ANIMALS - New species of porcupine discovered in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
"Given the rate of destruction in this area, where 98 percent of the original Northeastern Atlantic Forest has already been destroyed, imagine how many species could have gone extinct before we even knew about them," says researcher Antonio Pontes ...
ANIMALS - Tiny 'Space Suit' Protects Bugs From Vacuum
Just like space suits keep astronauts safe in the vacuum of space, so too does this coating keep insects alive in a vacuum chamber. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/tiny-space-suit-protects-bugs
ANIMALS - Why Insects Sing? A Conversation with David Rothenberg
Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. Rothenberg has also written Sudden Music, Always the Mountains, and Thousand Mile Song, about making music live with whales. His last book was Survival of the Beautiful, on aesthetics in evolution. His first CD on ECM Records, with pianist Marilyn Crispell, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House was release ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2013/04/16/why-ins
BOOKS - BOOK REVIEW: William McDonough and Michael Braungart expand on Cradle to Cradle With The Upcycle
The term "upcycle" - used to describe the process of turning something old and used into a new and useful item - has rapidly grown in popularity over recent years. The term was popularized by Cradle to Cradle pioneers Michael Braungart and William McDonough, and in their new book The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance they take the concept beyond the simple reuse of materials and propose a world in which everything we do imp ...
BOOKS - Oldest European Medieval Cookbook Found
A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-european-medieval-c
CLIMATE - Bill McKibben on Climate: "You need to do more than change light bulbs. You need to change the system."
Bill McKibben has a new piece in Rolling Stone about the growing momentum of The Fossil Fuel Resistance movemen ...
EARTH - Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/could-life-be-older-than-ear
EARTH - Iran Magnitude-7.8 Quake Strongest in 50 Years
The strongest earthquake to hit Iran in more than 50 years was a subduction-zone quake - the same tectonic setting underlying deadly temblors in Japan, Chile and Indonesia ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/iran-
EARTH - Mayan Calendar End Date Confirmed
Dating of an elaborately carved wooden beam from a temple in an ancient Maya city confirms the calendar ended last December. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mayan-calendar
ECONOMICS - Top 20 Largest Private Companies 2012
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ECONOMICS - Top 20 Largest Private Companies 2012
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EDUCATION - Getting Down To Business In The Business Schools
Larry Zicklin, a former chairman of Wall Street investment firm Neuberger Berman, a professor at New York University's Stern School and a lecturer on ethics at the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania, has a revolutionary proposal to fix "the crisis of irrelevance" that today's business schools are facing. Business school teachers should teach business ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/04/17/getting-
ENERGY - Artificial leaf produces energy from dirty water
The groundbreaking technology has gotten even better with the ability to self-heal and produce hydrogen from dirty water ...
ENERGY - Backup Generators Are the Bad and Ugly of Decentralized Energy
While enduring an epic flight delay at a New York City airport yesterday, I read a short commentary by the Pulitzer-prize winning author Anna Quindlen about the benefits of backup power generators ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/04/15/backu
ENERGY - CSX Switches Coal For Shale Oil And Gas, Tops Profit Estimate And Raises Dividend
CSX, the large railroad transportation company, posted first quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, beating profit and revenue estimates despite a weak coal market. The company increased its dividend and introduced a new share buyback program, as management highlighted their capacity to withstand difficult market conditions ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/04/16/csx-swi
ENERGY - China's Growing Methanol Economy
This post first appeared on RealClearEnergy By Zana NesheiwatCould methanol be the feasible path towards replacing petroleum-based fuels? Balancing dependence on Middle East oil against increasing fuel demand continues to challenge China in its ongoing urbanization and industrialization. In an effort to adapt to such limitations, China has increased production capacity and consumption of methanol. In less than a decade, methanol use in China .. ...
ENERGY - China: The Epicenter Of Clean Energy Investments
Clean energy investments worldwide dropped 11% in 2012, but more money flowed to China, Japan and upstart countries as the cost of clean energy generation fell, according to a report released by the Pew Charitable Trusts Wednesday ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/04/17/china-japa
ENERGY - Copenhagen Carbon Neutral By 2025, Danish Capital Moving Towards Ambitious Goal
Copenhagen's ambitious plan to be 100% carbon-neutral by the year 2025 continues to move forward. This plan, once achieved, will make Copenhagen the world's first carbon-neutral capital. The City Council there, acting on the plan approved last August, will soon begin the first of several large-scale changes. These changes include: replacing coal power with biomass, adding more wind and solar energy to the grid, improving energy efficiency, i .. ...
ENERGY - First Mover: How Cheniere Energy Is Leading America's LNG Export Revolution
Cheniere Energy's Charif Souki intends to turn the U.S. natural gas boom into a new American export. Chemical company CEOs have allied with Washington regulators to hamper his cause. So much for free markets ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/04/17/fir
ENERGY - French Vineyard To Turn Carbon Dioxide Emissions Into Toothpaste
As vineyards around the world face the threat of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, one vineyard in France has planned to do its part to reduce its carbon footprint. The business plan makes perfect sense and is one that should be financially and environmentally sustainable.Various Bordeaux winesImage Credit: Colin | CC 2.0Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in Bordeaux in France is famous for its red wine. The owner of the winery .. ...
HOMES - Historic Florida Home Becomes Makeshift Houseboat as it Awaits New Land
A historic Florida home has ended up stuck at sea after is was was evicted from its seaside plot. The owners of the hundred-year-old Stambaugh Cottage were forced to move it to make way for an encroaching golf course. Instead of demolishing the quaint cottage, the descendants of the pioneer who built it put it on a barge in the Intracoastal Waterway with plans to move it to a new spot, but the home has remained at sea as it awaits historic preser ...
HOMES - Magical Dome House in Remote Thailand Constructed in Six Weeks for Just $8000!
Read the rest of Magical Dome House in Remote Thailand Constructed in Six Weeks for Just $8000!Permalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Daylighting, dome house, eco design, green design, locally sourced materials, natural ventilation, organic mango farm, Steve Areen, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, terracotta dome house, Thailand, tropical faun .. ...
HOMES - Spectacular stair dominates house, serves many functions
A stair is more than just vertical transportation; in this case, it is the center of attentio ...
HOMES - These Are The Biggest Mistakes Real Estate Investors Make
I once had a tenant secretly move 15 children into her 800-square-foot house. You can imagine the damage when she moved out. I don't think I've ever seen so many cute drawings of ponies, rainbows and stick figures in my life... and they covered every wall. Apparently, I had not been watching this tenant closely enough and didn't realize she had invited all her friends (and their kids) to move in. It's this kind of story that scares most indiv ...
MOVIES - Entrepreneurs At The Movies: The 10 Best Flicks
The world of business and entrepreneurship always takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Sometimes it can be tempting to just give up, but perseverance pays off. The movies below provide different perspectives and stories on what the entrepreneurial journey looks like ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2013/04/15/entreprene
PEOPLE - Google Person Finder Helps In Boston Marathon Explosions
The horrific explosions that ripped through the Boston Marathon today had many families and friends jumping to Facebook, and Twitter to find loved ones. In the early aftermath, Google set up a Boston Marathon Person Finder page ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2013/04/15/google-person
PEOPLE - The World's Richest In Tech Billionaires 2013
The top 15 richest technology billionaires from the 2013 Forbes Billionaires Lis ...
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PEOPLE - Women In Tech: We're Init(Together)
Recently I had the pleasure of connecting with other women in tech across Southern California: young women just starting to think about their careers and women who are looking to make a change. After all the negativity related to women in tech in the media lately it was refreshing to see both new and familiar faces and everyone in high spirits. I led the class at General Assembly, "Women in Tech: Intro to LA Startup Community" and deliv ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarabrown/2013/04/16/women-in-te
SCIENCE - Big Bang? This Is What It Really Sounds Like
In the beginning, there was a righteous bass ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/big-bang-sound-sim
SOLAR - From Soybeans To Solar - A Community Energy Project Sprouts From Wisconsin Fields
This post originally appeared on ILSR's Energy Self-Reliant States blog.Just north of Delavan, Wisconsin, is Dan Osborne's nursery farm. Where you once found a bean field now sit 80 solar panels on 100 tracking towers, generating renewable power for over 125 homes. It's a small, but successful community-owned energy harvest. The solar farm was developed by Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva, WI and has owners from all around the region.In an .. ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - Panasonic to donate 100,000 solar lanterns in regions without electricity
By Panasonic's 100th anniversary, the company plans to have donated 100,000 solar-powered lanterns to people in regions without access to electricity ...
URBAN - A town without wifi or cellphones is attracting the electrosensitive
It is a sensitive issue that is not taken seriously in America. Does Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity exist ...
URBAN - Trash Cafe: Newcastle Students Unveil Pop-Up Coffee Shop Made from Recycled Cardboard
Read the rest of Trash Cafe: Newcastle Students Unveil Pop-Up Coffee Shop Made from Recycled CardboardPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: green design, Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), plastic waste, plastic waste reuse, pop-up cafés, Recycled Materials, recycled waste, recycling, student recycling project, Trash Café Newcastle, U-café Newcastle University, Upcycling Newcastle University, waste recyclin .. ...
WATER - Want to Slow Sea Level Rise? Curb 4 Pollutants
Sharp reductions in short-lived airborne pollutants could significantly slow sea level rise before 2100 ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/four-pollutants-sea-l
WIND - American Wind Energy Grows 28% And Installs 45,100 Turbines
I know we're not supposed to choose a favourite - we should love them all equally - but I have always loved wind energy more than the others. It has a majesty and simplicity to it that I find really attractive. So I really enjoy reporting on wind energy milestones.Such as the latest report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), entitled US Wind Industry Annual Market Report for 2012, which reported that wind energy in the United S .. ...
WIND - China Wind Power To Add 700 MW Of Solar and Wind By 2015
In a strategic agreement announced Monday between China Wind Power and CNNC Rich Energy, the two plan to bring another 700 megawatts (MW) of renewable capacity to China by 2015.The Strategic Cooperation Agreement was signed on the 10th of April between the two companies, which lays out plans to co-invest in and construct solar as well as wind projects in China over the next two and a half years.The companies have targeted more than 100 MW of .. ...
WIND - Largest Wind Farm In Southern Hemisphere Opens Down Under
Vestas wind turbines at Macarthur wind farm.Image Credit: VestasThe 420 megawatt Macarthur wind farm was opened in the state of Victoria on Friday. It is the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere and its 3 megawatt Vestas turbines are the largest in Australia. The Mcarthur Wind Farm is actually the first project to use Vestas' V112-3.0 MW wind turbines. The project's expected operating capacity is 35% and its cost was almost exactly o .. ...
WIND - REpower Crosses 1 GW Installed Wind Capacity In UK
REpower, a subsidiary of the Indian wind energy giant Suzlon Energy, has announced that it has now installed a total of 1,000 MW of wind energy capacity in the United Kingdom. The company became the only turbine manufacturer in the UK to cross this milestone.REpower 5M Wind TurbineImage Credit: Tony Zech | CC BY-SA 3.0REpower achieved an installed capacity of 500 MW in summer of 2010 and added the next 500 MW capacity within the next two yea .. ...
WIND - Wind Energy Production Levels Hit All-Time High In California
California's wind energy production levels recently reached a new all-time high of 4,196 megawatts (MW). The record was achieved on April 7th at 6:44 PM. This is a surge higher than the previous all-time high of 3,944 MW achieved earlier in the year on March 3.Image Credit: Wind Energy via ShutterstockThe California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), the state's primary operator for its high-voltage network, released the informat .. ...
WORK - How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
As you might have heard before if you read McKinsey reports, the New York Times or just about any technology news site, data scientists are in high demand. Heck, the Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. But landing a gig as a data scientist isn't easy - especially a top-notch gig at a major web or e-commerce company where merely talented people are a dime a dozen. However, companies are starting to talk openly ab ...
WORK - Top jobs of the week in digital media
This week, we're busy getting geared up for paidContent Live in New York City - more than 40 leaders from the digital media sector will join us onstage for a day of panels, fireside chats, workshops and more. If you can't join us o April 17 at the Time and Life Building, be sure to follow along via our Livestream and check paidContent for full live blog coverage. In the meantime, check our our latest batch of job listings from companies across th ...
WORK - Top jobs of the week in tech
This week, our colleagues over at paidContent are busy gearing up for paidContent Live in New York City. On Wednesday, April 17, more than 40 leaders from the digital media sector will join us onstage for a day of panels, fireside chats, workshops and more. If you can't join us at the Time and Life Building, be sure to check paidContent for full live blog coverage. In the meantime, check out our latest batch of job listings from companies across ...
WORK - Why You Shouldn't Quit Your Day Job To Pursue Your Dreams
Sarah quit her advertising job and became an organic farmer. Tom quit banking and became a biker. Kat left a career in PR and became a horticulturist. This famous site and countless books on bestseller lists are full of stories like this. So ubiquitous is the trend that two friends of mine recently decided to write a spoof titled "How to Quit Your Job and Start a Vegan Bakery." To be sure these are inspiring stories. They make us hope and dream. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-quit-your-da
WORK - Would You Be An Awesome Social Media Marketing Manager?
A reader and new friend of ours who runs a recruiting company largely focused on cleantech industries recently reached out and got on a call with me in order to get some help finding the perfect social media marketing manager for his company. While I couldn't think of anyone who was looking for a job in exactly this nexus, I figured some of our readers might be interested - so, to help you out (if you are one of those people) and to help him .. ...
WORK - How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
As you might have heard before if you read McKinsey reports, the New York Times or just about any technology news site, data scientists are in high demand. Heck, the Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. But landing a gig as a data scientist isn't easy - especially a top-notch gig at a major web or e-commerce company where merely talented people are a dime a dozen. However, companies are starting to talk openly ab ...
WORK - Top jobs of the week in digital media
This week, we're busy getting geared up for paidContent Live in New York City - more than 40 leaders from the digital media sector will join us onstage for a day of panels, fireside chats, workshops and more. If you can't join us o April 17 at the Time and Life Building, be sure to follow along via our Livestream and check paidContent for full live blog coverage. In the meantime, check our our latest batch of job listings from companies across th ...
WORK - Top jobs of the week in tech
This week, our colleagues over at paidContent are busy gearing up for paidContent Live in New York City. On Wednesday, April 17, more than 40 leaders from the digital media sector will join us onstage for a day of panels, fireside chats, workshops and more. If you can't join us at the Time and Life Building, be sure to check paidContent for full live blog coverage. In the meantime, check out our latest batch of job listings from companies across ...
WORK - Why You Shouldn't Quit Your Day Job To Pursue Your Dreams
Sarah quit her advertising job and became an organic farmer. Tom quit banking and became a biker. Kat left a career in PR and became a horticulturist. This famous site and countless books on bestseller lists are full of stories like this. So ubiquitous is the trend that two friends of mine recently decided to write a spoof titled "How to Quit Your Job and Start a Vegan Bakery." To be sure these are inspiring stories. They make us hope and dream. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-quit-your-da
WORK - Would You Be An Awesome Social Media Marketing Manager?
A reader and new friend of ours who runs a recruiting company largely focused on cleantech industries recently reached out and got on a call with me in order to get some help finding the perfect social media marketing manager for his company. While I couldn't think of anyone who was looking for a job in exactly this nexus, I figured some of our readers might be interested - so, to help you out (if you are one of those people) and to help him .. ...
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