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...factors in the frequency of earthquakes to determine global warming's impact on weather disasters (the authors do concede a "significant margin of error"). Specifics aside, the report is doubtless intended to haunt world leaders as they gather in Copenhagen later this year to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. If its chilling claims are even partly true, the report should be read as a clarion call to action...
...just admit it: the Nintendo people are total geniuses. I was one of the first journalists to see the Wii, in Kyoto in the spring of 2006. I even tried it out. I played fake mime-tennis. I caught a virtual fish by casting with the Wii controller. I did a little dance and watched a little guy do a little dance on the screen. At the time my thoughts were as follows: 1) Technologically speaking, this is a pretty amazing hack; 2) too bad the graphics suck; and 3) nobody will buy this ever. And 4) at least...
...Bush Administration refused to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. The treaty is pretty innocuous - it merely pledges signatories to uphold a zone of peace in Southeast Asia. But the Bush Administration objected to Burma's membership in ASEAN and was averse to signing anything (remember the Kyoto Protocol). In contrast, as with Kyoto, the Obama Administration says it will consider signing the ASEAN treaty...
...After the signing of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, Michael Sandel infamously voiced a challenging concern for any cap-and-trade scheme. In a New York Times op-ed, Dr. Sandel wrote that cap-and-trade policies at any level would “undermine the ethic we should be trying to foster on the environment.” Many of Sandel’s claims in the piece regarding the economic infeasibility of a cap-and-trade scheme are weak, but the argument that cap and trade could hinder the needed spirit of collective responsibility is no joke...
Iori's English-language concierge service (free to machiya guests) and arts program (teaching everything from calligraphy to Noh drama in courses that last from a half-day to two days or more) will steep you even further in Kyoto culture. You'll be stepping from your latticed front door onto the quiet street and feeling like you belong - even if it is just for the weekend. See www.kyoto-machiya.com for details...