AIR - China Launches 16 Billion Rectification Of Beijing's Pollution Crisis
20 million people live in Beijing, a literally breathtaking city that has been contending with air quality so bad and "hazardous" that its urban dwellers and visitors have an altered ability to breathe.First views of Beijing. Image Credit: jaron (some rights reserved)So, it is not surprising that pollution was one of the major issues at the current National Party Congress, where China's new leaders were confirmed. Many Chinese believe the go .. ...
ANIMALS - DNews: 3 Crazy Animal Anomalies
Sometimes nature produces some crazy anomalies: animals with two heads, one eye, or extra legs! Laci takes a look at some cool examples of evolution gone awry ...
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ANIMALS - Sea lion learns to dance along to pop music, for science (Video)
The notion that we are the only mammals with the ability to boogie might just be as outdated as the Mashed Potato ...
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 ...
EARTH - DNews: Why We Need Rare Earth Elements
Rare earth elements are crucial to the technology around us -- they're in phones, computers, TVs, and hybrid cars. Why are they so important? And why are the ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/why-we-need-rare-earth-elem
ECONOMICS - Business Ownership Comes With Privileges
The military has produced many acronyms, one of which is RHIP, which stands for, "Rank Has Its Privileges. ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimblasingame/2013/04/01/busines
ECONOMICS - Globalism and Technology: A Hidden Misconception That Dooms the U.S. Economy
Money, not freedom, drives innovation -- so watch out for China ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/03/31/globa
ECONOMICS - How To Distinguish Your Business From The Competition
When envisioning and establishing my business, I focused on both short- and long-term goals. My short-term goal was to outgrow a local competitor's annual gross sales. I knew I wanted to eventually compete with multimillion-dollar giants, but first, I needed to examine my strengths and their weaknesses ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2013/04/01/how-to-disting
ECONOMICS - Meet The Man Who Could Finally Destroy 'Too Big To Fail' Banks
The debate is raging on Capitol Hill over whether the era of 'too big to fail' banks has truly ended. Now, one player has emerged who might finally answer the question that has dogged Wall Street and lawmakers ever since Lehman Brothers went belly up in 2008. It's not a big name. Others have been in the spotlight when discussing whether the 2010 Dodd-Frank reforms actually reinforced taxpayer-funded safety nets for Wall Street, instead of remov ...
ENERGY - Discovery opens door to efficiently storing and reusing renewable energy
Researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology opens the door to homeowners and energy companies being able to easily store and reuse solar and wind power. Such energy is clean and renewable, but it's available only when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328142356.ht
ENERGY - Energy Conservation - Key Methods
Image Credit: NestWhether we are speaking domestically or abroad, or even the east and west coast of the United States, energy conservation methods vary depending on the region because the climate ranges a great deal. Of course, home owners get to see the saved money in their bank account everywhere, which is the ultimate personal benefit from saving energy. (That and the great feeling you get from cutting your global warming emissions.)Adju .. ...
ENERGY - Germany Agrees: There Is A Solar-Powered Solution To Greek Debt Crisis
It was a deal that looked all but dead last year, but now Germany and Greece have formally agreed to an initiative that will enable Greece to profit from one of its most valuable natural resources: the sun. The new Germany-Greece solar power agreement calls for Germany to lend its investment dollars and its low-cost solar know-how (which we've been eyeballing enviously here in the U.S.) to create new green jobs in its financially strapped EU .. ...
ENERGY - Shale Gas Won't Kill Solar & Wind, Renewable Growth Unstoppable (Citigroup Study)
Reposted from RenewEconomy:The emergence of the shale gas boom in the United States, and the discovery of significant reserves in Australia and elsewhere, has prompted many people in the energy industry to proclaim a "golden age" of gas, one that will cause the premature demise of renewable energy sources, even before they have a chance of creating an energy revolution of their own.The claims have, of course, been heavily promoted by the gas .. ...
ENERGY - Shared Renewables Could Supercharge California's Clean Energy Economy
California's clean energy economy is already America's largest, but two bills making their way through the state legislature could open access to renewables for millions of utility customers - without any subsidies.Napa Valley solar farm image via ShutterstockIf passed, SB 43 and AB 104 would allow the 75% of California utility customers who can't install their own on-site generation to subscribe to "shared" renewable energy projects of up t .. ...
ENERGY - Shared Renewables Website Launched
Reposted from Vote Solar:The Vote Solar Initiative (Vote Solar), a non-profit grassroots organization, last week launched a new website designed to track shared renewable energy policy and projects across all 50 states.Visit: www.sharedrenewables.orgRenewable energy is the fastest growing sector of our national energy mix, yet a significant portion of Americans - including millions of residential and commercial tenants - are unable to genera .. ...
HOMES - Low-Income Housing Hit Hardest By Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy disproportionately affected low-income people, with 43% of New York and New Jersey households applying for federal aid reporting annual income of less than $30,000, according to a recent analysis published in Insurance Journal ...
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HOMES - Transforming desk is perfectly portable for travel
This tiny desk folds out so you can work comfortably from anywhere, even at home ...
MOVIES - Movie Studios Win Important Appeal Against BitTorrent Giant isoHunt
BitTorrent is one of the most popular methods for users to "share" movies, music, television shows, and digital books online. It enables fast downloads of large files by gathering small pieces of the file from multiple users at the same time. While the technology itself is technically legal, some of its uses are not. Many view BitTorrent as an evolution from older file sharing programs such as Napster and Kazaa in an attempt to stay one step ahea ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbusch/2013/04/01/movie-st
MOVIES - The Most-Realistic Animation Ever? You Decide
Video game company Activision reveals its new state-of-the-art, real-time graphics that are sure drop a few jaws. -> ...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/most-realist
PEOPLE - How American Express Executive Katrina Lane Broke Through The CIO Ceiling
CIOs take heart: You don't have to be an experimental physicist to win a promotion from the IT department into a line management role, but it can't hurt, as the case of American Express executive Katrina Lane shows. Lane has been achieving at a high-level for a long time. She has a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Cornell, spent seven years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and took on marketing executive roles at multiple com ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/04/01/american-ex
PEOPLE - Michael Dell
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SCIENCE - Clays can expand under pressure
It was always believed that water is "squeezed" out of the clay structure under pressure but physicists in Sweden together with German colleagues show that this appear to be not always true if excess of liquid water is available around ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130327092527.ht
SCIENCE - Inorganic materials display massive and instantaneous swelling and shrinkage
The first observation of massive swelling and shrinkage of inorganic layered materials like a biological cell provides insights into the production of two-dimensional crystals ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130329124157.ht
SCIENCE - Light may recast copper as chemical industry 'holy grail'
Wouldn't it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it? It turns out that this concept works for undoing oxidation on copper nanoparticles, and it could lead to an environmentally friendly production process for an important industrial chemical, engineers have discovered ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130328142358.ht
SCIENCE - Quantum dot commands light: A solid state ultrafast logic gate on a photon
If you could peek at the inner workings of a computer processor you would see billions of transistors switching back and forth between two states. In optical communications, information from the switches can be encoded onto light, which then travels long distances through glass fiber. Researchers are working to harness the quantum nature of light and semiconductors to expand the capabilities of computers in remarkable ways ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130401092650.ht
SOLAR - SolarCity Expanding Operations Into Nevada
SolarCity, one of the top solar energy providers in the United States, recently announced its planned expansion to Nevada. With the support of Governor Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Office of Economic Development, the Solarcity expansion is predicted to create hundreds of new jobs in the area over the next several years.Image Credit: Solar Construction via ShutterstockIn the 2012 fiscal year, Solarcity installed a total of 156 megawatts (MW) .. ...
SOLAR - Sungevity Helps Non-Profit Organizations With $1 Million In Funding
Leading solar residential market provider Sungevity said it's raised over $1 million for non-profits thanks to Sungevity.org's program, as solar companies continue to strengthen its relationship with the sector.The Oakland, California-based company said more than 100 non-profit organizations, including the National Parks Conservation, National Wildlife Federation, and Sierra Club, help give referrals to Sungevity, which turn around and provi .. ...
SPACE - DNews: Space Food: What Astronauts Eat Today
Eating in space isn't all about Space Ice Cream. Astronauts also enjoy such delicacies as beef stroganoff and re-hydrated spinach. But getting all this foo ...
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SPACE - Mars Sky Show Has Scientists Excited, Worried
Scientists are both excited and worried about Mars' close comet encounter next year ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites
SPACE - Seeing Saturn at its Best
With Jupiter heading lower in the western sky, Saturn is slowly climbing higher in the east -- this is how you can get the best view ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/seeing-saturn-best
SPACE - Space Architecture And View Condos In Low Earth Orbit
The modular tin cans that took us to the moon and back, and have kept us in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ever since, will eventually be superceded by full-scale space cities ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2013/03/30/space-a
SPACE - Stunning Photos Of The International Space Station
For more than twelve years, the orbiting research laboratory has flown 230 miles above our heads ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehde45efhil/the-international
TECH - 5 Reasons Businesses Should Care About Hashtags
Earlier this month, Facebook announced they were going to begin supporting hashtags, joining the ranks of Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube and other networks. These are keywords or phrases with the prefix "#" in front of them (i.e., #ThankYouForReading #Forbes). Sometimes words are mashed together, sometimes they're independent. The hashtag essentially works as a filter-a way to see all responses that have included that specific wo ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevecooper/2013/03/31/5-reasons
TECH - Famo.us Pushes The Physics Of Searchable HTML5 Into A Whole New Universe
Through the history of digital content there has been a tension between the power of the open web and the desire for creative representation. As the web struggled its way through the rudiments of typography, CD-ROM games like Myst promised more immersive experiences. The introduction of more robust control of styles and JavaScript increased the expressive capabilities of web pages, but designers who needed absolute control of appearance and runti ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/04/01/famo-us
URBAN - Cell phone towers disguised as sad trees
South African photographer Dillon Marsh has a beautiful set of photographs of cell phone towers awkwardly disguised as sad trees ...
URBAN - Chinese Developer Unveils Plans for Cloned Austrian Village Complete With Imported Alpine Air
Following in the footsteps of the world's first cloned village, a Chinese developer has announced plans to build yet another copy of the historic Alpine town of Hallstatt to offer an idyllic rural retreat for those looking for a quick, convenient escape from China's polluted urban centers. However this latest resort will go one step further to replicate the Austrian countryside - it will be housed within an extraordinary 11,880-foot-high geodesic ...
URBAN - Industrial-Chic Village Apartments Radiate Natural Light in Amsterdam
Read the rest of Industrial-Chic Village Apartments Radiate Natural Light in AmsterdamPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "energy efficiency", Amsterdam, Daylighting, eco design, green design, green renovation, harbor, house like village, loft, marc koehler, minimalist design, the netherlands, Urban design, urban dweller .. ...
URBAN - London's Famous Gherkin Building Goes Green - Literally
Under pressure from other more sustainable buildings popping up around the world, London's Gherkin Tower, designed by Norman Foster, has recently begun testing an innovative vegetated facade panel which promises to change the face of building design forever. This new "Green wall" product, known as the Core Hydraulic Integrated Arboury panel, promises to bring the benefits of green roofs to any exterior surface of any skyscraper.Read the rest of L ...
URBAN - Peaceful Gudrun House in Austria is Made Entirely from Prefab Materials
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URBAN - Take off your shoes and walk on this permanent memorial to dead cyclist Jenna Morrison
It is a reflexology footpath that massages your feet as you walk. I can't wait to try it ...
WATER - What role do small dams play in pollution control?
A new notes that there is a crucial need to gain a better understanding of what small dams mean for our water quality before they crumble and disappear ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130329090620.ht
WIND - 1,000-Foot-Tall Wind Turbine To Be Erected
An enormous wind turbine, dubbed the "Reisemill," is to be erected in Hamburg, Germany. It is 1,000 feet tall, and the blades span 600 feet. The German name literally translates to "giant mill," which suits it perfectly.Image Credit: Dong EnergyThe wind turbine has an electricity generation capacity of 40 MW, which means that it has a very high power-to-height ratio, and can power a whopping 13,333 homes by itself, at peak power production.I .. ...
WIND - Community Power In The Global Community Vol. II: The Netherlands
By Mümtaz Derya TarhanThe Community Power Report started off 2013 with a brand new series of articles: 'Community Power in the Global Community'. As part of this project, we are going to interview key actors from various countries to provide insight into these countries' community-owned renewables sectors.Our first stop was Belgium, where Dirk Vansintjan from Ecopower and REScoop shed some light on to the country's community-owned energy sc .. ...
WORK - 8 Secrets To Accomplishing More Each Day
Work smarter, not harder. Here's how ...
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WRITE - How not to negotiate your salary
Leave your thrill ...
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WRITE - Now There's A Way To Apply For Jobs Directly Through Twitter
By now, many employers think that who you are online is more revealing of your character than a résumé. Some companies have even decided to stop accepting paper résumés altogether. So it seems it would only be a matter of time before someone created a platform that would connect job seekers to employers using Twitter. Joe Budzienski has done just that with Gozaik, a free social web application recently launched in Beta that basically uses ag ...
WRITE - The 12 Things That Successfully Convert a Great Idea Into a Reality
How many times have you been in a meeting and someone says to you, "That's a great idea, you should take the initiative and make it a reality." What typically happens? Most of the time - nothing. Most great ideas remain dormant because people don't have the courage, resources, time and/or money to take action. And for those who take action, most are unprepared and thus find themselves spending their valuable time and money on a dream that simply ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2013/04/01/12-things
WRITE - The Fastest, Easiest Way to Boost Creativity
We'd all like to be able to turn on creativity at times, and research shows that simply looking at the right symbol can do just that. In fact, at least two such symbols have been shown to increase creativity in problem solving. What are these magic symbols ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2013/04/01/boost-cre
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