ANIMALS - Up close with animals living at Earth's poles
Paul Souders gets up close with animals from polar bears to penguins, from walrus to belugas, as he travels from pole to pole documenting wildlife ...
ART - Street artist sends enviromental messages with stencils and paint
The Canada-based JULY i uses satire and wit to send serious messages through street art ...
BOOKS - To battle Kindle, German booksellers partner with Deutsche Telekom on new e-reader
German bookstore chains Thalia, Weltbild and Hugendubel have partnered with Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom to release a touchscreen, front-lit e-reader, the Tolino Shine. It costs €99 (USD $128), is available for sale on March 7 and is intended to compete against Amazon's Kindle and the Kobo in Germany. The Tolino will be sold at the partners' 1,500 physical stores as well as online. An ebookstore with about 300,000 German-language titles is ...
CLIMATE - 9 CEOs and corporate execs leading the climate change fight
Whether big business can be a force for good is a perennial discussion among TreeHuggers. These corporate leaders are out to prove it can ...
CLIMATE - Why The U.S. Needs A National Climate And Energy Plan
I wrote yesterday about a bill recently introduced by a freshman state lawmaker that would require policymakers to plan for how California will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. The prudent proposal reminds lawmakers that California's forward-thinking climate policy, which includes a declining cap on GHG emissions and, most importantly, a price on carbon, must be extended beyond 2020, when the state's climate change law, AB32, expir ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/02/28/why-the-
EARTH - The Most Terrifying Sinkhole Pictures You've Ever Seen
A Florida man is presumed dead after his bedroom was swallowed by a sinkhole last night. This terrifying scenario is more common than you think. Sinkholes occur when bedrock made of limestone or other carbonate rock is eaten away by acidic groundwater or a surge of pressure caused by heavy rains or burst pipes. They occur, sometimes suddenly,all over the U.S. as well as elsewhere in the world where the bedrock is susceptible - notably in China, M ...
ECONOMICS - "Sustainable" Global Solar Market In 2014, Deutsche Bank Predicts
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy (image added).Deutsche Bank image via Martynova Anna / Shutterstock.comAnalysts at Deutsche Bank have predicted that the global solar PV sector will transition from a subsidised market to a sustainable market within a year, citing the arrival of "grid parity" in a number of key markets, unexpectedly strong demand and rebounding margins.The Deutsche Bank team said key markets such as India, .. ...
ECONOMICS - CHART OF THE DAY: Rich People Really Love To Save Their Money
In a new note to clients, UBS's U.S. economics team led by Maury Harris and Drew Matus includes a chart breaking down the savings rates of Americans in various income levels. As expected, people making more money save a bigger chunk of their paychecks. Harris and Matus argue we should take note of this because they believe this buffer will blunt the impact of recent tax hikes. "We believe that the recently legislated higher household sector ...
ECONOMICS - CLAY CHRISTENSEN: GE And Perdue Farms Will Disrupt Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen is the father of the idea of disruptive innovation, and one of a select few business thinkers who can claim that their theories influence the behavior of top companies. Right now, he thinks that his own employer is ripe for disruption. He's argued previously that higher education as a whole "is on the edge of the crevasse," and will be disrupted by online competitors. In a discussion at Harvard' ...
ECONOMICS - Tech Wreck: The Fall Of Social Web Billionaires
Meet the nine social networking entrepreneurs and investors whose fortunes dropped as stocks like Facebook, Groupon and Zynga tumbled in value ...
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ECONOMICS - The Real Reason You Will Never Invest As Well As Warren Buffett (BRK)
Sorry, but you'll never be able to replicate the investment strategy that has made Warren Buffett a billionaire. To be clear, we're not suggesting that the principles of long-term, value investing are worthless. But a recent study concludes that Buffett's win-streak is about much more than savvy stock-picking. According to AQR Capital Management's Andrea Frazzini and David Kabiller and NYU's Lasse Pedersen, Buffett's returns are driven by a combi ...
ECONOMICS - Want Some Free Financial Advice? A Big Bank Advisor Is Taking Questions On Reddit
The best financial advice usually comes at a price -- whether it's a $25 self-help book from gurus like Suze Orman or Jean Chatzky, or the hefty fee financial advisors charge. So it's nice when opportunities to get free advice pop up from time to time. Right now, a financial adviser for a major credit card company is taking personal finance questions on Reddit. We've read the thread and his (or her) advice seems solid so far -- fro ...
EDUCATION - Action video games boost reading skills, study finds
Much to the chagrin of parents who think their kids should spend less time playing video games and more time studying, time spent playing action video games can actually make dyslexic children read better. In fact, 12 hours of video game play did more for reading skills than is normally achieved with a year of spontaneous reading development or demanding traditional reading treatments ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-action-video-games-boo
ENERGY - 5 potentially disruptive, but "out there," energy innovations
Calling for a revival of the moon shot in America has become something of a trend. The Google guys are big fans, particularly with their Google Solve for X project, and the MIT Tech Review has recently been questioning why America can't solve big problems anymore. But at the ARPA-E Summit this week there were thousands of researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and investors who are working on "out there" answers to our energy problems, which, if t ...
ENERGY - 9 Recommendations To Continue California's Local Clean Energy Boom
California is the nation's largest solar market. Consumers have installed more than 140,000 solar energy systems, with a generating capacity of 1.5 gigawatts, in the state to date, according to Vote Solar, a San Francisco-based non-profit. Despite the success, and because of its solar potential, most observers believe California can do even better ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/02/28/9-recomm
ENERGY - 9 Recommendations To Continue California's Local Clean Energy Boom
California is the nation's largest solar market. Consumers have installed more than 140,000 solar energy systems, with a generating capacity of 1.5 gigawatts, in the state to date, according to Vote Solar, a San Francisco-based non-profit. Despite the success, and because of its solar potential, most observers believe California can do even better ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/02/28/9-recomm
ENERGY - China Atop Renewable Energy Ranks As Shale Gas Changes The Game
Stop me if you've heard this before - renewable energy technologies face global challenges from fossil fuels and a lack of public subsidies, but new financing mechanisms and government mandates may be key to their continued growth.Global renewable energy country attractiveness indices image via E&YWhat's different now, according to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) latest "Renewable energy country attractiveness indices," is how shale gas deve .. ...
ENERGY - Do Physicists Make Better Energy Policy? Will Moniz, A Physicist, Be The Next Energy Secretary?
Can we be optimistic about something in Washington? I'm talking about two pieces of news this week. One about what oil and gas can do for the American economy, and the other about the next Secretary of Energy ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2013/02/28/do-physici
ENERGY - Lincolnshire Adopts New Target To Reduce Carbon Emissions By 22% By 2018
UK's Lincolnshire county council has set an ambitious target to reduce its energy costs and carbon emissions over the next five years. The council has already achieved a reduction of 9% in its carbon emissions and now plans to cut the emissions further, by 22% by 2018. The council hopes to save up to £7 million every year by 2018.The council adopted the Carbon Management Plan in 2006-07 through which it had aimed to reduce its carbon emission .. ...
ENERGY - Mini Nuclear Reactors Earn Golden Fleece Award For Government Waste
Are mini nuclear reactors the future of high-end energy development - or a wasteful government boondoggle?While it may or may not be great that profitable companies like Babcock & Wilcox and Toshiba are researching these mini or even micro reactors (don't worry, they won't fit in a suitcase, or even in your basement), the group Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) has dinged the program as its recipient of the 2013 Golden Fleece Award, for suc .. ...
GARDENS - Sleek hydroponic unit lets you grow a garden in your kitchen
A stylish, home-scaled hydroponic concept design that lets the user control all the variables for easy indoor gardening ...
HOMES - 10 Areas That Have Had Zero Foreclosures In The Last Year
Though the number of foreclosures nationwide is finally coming down, they still remain a stain on local housing markets and a reminder of the bust that ravaged the country. It's been such a widespread problem that you may wonder: Is there anywhere that doesn't have any foreclosures? We're glad you asked -- because, yes, there are. Click here to see where > We hear a lot about the best cities to buy foreclosures, but these 10 areas aren't a ...
MOVIES - Are GIFs The Future For Mobile Video? Vimeo Thinks So
The flow of technological progress takes a very weird sort of segue when it comes to GIFs. On one hand they're very advanced photos and on the other hand they're dated computer videos/animation. So this whole conversation of GIFs being the future of anything seems sort of confusing and wrong, especially if it's the future of mobile ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattmiller/2013/03/01/are-gifs-t
PEOPLE - Marketing to men: Break Media and the business of bro videos
Break Media, through sites like break.com, is building a growing content empire around "bro videos" - short clips that show things like a blacksmith making swords or elephants fighting crocodiles. Some content is crass or sexist (like this clip of a guy playing "butt drums") but, for better or worse, bro videos are now a permanent fixture of the internet. While Break is not the only one feeding the demand for bro fare, the L.A. company has done m ...
PLANTS - How Honest Tea Kept Its Culture After Getting Bought By Coke
Honest Tea is a brand best known for using organic and fair trade ingredients, and appealing to health food types with less sweet products. Coca Cola isn't known for either of those. That's why some fans were surprised that the company made a major investment in Honest Tea in 2008, and then bought the brand in its entirety in 2011. We spoke to co-founder and CEO Seth Goldman about that decision, and how the company has managed to keep it ...
SCIENCE - China is building 29 nuclear reactors, 40% of the world's total
While right now wind power has overtaken nuclear in China, and wind should keep growing rapidly, it takes a lot longer to build a reactor than a wind turbine, so the numbers should be kept in context ...
SCIENCE - Do Physicists Make Better Energy Policy? Will Moniz, A Physicist, Be The Next Energy Secretary?
Can we be optimistic about something in Washington? I'm talking about two pieces of news this week. One about what oil and gas can do for the American economy, and the other about the next Secretary of Energy ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2013/02/28/do-physici
SOLAR - Review: SunVolt Portable Solar Power Station
Keeping your gadgets charged with clean energy while on-the-go couldn't be any easier ...
SOLAR - Solar Energy Forecasts Could Boost Industry Outlook
Intermittency may be the Achilles Heel of solar energy. Since the Sun doesn't always shine and utility-scale energy storage isn't available yet, grid operators have to rely on dispatchable generation like natural gas or coal when clouds cover up solar farms. But that may be about to change in a big way.Solar panel with clouds image via ShutterstockThe National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has launched an ambitious three-year national .. ...
SOLAR - Training On Photovoltaic Systems (VIDEOS)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here are 5 regarding solar PV systems. They tackle construction and start-up, plant operation, maintenance, economic analysis, off-grid installations, high-concentration photovoltaics, and solar energy assessment for community energy planning.Training On Photovoltaic Systems (VIDEOS) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 other .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/01/training-on-photovoltaic
SOLAR - Transparent Solar Cell Sticker Covers Being Developed For iPad
Ubiquitous Energy, a new startup company, is currently developing a transparent stick-on solar cell for use with the iPad and other tablets. The stick-on solar cell will be able to keep the iPad powered throughout the day. The company states that its technology will revolutionize the use of mobile devices, making them nearly independent from wall-charging.The solar cells are designed to only collect wavelengths "at the ultraviolet and infrared .. ...
SPACE - Dark Energy Camera Could Reshape Einstein Cosmology
Late last Friday, on the first cloudy night in a week of clear weather, Dark Energy Survey science team member James Annis took time out from his role in the $35 million project's commissioning to answer a few questions from the Blanco 4-meter telescope ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/02/28/dark-en
SUSTAINABILITY - Five Ways to Build a Resilient Organization
How companies can become more adaptable in the face of change and disruption ...
http://video.forbes.com/fvn/business/dc-resilient-org
TECH - Bodies Matter: The Inconvenient Truth In Marissa Mayer Banning Telecommuting At Yahoo
In Pictures: Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting at Yahoo reveals the powerfully subversive, and inconvenient, truth that being bodies together matters. Coming from the new CEO of the granddaddy of Internet companies, someone who is also the mother of a young child, this policy is an impossible to ignor ...
TECH - Gadgets To Help Grandma Live Independently
Worried that mom isn't taking her medicine or that dad might wander out of the house at night? Want to sharpen their driving skills-or yours? There's help for the sandwich generation facing these concerns: the continual roll-out of high-tech products designed to let aging parents live safely on their own ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2013/02/28/gadgets
TECH - Unplug For National Day Of Unplugging (March 1-2)
I have to admit, if I heard about the National Day of Unplugging (I probably did), I forgot about it until just running across this article below from friend and former CleanTechnica writer Derek Markham. Here's his full piece on this useful holiday, which starts tomorrow, March 1, at sundown (reposted from Natural Papa):How bad is your tech addiction?I'll confess to mine: Between my desktop computer, my phone, my iPad, and my Kindle Fire, the .. ...
TECH - Using Arduinos to make conferences better
While walking around the Santa Clara Convention Center on Tuesday, I nearly stepped on an Arduino. A small and simple open-source computer board that can connect to sensors, the Arduino was one of 50 such gadgets that O'Reilly Media, host of the Strata Conference, planted around the facility. Sensors attached to the Arduinos pick up humidity, motion, sound and temperature data which they collect and wirelessly send to a ZigBee device that uploads ...
TECH - Why I love, but won't buy, the Instagram camera
Polaroid and Socialmatic are teaming up to produce the Instagram camera. It looks cool, but is it a good idea ...
URBAN - 10 Areas That Have Had Zero Foreclosures In The Last Year
Though the number of foreclosures nationwide is finally coming down, they still remain a stain on local housing markets and a reminder of the bust that ravaged the country. It's been such a widespread problem that you may wonder: Is there anywhere that doesn't have any foreclosures? We're glad you asked -- because, yes, there are. Click here to see where > We hear a lot about the best cities to buy foreclosures, but these 10 areas aren't a ...
URBAN - Our buildings, ourselves: The difference between Apple and Google, represented by their headquarters
Where would you rather work? They are two very different places ...
URBAN - Shigeru Ban's Gorgeous Nine Bridges Golf Club House is Inspired by Traditional Bamboo Cushions
Read the rest of Shigeru Ban's Gorgeous Nine Bridges Golf Club House is Inspired by Traditional Bamboo CushionsPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Architecture, bamboo wife pillow, Daylighting, green materials, hexagonal shape, Kaci International, korea, local stone, Nine Bridges Golf Club House, seoul, Shigeru Ban Architect .. ...
URBAN - Students Construct a Dramatic 10-Meter-High Steam-Bent Lookout Tower at Helsinki Zoo
Read the rest of Students Construct a Dramatic 10-Meter-High Steam-Bent Lookout Tower at Helsinki ZooPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "energy efficiency", Air quality, Architecture, Avanto Architects, Finland, green materials, Helsinki, Korkeasaari Zoo, linen oil, steam bent, tower, woode .. ...
URBAN - Tony Hobba Architects' Third Wave Kiosk in Australia is Made from Recycled Sheet Piling
Read the rest of Tony Hobba Architects' Third Wave Kiosk in Australia is Made from Recycled Sheet PilingPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: australia, beach kiosk, eco-friendly design, Green Building, Reclaimed Materials, Recycled Materials, recycled metal, recycled sheet piles, recycled sheet piling, sheet piles, Third Wave Kiosk, Tony Hobba, Tony Hobba Architects, Torquay, weathered stee .. ...
URBAN - Would You Live Under a Bridge? Group Advocates Building Shipping Container Homes Under Hong Kong Overpasses
You may not think that the space under a bridge would be an ideal place to call home, but a group called Under Bridge Action is proposing to transform the unused space under Hong Kong's overpasses into affordable shipping container homes. The industrial area of Kwun Tong has endless overpasses, which the group sees as desirable unused spaces that could be turned into youth hostels, arts performance venues, small businesses, and pop-up housing fo ...
WATER - Wales Approves £10 Million Funding For Its First Commercial Tidal Power Project
The Welsh government has given approval to the first commercial tidal power project in Wales. The project will have a capacity of 10 MW and will require £70 million investment, £10 million of which will be provided by the Welsh government.Siemens, through its acquired subsidiary Marine Current Turbine (MCT), will provide five SeaGen tidal stream turbines each having capacity of 2 MW for the Skerries Tidal Stream Array project. One of these t .. ...
WATER - Wind-Powered Seawater Desalination (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here are two on wind-powered seawater desalination (fun topic):Wind-Powered Seawater Desalination (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/2013/02/28/wind-powered-seawater-de
WIND - Delhi Students To Generate Power From Wind Produced By Metro Rail
Students of one of India's most reputed universities are planning to harness high speed winds generated by Delhi's metro trains. A team of ten students of Delhi University is planning to strategically install a small wind turbine on the Delhi metro network to generate electricity. Delhi Metro carries about 2 million people everyday across its 196-kilometre network, which has142 stations. When all planned phases of the Delhi metro are executed, .. ...
WORK - How To Get A Job Despite A Less-Than-Perfect Past
Mistakes happen. A college prank turns into an unexpected night in jail. A night at the prom results in a DUI. It doesn't take much to transform a youthful indiscretion into a criminal record. Or, young adults find themselves over their heads in debt. Their credit history is so horrible that they can't even qualify for a cell phone contract ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larissafaw/2013/03/01/how-to-get
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