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This BBC radio feature offers a solid understanding of what the environmental impacts of books are and what we need to do differently. For book lovers, this understanding presents an opportunity to contribute to the change by asking booksellers and publishers to print on environmentally responsible paper. First, it is good to understand the right choices. The BBC feature will do that.

Erin

Tak terasa kehamilan istriku Ondang sudah memasuki minggu ke-35...Kehadiran anak pertama kami, si ’Adek Bayi’ sudah diambang pintu.

Rasanya seperti baru kemarin ketika di suatu hari Sabtu pagi kami berdua berdebat soal apakah ’garis merah’ di alat test-pack itu sudah ada dua atau belum. Soalnya waktu itu hanya satu garis yang jelas benar warna merahnya, sementara yang lain masih samar. Yang jadi perdebatan waktu itu adalah, apakah kedua garis merah harus sama-sama jelas terlihat atau boleh satu yang jelas sementara yang lain samar. Sempat nanya sana sini ke teman-teman, jawabannya juga beda-beda. Padahal kami berdua sudah sama-sama pengen punya anak, belum lagi mertua dan Mamaku yang rutin nanya apakah putri/menantunya sudah ’isi’ apa belum. Tidak ketinggalan pula saudara-saudara maupun teman-teman kami yang rutin nanya setiap ketemu atau ada kesempatan. Padahal saat itu kami baru dua bulan menikah tapi pertanyaan-pertanyaan mereka membuat kami merasa seolah sudah nikah bertahun-tahun tanpa punya anak,

Akhirnya kami berdua memberanikan diri pergi ke dokter spesialis kandungan di rumah sakit terdekat dari rumah kami , Graha Permata Ibu (GPI) Depok. Istriku lebih memilih dokter pria, jadi kami pun memilih dokter Iskandar. Hasil USG sempat membuat aku kecewa berat karena belum kelihatan apa-apa. Tapi dr. Iskandar menyarankan ditest pack lagi. Sambil harap-harap cemas kami menyaksikan si suster melakukan test pack. Kemudian hasilnya diberikan ke dr.Iskandar. Luar biasa lega dan senangnya saat dr.Iskandar mengatakan bahwa istriku sudah positif hamil, kemungkinan baru dua minggu. Segera berita bahagia ini kami sampaikan ke mertuaku dan Ibuku di Pematang Siantar.

Kalau ditelusur balik, almarhum Bapakku ternyata lebih hebat daripada segala jenis test pack maupun alat USG manapun.:.-)  Kenapa begitu? Soalnya kira-kira seminggu sebelum kami mulai pake test pack, adik perempuanku yang nomer dua bermimpi tentang almarhum Bapak, di mimpi itu Bapak bilang ke adikku bahwa istriku sudah mengandung. Wah..wah...percaya engga percaya, kata orang khan mimpi bunga tidur, tapi kenyataannya emang terbukti bahwa istriku sudah mengandung. Dari dulu memang Bapak sudah pengen banget punya cucu, sayang beliau keburu dipanggil olehNya sebelum punya cucu.

Kami berdua memberi dia sebutan ’Adek Bayi’ sejak pertama kali kehamilan istriku dipastikan. Nama sementara ini menjadi jembatan ajaib buat relasi kami dengannya, membuat dia seolah sudah hadir di antara kami berdua. Dengan nama ini, kami bisa berbincang-bincang dengannya, dengan bergantian kami menirukan suaranya saat berkomunikasi. Adakalanya aku yang mewakilin suara Adek Bayi, kala dia sibuk nanya macam-macam ke Mamanya. Di lain waktu, Ondang yang dengan suara lucu menjadi representasi suara Adek Bayi. Dengan cara komunikasi seperti ini, Adek Bayi benar-benar hidup dan hadir di antara kami berdua.

Semuanya tentang kehamilan ini serba baru buat kami. Di awal-awal kehamilan, kami dipenuhi kekhawatiran untuk menjaga keberadaan Adek Bayi. Soalnya kata orang-orang, awal-awal kehamilan sampai bulan ke tiga adalah masa-masa genting apakah si janin akan survive atau tidak bisa bertahan. Karenanya, kami langsung memutuskan Ondang berhenti bekerja. Kami takut dia akan terlalu capek bekerja sambil menyelesaikan kuliahnya di Salemba. Belum lagi ditambah kenyataan kami sekarang tinggal di Depok, di mana ke tempat kerja saja butuh rata-rata waktu perjalanan 2 jam sekali jalan.  Kami sampai membatalkan rencana jalan-jalan ke Kuala Lumpur karena khawatir perjalanan lewat pesawat terbang bisa mengganggu si Adek Bayi.

Begitu kehamilan memasuki bulan ke tiga dan dokter bilang semuanya normal dan sehat, kami mulai lega. Kami juga mulai beli CD lagu-lagu klasik plus head-phone untuk memperdengarkan lagu-lagu itu ke Adek Bayi. Ini juga karena kata orang-orang akan bagus buat perkembangan otaknya. Kami juga rajin membeli buku-buku soal kehamilan dan rajin nanya-nanya mereka-mereka yang sudah lebih dahulu mengalaminya.

Semakin tua usia kehamilan, ternyata semakin banyak masalah fisik dan psikis yang dialami Ondang. Yang paling bikin dia engga nyaman adalah rasa gatal yang menyerbu seluruh badannya. Terkadang ini membuat dia jadi susah tidur. Belum lagi rasa cepat lelah yang semakin terasa belakangan ini. Setelah usia kandungan mencapai minggu ke 33 dan seterusnya, Ondang  sudah tidak bisa duduk berlama-lama. Maunya sering-sering rebahan. Selain itu dia semakin lama semakin manja. Kebutuhannya akan pelukan dan perhatian semakin besar. Untung dia bukan tipe yang ngidam aneh-aneh, paling-paling es cendol, makan seafood, dan hal-hal lain yang gampang dicari.

Menjelang saat-saat menuju kelahiran Adek Bayi, aku juga mengamati kalau tingkat stress Ondang bertambah. Apalagi saat terakhir kami kontrol dengan dokter, ternyata malah disarankan untuk melahirkan dengan sectio karena Ondang punya mata minus 6.  Kami juga baru tahu kalau ada hubungannya antara ngedan saat kelahiran normal dengan mata minus. Kata dokter sih ada kemungkinan ’ablasio retinae’, semacam pergeseran retina karena tekanan yang sangat kuat pada mata Ibu saat mengedan.

Yang bikin tambah stress, cerita-cerita teman-teman dan saudaranya soal sectio serba menakutkan, terutama masa-masa penyembuhan sesudahnya. Suatu malam dia sampai menangis karena takut melahirkan dan bingung dengan pilihan yang ada. Melahirkan normal meski lebih sakit akan lebih cepat sembuhnya, tapi Ondang takut sesuatu terjadi dengan matanya. Sementara melahirkan dengan sectio harus berhadapan dengan macam-macam masalah sesudah melahirkan, kayak sakit di pinggang yang tidak kunjung selesai, sakit saat buang air kecil, dan sebagainya seperti cerita teman-temannya.

Terlepas dari soal stress, yang kami sangat nikmati dan sekaligus membantu menguatkan Ondang adalah persiapan-persiapan menyambut kehadiran Adek Bayi.Mulai dari membeli perlengkapan-perlengkapan bayi sampai tempat tidurnya Adek Bayi. Rasanya luar biasa saat kami berdua memandang sepatu kecil yang kelak akan dipakainya, membayangkan kaki-kaki mungil itu memasukinya, wah sungguh membuat kami semakin tidak sabar supaya Adek Bayi cepat-cepat hadir ke dunia. Lalu baju-baju bayi yang lucu-lucu yang kami persiapkan buatnya, popok, selimut dan barang-barang kebutuhan bayi lainnya. Saat-saat memandangi benda-benda itu semua adalah saat-saat paling menyenangkan, penuh dengan imaginasi membayangkan Adek Bayi memakainya.

Kami juga semakin rajin berkomunikasi dengannya, dengan bergantian peran seperti aku ceritakan di awal tulisan. Saat kami tahu bahwa berat Adek Bayi lamban sekali naiknya (di usia kehamilan ke-35 dia baru kira-kira 2200 gram), kami jadi sedih. Lucunya, kami sibuk bertanya ke Adek Bayi kenapa masih kecil dia sudah diet segala. Dan bergantian kami menjawab sebagai representasi suara Adek Bayi.Macam-macam alasan Adek Bayi, karena engga suka masakan Mamalah, pengen diet kayak Mamalah, rajin olahragalah...dan sebagainya J

Jika memang Adek Bayi harus dilahirkan melalui sectio, dr.Iskandar merekomendasikan kelahirannya pada tanggal 14 Juni 2008. Ada rasa kurang sreg karena kami rasanya seolah mendahului Yang Maha Kuasa dalam menetapkan kelahirannya. Tetapi dengan fakta bahwa sectio adalah proses kelahiran yang direkomendasikan dokter, mungkin itulah jalan terbaik dari Tuhan buat Adek Bayi.

Yang pasti, persiapan jadi suami siaga menjadi tidak relevan lagi. Padahal aku sudah mulai baca-baca dan cari info soal persiapan jadi suami siaga, termasuk tulisan-tulisan sharing tips suami siaga dari Mas Anjar Priandoyo di blognya, seperti di tulisan ini, dan di sini.

Apapun itu, kami percaya Tuhan akan pilihkan yang terbaik buat Adek Bayi kami. Dalam doa kami yang kami tidak pernah berhenti meminta supaya Tuhan hadir dalam pertumbuhannnya sehingga dia bisa bertumbuh sempurna jasmani maupun rohani, dan lahir dengan selamat bersama-sama dengan Ibunya.

Begitu sekelumit cerita tentang persiapan kami menyambut kehadiran Adek Bayi. Mudah-mudahan bisa jadi share yang berguna buat siapa saja yang membacanya. Kami juga minta dukungan doa dari teman-teman , saudara dan siapa saja yang kebetulan membaca tulisan ini.  Kalau Tuhan berkenan, semoga di tulisan berikutnya aku bisa dengan bangga dan bahagia bercerita kalau aku sudah jadi Bapak, Ondang sudah jadi Ibu dan kami berdua sudah dipercaya olehNya menjadi orangtua J

Alternatives to the GDP
Technically, GDP is the total market value of all final goods and services sold in an economy in any particular time period. As we progress in an era of Enlightened Economics, it is destined to be superseded by new indices geared to more accurately measure affluence, sustainability and quality of life, generally. Such indices include the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and variants of them. Other intriguing indices include the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, the UN’s Human Development Index, and the Invincibility Index. The common thread in these indices is that as well as including economic activity, they also account for societal and environmental factors related to real human development – which the GDP does not.

The GDP statistic should be retired because…
• According to economist Clifford Cobb and colleagues, “Much of what we now call the growth of GDP is really just one of three things in disguise: (1) fixing blunders and social decay from the past [paying for pollution, costs of crime, etc.]; (2) borrowing resources from the future [GDP excludes the costs related to farmland depletion, water, other resources]; or (3) shifting functions from the traditional realm of household and community to the realm of the monetised economy [i.e. eating out, rather than at home].” (Text in parenthesis has been added for additional clarity.) For a fuller explanation, see “What’s wrong with the GDP.”

• Losses associated with natural and man-made disasters are not deducted from the GDP. For instance, Hurricane Katrina brought mass devastation. Yet the enormous economic losses were not deducted from GDP. But the clean-up costs were added though!

• GDP does not account for the value of non-monetary, economic, transactions. Such activities would include elder care by family members, and volounteer activities. In 2002, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found that such activities represented the following shares of economic output: up to 44% of GDP in developing nations, 30% in transition economies, and 16% in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies (Schneider and Enste, 2002). See The Genuine Progress Indicator 2006.

• GDP was initially created to measure WWII wartime production. Its principal creator Simon Kuznets cautioned that “[t]he welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income” (Kuznets, 1934).

- There is even evidence that a focus on GDP at the expense of other quality of life indicators can lead a society to a false sense of worth and even create unhappiness. In The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies published in 2000, Emeritus Professor Robert Lane of Yale University compiled exhaustive research data showing the relationship of GDP to increasing unhappiness. He states, “Amidst the satisfaction people feel with their material progress, there is a spirit of unhappiness and depression haunting advanced market democracies throughout the world…” From his perspective, the rigors of modern market economies increasingly create family and relationship break-ups with subsequent loss of companionship and happiness. Acknowledging this trend, the World Health Organization recently predicted that by 2020, depression will be the 2^nd leading cause of disability, just behind cardiovascular disease. (However, with rising consciousness, I believe this trend will be reversed.)

GDP is short-sighted accounting. Things that bump-up GDP in the short-term often have harmful long-term human and financial consequences and costs.

From the foregoing it is clear that the GDP statistic has little relevance as a measure of our present day material and social well-being.

GDP provides a false sense of progress
Comparing the GDP to GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) numbers illustrates how false is the sense of gain with the GDP in regard to our human condition. Look at this chart comparing the real (inflation adjusted) US per capita GDP and GPI growth between 1950 and 2004. Note how the GPI figure significantly lags GDP. It suggests that when items such as resource depletion, crime costs, and volounteer sector costs,’ etc., are accounted for, the per capita net benefit of a rising GDP is fully negated.

Source: (c) 2007 Redefining Progress

Retire the GDP now
Some of the ways social and non-market costs are included in the ISEW, GPI, etc., are definitely controversial. Perhaps for these reasons such indices have not as yet achieved common usage. But the GDP, created for the very reason of measuring WW11 wartime production, has been badly and wrongly used as a measure of our quality of life. Enlightened Economics demands the GDP be retired and replaced with more enlightened indices!

© Ron Robins, 2008

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (Aberdeen), der an der Londoner Börse notierte globale Asset Manager kündigte heute an, Goodman Property Investors (GPI) von der Goodman-Gruppe zu einem Preis 114 Millionen Euro (89 Millionen Britische Pfund) übernehmen zu wollen. Die Akquisition soll sich bereits im ersten vollständigen Jahr der Übernahme ertragssteigernd auswirken.

Die Übernahme wird die Stellung von Aberdeen Property Investors, der auf Immobilienanlagen spezialisierten Sparte von Aberdeen als einem der weltweit größten Immobilienfondsmanager stärken. GPI ist mit einem verwalteten Portfoliovermögen von mehr als 8,9 Milliarden Euro (7 Milliarden Britischen Pfund) zum Stichtag 31. März 2008 einer der größten Immobilienfondsmanager in Großbritannien.

Das verwaltete Vermögen von Aberdeen Property Investors steigt um über 42% auf rund...

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Onde acaba a informação e começa a propaganda? Será que a nossa sociedade imersa no caminho da democratização da informação está a tornar-se mais imune e mais crítica em relação à informação que tem acesso? O meu grande amigo Nuno Loureiro escreveu um excelente post no seu GPI sobre as construção da realidade na sociedade de massas. Indicado especialmente para mentes jovens e impressionáveis.

O Nuno tem outras coisas muito boas no blog por isso façam um favor a vocês mesmos e explorem um bocado.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

Sociedade de massas e propaganda

Excertos do Post:

Propaganda. Um conceito que remete automaticamente para a memória de um tempo em que os cidadãos eram desprovidos da sua individualidade e devidamente enquadrados numa massa acéfala e obediente, perante um Estado opressor. Que remete também para uma altura em que verdade e mentira, bem e mal, justiça e injustiça eram realidades moldadas e adaptáveis às conveniências de quem detinha o poder. Um conceito que, para o vulgar cidadão da sociedade ocidental, moderna e democrática, se apresenta como uma verdadeira aberração, símbolo de um passado que se quer definitivamente enterrado. Ou talvez não... A dúvida impõe-se.

Não se deve pensar, porém, e como é do conhecimento público, que a propaganda foi de uso exclusivo dos regimes ditatoriais. Na verdade, o seu uso foi igualmente regular entre os países que diziam defender a democracia, da Primeira Guerra Mundial às guerras do Golfo Pérsico. Foi e continua a ser, no entanto, nas ditaduras que a propaganda ganha a sua total dimensão, talvez porque, para além de um (cada vez menor) défice tecnológico, os seus propósitos sejam mais explícitos.

Agora, e enquanto se ainda se discute se as ideologias tradicionais estão ou não condenadas ao desaparecimento, é isso que continua a acontecer, em pleno século XXI. E se o cidadão não se apercebe, então é porque talvez os métodos propagandísticos utilizados pelo(s) “poder”(es) sejam mais sofisticados do que nunca. Controlado pela ditadura do bem-estar, o indivíduo não questiona, captando a realidade que lhe é transmitida pelos mass media e tornando-a sua.

Sobre esta realidade (será que o é, de facto?), Jon Wosencroft explica que técnicas desenvolvidas em tempo de guerra são agora aplicadas em tempo de paz, depois de terem sido devidamente testadas e aprovadas. «Hoje em dia, toda a comunicação que não for desenvolvida para além de uma segura conversa entre duas pessoas ou num pequeno ajuntamento (e que não for gravado) pode facilmente ser convertida em propaganda.

Para ler por inteiro aqui:

Sociedade de massas e propaganda

Economists have tried to gauge quality of life using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which is consciously designed as a counter to the familiar standard measure of total economic activity, Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As an indicator of economic and social ‘progress’, GDP is fairly useless because it merely delivers a summation of all spending, regardless of its nature. GPI is undoubtedly to be preferred because it adds in the economic value of unpaid work, and it subtracts negative factors such as crime, pollution and reductions in leisure time.

In an article in the LA Times, reproduced here, ecological economist Robert Costanza notes the significantly different trends to be seen in the way GDP and GPI are unfolding in the United States: "While the U.S. GDP has steadily increased since 1950 (with the occasional recession), GPI peaked about 1975 and has been relatively flat or declining ever since … This is a very different picture of the economy from the one we normally read about." Taking the argument further, Costanza cites Herman Daly in making a causal link between these two observations, and says that continuing growth in GDP is now "actually reducing [U.S.] national well-being".

More detailed information about GPI can be found here, along with a graph illustrating the trends Costanza is referring to.

This different measure of ‘progress’ certainly provides a welcome challenge to the widespread GDP-worship that occurs in the business pages of daily newspapers around the world. However, the use of quantitative means to evaluate a qualitative concept strongly suggests a fundamental mismatch between problem and methodology. By its very nature, the idea of quality of life is a complex, multifaceted concept influenced by both our cognitive and our emotional perceptions, and open to a wide variety of personal and social interpretations. It just doesn’t boil down to a number. We need to try another angle.

Philosophers have often pondered on the nature of happiness, and it is certainly a question that was actively discussed 2500 years ago. In an essay in Philosophy Today, Philip Cafaro writes that one important aspect of the debate, even in ancient Greek times, has been whether pleasure and physical satisfaction define our happiness, are an important part of it, or are simply irrelevant to happiness. While there were a wide range of views on this point among the Greek philosophers, "the major philosophical schools all preached limited consumption and disciplining appetite" because they accepted that the proper level of consumption was defined by the extent to which consumption contributed to "good human lives" (p.26).

For Plato and Aristotle, and for the Stoics as well as the Epicureans, as Cafaro explains, "the good life was equally a life devoted to right thinking and a life not devoted to wealth getting and sybaritism" (p.26). This view leads directly to the ancient Greek notion of eudaimonia, meaning happiness, wellbeing or flourishing understood in terms of ‘virtue ethics’. Cafaro provides a very simple interpretation of what that means today: "if our goal is to live well, we should consume less" (p.26).

In the context of environmental ethics, Cafaro recognises that this is different from the usual ethical arguments which suggest that we should cease or limit any actions that damage the ecosphere simply because of its intrinsic worth. What Cafaro advocates is a much more human-centred ethical position with an ecological spin-off: in order to improve our own wellbeing we should cease or limit our consumption. He maintains that "greater attention to our true happiness would do as much to protect wild nature as the greater acceptance of the intrinsic value of wild nature" (p.27).

Both of these arguments taken together often reinforce each other. But not always: self-denial for the sake of the environment does not necessarily enhance human happiness and, for just that reason, complete self-denial almost certainly does not make for a popular political creed. Promoting both perspectives – which we can perhaps characterise as ecological wisdom and social justice – seems to be essential to a successful green politics, but so does the ability to balance them where necessary. The need for effective ways to strike the balance between ecological wisdom and social justice is one of the challenges of pragmatic politics that greens must accept.

Our third perspective on quality of life comes from psychology. Counselling psychologist Michael Steger has written about his "happiness research" in a recent issue of New Scientist magazine. Steger and colleagues studied 65 undergraduates, using daily happiness questionnaires to assess how they were feeling, and daily activity records that recorded ‘virtue-building’ (eg volunteering time) and hedonistic behaviour (eg getting drunk). The principal finding is that the more virtue-building activity the students engaged in, the happier they said they were; moreover, there appeared to be no association between hedonistic behaviour and happiness.

Such studies offer an interesting insight into the cause-and-effect relationship between personal behaviour and personal happiness. But in reflecting on Steger’s happiness research and Cafaro’s environmental virtue ethics, it is important to remember that we cannot presuppose individual freedom of action. Regardless of one’s wish to act in a certain way, the ability to act virtuously (or hedonistically for that matter) is not free of constraints: socio-economic status, health status (eg addictions), marginalised status (eg, indigenous communities, women, youth), level of disposable income, education about and awareness of consequences, the desire to meet family commitments, the need to meet social expectations, and perhaps even just the amount of time available in our lives to do what we wish.

These constraints play a very significant role in individual well-being. The ‘self-discrepancy’ theory of E.T. Higgins suggests that if there is a significant gap between the ideal self (who I would like to be) or the ought self (who it is my duty to be) and the actual self, a considerable degree of dissatisfaction, unhappiness and even shame can result. One might even suggest that achieving happiness consists of minimising this gap. But Higgins' theory also indicates that those people whose reality is far from their own ideals, simply because of the constraints that beset their lives, would find it very difficult to achieve a sense of quality of life.

This again signals the emancipatory dimension to striving for wellbeing and quality of life. It is the reason why social factors are a key part of the GPI discussed earlier: quality of life is not simply about my personal happiness, my personal progress in life, or my personal virtue – quality of life only makes sense when our lives are understood in their social context.

Sources

Robert Costanza (2008, March 10) Our Three-Decade Recession: The American quality of life has been going downhill since 1975. Los Angeles Times.

E. Tory Higgins (1987) Self-discrepancy: A theory relating self and affect. Psychological Review, 94(3), 319-340.

Michael Steger (2008, March 22) In pursuit of happiness. New Scientist, 2648, p.17.

A Intel, anunciou ontem (31/01/2008) liberação de documentação para programação NDA-free abrangendo os seus processadores gráficos integrados 965 Express e Express G35 na Linux.Conf.Au.

Já há algum tempo, o desenvolvimento com código-fonte aberto, desenvolve estes módulos/drivers para estes GPI's da Intel, mas até agora, não foram liberados os documentos de programação para tais produtos ao público.

Este movimento vem meses Depois de alguns meses que a AMD anunciou sua nova estratégia open-source e começou a liberar e registrar documentação sobre suas GPUs R500 e R600, a Intel, segue os mesmos passos. Agora, com estes documentos recém-lançado pela Intel cobrirá especificações para programação dos IGPs e vídeo 3D , facilitando a vida dos desenvolvedores atuais do referido módulo para o Xorg e kernel Linux... de uma maneira geral, a quem usa software livre e possui ou possuirá alguma placa de video Intel baseada neste chipset, será beneficiado.

A atual documentação abrangendo os chipsets 965 e G35 é composta por quatro volumes que abrangem o núcleo gráficos, mídia 3D, registros de exibição, bem como o subsistema e tudo referido aos núcleos. Esta documentação pode ser baixada a partir dos websites da X.Org e da Intel Graphics, composta de cerca de 500 páginas; sendo366 páginas referidas a mídia 3D, display registers com 338 páginas, e o subsistema de núcleos com 526 páginas.

Esta, pois, fornecida através da Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

NVIDIA é agora a única empresa, entre as três grandes fabricantes de GPU's que não está fornecendo documentação pública para programção de seus processadores gráficos, o que existe hoje disponível é uma parte muito básica para aceleração 2D sob um driver open-source. No entanto, no início deste ano, corre a notícia de que pode ser, que a NVIDIA está planejando uma estratégia open-source.

Será mesmo que isto irá acontecer? É o que estamos vendo em alguns fóruns.

Embora, atualmente a NVIDIA não apoia o projeto open-source Nouveau, se assim o desejarem, vocês podem ajudar no desenvolvimento deste, bastando entrar em contato com os desenvolvedores.

Veremos até onde esta iniciativa irá por parte da Intel. Mesmo o foco da notícia não sendo a NVIDIA, isto até que influência alguns olhares para esta empresa. Se ela vai cumprir com o planejamento de colaboração com os projetos open-source, isto já é uma outra história.

Fontes:

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/99039/index.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=984&num=1

Personally, I’d need some more information. Forget about the obvious question of how many shares are outstanding, which is where this analogy has it’s imperfection, the government has no shares. This may be the only point of this analogy that really fails though.

Here’s some information you might ask about XYZ corp, all of which are pieces of information that you will never get from the GDP.

1) What percentage of the dollar value of the transactions were income?
2) What percentage of the dollar value of the transactions were expenses?
3) What assets does the company have?
4) What debt does the company have? (We know this figure at 8 trillion. However, it’s not in the GDP.)

So, the GDP is almost meaningless. All it is is a count of transactions. When Exxon spilled oil in Valdez, the $10 billion cleanup was ADDED to the GDP. That should have been counted as an expense and been SUBTRACTED. This type of thing makes the GDP among the worst indicators of the economy.

A number of alternatives are being suggested for the GDP.

Genuine Progress Indicator
Happy Planet Index
Environmental Sustainability Index

We need indicators that value resources. An 800 year old tree is highly valuable, even before it is cut down and sold in one piece to Japan. However, our government will sell them for $1 per tree and even come and cut the roads so that the timber companies can get to it easily. Why? Because the GDP and other economic indicators in use in this country and most of the world, do not give value to natural resources. How should we value an 800 year old tree? Well, how much would it cost to grow one?

This last may sound silly. However, from a sustainability point of view, that really is the value. Imagine a tree farm handed down for many generations. Enough trees must be planted so that one will live 800 years. At 800 that one is cut. The 790 year old tree is left, as is the 780, .... At 400, there probably have to be a few since some won't survive another 400 years. At 200, there must be more. At age 100 or less, there must be many. This takes a lot of land and many generations of care. If we want to sustainably harvest 800 year old trees, that's pretty much what it takes.

Of course, this is just an easy example that I like because most of us still see trees on a regular basis and are familiar with them. Similar examples can easily be made from mountaintop removal, strip mining, oil and gas drilling, ocean fisheries, etc.

Obviously, what we are doing today is not sustainable. At least part of the reason we do it is because of bad accounting.

He's not wrong there. He was speaking on Radio NZ but the interview never really got going. He had enough time to talk about the incoherent nature of our economic system, how GDP measures income and consumption but not well being and how triple bottom line accounting was a waste of time. Agreed!

What we need is a better connection between our biophysical system and our economic frameworks like Trucost for example.

We also need to ask ourselves some basic questions such as

- what is our economy for? speculation or sustenance.

- what size should it be? as big as possible or big enough.

Simple questions but rarely asked. The mantra of economic growth at all costs is intellectually flimsy. Its lazy thinking........the assumption that GDP growth is all that matters is quite clearly false.

What about crime, illness, pollution? What about the increasing gap between rich and poor.

As individuals we search for coherence but as a global economy we struggle to find that because there are no tools to do so. So perhaps by becoming more coherent ourselves we will aid and enable a global coherence.

As the Mahatma said "Be the change you wish to see".

Let's keep asking questions of our system.