Archive for the ‘environmental’ category: Page 17
Nov 27, 2015
Storing solar, wind, and water energy underground could replace burning fuel | KurzweilAI
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: energy, environmental, solar power, water
Nov 17, 2015
The beauty of bikes — redesigning two wheels — By Rowan Moore | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, media & arts, transportation
“For bicycles are messengers. Picasso recognised that they carry meaning when he made a saddle and handlebars into a bull’s head, and Duchamp (in his case, non-meaning) when he put a bicycle wheel in an art gallery.”
Nov 6, 2015
Bikk McKibben on Obama’s Keystone XL Rejection: ‘The Tide Is Starting to Turn’ — By Tessa Stuart | Rolling Stone
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, policy
“McKibben calls Friday’s announcement a turning point in the fight against climate change”
Nov 3, 2015
Chile’s Atacama Desert Is Now a Floral Wonderland — By Meredith Carey | Condé Nast Traveler
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: astronomy, climatology, environmental, events, water
“After Chile’s heaviest rain in 20 years, the Atacama Desert has been transformed into a 600-mile-long bed of flowers.”
Oct 10, 2015
h+ Magazine: Synthetic Biology — The True Savior of Mankind
Posted by Harry J. Bentham in categories: biological, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, environmental, ethics, futurism, genetics, health, innovation, science, sustainability, transhumanism
Fear of scientists “playing god” is at the centre of many a plot line in science fiction stories. Perhaps the latest popular iteration of the story we all love is Jurassic World (2015), a film I find interesting only for the tribute it paid to the original Michael Crichton novel and movie Jurassic Park.
Full op-ed from h+ Magazine on 7 October 2015 http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/10/07/opinion-synthetic-biolog…f-mankind/
In Jurassic Park, a novel devoted to the scare of genetic engineering when biotech was new in the 1990s, the character of John Hammond says:
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Oct 5, 2015
MIT’s SOLVE Program Launched 05–08 October 2015
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: economics, education, energy, environmental, food, futurism, health, water
“Solve is a cross-disciplinary program led by MIT to convene the people and organizations that are addressing the world’s most pressing challenges in healthcare, energy, the environment, education, food & water, civil infrastructure and the economy.”
Sep 29, 2015
Terraforming Mars: Things to do to make Mars habitable
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: engineering, environmental, space
Terraforming can be approximately defined as transforming the state of any heavenly bodies such as moons, planets to that of Earth.
Sep 9, 2015
The Largest Air Purifier Ever Built Sucks Up Smog And Turns It Into Gem Stones
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: environmental
What’s 23 feet tall, eats smog, and makes jewelry for fun?
In Rotterdam this week, the designer Daan Roosegaarde is showing off the result of three years of research and development: The largest air purifier ever built. It’s a tower that scrubs the pollution from more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour—and then condenses those fine particles of smog into tiny “gem stones” that can be embedded in rings, cufflinks, and more.
Sep 1, 2015
ON THE EDGE — The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests | The Club of Rome
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, ethics
“This Report to the Club of Rome attempts to assess the condition of the tropical rainforests over the past 40 years and to project their likely future over the next 40 years, in terms of forest cover change, drivers of deforestation, impacts on biodiversity, and the consequences of climate change.”
