The Viridian Design Movement

Viridian Note 00300: Viridian Table of Contents

Bruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]

Key concepts: Viridian Table of Contents, aphorisms, new Viridian Ranking System, your invitation to a lovely party at the Viridian Vatican

Attention Conservation Notice: It's organizational scutwork for the Viridian list. Nice SXSW party though. Beer wants to be free.


VIRIDIAN APHORISMS

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. L. P. Smith

All books extolling the simple life are written by men. William Feather



The Viridian Ranking System

The previous Viridian Ranking System has been abolished by fiat of the Pope-Emperor. Goodbye, stars and chevrons.

Allow me to present to the list your New Viridian Curia, the feudal lords of the Viridian Movement. Henceforth, these people == the Viridian Nobility == will permanently outrank you. Unless, that is, you are promoted to join them. Or, thrillingly, unless one of them is purged.

Their exalted status is symbolized by the Bishop's Crook <"?">


THE VIRIDIAN CURIA

reid@well.com? <Reid Harward> #1 Viridian Contest Stalwart

jonl@well.com? <Jon Lebkowsky> Viridian Ultimate Webmaster

stewart@stewarts.org? <Duncan Stewart> Viridian Spongephone Operator

ljaurbach@erols.com? <Laurence Aurbach> Viridian Web Designer

SeJ@aol.com? <Stefan Jones> Imaginary Products Guru

alex_steffen@yahoo.com? <Alex Steffen> Urban Eco-Activist

wex@media.mit.edu? <Alan Wexelblat> The Master of "Wexelblat Disaster"

bobmorris@mediaone.net? <Bob Morris> Viridian Contest Archivist

jon@lasser.org? <Jon Lasser> Unix Thinker

lstinson@empathy.com? <Laura Stinson> Empath

smendler@well.com? <Sebastian Mendler> Obligatory Wise Man

hinne@spaceways.de? <Hinne Burmeister> Euro-Liaison

Alan@AtKisson.com? <Alan AtKisson> Optimistic Cassandra

jeffk@well.com? <Jeff Kramer> Viridian Email Guru

nakashima_brown@yahoo.com? <Chris Nakashima-Brown> Art Patron

Alexander_Schuth@gmx.net? <Alexander Schuth> Hip Euro-Globalist Type

cooper409@aol.com? <Carol Cooper> Mahadeva of Information

tux@powerbase-alpha.com? <Joel Westerberg> Scandinavian Cyberslacker

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Table of Contents 1-300
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00001: Viridian Design Speech


00002: Viridian List Mechanics

00003: Viridian Design Principles

00004: Historical Awareness

00005: Viridian Aesthetics

00006: Floods 1

00007: Floods 2

00008: The Science Press on Global Warming

00009: The Science Press on Global Warming, Rewritten

00010: Comments from Viridians

00011: Viridian Mascot Contest

00012: Web Links

00013: Link Criticism

00014: Remembrance Agents

00015: Weather Violence

00016: Bio-Refineries

00017: Viridian Aphorisms

00018: The Viridian Model Family

00019: Viridian Domains of Interest

00020: Energy Reform, the Swedish "Solution"

00021: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 1

00022: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 2

00023: The World is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 3

00024: Kelly's Koan

00025: German Greens

00026: Viridian Aphorisms

00027: Viridian Graphics

00028: Viridian Gardening

00029: The Interfund

00030: The View From Ecotopia

00031: Self-destructive Jungles

00032: The Viridian Refueling Project

00033: Viridian Aesthetics: Andy Goldsworthy

00034: Researching Andy Goldsworthy

00035: Viridian Aesthetics: Landscape Transformation

00036: Offshore Wind Power

00037: Viridian Commentary

00038: Viridian Aphorisms

00039: Starck's New Catalog

00040: German Politics

00041: The Viridian Product Catalog

00042: The Viridian Alcohol Cellphone

00043: The Viridian Electrical Meter

00044: The Viridian Service Station

00045: Twentieth-century Thinking

00046: German Bankers Love German Greens

00047: Viridian Imaginary Products Exhibition

00048: Viridian Aphorisms

00049: Submerging Carbon

00050: Wired Urban Forests

00051: Viridian Commentary

00052: Human-Assisted Wildlife Migration

OOO53: The Ecosystem Game

OOO54: The Festo Stingray

OOO55: Biodiversity Maps

OOO56: Viridian Commentary

00057: Extinct Megafauna

00058: Grass Gas

00059: Viridian Aphorisms

00060: Viridian Strategy

00061: Web-site Power Banner Contest

00062: What I Did for Earth Day

00063: Real-World Projects

00064: Viridian Finances

00065: Burning Man Festival

00066: Freeplay's Wind-Up Power

00067: Eco-Disaster Tourism

00068: Household Localizers

00069: Viridian Aphorisms

00070: The Coal-Burning Net

00071: Greening the US Govt.

00072: Viridian Couture Contest

00073: Viridian Commentary

00074: Browning the US Govt.

00075: Kyoto Politics

00076: American Power Brokers

00077: IDSA Speech

00078: Greening Earth Society

00079: Virtuous Corporations

00080: Viridian Aphorisms

00081: Summer Health Warning Contest

00082: Viridian Commentary

00083: The Viridian Botanisphere

00084: Viridian Disasters

00085: Viridian Individual Projects

00086: Kingpins of Carbon

00087: The Coal-Burning Net

00088: Viridian Disasters

00089: The Green Military

00090: Design Principles for Virtual Worlds

00091: Viridian T-Shirt

00092: First Things First Manifesto

00093: The Deep Hot Biosphere

00094: Texas Energy Law

00095: Biotech Legal Liability

00096: 2000 Objects Exhibition

00097: Austin Software Speech

00098: The Net and the Weather

00099: Viridian Time and Light

00100: What Is To Be Done

00101: Design Undersides

00102: Viridian Solar Switchplate Contest

00103: Religious Objections to Carbon Dioxide

00104: Viridian Wine-Tasting

00105: Viridian Disasters

00106: Massively Distributed Climate Modelling

00107: Viridian Disasters

00108: More Distributed Climate Computing

00109: More Solar-Powered Booze

00110: Computers and Trees

00111: The Orissa Super-Cyclone

00112: The Organic Novel

00113: Pervasive Computing

00114: Viridian Disasters

00115: Internet Energy 1

00116: Internet Energy 2

00117: Internet Energy 3

00118: Viridian Commentary

00119: BP Amoco's Glasnost

00120: Viridian Disasters

00121: Les Tempetes 1999

00122: Viridian Commentary

00123: Viridian Aphorisms

00124: Viridian Movement Officially Begins

00125: Viridian FAQ

00126: The GCC Crumbles

00127: Austin's Green Choice

00128: Viridian Commentary

00129: Portable Fuel Cells

00130: Portable Chips

00131: Fuel Made From Carbon Dioxide

00132: Treated Algae Spews Pure Hydrogen

00133: Greenhouse Credibility

00134: Energy From Ocean Slime

00135: Viridian Meter Competition

00136: GreenChoice Editorial

00137: Papal Schedule 2000

00138: Viridian Disaster

00139: Mudslide Landmines

00140: The GCC Crumbles Further

00141: Other People's Contests

00142: Global Climate Coalition in Purge Frenzy

00143: Vanishing Glaciers

00144: Greening Earth Prexy Publicly Despairs

00145: Space Weather

00146: Viridian Web Log

00147: Greenhouse Disaster Symbol Contest

00148: Anti-Viridian Web Log

00149: A Visit to the Makrolab

00150: Table of Contents

00151: Viridian Aphorisms

00152: Martin Johnson Heade

00153: Micro Fuel Cells

00154: Robot Bugs

00155: PlaNetwork Speech

00156: Viridian Energy Meter

00157: Atomic Greenhouse Fires

00158: Biodiversity Part 1

00159: Biodiversity Part 2

00160: Los Alamos Flood Threat

00161: Toyota's Green Power

00162: Piezoelectric Shoes

00163: Dire FEMA Predictions

00164: Disaster Catalog

00165: Mad Cows as Fuel

00166: Chernobyl Wildlife Park

00167: Doors of Perception Conference

00168: Energy Kleptocracy

00169: Multimedia Gulch Brownouts

00170: Snowballs in Summer Webcast

00171: Engine Evolution

00172: 10-K Clock

00173: Fossil Fuel Shoes

00174: Viridian Commentary

00175: Viridian Magazine Cover Contest

00176: Viridian Aphorisms

00177: Carnivorous Robot

00178: Texas Renewable Roundup

00179: Viridian Plant Genetics

00180: Infrared House Paint

00181: Infotech and Creativity

00182: Military Green

00183: North Pole Melts

00184: Viridian Commentary

00185: Disgorging Glaciers

00186: Wildfires of 2000

00187: Solar in LA

00188: Texas Wind Power

00189: Urban Heritage and Weather Violence

00190: Austin Heatwave

00191: Euro Fuel Shock

00192: Viridian Commentary

00193: Corporate Green Feud

00194: Balanced Power Org

00195: Greening Earth on US Elections

00196: Fredericksburg Speech

00197: What's Nuon Green Mountain?

00198: Viridian Neologue Contest

00199: Meter Contest Winner

00200: Neologue Contest Entries

00201: Viridian ToC/FAQ

00202: More Neologue Contest Entries

00203: BP Helios Logo

00204: Dutch Solar Parliament

00205: Weird Vintages of 2000

00206: The Sunburnometer

00207: Extreme Weather "Normal" in Britain

00208: BP Logo Hunt

00209: Doors of Perception

00210: Wave Generator

00211: Sewerspace

00212: TIME DIGITAL's Viridian Issue

00213: WIRED Design Issue

00214: House of the Future

00215: Design Fiction

00216: Piezoelectric Eel

00217: CIA 2001

00218: California Crisis Part I

00219: California Crisis Part 2

00220: California Crisis Part 3

00221: Viridian Aphorisms

00222: Cali Crisis Weblog

00223: Serbian Energy Crisis

00224: Price Spikes

00225: Reddy Kilowatt Makeover Contest

00226: Bug News

00227: OPEC Greens

00228: Bp Logo Designer

00229: Fetzer Gloats

00230: Greening Earth Redux

00231: Earth to Exxon-Mobil

00232: Bush and C02

00233: Mutant Space Fungus

00234: Korean Involuntary Park

00235: Whole Earth Review

00236: Editor At Work

00237: Digital Decay

00238: Hex On Exxon

00239: EuroGreen Boycott

00240: News from Europe

00241: Furniture Fair 02001

00242: German Involuntary Park

00243: Community Mobility

00244: Viridian Hot Rod Contest

00245: Weather Poisons Horses

00246: ExxonMobil: Climate Villain

00247: Houston Flood of 02001

00248: The Great Flood: Art and Science

00249: Cultures Killed By Climate

00250: Bacterial Dataphage

00251: Houston Mosquitoes

00252: Viridian Whole Earth

00253: Air-Conditioned Clothing

00254: Europe Doubles Green Power

00255: ExxonMobil Global Day of Rage

00256: Political Developments

00257: Sewer Fat Crisis

00258: Kyoto Redeemed

00259: Solar Vultures

00260: Viridian Couture Series

00261: Cellphone Nailpolish

00262: Bio-Active Fabrics

00263: Vitamin Fabrics

00264: Powered Clothing

00265: Silly Clothing

00266: Viridian Commentary

00267: Texas Renewable Energy Roundup, 02001

00268: West Nile Virus

00269: Savannah Ecology Lab

00270: Hiding the Garbage

00271: Kuwaiti Clean-Up

00272: Au Revoir, Belle Epoque

00273: A Beautiful Toy and A Nice Party

00274: Pope in Atlanta

00275: Bananthrax

00276: Khaki Green Power Boots

00277: Khaki Green Wind-Up Radios

00278: Kyoto Soldiers On

00279: Cheery Good News

00280: Weird Sequestration Schemes

00281: Enron Disappears

00282: Maghreb Floods

00283: Geeks and Spooks

00284: Enron Logo Contest

00285: Enron Wind

00286: 2001 AD: Grim, Yet Toasty

00287: Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge

00288: Coffee Toys

00289: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Revisited

00290: Sun Erupts

00291: Enron Stock

00292: Core 77 Parody

00293: Cosmic Spectrum Green

00294: Brutal Afghan Winter

00295: Jarking

00296: Planetary Rotation

00297: The Persistence Problem

00298: DNA Motor

00299: Viridian Enemies Die

00300: Viridian Table of Contents

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