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Financial crisis undermining biofuel market

  By iip | January 15, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Forest
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What happen to smallholder biodiesel-material producers when major biodiesel consumers are bumping into financial crisis? This is likely a drastic situation after biofuel (both ethanol and biodiesel) market came up in highest demand last year.

Did you know the predicted consumption of biofuels by 2030 is just over 140 millions tons of oil equivalents? A recent report of RRI says this prediction is based on the ‘with subsidy’ case, which, in a very conservative estimate would require an additional 35 million hectares of land. This prediction was taken before the financial crisis come out.

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How chinese hackers earn money

  By iip | February 4, 2010 - 11:43 am | Internet
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While chinese products are flooding more and more countries, chinese hackers also flood internet with trojan horse. One of the victims was Google, whose some pages were hijacked. The attack was originated in China, resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google”. Users who open the pages will infected with the trojan horse, thus the virus spread quickly throughout the world.

This way make Google reluctant to continue its business with China? Looking at the size of potential users in China, I think Google should consider the decision again. Google should improve its security system employing new approach, thus make chinese internet user more convinient rather than leaving it.  Chinese internet-literate community also need to be addressed and facilitated in certain way without breaking the law.

Hackers activity mostly motivated by money rather than leasure. At first they interested with the challanges, then realize that they can  yearn a lot of bucks using easy activities. NYTimes publishes a portray of the daily life of a chinese hacker and reveals how the hackers earn money. Here the ways:

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Ecozoic Era

  By iip | September 22, 2008 - 4:26 pm | Earth
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“..some indication that the universe is for us rather than against us.”This term I found in Thomas Berry’s book of Great Work. Thomas Berry is a historian of cultures, comes to from the hill country of the Southern Appalachians. He was born in the beginning of the First World War.

Ecozoic Era, as Berry’s says, refer to the period when humans will present to the planet as participating members of comprehensive Earth community. To reach that era, humans need to manage arduous transition. And he called this effort as Great Work.

Berry describes the Ecozoic Era will emergent after Cenozoic Era terminated. Cenozoic era is period of life development on the earth. At the moment, Cenozoic era is declining as the earth is so damaged and the future so challenged by its human population that the terms of survival will be severe beyond anything known in the past.

At the last page, Berry pints out the foundations of the new historical period. We have foundations of Ecozoic Era that have been established in every realm of human affairs. But, even humans make transition into the new century we must note that moments of grace are transient moment. The transformation must take place within in brief period.

Hmm…

Berry gives us many insights. He urges us to rethinking our roles on the earth. After our world experienced several eras, the Cenozoic Era is very interesting. Although the earth have been exploited by cutting the forest, damming the rivers it has also been adorned by the pyramid in Egypt, Great Wall of China and great temple Borobudur of Indonesia. These are even human achievements.

One of the human achievements that Berry doesn’t talk is global warming. All of us must receive the impact of our work in the past and unfair policy. It might be a proud that human reach a great period of business, sciences and immense infrastructures. Meanwhile in another side of the world, people get starving because their crops are collapsed either by long drought or flood. What a poor world…~

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