An illustrated talk by Lucy Raven about energy and entropy, via Lintong Sunlight Cow Community, the Terracotta soldiers, and the ghosts of Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek, and Dr. Emmett Brown.
In Xi’an China, a small organization called the Insititute for Circular Economy is turning shit into gold. Run by scientists and environmentalists in partnership with the government, the group implements biodisel initiatives at local livestock farms that convert methane emitted from cow manure into gas that can be used by the surrounding community as well as sold to the country’s electrical grid. It’s an idea dating back to the Great Leap Forward that the Institute is attempting to recycle for a new financial climate—not a circling so much as a doubling back—in the hopes of evincing a more enduring sense of progress through decomposition.
