Richard Farrell
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Nov- 2016 -16 NovemberDesign
Free Geothermal Power from Earth’s Heart
I have yet to get my mind around the idea that Earth’s inner core is dense iron and nickel, surrounded…
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9 NovemberGeneral
A Time for Putting Something Back
The ancient Book of Ecclesiastes teaches us “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under…
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2 NovemberDesign
The Endlessly Renewable Power of the Tides
The water flows high up the beach when the moon is directly overhead, as happens on the far side of…
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Oct- 2016 -26 OctoberEconomics
How Well Do Data and Sustainability Go Together?
Recently I asked the question ‘should we debate the future of our cities?’. Topics that come to mind include whether…
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19 OctoberWater
Will We Really Have Water Forever
Water truly is our most precious resource. We can go without food for up to thirty days. After three, we…
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12 OctoberSociety
Making Solar Power Reality in Our Cities
I stepped out of line last time when I posed the question; do our cities have the right to exist…
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5 OctoberPopulation
Should We Debate The Future of Our Cities
The earliest human habitations were caves, on mountaintops, or inside hastily thrown-up fortifications on open plains. After the Neolithic Revolution…
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Sep- 2016 -15 SeptemberWhy Permaculture?
Could We Change Consumption to Production
When I consider the age of current and wannabee world leaders I want to cringe. I am sixty-nine myself, and…
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7 SeptemberGeneral
Urban Farming, Africa Style
When I was in junior school in Cape Town in the late fifties / early sixties, ‘grand apartheid’ had not…
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Aug- 2016 -18 AugustPopulation
Then and Now: A Baby Boomer Growing Up
World War II caused three major economic disruptions in Europe. The military commandeered a large part of the active workforce,…
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10 AugustGeneral
Less is More & The Pursuit of Happiness
In my first post, The Mark of the Baby Boomers: The Internet and Drought, I confessed to being a boomer…
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5 AugustGeneral
Shall We Return to Traditional Farming Methods or Is Modern Better?
In my first post, I described how the stampede for material wealth became all-important to me as a baby boomer,…
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