Archive for the ‘environmental’ category: Page 18
Dec 3, 2015
Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World’s Exit from Fossil Fuels — By Kirsten Korosec | Fortune
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: Elon Musk, environmental
“[O]nly a carbon tax—not innovation, conservation, or renewable energy—will accelerate the transition from carbon-producing fossil fuels to sustainable energy.”
Dec 2, 2015
A Big Win for Cheap, Clean Energy — By Bill Gates | The Gates Notes
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, energy, environmental, innovation, science
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.
