Earth Portation News October 24th

AIR - Recycling Wasted Heat and Power Could Clear the Air
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2012/10/24/recycling-wasted-heat-and-power-could-clear-the-air/


EARTH - Researchers to Shake a Building to Study Its Performance During Earthquakes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023100911.htm


ECONOMICS - Urban Agriculture Goes Mobile in Chicago
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/chicago-truck-farm-makes-urban-agriculture-mobile.html

ECONOMICS - Are Millennials Lazy Or Avant-Garde Social Activists?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larissafaw/2012/10/23/are-millennials-lazy-or-avant-garde-social-activists/


ENERGY - Power grid upgrades may cause blackouts, warns Braess's paradox
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-power-grid-blackouts-braess-paradox.html#ajTabs

ENERGY - Americans use more efficient and renewable energy technologies
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-americans-efficient-renewable-energy-technologies.html

ENERGY - US on Track to Become World's #1 Oil Producer
http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/u-s-may-overtake-saudi-arabia-world-top-oil-producer-maybe.html

ENERGY - Killington Resort Gondola Now Powered by Cow Manure
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/killington-resort-gondola-powered-cow-manure.html

ENERGY - Americans Use More Efficient and Renewable Energy Technologies
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024150805.htm

ENERGY - Egypt Moves to Kick-Start Renewable Revolution
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christophercoats/2012/10/22/egypt-moves-to-kick-start-renewable-revolution/

ENERGY - Copenhagen's Seawater Cooling Delivers Energy And Carbon Savings
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/10/24/copenhagens-seawater-cooling-delivers-energy-and-carbon-savings/


ENVIRONMENT - IKEA Will Grow More Wood Than It Uses by 2020, Touts Clean Energy, Efficiency Commitments
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/ikea-grow-more-wood-than-it-uses-2020.html


GARDENS - Get Your Garden Soil Tested for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/get-your-garden-soil-tested-national-lead-poisoning-prevention-week.html


HOMES - 19 Clever Uses for Rubber Bands
http://www.treehugger.com/cleaning-organizing/19-clever-uses-for-rubber-bands.html

HOMES - GE’s Brillion Home Energy Systems Now Available At Sears
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/ges-brillion-home-energy-systems-now-available-sears.html


PEOPLE - Summer Babies Less Likely to Be CEOs
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023134818.htm


PLANTS - Wood Completely Broken Down Into Its Component Parts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024111457.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-wood-broken-component.html

PLANTS - Improving Lipid Analysis: With New Mass Spectrometer, Researchers Can Grow Knowledge of Plants and Environmental Stress
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023112303.htm

PLANTS - New Technique to Grow Black Truffles
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.htm

PLANTS - Tree Conservation Lessons Learned Since England's Great Storm of 1987
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/lessons-learned-trees.html

PLANTS - Formula unlocks secrets of cauliflower's geometry
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-formula-secrets-cauliflower-geometry.html#ajTabs


SCIENCE - High-Pressure Science Gets Super-Sized
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024093314.htm

SCIENCE - Release of Data from Nobel Prize-Winning Laboratory for Public Use
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023204638.htm

SCIENCE - Measuring table-top accelerators' state-of-the-art beams: Part Two: slicing through the electron beam
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-table-top-state-of-the-art-slicing-electron.html

SCIENCE - A new take on the Midas touch: Changing the colour of gold
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-midas-colour-gold.html


SOLAR -Cute Solar Charging Canopies Tilt Toward Sun
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/new-swedish-solar-charging-garage-tilts-toward-sun.html

SOLAR - The Big Solar Sell-Off: Siemens Puts Solel On The Block
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/10/22/the-big-solar-sell-off-siemens-puts-solel-on-the-block/


SPACE - Astronomers report that dark matter 'halos' may contain stars, disprove other theories
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-astronomers-dark-halos-stars-theories.html

SPACE - Earth's Magnetosphere Behaves Like a Sieve
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024101654.htm

SPACE - A Mini-Supermassive Black Hole
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024150904.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-revealing-mini-supermassive-black-hole.html


TECH - Future storage on rewind: IBM, FUJIFILM envision cassette as #1
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-future-storage-rewind-ibm-fujifilm.html

TECH - Meet The Hyper-Connected Phone Booth Of the Future

TECH - How to Make Fire With Water
http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/how-make-fire-water.html

TECH - iPod Packaging Dissolves in Water
http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/ipod-packaging-dissolves-water.html

TECH - Good News for Clean Tech: China's Reign over Rare Earth Metals is Ending
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/good-news-clean-tech-chinas-reign-over-rare-earth-metals-ending.html

TECH - Reducing information stored in magnetic thin films to the size of single grains could improve computer hard drives
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-magnetic-thin-size-grains-hard.html

TECH - Danes develop eye-control software for phones, tablets
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-danes-eye-control-software-tablets.html


URBAN -San Francisco Time-Lapse Video Shows The City Without Any People
http://www.treehugger.com/culture/san-francisco-time-lapse-video-shows-city-without-any-people.html

URBAN - Luminous Laser-Cut Lamps Made Out of Kelp
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/laser-cut-kelp-lamps-julia-lohmann.html

URBAN - UPDATE: Tiny Apartment in Madrid Packs a Lot in 200 Square Feet and 6'-10 Wide
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tiny-apartment-madrid-packs-lot-what-looks-be-about-six-feet-wide.html

URBAN - A Grand Central Terminal For The Next Hundred Years
http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/grand-central-terminal-next-hundred-years/

URBAN - Does Density Make Cities More Affordable? Alex Steffen Thinks So
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/does-density-make-cities-more-affordable-alex-steffen-thinks-so.html


WATER - Oxygen's Ups and Downs in Early Atmosphere and Ocean
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023134812.htm

WATER - How Scarce Does Water Need to Get Before It's Valuable?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/10/23/how-scarce-does-water-need-to-get-before-its-valuable/


WIND - Community Wind Projects Poised To Take Off In Denmark
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/10/22/community-wind-projects-poised-to-take-off-in-denmark/


WORK - Jobs In a Ripple-Out Economy Come From Oil, Gas, Coal, and Then the Cloud
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2012/10/24/jobs-in-a-ripple-out-economy-come-from-oil-gas-coal-and-then-the-cloud/