EARTH - Whale Songs Found in Seismic Recordings
A rich, but untapped trove of whale calls hides in decades of recordings collected by geologists surveying the ocean floor ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/whale-calls-seismic-d
EARTH - What Is A Sinkhole?
Sinkholes are a growing problem. What exactly are they? -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/what-is-a-sinkhole-130314.ht
ECONOMICS - New Film Calls Worker-Owned Cooperatives "Next American Revolution"
Gar Alperovitz: The Next American Revolution (TRAILER) from Democracy Collaborative on Vimeo.From the founder of the World Economic Forum to the protesters of the Occupy movement, everyone seems to agree that something's wrong with capitalism as we know it. But what is it, exactly, and what can people do about it? Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz discusses a potential solution in his new film The Next American Revolution, in which ...
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/new-film-calls-worker
ECONOMICS - The Economy: Under New Ownership
Employees at Equal Exchange, the oldest and largest fair-trade coffee company in the nation. It is also a worker-owned cooperative. Photo by Paul Dunn. Pushing my grocery cart down the aisle, I spot on the fruit counter a dozen plastic bags of bananas labeled "Organic, Equal Exchange." My heart leaps a little. I'd been thrilled, months earlier, when I found my local grocer carrying bananas-a new product from Equal Exchange-because this ...
ECONOMICS - Three Essential Measures to Make Banks Safe Again
History never repeats itself, but it often rhyme ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/03/17/three-es
EDUCATION - Fourth-graders crowdfund their own solar-powered classroom
This inspiring class of kids is building a cleaner, brighter future, starting with their own classroom, thanks to a crowdfunding campaign (and an awesome teacher) ...
EDUCATION - Have TED Talks Jumped the Shark?
As the TED conferences expand, some question whether standards are slipping. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/human/life/have-ted-talks-jumped-t
EDUCATION - Teaching Emotions: A Different Approach to Ending School Violence
A teacher at Cunningham Elementary School in Austin, Texas, teaches a lesson about emotions to a class of students. Photo by Adrian Uribarra/CASEL. In the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the media has trumpeted the predictable calls for tighter gun controls and widespread speculation about the shooter's mental health. But those calling for change have done remarkably little soul-searching about the education s ...
ENERGY - 7 New Germany Renewable Energy Charts
Professor Dr. Bruno Burger of the Fraunhofer Institute on March 11 released a report on renewable energy data for Germany up through the end of February. The whole report is an interesting read, but I'm pulling out some of the most interesting charts and graphs if you'd just like a snapshot.1. As I think we reported previously, solar power capacity has passed up wind power capacity in Germany. Here are the totals as of February 1, 2013:2. How .. ...
ENERGY - California's Clash: Shale Oil or Green Energy
California's economic predicament and environmental progression have met head on. But the state's leaders are saying that the two dynamics can be reconciled, all to potentially capture the nation's richest "tight oil" deposits ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2013/03/17/califo
ENERGY - eLab On The Value Of Distributed Energy (Video)
Reposted from the Rocky Mountain Institute:The U.S. is at the cusp of transformative change in the electricity system, and the only thing limiting us may be our imagination. Uncertainties about how to navigate that transformation remain, and eLab is hard at work answering the questions many organizations in the sector are trying to address, including:What is the value of distributed energy resources? How can we build pricing mechanisms based .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/16/elab-on-the-value-of-dis
FASHION - Google and Adidas Team up to Produce a Sneaker that Nags You to Exercise
Google is getting into the footwear business now. At the SXSW conference in Austin last week, tech giant, along with Adidas, unveiled its "Talking Shoe" concept, a smart sneaker designed to get people off the couch and exercising. The sneaker has a personality of its own that cheers and jeers its wearer in an effort to keep your feet moving. Click through to Ecouterre to see a video of the high-tech sneaks in action.READ MORE >Permalink |Add t ...
HOMES - After 2,000 years, courtyard houses are all the rage again
Here is a design idea that makes a lot of sense, if it is used properl ...
HOMES - Derek Diedricksen's Tiny Gypsy Junker Cabin Can Be Yours for $1,200
Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is arguably the king of tiny houses: his work has been covered everywhere from the New York Times to the History Channel, and his micro homes have inspired people everywhere. One of Diedricksen's recent projects, known as the Gypsy Junker micro cabin, is up for sale. If you have always wanted to get in on the tiny living movement, or just want a stylish little shed, the 32-square foot cabin can be yours for a cool $1,200 ...
MOVIES - New Film Calls Worker-Owned Cooperatives "Next American Revolution"
Gar Alperovitz: The Next American Revolution (TRAILER) from Democracy Collaborative on Vimeo.From the founder of the World Economic Forum to the protesters of the Occupy movement, everyone seems to agree that something's wrong with capitalism as we know it. But what is it, exactly, and what can people do about it? Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz discusses a potential solution in his new film The Next American Revolution, in which ...
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/new-film-calls-worker
MUSIC - Rapper Brother Ali on Privilege, Hope, and Other People's Stories
Photo courtesy Rhymesayers Entertainment. Brother Ali is a politically outspoken hip-hop artist from Minnesota whose latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, rocks between despair and acceptance, anger and hope. His clear lyrics often beat a slow, sauntering rhythm, and his sharp critiques of American society are warmed by strains of soul, funk, and sampled historical recordings.Legally blind and shuffled from c ...
PLANTS - Could the Potato Famine Strike Again?
Late blight, the disease that ruined the Irish potato crop during the mid-1800s, still mashes potato crops worldwide ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/could-the-potato-fami
SCIENCE - Causing collapse: Can one affect an atom's spin just by adjusting the way it is measured?
One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state -- it can exist in multiple realities -- at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, exists only so long as the system is not observed or measured in any way. As soon as such a system is measured, its superposition collapses into a single state. Thus, we, who are constantly observing and measuring, experience the world around us as e ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130318133026.ht
SCIENCE - Magnets are chaotic -- and fast -- at the very smallest scale
Using a new type of camera that makes extremely fast snapshots with an extremely high resolution, it is now possible to observe the behavior of magnetic materials at the nanoscale. This behavior is more chaotic than previously thought. The observed behavior changes our understanding of data storage, researchers say ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130318132452.ht
SCIENCE - Researchers trap light, improve laser potential of MEH-PPV polymer
Researchers have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV's ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130318105325.ht
SOLAR - 1,119 MW Of Solar Added In Japan
If you have been following clean energy news from Japan, you know the aggressive goals the country has. The government has been spurring renewable energy growth with an alluring feed-in tariff and apparently it has been working. Japan has added just over 1 GW of solar to its previous total of 4.8 GW. Some might say the amount added is not hugely impressive for such a technologically advanced country, but it's important to note that they did i .. ...
SOLAR - 1976 Solar Energy Flashback (Video)
Great find by Herman Trabish of NewEnergyNews:1976 Solar Energy Flashback (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/2013/03/17/1976-solar-energy-flashb
SOLAR - Germany - $1 Trillion Projected Fossil Fuel Import Savings From Energiewende
Reposted from Lenz Blog (image added):Image Credit: Josef Göppel (some rights reserved)German Member of Parliament Josef Göppel has published an excellent speech he delivered recently at the Bundestag.There are many remarkable ideas there, but I want to highlight only one thing mentioned at the end of the document.Göppel notes that Germany is saving EUR 8 billion a year in fossil fuel import costs right now (about 10 percent of the whole b .. ...
SOLAR - Japan Scales Solar PV
Solar power is set for explosive growth in Japan over the next year as robust government policies and programs support strong demand ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/03/18/japan
SPACE - NASA's Webb Telescope gets its wings
A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion with the recent assembly of the support structure's wings ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130318103848.ht
SPACE - Pluto Could Have Ten Moons
A recent simulation predicts that NASA's New Horizons probe could slam into a rocky killing field encircling the "binary planet" Pluto-Charon, during its 2015 flyby. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/pluto-could-have-t
SPACE - Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds
Although there appears to be a mysterious dearth of exoplanets smaller than Earth, data from NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that nearly a quarter of all sun-like stars in our galaxy play host to worlds 1-3 times the size of our planet. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/quarter-of-sun-lik
TECH - Camera Sees People in a New Light
A prototype video camera that can see through walls, bodies and bags uses harmless radio waves instead of x-ray radiation. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/camera-sees-
TECH - Futuristic Payphones Finally Coming to NYC
New York's old payphones are being redesigned for next year. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/futuristic-p
TECH - Tech In New York! (Real Estate Feels the Boost)
Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the capital of all things tech, in the Americas if not the world. But in the US, several other locations have emerged has hubs in their own rights. Austin and Dallas, Texas; Seattle Washington; Los Angeles, California have become attractive places to set up shop in tech and new media, but New York's excitement, culture, human capital and city investment in the space has made Silicon Alley a capital of its own ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/03/18/tech-i
TECH - What if every 'like' and 'favorite' came with money? Flattr makes it possible
A lot of people want Flattr - or something like it - to work. Monetizing online content is a continuing problem, and micropayments may provide a solution. Flattr is probably the best-known exponent of these virtual tips, or "microdonations" as it calls them, and a few content platforms such as DailyMotion have signed up to allow their users to make pocket-money off their videos. However, "flattring" someone has until now remained a slightly clunk ...
TECH - White spaces networks are not "super" nor even Wi-Fi
Recently there has been a push to make a significant amount of unlicensed white-space spectrum available in the 600 MHz band as part of the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Rulemaking. As reported in BNA, the FCC is considering making an additional 30 MHz of spectrum available for unlicensed use, augmenting existing white-space spectrum. Proponents of this unlicensed band are using the term "Super Wi-Fi" to describe the technology ...
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/17/white-spaces-networks-are-not-s
URBAN - Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconic "La Miniatura" Millard House Hits the Market for $4.5 Million in Pasadena, California
Read the rest of Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconic "La Miniatura" Millard House Hits the Market for $4.5 Million in Pasadena, CaliforniaPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: california modern, david zander, FLW, flw concrete homes, flw homes, frank lloyd wright, frank llyod wright california, iconic california homes, iconic homes, la miniatura, millard house, own a frank lloyd wright home, pasadena architecture, pasadena modern homes, unisonian ...
URBAN - Hong Kong's Shocking 40-Square-Foot Apartments Photographed by Chinese Human Rights Group
Could you imagine a family living in an apartment not much bigger than a king-size bed? In Hong Kong, some families are forced to live in 40 square-foot cubicle apartments that have bunk beds overlapping with cooking areas and food storage located inches from electronics. The Society for Community Organization (SoCO), a Chinese human rights group, has released photographs of Hong Kong's claustrophobic apartments as part of a campaign to raise awa ...
URBAN - Zero Skyscraper: A Survival Structure for Post-Apocalyptic Life On Earth
Read the rest of Zero Skyscraper: A Survival Structure for Post-Apocalyptic Life On EarthPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "eVolo", agriculture, Apocalypse, Communication, doomsday, Ekkaphon Puekpaiboon, human extinction, internet, skyscraper, Survival, zero skyscrape .. ...
WATER - There's life even at the deepest point of the ocean (11,000 meters down!)
More evidence that the old saying "life always finds a way" is correct was found at the deepest point of the planet's oceans, the Mariana Trench ...
WIND - Siemens Opens World's Largest R&D Test Center For Wind Turbine Technology
Reposted from Siemens.com:Siemens Energy has opened two major Research & Development test facilities for wind turbine technology in Denmark. The new test center in Brande features test stands for major components of Siemens wind turbines, including generators, main bearings and complete nacelles. In Aalborg, seven blade test stands are capable to perform full scale tests of rotor blades, including the world's largest blade in operation wi .. ...
WIND - Walney Offshore Wind Farm To Triple In Size
The 367 MW Walney offshore wind farm that opened last summer is now going to be significantly expanded upon. The wind farm will be approximately tripled in size, reaching a total capacity of just over 1.1 GW. Once the expansion is completed, the Walney wind farm is likely to once again be the world's largest offshore wind farm, after having lost that title to the London Array recently.Image Credit: Dong EnergyThe expansion plans were presente .. ...
WORK - Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships. A neuroscientists who studies mobile and online behaviors, a digital musican and a music enterprenuer; data nerds, visual designers and an infrastructure wizard who ...
WRITE - WORK - Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships. A neuroscientists who studies mobile and online behaviors, a digital musican and a music enterprenuer; data nerds, visual designers and an infrastructure wizard who ...
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