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Reinventing Business

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

January 20, 2012

The challenge of the Compression Institute is to find adventurers willing to reinvent some basic concepts of business, for real – by actually doing. In effect, they would “put to sea” not in big cruise ships, but in little boats closer to reality. That’s what we’re looking for in Action Learning Groups.

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District Energy

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Finite Resources, move-posts, Updates

January 20, 2012

One of the oldest ways to save energy is district energy, formerly district heating. Many old cities, campuses, and other big building complexes used district heating, often as steam piped from an on-site boiler house or as turbine steam from a community electrical generating plant. In an energy-cheap economy, this came to [...]

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Biomes and Biodiversity

By JMcVay On January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Evidence of Compression, move-posts, Precarious Environment, Updates

January 4, 2012

Other than “cute” animals going extinct, biodiversity gets little public attention. Preserving biodiversity is essential for many reasons that sum up to life itself being unable to exist without it (yawn). Publicized studies cover macro-diversity we can see, but implications are so opaque that we’re angry if countermeasures crimp our [...]

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The Missing Link

By JMcVay On January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

January 4, 2012

We issue environmental blurbs like many of our posts because those leading a normal life can’t keep up with the state of the earth. Full time environmentalists can’t keep up either.

Compression refers to squeezing human consumption back within the limits of a finite earth supporting it. Compression also refers to [...]

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Our Dropping Energy Yields

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On December 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Finite Resources, move-posts, Updates

December 15, 2011

Energy return on energy invested (EROEI) is well known, but not widely practiced. Applied to an oil well, EROEI is the ratio of energy represented in crude oil at a wellhead divided by the energy used to drill the well and pump up the oil.

Estimating this ratio for a strictly bounded [...]

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Action Learning Groups

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On December 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

December 15, 2011

The mission of the Compression Institute is to create and support action learning groups to transform work organizations and communities using Compression Thinking. That is, we’re seeking how people at the action level can aggressively cope with a fast-changing world, learning by doing. Of course, we want people to learn how to think [...]

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The Art of the Question

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Thinking, move-posts, Updates, Vigorous Learning

November 30, 2011

Every one of us is subject to confirmation bias. That is, we pay more attention to evidence that confirms past beliefs than to evidence that these beliefs are untrue. Our neural processes just work this way, even in scientific logic, where it is said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. While confirmation [...]

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Structuring Compression Thinking

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

November 30, 2011

The Compression Institute is inching closer to feet-on-the ground experimentation. We’ve long harbored the idea of forming local learning groups that would foster real experiments doing more using less by real work organizations. By prevailing thinking, just volunteering to think about this is a somewhat gutsy move.

Nonetheless, by March we would [...]

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Compression Institute Update

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On November 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

November 15, 2011

The Institute has formed a board of directors:

Doc Hall, Chairman

Jack Ward, V.P. Fund Raising

Dave Veech, V.P. Finance

Jason McVay, V.P. Operations

Marvin Klein, Founder of PortionPac Chemical

Wayne Lindholm, Pres. of Manskliga-Anden

Rusty Patterson, Chairman of NACFAM

Andrew Warrington, Pres. of Peerless Pump

As these names suggest, the Institute [...]

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Compression Thinking

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On November 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Thinking, move-posts, Updates

November 15, 2011

Compression Thinking is collectively learning to enjoy living on our spaceship planet by becoming much wiser much faster. Compression Thinking differs from most initiatives to improve ecological sustainability in three primary ways:

1. Make huge reductions in total global resource use, not just fossil fuels.

2. Reverse the growth in use of [...]

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Compression Thinking Groups

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Institute, move-posts, Updates

October 31, 2011

The mission of the institute is to create and support action learning groups to transform work organizations and communities using Compression Thinking.

To appreciate the difficulty of this mission, reflect on it, which will begin your Compression Thinking. We’ve described action learning groups by a variety of names, like consortia. Let’s [...]

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The Chinese Enigma

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Evidence of Compression, move-posts, Updates

October 31, 2011

China’s mass of contradictions may even be enigmatic to Chinese leaders. Chinese government secrecy inhibits fact checking. It is riding a growth tiger and must eventually dismount, but like all of us, appears fearful of being chewed up when it gets off.

Export earnings finance most of China’s 9% compound annual [...]

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Compressed on Spaceship Earth

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Thinking, move-posts, Updates

October 13, 2011

Concern is rising that the economy will never revert to a pattern resembling the past, but enter a New Reality. It’s trying to re-inflate, but only huffs and puffs financial bubbles instead. Looking at the world as physical systems rather than financial ones offers clues. Limits are pushing us toward a zero [...]

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Water, Water…

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Evidence of Compression, Finite Resources, move-posts, Updates

October 13, 2011

In the last 40 years we discovered water in space. We expect to find much more water deep on the moon, Mars, and elsewhere. Water on Asteroid 24 Themis closely matches our ocean water. Scientists speculate that much of earth’s water wafted in from comets and maybe it’s [...]

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Low Load Energy

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Thinking, Finite Resources, move-posts, Updates

September 27, 2011

The Fukushima disaster cut Japan’s generating capacity. This immediately prompted ideas to cut the load on their grid. Many ideas are modern updates of a 200-year old one, a self-winding watch that powers itself at the point of use. For instance, inventors like Kohei Hayamizu are concocting systems to generate electricity [...]

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Transformative Wing Walking

By Robert W. "Doc" Hall On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Compression Thinking, move-posts, Updates

September 27, 2011

An old management adage called the “law” of wing walking is, “Don’t let go of anything before you have hold of something else.”  Some wing walkers just shut their eyes and kept a tight grip. A few jumped from one plane to another.

Since very few of us wing walk, this old [...]

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