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      29 Jan 2010

      Green economy in Venice

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      txt: Green economy - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Green economy is a fast growing new economic development model in contrast to the existing 'black' economic model based on fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The green economy is based on a knowledge of Ecological economics that aims at addressing the interdependence of human economies and natural ecosystem and the adverse impact of human economic activities on climate change and global warming. In the midst of the global economic crisis, the UNEP United Nations Environment Program called for a Global Green Deal according to which governments were encouraged to support its economic transformation to a greener economy (UNEP, October 22, 2008). Green economy includes green energy generation based on renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels and energy conservation for efficient energy use. The green economy is considered being able to both create green jobs, ensure real, sustainable economic growth, and prevent environmental pollution, global warming, resource depletion, and environmental degradation.
      link: Green Economics Institute - Miriam Kennet teaches at Venice International University , April 22nd -24th 2010
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      24 Jan 2010

      Giorgione: the hidden myth

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      txt: The life of Giorgione - www.giorgione2010.it
      On the whole, Giorgione's works continue to elude us, not merely in terms of autography, but also in their most profound meaning. While the surviving and acknowledged paintings by the artist reflect exclusively secular, civic or "private" forms of engagement (even the Castelfranco Altarpiece was actually commissioned by the famous condottiere Tuzio Costanzo), many interpretative keys have been suggested for Giorgione's work: they have been regarded as philosophical exercises of a Neoplatonic bent on the theme of love, as depictions related to Classical literature, even as manifestos of Jewish culture in Venice. Then comes legend, and what has been constructed on the basis of a very limited number of sources. Among these "inventions" is that concerning the painter's death from "love sickness" when his lover fled with his disciple Pietro Luzzo da Feltre. This episode, which appears to have been told for the first time only in 1648 by Carlo Ridolfi, ultimately confirms an established fact: that by then the making of myths about Giorgione was already underway.
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      23 Jan 2010

      Uncut

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      txt: wikipedia - uncut Uncut may refer to: * Without censorship: Uncut (film), a docudrama about censorship * Uncut (magazine), a popular monthly publication based in London * A non-circumcised penis, meaning that the foreskin is intact UNCUT, a pornographic magazine for admirers of uncircumcised men, unrelated to the music magazine * An illicit drug lacking any cutting agent * Uncut (band), a Canadian rock band signed to Paper Bag Records * BET: Uncut, a show that aired on the BET network link: Censorship - wikipedia video: The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBNpdXkLnU]
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      21 Jan 2010

      A green New Deal for Venice (and not only)

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      txt: Per un'economia verde in una città ecologica / For a green economy in an ecological town - University Ca' Foscari Venezia
      E' tempo che Venezia, da “vittima eccellente” del surriscaldamento globale, si candidi ad essere la Capitale, europea e mondiale, della lotta ai cambiamenti climatici, a partire dalla radicale conversione ecologica dell’economia locale e della stessa organizzazione della sua vita metropolitana, imperniata sul ricorso a fonti energetiche rinnovabili e ad una mobilità sostenibile. [en] It's time that Venice instead of a global warming "casualty", became an european and global capital of the fight against climate changes, starting from an ecological radical conversion of the local economy and the organization of its urban life, focused on renewable energies and sustainable mobility.
      links: - A Green New Deal for Europe - Towards Green Modernization in the face of Crisis - Green European Foundation - Wuppertal Institute
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      16 Jan 2010

      Y ahora tango

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      link: Tango - www.en.argentina.ar
      Described as a clearly popular style born in Buenos Aires suburbs, brothels and tenement houses, tango (meaning “a place for slaves to meet”) is intrincately embedded in its music and lyrics melancholic essence as well as in the sensuality and passion felt when dancing it.
      video: The Tango lesson - Libertango (Astor Piazzolla) on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqYg0ZVgV4w]
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      16 Jan 2010

      A flooded future

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      link: FACING UP TO RISING SEA LEVELS RETREAT? DEFEND? ATTACK? - www.buildingfutures.org.uk txt: Flooding explained - The Royal Institute of British Architects
      Climate Change and Increased Flood Risk The potential impacts of climate change during the next 30 to 80 years have been estimated by UKCIP, the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme. UKCIP| 02 (2002) provided a range of climate change scenarios recommended for use by Government for the assessment of climate change impacts. In the context of assessing flood risk the key results are: * the UK climate will become warmer; * winters will become wetter and summers may become drier everywhere; * heavy winter rain and snow will become more frequent; * relative sea level will continue to rise around most of the UK shoreline; and * extreme sea levels will be experienced more frequently. Climate change is therefore likely to increase flood risk significantly and progressively for all areas of the UK over time. At particularly increased risk will be low-lying coastal areas, as sea levels rise, and areas across the UK not currently prone to fluvial or tidal flooding as more intense rainfall leads to significantly higher risk of flooding from surface run-off and overwhelmed drainage systems.
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      Links As News, Links As Art

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      txt: Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - publishing2.com
      Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review has a practical guide to linking on the web, where he observes: "Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of online pages with extra information relating to the story, he or she cannot link to them. But if you have that information, why not share it with those readers who are eager for it?" Again, I would take this a step further — links aren’t just a fundamental element of the reporting. Links can BE the reporting.
      video: Linkin Park - What I've Done ooops! What they've Done? the video is no longer avalilable. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ]
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