Is thinking of your home as a spaceship a useful maybe even practical metaphor?
As we execute carefully planned Extra Vehicular Activities (EVAs: the weekly grocery shopping in masks and gloves), our account of inputs and outputs and the circular nature of flows of our homes may become clear.
And realizing how that works in our homes, may lead us to a more immediate perception that the same applies to Earth in its entirety.Martian colonies won’t have the dumb luxury of wasting resources.
Only 100% sustainability will let them last. Their valuable export is going to be the technologies and practices to make it happen on Earth as well.
What does it mean that Elon Musk is jolting? He understands that in order to reach the ambitious missions of his companies in time,...
When I started recording The Context several years ago, based on an idea and a conversation with my friend Massimo Curatella in Rome, I...
The efficiency of a system is its ability to produce a certain amount of output per unit of input. Its resilience is its ability...
