ANIMALS - Bottlenose dolphins may call each other by name
It was already known that dolphins are taught signature whistles by their mothers, but their function was not entirely clear. New data shows they might be used similarly to names ...
CLIMATE - New Study Shows Independent Evidence Of Global Warming
One of the biggest challenges of climate science seems like it should be one of the easiest; measuring temperatures. The fact is, regular measurements of temperature around the globe didn't being in real earnest until the late 19th century. So when scientists want to understand what temperatures were like prior to that era, they have to use proxies. For example, scientists can tell by the way ice crystallizes what the weather and temperature was ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/02/21/new-study-s
ECONOMICS - Detroit Tops 2013 List Of America's Most Miserable Cities
Forbes put Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on its cover in 2011 for a story with the optimistic headline: "City of Hope." The premise was that the city had hit rock bottom and was poised for a turnaround ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/02/21/detro
ECONOMICS - The Rise of Mobile Giving, and Other Trends & Predictions for Philanthropy in 2013
Editor's note: As Director of Nonprofit Strategy, Sean Milliken helps eBay, Inc.'s global properties empower their products and users to make a difference for nonprofit organizations ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/02/22/rise-
EDUCATION - Hands-on cooking education aids docs' nutrition knowledge
(HealthDay)-Continuing education that includes didactic and hands-on cooking sessions improves physicians' self-reported nutrition-related behaviors, according to a research letter published online Feb. 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-hands-on-cooking-aids-
ENERGY - 100% Renewable Energy: Becoming the New Normal?
By Diane Moss, Founding Director of Renewables 100 Policy InstituteA decade ago, cities, regions, and businesses aiming for 20% renewable energy were on the cutting edge. Few believed that a higher target in a few decades was an achievable goal. Anyone even suggesting a target of 100% renewable energy was a radical. Fast forward to today and in much of Europe, and increasingly in the U.S. and the developing world, 100% renewable energy goals a .. ...
ENERGY - 14% Of Household Electricity Consumption From Solar In Belgium; 3% Of Total Power Consumption
Reposted from Solar Love:Belgium, like many other countries across the world, just saw another solid year of solar power growth. 2012 didn't come close to its record solar growth in 2011, and it was just a bit shy of the 528 MW it added in 2009, but 2012's 525 MW now bring it up to a total of 2,600 MW of solar power capacity.According to a translation from the APERe (Belgian Renewable Energy Association) website, "With 2600 MW installed to dat .. ...
ENERGY - Clean Energy Powers Up North Carolina's Economy
It may seem ironic for a state that enacted a ban on sea level rise, but renewable energy is powering up North Carolina's economy by attracting investment, creating jobs, and lowering utility bills.North Carolina state flag image via ShutterstockThese findings come from a new study, "Economic, Utility Portfolio, and Rate Impact of Clean Energy Development in North Carolina," commissioned by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NC .. ...
ENERGY - Doing More With Less: Energy Efficiency Bolsters The US Economy
The adage "do more with less" has proven to be fruitful for the US economy. Even while energy demands have increased over the last decades, investment in efficiency improvements have overshadowed conventional energy supply by a lot - and by a lot we mean $300 to $500 billion.Info text graphic electrical composed in plug shape via ShutterstockAnd it doesn't stop at the money. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimates that i .. ...
ENERGY - Geothermal Could Provide 40% Of Glasgow's Heat
Glasgow is Scotland's largest city with nearly 600,000 people. Recently, scientists have stated that 40% of Glasgow's heating needs could come from geothermal power located in local abandoned coal mine shafts. There are many such mines throughout the country, and some of them are located deep enough below ground level that they have accumulated water. This water is warm enough it can be pumped up to heat buildings and homes.Image Credit: Kim T .. ...
ENERGY - How A City Can Get More Clean, Local Energy
Like many cities attempting to solve climate change at a local level, Minneapolis is finding the prospect more challenging that it may have imagined. The lion's share of emissions (two-thirds in the case of Minneapolis) come from electricity and gas sold by two monopoly, corporate utilities. Minnesota's state-level policy is helping: a renewable energy standard pushes the electric utility to 30% clean energy by 2020 and a conservation standard .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/21/how-a-city-can-get-more-
ENERGY - Navigating The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Information Jungle (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's one on the topic of the renewable energy and energy efficiency information jungle, and how to navigate it.Navigating The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Information Jungle (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/navigating-the-renewable
GARDENS - Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video)
Can't afford a glass greenhouse? Check out how to build your own underground greenhouse for cheaper and for growing veggies 365 days a year, even in cold climates ...
HOMES - Build your own table and chairs from shipping pallets
Sarah Williams shows us how to create a nice looking dining suite from nothing but a few old pallets ...
HOMES - High-Efficiency Topload Washers Gain In Popularity
Chores are no fun. But even no fun things can be improved upon enough to save you some cash and lessen your guilt about using energy-guzzling appliances. Enter high-efficiency topload washers, the washing machine gaining popularity over the last two years by a measure of 34 percent.Isolated washing machine via ShutterstockHigh-efficiency appliances carry a heavier price tag than their less efficient peers, but the annual operating costs is les .. ...
SOLAR - 3-D Solar Cells May Receive Big Boost Thanks To New Semiconductor Nano-Shish-Kebabs
A new type of nano-sized structure, looking something like a "nano-shish-kebab," has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University. The seamless three-dimensional structure, consisting solely of germanium sulfide (GeS) crystals, could be useful in the development of 3-D solar cells, next-generation sensors, supercapacitors, and photodetectors.Looking like a row of nano-sheets run through by a nano-wire, it is actually one so .. ...
SOLAR - Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One Achieves 100 Megawatt Milestone
First Solar announced Wednesday that its Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One has achieved a peak generating capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) connected to the electrical grid.But that's only half of the end goal. When construction is completed later this year, the ranch, located in northern Los Angeles County, will have a generating capacity of 230 MW.Construction of Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One was initiated in September of 2011, with module inst .. ...
SOLAR - Captured Rainbows, New Possibilities In Solar Energy Thanks To New Material That Slows Light
An improved method to capture rainbows has been developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo. The photonics breakthrough could very likely lead to significant improvements in solar energy, stealth technologies, and other areas of research, according to the researchers.The researchers created a "hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide," that works to separate and absorb every frequency of light at different locations in a vertical direction, .. ...
SOLAR - Concentrated Photovoltaics (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here are two videos on the topic of concentrated photovoltaics (CPV):Concentrated Photovoltaics (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/21/concentrated-photovoltai
SOLAR - Daylight Harvesting In New York City Could Save 160 Megawatts
New York City could benefit substantially from the incorporation of daylight harvesting systems into its most easily-retrofittable office buildings, reducing peak electricity demand by up to 160 megawatts, according to a recent study by Green Light New York. The use of daylight to cut back on electricity usage, in appropriate buildings, would save tenants and building owners in the city an estimated $70 million dollars annually.Greentech Media .. ...
SOLAR - Envision Plans To Install 2,300 Rotating Solar Tree Car Shelters In South Carolina
According to Inhabitat, roughly 160 billion square feet of land have been paved and used just as parking lots for cars. Envision plans to use some of this space to accommodate solar panels structures called solar tree car shelters. Is this wasting even more space? Not quite.Parking Lot Shaded by Solar Panels. Image obtained from Shutterstock.The solar tree shelters are using the little extra spaces between parked vehicles for towers that the s .. ...
SOLAR - Giant Solar Farm Capacity Doubling Inside 12 Months, Breaking 12 GW
A new update from analyst firm Wiki-Solar has concluded that by the end of February utility-scale solar farms will have reached 12.2 GW of capacity across 488 installations, a figure almost double that of 12 months ago.Top countries for utility-scale (10MW+) solar generation capacity, showing their capacity at the beginning of March 2013Image Credit: Wiki-SolarThe report found that 6 GW of new utility-scale capacity has been connected worldwid .. ...
SOLAR - In California, Affordable Solar Power For The 99%
It wasn't too long ago that rooftop solar panels were yet another expensive add-on for high end homes, but then again, it wasn't too long ago that only the rich kids at your high school could afford pocket calculators, let alone mobile phones. Affordable solar power is starting to make its way down the income ladder, and a pair of statewide California solar programs show how that's good news for utility customers and taxpayers, too.Affordable .. ...
SOLAR - JinkoSolar Signs Agreement For 600 MW Solar PV Panels
JinkoSolar announced this week that it has signed an agreement with China Three Gorges New Energy Corporation to deliver a total of 600 megawatts (MW) of high-efficiency solar panels.The three-year strategic cooperation agreement between the two companies will run from 2013 to 2015, and make use of JinkoSolar's solar panels in an installation in western China."We are very pleased to sign this long term large contract and to further extend our .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/jinkosolar-signs-agreeme
SOLAR - Solar Number Fun (VIDEO)
Check out the staggering solar facts in this Clean Power Research video:Time to go solar, much?Solar Number Fun (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/21/solar-number-fun-video
SOLAR - Solar-Powered Planes In Russia - Solar Being Considered As Replacement For Jet Fuel
Solar energy may be replacing fossil fuels as the power source of the Russian civilian aircraft industry not too far into the future, based on where some of the country's funding is going.What happens to the aviation industries of the world as fuel prices continue to rise? What are the alternatives? Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) seeks to answer these questions by ordering several new studies into possible fuel alternati .. ...
SOLAR - SolarCity and Honda, sitting in a tree...
What's interesting about the 65 million dollars that the American division of Honda is investing with SolarCity is that the car-maker isn't just creating a fund to finance solar systems. It's also trying to market Solar to its customers ...
SOLAR - The "Value Of Solar" Could Be Worth Much More Than Austin Energy Pays
I recently wrote a long post on the idea of using a "value of solar" policy instead of various types of government incentives for solar. Much of that post was based on research conducted by Clean Power Research for Austin Energy - so that Austin Energy could implement a Value of Solar policy (which it now uses). As I stated at the time, however, the value that is placed on solar depends on what assumptions you use - in particular, what benefit .. ...
SOLAR - U.S. Solar Heating And Cooling Alliance Launched
Reposted from the website of the Solar Energy Industries Association:[Yesterday] the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) launched the U.S. Solar Heating and Cooling Alliance (SHC Alliance). The Alliance will focus on growing the solar heating and cooling market through reducing barriers and advocating for policies on the federal, state and local levels.The newly elected leaders of the U.S. Solar Heating and Cooling Alliance are:- Ch .. ...
SPACE - Scientists May Have Found The Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole
A star that exploded about 27,000 years ago may have produced the Galaxy's youngest known black hole ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/02/14/scientists-
SUSTAINABILITY - Modern nomads living in a traditional yurt (Video)
Choosing to live the mobile life, this couple have chosen to make a traditional Mongolian yurt their home instead of more high-tech alternatives ...
TECH - France wants to invest $27B in high speed broadband
France has unveiled a financing plan that would result in the government and private companies spending €20 billion ($27 billion) over the next 10 years bringing high speed broadband and fiber connectivity to the country. The news comes after the EU's budget cut almost all of the $7 billion it planned to spend bringing broadband in Europe. Yet Europe still hopes to have 50 percent of the population at 100 Mbps speeds by 2020 with the rest of t ...
TECH - Hyperconnectivity: The Future is Now
I?ve spent my life dreaming of a hyperconnected world. And I?ve dedicated my life to creating new modes of communication that make this world possible. The hyperconnected world is a world where things that need to communicate will and do communicate. Truly, your dishwasher can talk to the power grid, your fuel sensor can talk to the gas station, your grass can talk to your sprinklers. This has been my vision for the future for years. Well, t ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/vivekranadive/2013/02/19/hyperco
TECH - Metaio's augmented reality chip will be super-useful... just not in phones
On Thursday, Metaio, the Germany-based augmented reality (AR) company, announced a deal with ST-Ericsson which will see the latter integrate a specialized AR processor into the next generation of its mobile chipsets. This will be the first dedicated chip of its kind to see commercial deployment, and it should have a big impact on the power consumption of AR applications, which are today generally a big battery-suck due to their intensive use of g ...
TECH - New crime-prediction research highlights the promise of big data
I'm taking a break from writing about the nitty gritty of Hadoop to highlight yet another promising use case for big data - fighting crime. A new study by University of Michigan researchers details a method for using - according to a university press release - "high-powered computers and loads of data" to help police target neighborhoods most susceptible to high crime rates. However, it's not the idea of using data to predict or even solve crime ...
TECH - Online Identity
The head of the CIA undone by email, anonymous trolls ruling Reddit, fakery on Facebook and false Sandy news on Twitter. Identity on the internet is a mess. What to do about it ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/effi45emkgd/cia-director-gen-
TECH - Qualcomm's new radio chip gets us one step closer to a global 4G phone
As you might guess the week before Mobile World Congress, there's a lot of mobile chip news coming out, but on Thursday Qualcomm released a doozey. It unveiled a new radio chip that the silicon vendor claims can support all of the world's LTE bands in a single device, helping to overcome the fragmentation problems that plague 4G device makers. Qualcomm's baseband chips and integrated applications processors have long supported all cellular techno ...
URBAN - 220 Story Sky City delayed, but 100 story baby brother going ahead
Prefab system from Broad Sustainable Buildings being used in Yinchua ...
URBAN - Non Program Pavilion: Reflective Building Melts into the Spanish Landscape
Read the rest of Non Program Pavilion: Reflective Building Melts into the Spanish LandscapePermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Architecture, Daylighting, Granada, Jesús Torres García Architects, Landscape Architecture, natural light, Non Program Pavilion, reflective architecture, Spai .. ...
URBAN - The Hotel Which Floats On Sand
Hidden away in the Gobi Desert is "the bay of sand", Xiangshawan. It's a popular tourist destination for China's newly rich adrenaline junkies, with huge dunes making it is a perfect playground for driving Jeeps and quad bikes at reckless speeds.However it's also 500 miles from Beijing and has relentlessly shifting sands. To make life even more challenging the average temperature shifts from 85°F in the summer to 2°F in the winter (sand dun .. ...
URBAN - The Ridge Road Residence Fuses Energy Efficiency and Contemporary Design in Australia
Read the rest of The Ridge Road Residence Fuses Energy Efficiency and Contemporary Design in AustraliaPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: australia, Blackened Timber, daylight, eco design, green design, insulation, low flow fixtures, low VOC, Melbourne, natural ventilation, renewable, residence, Ridge Road Residence, rural, Studio Four, Sustainable, sustainable design, water storag .. ...
URBAN - Tsunami-Proof Buildings Targeted in New Standards Initiative
A clutch of civil engineers convened by the American Society of Civil Engineers are trying to tame the risks posed by tsunamis in the built environment ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/02/22/tsuna
WIND - China Reaches 50 GW Of Connected Grid Wind Capacity; Expected To Top 140 GW By 2015
China advanced past 50 gigawatts (GW) of on-grid/connected wind power capacity in 2012, and this is expected to grow a further 40% by the end of 2013.GTM Media Research and Azure International in their China Wind Market Quarterly for the fourth quarter of 2012 said the emerging market country is on target this year to add another 18 GW of installed grid connected wind capacity.Windmills in China via WikiCommons (Some Rights Reserved)Some of th .. ...
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