Nov 22, 09
Blogs We Love: STUFF
While reading our daily news, we often come across media makers whose messages echo our own mission. Weekly and even daily, we come back to their sites to see what innovative ideas and projects they've created. Below is a list of the Blogs We Love that help us think about STUFF. Core77 Design Altruism Project Doors of Perception Eco Geek Latest EurekAlert! FutureWire GOOD MAKE Magazine MURKETING No Impact Man O'Reilly Radar Purse Lip Square Jaw Responsible Nanotechnology ...
Aquaponics: A Locavore's Fish Farm?
If we don't figure out a way to produce seafood sustainably, we may live to see a future when wild fish are too rare to eat. Fish farming has increased as an alternative to ocean fishing (nearly half of all fish eaten worldwide today are, in fact, farmed), but marine farming -- raising ocean-caught fish in netted coastal pens -- can be extremely problematic for nearby coastal ecosystems. One solution can be found in emerging technologies that support indoor aquaculture -- systems for...
Five smart new things to read about climate change
Five climate change pieces with something new to say: Two degrees of global warming -- the target the G8 nations last week approved as a maximum temperature rise allowable due to climate change (and which many argue is being made inevitable by slow political action in G8 nations) -- has been played in the media as a "moderate" target. It's not. Real Climate writes about a two-degree goal: "[E]ven a “moderate” warming of 2°C stands a strong chance of provoking drought and storm...
Green Revolution
Haarlem was a city I associated so far with OTT Dutch cuteness and with the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Haarlem is just a 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam. I was there a couple of weeks ago to see an exhibition called Green Revolution at Nieuwe Vide, a new art space located in an old industrial area turned into a hotspot for all kinds of creative practices. Green revolution is an agricultural revolution of the 50's that encouraged the use of industrial and biological...
Energy and Global Warming News for June 9th: Drinking Water From Air Humidity; Greens Gain in EU Parliament Vote
Compiled by Austin Davis Facilities “producing large quantities of drinking water from moisture in the air could look like this” — and it looks to me this could be powered by the waste heat from concentrated solar thermal plants. Drinking Water From Air HumidityNot a plant to be seen, the desert ground is too dry. But the air contains water, and research scientists have found a way of obtaining drinking water from air humidity. The system is based completely on renewable energy and is...
Germany Deals Blow to GM Crops
by Kate Connolly Germany has thrown its weight behind a growing European mutiny over genetically modified crops by banning the planting of a widely grown pest-resistant corn variety.Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner said there was enough evidence to support arguments that MON 810, which is the only GM crop widely grown in Europe, posed a danger."I have come to the conclusion that genetically-modified corn from the MON 810 strain constitutes a danger to the environment," Aigner told reporters...
Key Questions At Copenhagen
By CS Kiang and Luo Rui Can a new relationship between China and the United States help form a new climate-change agreement in Denmark this year? CS Kiang and Luo Rui report. Last year's United Nations-led climate-change talks in Poznan, Poland, were the midway point in discussions about the post-Kyoto Protocol regime (see "What happened at Poznan?" by Tan Copsey). Hopes were high, but the global financial crisis meant politicians were preoccupied with economic recovery. Two weeks of talks...
The Death of the Land Mine-Detecting Flower
Research on the land mine detecting flower, which we posted about back in 2005 here and here, has come to an end. The company behind the concept, Denmark-based Aresa, has discontinued work on the project, and has subsequently changed the company focus from biotechnology to investment. According to this press release issued in September, The business model behind the landmine plant has become outdated and consequently aresa is changing its strategy to investment in mine contaminated land...
Magazines: Nozone X, a Minima, Neural, Cluster and Volume
It's been a long Summer and i spent it with the usual heap of magazines. Here's some of the best that fell into my hands: I received the latest edition of Volume over the Summer but it took me a couple of months to go through it. The 16th issue bears the suggestive title Engineering Society and gosh, is it good. In a nutshell and in the words of the editors: Our society seems to be locked into a position in which the user's and voter's choices determine how we shall live in the future. A...
Designing with Peak Population in Mind
This article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Sometime in the latter half of this century, human population will peak. Having swelled to a bit over nine billion people, our numbers will begin to drop as people age and women worldwide pass through the urban transition, gain control over their own life-choices and have fewer children. After that, population will proceed to decline by the middle of the...
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