ANIMALS - Golden Zebra, Albino And Amelanistic Zebras, And The Zorse
Have you ever seen a Golden Zebra? If you haven't, then it's a good thing that you've found your way here, because they are awesome, as the pictures make clear. The term Golden Zebra refers alternately either to: an albino zebra, an amelanistic zebra, or as a type of zebroid known as a Zorse, all of which have been called golden zebras by various people/news agencies.Image Credit: Blond Zebra via Wikimedia CommonsZebroid is the term used for ...
ANIMALS - DNews: Sea Lions Can Keep a Beat
Turns out, sea lions love to rock out to their favorite music! Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered sea lions are the only other mammals besides human ...
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ANIMALS - How Technology Is Helping To Save U.S. Soldiers' Adopted Canine Friends From An Uncertain Fate
One of the ugly secrets that the US government keeps from the headlines is the fact that most US military dogs who serve our country overseas are killed rather than brought home to America. While it?s not cheap to ship a dog back home, there?s nothing more inhumane in m ...
ANIMALS - Common pesticides cause brain-damage in bees
Two new studies show that widely used pesticides - more specifically neonicotinoids, which are more common in Europe, and coumaphos, which are more common in the U.S. - are damaging the brain of honey bees ...
ART - Ancient Roman man hidden beneath famous painting at the Louvre
In the latest achievement in efforts to see what may lie underneath the surface of great works of art, scientists today described the first use of an imaging technology like that used in airport whole-body security scanners to detect the face of an ancient Roman man hidden below the surface of a wall painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410154622.ht
CLIMATE - 10 Signs Climate Change Is Already Happening
The following list provides a sampling of some of the key pieces of evidence that climate change is not just a prediction, it is already underway ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/10-signs-clim
CLIMATE - Lunar Eclipse On April 25 2013, Followed By Solar Eclipse On May 10 2013
The first lunar eclipse of 2013 will be occurring on April 25, at about 20:00 UT. The partial lunar eclipse will be visible to those in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, but not to those in North America. Madagascar and East Africa will be the best places to observe from.Image Credit: Lunar Eclipse via Wikimedia CommonsThis eclipse is "only" a partial one though, at maximum eclipse only a tiny portion of the Moon will be covered by the Ea ...
CLIMATE - Six to See: Slideshow of the Week's Top Climate News
Slidesho ...
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CLIMATE - The Great Green Wall Of Africa - A 4,000 Mile Defense Against Climate Change
Image: Grand Muraille VerteOne of the most unique large-scale international climate change projects is underway in Africa. A 4,000 mile "wall of trees" is being constructed across the east-west axis of the continent as a defense against rapid, expanding desertification of the Sahara.11 nations - Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti - have agreed to participate in The Great Gree ...
CLIMATE - U.S. Shows Rapid Rise of Temps Since First Earth Day
By Climate Central In commemoration of Earth Day, 2013, Climate Central has created an interactive graphic that shows a state-by-state analysis of temperature trends since the first Earth Day took place in 1970. That occasion marked a significant change in America's environmental consciousness, and led to the creation of, among other things, the Environmental Protection Agency and passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. The year 1970 m ...
CLIMATE - Climate Change Awareness Promotes Peace
Raising awareness of climate change may help the cause of peace on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/climate-chang
CLIMATE - Climate Change Is Now Less Of a Problem. So We Need To Do Less About Climate Change
Contrary to what you might be hearing from the more excitable ends of the press it seems that climate change is less of a problem than we thought it was. Thus, presumably, we should therefore be doing less about climate change than some are urging us to do ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/03/29/climate-c
EARTH - Could Your Town Explode?
Thousands of facilities nationwide store or manufacture ammonium nitrate, an explosive chemical often used in agricultural fertilizers ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/fertilizer-plant-expl
EARTH - Earth Day 2013, Free Funny eCards For Earthday
For those looking to celebrate Earth Day with a bit of humor, and perhaps realism, I've gathered together some the funniest free ecards on the subject. Some of them are quite dead on...For a bit of background on the holiday, Earth Day is a holiday held annually on April 22, that is celebrated in more than 192 different countries every year. The name and concept dates back to 1969. The genesis of the holiday was as something of a response to ...
EARTH - Earth Day Infographic
A friend of ours recently shot over this Earth Day infographic below for... Earth Day. It's quite an interesting "green" growth and development over the years. Have a stroll:For more details on various events included in the Earth Day timeline, check out the Kars4Kids page where the Earth Day graphic is hosted.Also, don't miss these hilarious Earth Day e-cards. And for more reflection, I recommend this Earth Day piece I wrote last year.Earth ...
ECONOMICS - 12 Business Incubators Changing The World
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ECONOMICS - Startup companies are booming in Los Angeles
A look at successful startups in L ...
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ECONOMICS - Surprised? Green Tech Investments Fell in Q1
Global venture capital investments in green technologies for the first quarter of this year dipped to $1.07 billion from $1.50 billion in the previous quarter and $2.14 billion in the first quarter of 2012, according to the Cleantech Group on Friday ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/04/05/surprised-
ENERGY - Boulder Battles for Control of Xcel Energy's Assets
Xcel Energy Center taken from Selby Av:2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Boulder, Colo. is advancing cautiously in its strategic battle to wrest control of the distribution assets owned by Xcel Energy inside of its city limits. Its aim is to generate and transmit mostly green power to its residents. The lofty goal, though ...
ENERGY - Carbon Bubble May Plunge the World into Financial Crisis
Damian Carrington, The Guardian The world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars, according to leading economists. "The financial crisis has shown what happens when risks accumulate unnoticed," said Lord (Nicholas) Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics. He said the risk was "very big indeed" and that almost a ...
ENERGY - IMF Rejects Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Calls for Reform
By Paul Brown, Climate News Network LONDON - Fossil fuel subsidies provided by both rich and poor countries to keep their citizens happy are holding back the world economy, accelerating climate change and damaging the health of current and future generations, according to the International Monetary Fund. The worst offender of all is the United States, which allows annual subsidies of $502 billion on fossil fuels. China with $279 billion and Russ ...
ENERGY - Much More Clean, Renewable Energy Could Be Integrated Into Grid - No Problem
This was included in a roundup post the other day, but roundup posts don't get enough attention, so I'm reposting it below from Solar Love.I think most of us know by now that there's enough renewable energy potential to power the world several times over. However, the key is matching what can be generated in a specific location with what is needed in that location (with the "location" generally being a relatively large region). Naturally, ma .. ...
ENERGY - Three Unequal Choices For A Local (Renewable) Energy Future
Earth Day highlights the need for a sustainable energy future, and experience suggests that there are only three meaningful choices for communities trying to increase local control of a greener energy future. But the three policies - deregulation ("customer choice"), municipal aggregation ("city choice"), and municipal utilities ("city ownership") - are not equal. Two recent articles highlight the relative value of these policies quite clea .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/22/three-unequal-choices-fo
ENVIRONMENT - Craziest Environmental Ideas (That Could Work): Photos
If you're looking for simple ideas to help the environment this Earth Day, these aren't them ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/crazy-environmental-ideas-ea
PEOPLE - World's Greenest Billionaires
The greenest billionaires of 2013 ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mmk45iddh/elon-musk-3
PEOPLE - 10 Most Powerful Women In Media
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SCIENCE - Art and Science, Intertwined
A little while ago, I wrote about the need for more than just R skills to work in big data-land; if one is going to do big data correctly. I got a fair amount of feedback on that post, notably along the lines of "well, then, what skills does one need? ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasmerrill/2013/04/22/art-an
SCIENCE - Germanium is now laser compatible
Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which will make the computers of the future faster and more efficient ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422101151.ht
SCIENCE - How Footsteps Reveal Speed
A formula devised in 1976 proves successful in estimating a person's speed based on stride length. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/how-footsteps-can-rev
SCIENCE - Middle-schoolers discover novel chemical bond
Middle-school students from rural Maine discovered a novel chemical bond found in animal tissues ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130421074409.ht
SCIENCE - Nobel Physicist: Society Should Convert To Natural Gas
Of all the energy sources in play, natural gas offers the most immediate promise as a clean, abundant fuel that can meet society's needs, including the need to mitigate global warming, Nobel prize winning physicist Carlo Rubbia said in Chicago Friday ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/04/22/nobel-phy
SCIENCE - Scientists map all possible drug-like chemical compounds: Library of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize
Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalog the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing molecules that chemists could feasibly create in a lab ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422154945.ht
SPACE - DNews: The Hunt for a Second Earth
NASA's Kepler telescope was launched to find other planets just like Earth -- and now, scientists think they may have found not just one, but three! Trac ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/the-hunt-for-a-second-earth
SPACE - Horsehead Nebula Imaged By NASA's Hubble Space Telescope In Infrared
The Horsehead Nebula was recently photographed in infrared by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 23rd anniversary of the famous telescope's launch on April 24, 1990.Image Credit: Courtesy of Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)The Horsehead Nebula is a cloud of thick dust, located just to the south of the bright star Alnitak. It was first 'discovered' way back in 1888 by Williamina Fleming at the Harvard College Observa ...
SPACE - How Habitable Are Kepler's New Worlds?
Last week's announcement of two "super-Earth" type planets sharing the habitable zone around Kepler-62 ratcheted up our optimism that life-bearing planets are all over the galaxy. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/how-ha
SUSTAINABILITY - Earth Day: Recent Business Research on Environmental Sustainability
Earth Day helps us reflect on environmental issues that both sustain and threaten our planet. Harvard Business School researchers have approached these issues pragmatically, conducting numerous studies aimed at helping business leaders to understand how business affects the environment, and vice versa. HBS Working Knowledge has highlighted much of this research on its website. Here's a list of recent articles about the complex intersection o ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2013/04/22/e
TECH - How Technology Grows Up
It's fun to look at old pictures of Bill Gates from back when he was a boy wonder ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/03/30/how-techno
TREES - Indian man who planted a 1,360-acre forest now plans to plant another
"It may take another 30 years," says Payeng. "But I am optimistic about it. ...
URBAN - Crissy Field Center is Dedicated to Environmental Youth Education in San Francisco
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URBAN - Light Wells Brighten up the Tiny Pedervegen 8 House in Norway
Read the rest of Light Wells Brighten up the Tiny Pedervegen 8 House in NorwayPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Daylighting, extension, green design, green renovation, light wells, minimalist design, Molde, natural light, norway, Pedervegen 8, Rever of Drage, Scandinavian Functionalism, sustainable design, tiny hom .. ...
WATER - Cool NREL maps show the huge geothermal power potential of the U.S.
Geothermal is a stable & plentiful source of clean energy available all around the world, including in the United States (especially in the West). But that industry is still in its infancy and very little of that resource's potential is being tapped ...
WIND - Battle For King Island: Wind Energy Politics At 20 Paces
This article first appeared on RenewEconomy.Windswept King Island, lying in Bass Strait between Tasmania and the mainland, is being touted as a potential blueprint for what the country's electricity grid might look like in the future.But right now it is also emerging as a battleground for the minds of locals over proposals for what could be the largest wind farm in Australia. And it could have implications for the future of renewable energy .. ...
WIND - Gamesa Continues Construction Of Spain's First-Ever Offshore Wind Turbine
Spain's first-ever offshore wind project is continuing its slow journey to completion, as Gamesa announced on Friday that it had begun shipping components for the 5 MW marine turbine from the port of Bilbao to Arinaga Quay in Gran Canaria where they will be assembled.The blades are the longest turbine blades ever to be produced and transported in Spain, and some of the largest in Europe. Manufactured at the Gamesa plant in Aoiz, the blades s .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/22/gamesa-continues-constru
WORK - Sorry About Your Pension: Scotch? Cheese? Or Golf?
Faced with the gaps between the assets and the liabilities of its pension fund, the New York Times reports that Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky, has transferred $645 million worth of maturing whisky to its pension fund ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/04/22/sorry-ab
WORK - Trying to Build Better Workers with Social Analytics
The New York Times published an article ?Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers? last week that focused on what is described as a ?new? area of work-force science. It?s a nice to say so, but the reality is that this is fresh lipstick on the continuing drive to understand workplace attitudes, psychology and sociology. Calling it new is a nice way to draw attention to a key way of improving our organizations, but it doesn?t need to be. The differ ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2013/04/22/trying-to-bu
WORK - Use the Power of Storytelling to Grow Your Small Business
Cogito ergo sum. French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed this idea in 1637, which translates to ?I think, therefore I am.? Certainly the power of abstract thought is what separates humans from other animals ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimblasingame/2013/04/22/use-the
WRITE - WORK - Sorry About Your Pension: Scotch? Cheese? Or Golf?
Faced with the gaps between the assets and the liabilities of its pension fund, the New York Times reports that Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky, has transferred $645 million worth of maturing whisky to its pension fund ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/04/22/sorry-ab
WRITE - WORK - Trying to Build Better Workers with Social Analytics
The New York Times published an article ?Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers? last week that focused on what is described as a ?new? area of work-force science. It?s a nice to say so, but the reality is that this is fresh lipstick on the continuing drive to understand workplace attitudes, psychology and sociology. Calling it new is a nice way to draw attention to a key way of improving our organizations, but it doesn?t need to be. The differ ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2013/04/22/trying-to-bu
WRITE - WORK - Use the Power of Storytelling to Grow Your Small Business
Cogito ergo sum. French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed this idea in 1637, which translates to ?I think, therefore I am.? Certainly the power of abstract thought is what separates humans from other animals ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimblasingame/2013/04/22/use-the
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