Important People Podcasts from Nebraska
May. 30th, 2008 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerWhile I'm often noting to beware of the clay feet of "important people" they still have a specialized utility now and then. Here in Nebraska, they have a lecture series at the local huge performing arts center (one that's got major fiscal problems - probably not enough country-western acts). They have audio and video podcasts of them along with streams for those who couldn't make it or would otherwise be interested in what took place.
I went to the Amory Lovins presentation and it was pretty good although I preferred the more general PowerPoint presentation he did at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo some years back. He of the "soft energy path" was flogging a new book ("Winning the Oil End Game") this time. Haven't watched former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt on water issues or eco-evangelical Richard Cizik and the role of religion and the environment. Those both seem pretty worthwhile.
I was at the ethanol "debate" and even got a question in from the crowd (which got an idiot answer, imo). The whole thing was sub-par but what do you expect with two hacks from either side. And one from the libertarian Cato Institute. Robo-Responses-R-Us.
E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues - Audio / Visual Archive
Former Thompson lecturer and Bushie U.N. ambassador-henchman John Bolton just got heated up by George Monbiot when he went for a lecture visit in the UK. Monbiot tried a citizen's arrest that, of course, didn't work so well.
I went to the Amory Lovins presentation and it was pretty good although I preferred the more general PowerPoint presentation he did at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo some years back. He of the "soft energy path" was flogging a new book ("Winning the Oil End Game") this time. Haven't watched former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt on water issues or eco-evangelical Richard Cizik and the role of religion and the environment. Those both seem pretty worthwhile.
I was at the ethanol "debate" and even got a question in from the crowd (which got an idiot answer, imo). The whole thing was sub-par but what do you expect with two hacks from either side. And one from the libertarian Cato Institute. Robo-Responses-R-Us.
E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues - Audio / Visual Archive
Former Thompson lecturer and Bushie U.N. ambassador-henchman John Bolton just got heated up by George Monbiot when he went for a lecture visit in the UK. Monbiot tried a citizen's arrest that, of course, didn't work so well.
