EARTH PORTATION News May 23rd

ANIMALS 
- Disagreeable People Prefer Aggressive Dogs, Study Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522084326.htm

- What Baboons Can Teach Us About Social Status
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521163851.htm

- Wave-Powered "Dolphin Speaker" Could Let Us Talk to Dolphins
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/dolphin-speaker.html

- BEES - Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters'
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-commonly-pesticide-honey-bees-picky.html

- INSECTS - Light pollution transforming insect communities
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-scientists-patients-skin-cells-heart.html


EARTH 
-Fukushima's Radiation Effects: World Experts to Assess Impacts from Japanese Power Plant
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523170536.htm

- 'Creeping quakes' rumble New Zealand: researchers
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-quakes-rumble-zealand.html


ECONOMICS
- Peter Fenton On The New Wave Of Enterprise Startups
http://video.forbes.com/fvn/midas12/pete-fenton-on-the-new-wave-of-enterprise-startups


ENERGY 
- Federal Republic of Germany plans ecological headquarters for ‘Green Climate Fund’
http://www.ecofriend.com/federal-republic-germany-plans-ecological-headquarters-green-climate-fund.html


PEOPLE 
- Resilient People More Satisfied With Life
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523114726.htm
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-resilient-people-life.html

PERMACULTURE
- Natural self purifier
1.The sewage flows into the wetland, which is filled with sand so that the odors do not leave the surface.
2.The wetland filter consists of a large plantation, in this case reed with its roots in the sand, feeding the water.
3.The nutrients in the water are absorbed by the reeds, which are caught in their tissues and use them for growth.
4.The absorbed nutrients are removed with the change of reed stalk. These residues form an insulating layer.
5.The water, now free of nutrients from the wetland flows into the lagoon.
6.The size of the wetland: The area required is calculated based on the number of inhabitants of the city that produced the waste, among the following: 1 person = about 5 m2.
http://waste.ideal.es/humedalartificial.htm


PLANTS 
-Seagrass found to sequester over 80,000 metric tons of carbon
http://www.ecofriend.com/seagrass-found-sequester-over-80000-metric-tons-carbon.html


SCIENCE 
- Repulsive polaron: Austrian physicists realize elusive quasiparticles
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-repulsive-polaron-austrian-physicists-elusive.html

- Artificial Leaf Device Produces Hydrogen in Water Using Only Sunlight
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523102057.htm


SOLAR 
- Kyocera begins shipping solar modules to Arizona solar energy project
http://www.ecofriend.com/kyocera-begins-shipping-solar-modules-arizona-solar-energy-project.html

- Solar Installers Caught In Cross Fire Of Escalating China Trade War
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/05/18/solar-installers-caught-in-cross-fire-of-escalating-china-trade-war/

- Singapore polytechnic students build a cool Solar Kiosk that charges up your sense and your gadgets
http://www.ecofriend.com/singapore-polytechnic-students-build-cool-solar-kiosk-charges-sense-gadgets.html

- Secret Ingredient To Making Solar Energy Work: Salt
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/04/05/secret-ingredient-to-making-solar-energy-work-salt/

- Street Posts that power your gadget gear with renewable solar energy
http://www.ecofriend.com/street-posts-power-gadget-gear-renewable-solar-energy.html

- Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/robot-wash-solar-panels-among-winning-student-inventions.html


SPACE 
- Extremely rare transit of Venus to occur on June 5, 2012
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-extremely-rare-transit-venus-june.html


TECH 
- New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mathematical-framework-formalizes-oddball-techniques.html

- Yahoo Gets Into The Mobile Browser Business With Axis
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/23/yahoo-gets-into-the-mobile-browser-business-with-axis/

- 5 Ways Cell Phones are Helping Environmentalism
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/ways-cell-phones-help-environment.html

- A space saver, Belkin's energy saving USB charger also conserves energy
http://www.ecofriend.com/space-saver-belkins-energy-saving-usb-charger-conserves-energy.html

- Review: OnLive Desktop brings the PC to tablets
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-onlive-desktop-pc-tablets.html


URBAN
- Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-hacking-code-leaf-vein-architecture.html

- ACXT's social housing project is based on cogeneration
http://www.ecofriend.com/acxts-social-housing-project-based-cogeneration.html

- Endesa’s Solar House 2.0 Pavilion adapts to maximum renewable energy potential
http://www.ecofriend.com/endesas-solar-house-20-pavilion-adapts-maximum-renewable-energy-potential.html


WATER 
- ‘Power Buoy’ works on wave motion to generate 400 watts for electricity
http://www.ecofriend.com/power-buoy-works-wave-motion-generate-400-watts-electricity.html

- Next Generation Wastewater Treatment Uses Hydrodynamic Forces to Clean Water
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/next-generation-wastewater-treatment-uses-hydrodynamic-forces-clean-water.html


WIND 
- Makani Power's airborne wind turbine betters conventional by 50 percent
http://www.ecofriend.com/makani-powers-airborne-wind-turbine-betters-conventional-50-percent.html