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De-Industrializing the City

Alex Steffen

One of my favorite quotes by Bjarke Ingels: "Engineering without engines. We should use contemporary technology and computation capacity to make our buildings independent of machinery. Building services today are essentially mechanical compensations for the fact that buildings are bad for what they are designed for—human life. Therefore we pump air around, illuminate dark spaces with electric lights, and heat and cool the spaces in order to make them livable. The result is...

Google Unveils Breakthrough Technology to Monitor Deforestation

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by Alok Jha The software can processes satellite images to extract scientific and tracking information about how much forests have changed Tracking the destruction of the world's forests is to become much easier for scientists and forest managers, thanks to a software tool unveiled by search-engine giant Google's philanthropic arm today. The software, which uses Google's computing resources to extract scientific information from decades of satellite images of forests, was demonstrated at...

India Announces Improved Cook Stove Program

Ben Block

India revealed a program today to provide efficient cooking stoves to rural areas in an effort to reduce air pollution and a major contributor to climate change. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced the National Biomass Cook-stoves Initiative, a series of pilot projects that seeks to improve stove efficiency for individual households. The program, if implemented properly, could provide a quick solution to short-lived pollutants that contribute to the greenhouse gas effect and...

The Future of Environmental Law Mapping

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By Laurent Granier Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping offer great opportunities for the transfer of legal data from books to maps. GIS applications have been evolving in many directions, well beyond geography. Many fields such as environmental economics, social science, health science and administration are now aggregated with scientific representations. The methods for environmental and social mapping are now participatory too. Together, these tools offer new, integrated...

Powermeter: Google's Household Energy Monitor Arrives in UK

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By Adam Vaughan Online tool allows householders to monitor energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, thereby reducing consumption and saving money Google may be best known for helping you find things on the web, but the online search company's latest move is a bid to make futuristic low-energy eco-homes a reality. Launching for the first time in the UK today, Google Powermeter is an online tool that allows householders to monitor their home's energy use and greenhouse gas emissions via the...

Google Earth 3D Climate Change Simulator Unveiled - Starring Al Gore

Joe Romm

Google is using its Google Earth mapping tool to simulate on a 3D map of the world the predicted effects of climate change until the year 2100. Using data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the search giant created new layers for Google Earth showing the range of expected temperature and precipitation changes under different global emissions scenarios that could occur throughout the century. The Sydney Morning Herald further reports these “new tools were...

Worldchanging Update: Better Place Targets Tokyo Taxis

Christa Morris

We’ve written before about California start-up Better Place’s plan to build a network of battery swapping stations and standardized EVs, including its scheduled $1 billion project in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of January 2010, Better Place is taking on the Tokyo taxicab. Partnering with the cities’ largest taxi company, Niho Kotsu, they will create the first all-electric fleet in the world, complete with a battery swapping station in the Roppongi Hills. Founder Shai Agassi’s...

Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction

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by Michael D. Lemonick For more than 40 years, scientists have dreamed of collecting the sun’s energy in space and beaming it back to Earth. Now, a host of technological advances, coupled with interest from the U.S. military, may be bringing that vision close to reality. Despite the enormous promise of solar power, the drawbacks of the technology remain significant. People need electricity every day, around the clock, but there’s no part of the United States that is cloud-free 365 days...

My Fridge Could Power the World

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by Jennifer Langston Beer + leftovers = energy According to two news stories today, the contents of my fridge -- a six-pack, open bottles of wine, dregs from last week's farmers' market and leftover stir-fry -- might help power my house some day.As the Los Angeles Times reports, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has invented a system that makes ethanol out of old beer, wine and other waste kitchen products. My favorite part: the still doubles as a fuel pump for your car!Also in the Bay Area, a...

Create Your Own Bike Lane, For Real

Adam Stein

This past winter, I wrote about LightLane, a concept design for a lighting system that paints a virtual path around your bike at night to encourage cars to keep a safe distance. The idea caught the Internet's imagination, so much so that it's soon going to be a real product: The video is kind of cool, and I tend to think something like this actually could work. If I were a driver, I'd take the hint. More info at the LightLane web site. Now maybe someone will get to work on that bike-based...

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