SciFlies to attract citizen donors, promote research: "The SciFlies Network makes it possible for citizen donors to select a scientist and a research project and make a direct donation to that scientist's work. Donors will likely fund projects that have special meaning for them, whether it is cancer research, environmental research, or research on a promising engineering technology.
'The SciFlies Network provides a new funding source for research and innovation and, in doing so, offers citizens interested in advancing science and technology a personal and tangible way to do so,' said David Fries, president of the nonprofit SciFlies Network initiative and a member of the National Academy of Inventors . 'When citizen microdonors feel they can directly accelerate science, technology, discovery and innovation, there is a sense of ownership that may not come with the traditional public science funding mechanisms that have been around for a long time.'
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Fw: Green Educators See on Monday at 9 AM
SO the new century is beginning again each moment...
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From: Sharon Joy Kleitsch <kleitsch@verizon.net>
To: Sharon Joy Kleitsch <kleitsch@verizon.net>
Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 1:08:52 PM
Subject: Green Educators See on Monday at 9 AM
From: Sharon Joy Kleitsch <kleitsch@verizon.net>
To: Sharon Joy Kleitsch <kleitsch@verizon.net>
Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 1:08:52 PM
Subject: Green Educators See on Monday at 9 AM
We look forward to seeing you Monday. Starting at 9, there will be an opportunity to meet other Tampa Bay sustainability educators. The scheduled program will begin at 9:30, ending at noon.
PLEASE BRING ANY MATERIALS you would like to share.
The Corporate Training Center @ HCC
39 Columbia Drive
Tampa, FL 33606
Directions: http://www.tampatraining.com/information/directions.cfm
Take Kennedy (Highway 60) to S Hyde Park Avenue, across from the University of Tampa, and go south.
You will cross over the bridge onto Davis Island. Stay to the right.
After you get onto the island, take the first left at Arbor Place (look for a four-story yellow building on the left side of Davis Blvd).
The ACT Center is in a single-story building at the intersection of Columbia Dr. and Arbor Place. It is next to the eight-story Hillsborough Community College Administration building.
Parking: Park in the TCTC/HCC Only parking lot north of the single-story building. An access gate controls entry to the parking lot.
At the keypad, please enter 1060* (the character following the numbers is a star) to access the control gate.
Enter the building, turn left to the room on the right at the end of the hall overlooking the water.
Sharon Joy Kleitsch
The Connection Partners, Inc
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Emergy
The term 'Emergy' was originally coined by David M. Scienceman in collaboration with the late Howard T. Odum. H.T.Odum used 'emergy' to mean both ''sequestered'' energy and ''emergent property of energy use''. However Scienceman also used the term 'emergy' to refer to the concept of ''energy memory'', a concept which motivated Scienceman and B.M. El-Youssef (1993) to propose the addition of a new dimension to physics, [P] for "past". Some researchers maintain that it can be expressed as a scientific unit which is called the "emjoule", a contraction of "''em''ergy joule".
As a word, 'emergy' is a simple contraction of the term "'em'bodied en'ergy'". The need for the new word of "emergy" arose apparently because of an important difference in the way the two related disciplines of systems ecology and energy analysis were using the term "embodied energy". As H.T.Odum (1984, p.189) observed "There is more than one type of embodied energy". Various authors have struggled to clarify their usage, and ambiguity seems to continue in the literature to this day.
Prior to 1986, both systems ecologists and energy analysts used "embodied energy" to refer to the sum over time of all energy of one type required to generate a flow of energy (H.T.Odum and E.C.Odum 1983, p. 13). Energy embodied in water was also defined in this way as the energy required directly and indirectly to generate the flow in processes of the biosphere or a typical desalination plant for example (Wang et al. 1980, p. 201).
However unlike energy analysts, systems ecologists were, and continue to be also interested in the relationship of structure and function of ecological systems (E.P. Odum 1962), together with the biophysical properties that afford plants the ability to accumulate and transform radient energy into a structural form useable by other organisms (E.N. Transeau 1926). Scienceman (1987, p.260) observed this difference noting that the systems ecologist H.T. Odum had introduced an additional factor into the definition of embodied energy:
The term "embodied energy" was therefore also used by systems ecologists to describe the energy that had been used in, and accumulated into structure-development (Odum 1970, p.62) and which could be fed back into the system to draw in more energy (J.R. Richardson 1988, p. 18). This structural-cybernetic aspect of ecosystem research (Patten 1959, Patten and E.P.Odum 1981) was apparently not included in the energy-analytic definition of "embodied energy".
However the fact that both systems ecologists and energy analysts used the same term but with different levels of content seems to have led to considerable confusion.
Historical development
As a word, 'emergy' is a simple contraction of the term "'em'bodied en'ergy'". The need for the new word of "emergy" arose apparently because of an important difference in the way the two related disciplines of systems ecology and energy analysis were using the term "embodied energy". As H.T.Odum (1984, p.189) observed "There is more than one type of embodied energy". Various authors have struggled to clarify their usage, and ambiguity seems to continue in the literature to this day.
Prior to 1986, both systems ecologists and energy analysts used "embodied energy" to refer to the sum over time of all energy of one type required to generate a flow of energy (H.T.Odum and E.C.Odum 1983, p. 13). Energy embodied in water was also defined in this way as the energy required directly and indirectly to generate the flow in processes of the biosphere or a typical desalination plant for example (Wang et al. 1980, p. 201).
However unlike energy analysts, systems ecologists were, and continue to be also interested in the relationship of structure and function of ecological systems (E.P. Odum 1962), together with the biophysical properties that afford plants the ability to accumulate and transform radient energy into a structural form useable by other organisms (E.N. Transeau 1926). Scienceman (1987, p.260) observed this difference noting that the systems ecologist H.T. Odum had introduced an additional factor into the definition of embodied energy:
The term "embodied energy" was therefore also used by systems ecologists to describe the energy that had been used in, and accumulated into structure-development (Odum 1970, p.62) and which could be fed back into the system to draw in more energy (J.R. Richardson 1988, p. 18). This structural-cybernetic aspect of ecosystem research (Patten 1959, Patten and E.P.Odum 1981) was apparently not included in the energy-analytic definition of "embodied energy".
However the fact that both systems ecologists and energy analysts used the same term but with different levels of content seems to have led to considerable confusion.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
three planets will go direct
Zest2Zeal : Message: Fw: [NMBeing] NMB #175 - SCORPIO - DEATH AND REBIRTH: "Venus and Jupiter Turn Direct - November 18
An intensification of energy happens when a planet turns retrograde or direct. Like a focalized beam, the energy associated with the planet and the zodiac archetype penetrates into our collective and individual consciousness. Soon three planets will go direct, during which time their energies will act as spot lights to beam truth into our consciousness.
Both Venus (was in Scorpio, now at 28 degrees Libra) and Jupiter (in Pisces) go direct November 18. Mark November 17-19 on your calendar and be aware of what you feel. Do you feel clearer, more ready to move forward, more honest about what you really want, more connected to your heart? Do you feel more optimistic, more hopeful, less afraid, more courageous? Something has shifted inside you. What is it? This is part of your rebirth and recalibration process. Stay tuned to yourself. Another awakening is scheduled when Uranus in Pisces goes direct December 5.
Mercury Retrograde - December 10-30
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Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!
An intensification of energy happens when a planet turns retrograde or direct. Like a focalized beam, the energy associated with the planet and the zodiac archetype penetrates into our collective and individual consciousness. Soon three planets will go direct, during which time their energies will act as spot lights to beam truth into our consciousness.
Both Venus (was in Scorpio, now at 28 degrees Libra) and Jupiter (in Pisces) go direct November 18. Mark November 17-19 on your calendar and be aware of what you feel. Do you feel clearer, more ready to move forward, more honest about what you really want, more connected to your heart? Do you feel more optimistic, more hopeful, less afraid, more courageous? Something has shifted inside you. What is it? This is part of your rebirth and recalibration process. Stay tuned to yourself. Another awakening is scheduled when Uranus in Pisces goes direct December 5.
Mercury Retrograde - December 10-30
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Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!
WhatI I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ.
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