Archive for June, 2007

Tropical sequestration better

A recent research study reported in Science has found that tropical forests play a more important role in CO2 sequestration than previously thought. Intact tropical forests are removing an unexpectedly high proportion of CO2 compared to northern forests. Yet these tropical forests are being depleted at a rapid rate. Economic realisation of the sequestration value of such [...]

Internet sales slow down and problems with forecasts

The New York Times on the 17th June (NY Times) is reporting that the growth in internet sales has slowed significantly. Some of this was inevitable as the hypergrowth that was occurring was not possible to sustain indefinitely. However it does allow me to go back to one of the bees in my [...]

Contagious Insanity?

Several years ago during an exercise brainstorming ‘unthinkable futures’ a colleague came up with the notion of contagious insanity. At first seeming quite bizarre (always a good sign of something worth further investigation) the notion stuck with me and I have long pondered the potential by which this might occur. I recently came across an MSNBC [...]