the kind of look the Viridian Movement most wants to promulgate. Could prove hugely time-consuming. You might spend the rest of your life living in stuff shaped like this
- 00394: The Smart Energy Industry of primary interest to clean energy wonks. Lots of irrelevant but entertaining links
- 00395: Weather Futures Market Concerns peculiar vagaries of contemporary capitalism; includes some mind-deadening biz-jargon
- 00396: Jolly News for the New Year Errs on the side of the life-affirming in a frank attempt to keep people's hopes up
- 00397: Attention Conservation Viridian List getting a bit meta here with a note about attention conservation. Also offers a lot of links to further prey on your time and ability to concentrate
- 00398: Desperate Climate Remediation Schemes Consists mostly of Viridian black humor about a well-meaning conference of Anglo-American wannabe climatic super-engineers. Includes the entire, heavily annotated text of a conference dot-pdf
- 00399: Dead Nations on Internet Darkly whimsical musings about the fate of the Pacific Island of Niue and its Internet domain
- 00400: Viridian Weblogging The Viridian Pope-Emperor has been traveling for weeks. This Note clears out a backlog of most any Viridian topic vaguely of interest. Could prove highly time-consuming
- 00401: British Blowback a fully annotated version of a rather silly British newspaper story about Pentagon climate-change speculations
- 00402: Metropolis Editorial It's a magazine editorial that you should have been reading in the actual magazine
- 00403: Przwalski Chernobyl It's about rare ancestral horses now thriving around Chernobyl
- 00404: Car Ergonomics I found this article to be witty, insightful and delightful, but then again, I just bought a hybrid electric Honda Civic with a highly unorthodox instrument panel
- 00405: America's Radioactive Involuntary Parks wonk-speak written in an august, fully peer-reviewed science magazine
- 00406: Viridian Aromatizer It's another in our long series of Viridian Design Contests
- 00407: Aromatizer Contest Contest entries are tumbling in at an unheard-of rate. I am pitchforking them out in short order, lest they heap up and begin to smell
- 00408: Clouds of Scent Even more rapidly accumulating entries in the Viridian Aromatizer Contest. Special bonus non-sequitur: lots of astonishing pictures from NASA
- 00409: Green Social Software It's a stirring call to arms from people who have called to the American population into the righteous streets for, oh, forty years or something. Also includes yet, even lots more, wordy, ingenious entries in the Viridian Aromatizer Contest
- 00410: Sterling Book Tour Who cares about some author out on the road promoting some new novel. Contains some more entries on the Viridian Aromatizer Contest
- 00411: The NRDC's Long Memory A long, painstaking, one might even say nitpicking, list of outrages that the NRDC assembled for Earth Day 2004. Also includes more entries for the Viridian Aromatizer Contest
- 00412: Hunger Grim, scary, involves one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. There are no new entries in the Viridian Aromatizer Contest even though it ends in three days. Last chance, people
- 00413: Aromatizer Contains the last entries allowed in the contest
- 00414: The Reek Contains two newspaper articles that got a lot of press attention but probably less than they should. Also announces winner of the Viridian Aromatizer Contest
- 00415: Doom Is Nigh Spooky, disconcerting, contrarian, and goes on and on and on
- 00416: Enron on Tape Americans, these people put your President into office. Californians, you lost a governor over this, not to mention a whole, whole lot of your money
- 00417: Live from Croatia I'm in Croatia trying to clean up a backlog of files. Not too well organized, but, well, I've been busy elsewhere
- 00418: Notes from High Ground I was in Colorado at this event, and discussing a book that I'm writing on design. Okay, it's a big pamphlet. But it will have some new ideas in it
- 00419: Wonder Bug continues the long-term Viridian obsession with micro-organisms and their applications
- 00420: Viridian Toilet Humor We Viridians don't normally dabble in bathroom humor, but these peculiar snippets were assembled by a curator we know who works for the Guggenheim Museum. This is more than toilet humor – this is, like, toilet art
- 00421: The Virtual Actual I'm keynoting SIGGRAPH in a few days, so I'm getting up to speed on all things virtual. None of the stuff in this Note is really working yet, but, being a futurist, that's why I'm interested
- 00423: Photovoltaic Display Screen It's a wacky, overpriced solar-power knickknack, but every red-blooded Viridian is bound to want one
- 00422: The Spime the Pope-Emperor trouts out his latest hobbyhorse for the delectation of the end-using masses
- 00424: Korean Involuntary Park Full of daffy local color, but from a widely known New York publication
- 00425: Hurricanes vs Phones None
- 00426: Foot Augmentation. time-consuming links to bizarre curiosities that may well make a Segway look as practical as a can-opener. You probably shouldn't have read that last Viridian Note, the one that came without any Attention Conservation Notice
- 00427: Six Viridian Years There is so much going on here that even I can't pay attention to it.
- 00428: Anybody but Americans This may be the last Viridian Note you read this year, because I'm wintering in Belgrade, Serbia. Once I'm teaching design in Pasadena, however, you can expect all Viridian hell to break loose
- 00429: Visionary Contest There's been very little Viridian traffic lately. That will change soon. This is an excellent opportunity to resign from the list if email has you overwhelmed. Also, there is a new Viridian Design Contest afoot with a particularly attractive prize
- 00430: Goodbye, Cruel World so colossally grim that it's exhilirating
- 00431: Lord Oxburgh Go thou and do likewise, and sin no more
- 00432: Ten Gallons of Kyoto This is impossible for human beings to read. Yet I read it all, I really did. I might have made it to the end without unconsciousness ensuing, but it was written by Canadian policy wonks
- 00433: Treehugger Offers actual pay and publication room to qualified people who like to write about Viridian topics
- 00434: EcoFurniture Fab shopping opportunities could cost you a lot of money
- 00435: Ukrainian Coal Mayhem Involves a whole lot of Ukrainians
- 00436: Viva California lacks corruption-crazed coal-mining Ukrainians, features sun-dazzled Californians
- 00437: Energy Security contains blathering, barking Yankee political operatives
- 00438: Delhian Doors of Perception I didn't go to India. I bet a lot of you didn't, either. John Thackara,on the other hand, will charge right on over there, throw a big design event, and report at length afterward
- 00439: The Archbishop of Canterbury It's an enviro sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury
- 00440: Ian McEwan You may have never heard of critically acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan, and besides, his award-winning novels are grief-stricken, 'difficult,' depressing and British
- 00441: Get a Job, Hippie You may already have a job. This one may be better than the one you have, though. It's in Seattle
- 00442: Redesigning Iowa "Iowa." Where's that? Do they mean "Ohio"? We always get those confused
- 00443: Spanish Wind Boom Europeans who get rich from green energy can be almost as enviable and obnoxious as the oil-soaked Texan nouveau riche
- 00444: Ecoimagination If you don't consider this development a big deal, then you probably don't belong on this mailing list. Send me some email, I'll prune you off pronto
- 00445: Green Design Debacles Just because green technology is a swell idea doesn't mean that it's easy, or even that it works at all
- 00446: Debating GE Two green pundits, with radically different takes on matters, consider General Electric's newly announced green initiatives
- 00447: Exxon Greenwash Rehashes Exxon-Mobil's machinations at quite some length, but it's nice to have the details
- 00448: Viridian Current Events Following these links could consume a couple of days, maybe even a week.
- 00449: The Mad Max Scenario Could consume most of an afternoon in febrile handwringing and left-wing schadenfreude
- 00450: Rude Calamity May briefly deprive attention from the awesome fate of New Orleans
- 00451: Every Word is True This recitation of the obvious by longtime global warming activist Ross Gelbspan deserves to be pinned to every telephone pole in America. Especially the thousands of them that just blew over
- 00452: The Return of Laurie Garrett Likely to make you feel even worse about Katrina than you do already
- 00453: The March of Khaki Green We Viridians have been talking about this notion since 1998, and, well, here it comes
- 00454: Hello Alpha Consists almost entirely of time-consuming links. May not be readable if you are in Florida, New Orleans, or the Yucatan. If you panic easily, it may not be readable, period
- 00455: Al Gore 2005 who on Earth wants to read a speech by Al Gore?]
- 00456: State of the World 2006 cites a little-known Los Angeles alternative newspaper and the overexposed NY Times columnist Thomas "Flat World" Friedman
- 00457: Broken Rabble, Brutal Warlords James Lovelock is in his mid-80s, so won't live to see any of this utter mayhem he's prophesying
- 00458: Global Viridian Linkfest A hemorrhage of time-consuming links that have piled up in the Viridian hopper. Could take all day. Maybe you're snowed in. Enjoy!]
- 00459: Emerging Technology 2006 it's a Bruce Sterling speech at a California technology conference. Delivered at alpha-geek central, it may include indecipherable techie in-jokes. Well over 6,000 words. Includes illustrations
- 00460: The Wolf is at the Door you probably don't live in Austin. Your turn is coming, though. If your turn hasn't happened already
- 00461: The Wolf does not enter the Door This Note implies that all the other 460 Viridian Notes have been unnecessary alarmism
- 00462: Spime Watch This Viridian Note consists entirely of web-links to phenomena involving ubiquitous computation and the Internet-of-Things, and it could easily consume endless amounts of attention
- 00463: People Hate Exxon It isn't news that people hate Exxon-Mobil, but a wider variety of people are hating Exxon more bitterly for an interesting variety of reasons
- 00464: Florida is Becoming Uninsurable Same story, latest verse. More sure to come
- 00465: Civil Discord. Not a particularly cheery set of developments
- 00466: Return of the Aral Sea. Better news than anyone expected about a situation that was long a very byword for enviro hopelessness
- 00467: Corporate Green. What if the world becomes "green" and yet is even more ruthlessly liberal-capitalist than it is today?]
- 00468: Those World-Killing Yankees It's a contrite American discussing American climate politics for an audience of left-wing Britons
- 00469: Those World-Killing Chinese Understanding this Note requires some elementary math skills, in the sense that, for instance, one planet Earth isn't as big as four planet Earths
- 00470: Clutching at Straw It might take you a couple of beers' worth of ethanol to work your way through all of this
- 00471: More Clutching at Straw I'm frankly enjoying this mind-scrambling opportunity to properly cite the loony cultist organ "Washington Times" within a Viridian Note
- 00472: Wall Street's Darling BUSINESS WEEK supplies a handy scorecard for the movers and players in the Global War on Terror green-fuels industry. Believe it or not, the fact that this industrial transition is almost, actually happening in real life is the best Viridian news we've ever spread. Goes on and on and on and on. And on their website, there's even more
- 00473: Treehugger 02006 Fun green things to look at, think about and possibly even purchase
- 00474: Climate and Civilization A new theory about climatic impacts on human history
- 00475: Getting Real A glum and comprehensive fit of handwringing as it dawns on everybody that matters that climate change is not just "an issue" but destined to become "the" issue. ]
- 00476: Green Austin I'm in Austin a few days, and can't help but look around a little. ]
- 00477: WorldChanging: The Book Pay attention. This is important
- 00478: Mark Twain, Climate Visionary Mark Twain's novel "The American Claimant" was published in 1892. It involves a daffy American inventor trying to sell climate change. Hey, it's an old book, but that was news to me
- 00479: The Sulfur Cure This proposition is straight outta of Mark Twain's novel "The American Claimant" from 1892, except, uh, it just came out in WIRED
- 00480: The Algae Hummer There are tropical ibises nesting in New York. Not fifty years from now. Now
- 00481: The Counterpurge It's a notion that may seem a little improbable at first glance, but it's much less improbable than tornadoes in London and a lost war for oil
- 00482: Big Changes Ahead Happy new years... these meditations by Washington-based pundit John Peterson seem to reflect the current mood of the times in the Beltway, which are about as dazed and miserablist-apocalyptophile as one can imagine. Looks like the world will be hit on the head with a series of hammers until morale improves. I'm having a lot of black-humored fun at this guy's expense here, but I think he's dealing with the season as best he can. His newsletter FUTUREDITION is consistently amazing
- 00483: Green Plutocracy Imagine yourself spending Christmas websurfing for eco-doom, and sitting through a long speech by Michael R. Bloomberg, the Republican media tycoon who bought himself the mayorship of New York
- 00484: Climate Optimism Thinking seriously about the sober prospects described here can inspire Lovecraftian cosmic fear
- 00485: Metcalfe on Enertech Bob Metcalfe, one of the gray eminences of the Internet and the inventor of Ethernet, explains to an audience of Massachusetts politicos why it will take thirty years to defeat the Greenhouse Effect and by what means he expects this to happen
- 00486: Energy Policy for Europe Who cares what a bunch of Eurocrats say? They don't even have a real Constitution!]
- 00487: We Are Winning The Viridian struggle has met with success. We are winning
- 00488: Sublime Climate Just 'cause we're winning, doesn't mean we're dead quite yet. Come on, a little cheery schadenfreude is in order
- 00489: Contests and Prizes you probably won't win these contests or these prizes. Might be pretty fun to watch, though
- 00490: Peter Schwartz at Davos You're basically at this guy's elbow as he goes to Davos to network with the Great and the Good. There's a great deal of discussion there about the climate crisis and what to do about carbon. Davos is the watering hole of the global plutocracy, so if you're interested in the tides and currents of planetary development, you're a lot better off reading this stuff than you are wasting your time on political blogs
- 00491: Massive Green Buyout Stuff like this is gonna start happening all the time. Might as well learn how it works and get used to it
- 00492: Austin Green Capitalism It's about a bunch of start-up companies asking rich people for money
- 00493: British Military Describes Khaki Green keenly depressing, yet something of a tribute to Viridian foresight
- 00494: Climate Change and Nuclear War some Russian worrying a lot about the steady approach of doomsday
- 00495: Serbia and the Flames guest-star Viridian pundit is wife of Bruce Sterling
- 00496: Al Gore Wins Nobel great news for greenies all spoilt by glum Viridian futurism
- 00497: Al's Unified National Grid It's a long speech by Al Gore annotated by the Viridian Pope-Emperor
- Not a Viridian Note an announcement probably pretty typical of the work I will be up to for the next seven months. It's about Italian cyberculture and design
- The Last Viridian Note This is the last one