ANIMALS - Ag Gag laws are growing threat to free speech and food safety
Ted Genoways at Mother Jones has an excellent cover story on the growing number of so-called "ag gag" laws that criminalize documenting animal abuse at factory farms ...
ANIMALS - Where do house cats go all day? GPS maps reveal their secret lives
Where does Fluffy go when you aren't looking, and just what does Snowball get up to when she leaves the yard? A new study looks at how housecats move around ...
ART - Dewar's Teams up With 80,000 Bees to Create a 3D Bottle Out of Honeycomb
3D printing has yielded some amazing products, like robohands and prosthetic legs, but now Dewar's has discovered a whole new way to print in 3D. The whiskey maker recently enlisted the services of 80,000 honey bees to "print" a Dewar's bottle out of honeycomb! They're calling it the 3B project, and they're using it to promote the launch of their new Highlander Honey whiskey. Read the rest of Dewar's Teams up With 80,000 Bees to Create a 3D Bottl ...
BOOKS - Amazon Publishing Has First Million-Copy Hit; Will Authors, Agents Take Notice?
Amazon Publishing has its first million-copy selling author, the company announced today. The author is Oliver Pötzsch and his Hangman's Daughter series has sold over a million copies of three titles between print, ebook and audio-book sales. The ebooks have made the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller List and the fourth title, The Poisoned Pilgrim, is due out in mid-July ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremygreenfield/2013/06/17/amaz
EARTH - XKCD webcomic shows how thick ice was over North-American cities 21,000 years ago
As you can see above, Chicago was relatively spared with only 900 meters of ice (0.55 miles), but Montréal was deep under 3,300 meters (2.05 miles) of ice ...
ECONOMICS - Does Apple Care About Small Business?
This week is National Small Business Week. And many of our most well known companies are falling over themselves to pay homage. ADP, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Staples, Northrop Grumman, Office Depot, Visa and others are co-sponsoring events held by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Microsoft will be kicking off the week's first day today from their campus in Redmond. Constant Contact will celebrate the week with their "Get Down to Busines ...
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ECONOMICS - The Big Green Business Opportunity For America's Economy
As the US economy recovers from recession, America's small businesses need to remember that going green often means making green.Green goods market growth image via Big Green OpportunityGrowth rates for green business products and services are rising faster than conventional goods in America's economy, outpacing the overall economy through the depths of the recession, and creating opportunity for the 88% of US businesses classified as "micr .. ...
EDUCATION - School kids convince Crayola to start recycling their pens
With nothing more than a marker and a blank sheet of paper, children are capable of producing some amazing things; when armed with a keen conviction and respect for our planet's future, the same is true ...
ENERGY - Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2012
Global carbon emissions reached a new high in 2012, rising by 1.4% to 31.6 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency. The large rise in emissions was led by China, which released 300 million more tons in 2012 than it did in 2011.Image Credit: Climate Change via Flickr CCAs well as leading the pack with regards to increased rates of emissions, China was also the leader with regards to total emissions. It's worth noting, thoug .. ...
ENERGY - How Regions Can Access Their Full Energy Potential
Advanced energy development and deployment is supporting new industries throughout the country and serves as a valuable source of jobs and competitive differentiation. Given this reality, it becomes increasingly important for regions to implement strategies that harness the full potential of their advanced energy industries ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabagley/2013/06/17/how-reg
ENERGY - How Regions Can Access Their Full Energy Potential
Advanced energy development and deployment is supporting new industries throughout the country and serves as a valuable source of jobs and competitive differentiation. Given this reality, it becomes increasingly important for regions to implement strategies that harness the full potential of their advanced energy industries ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabagley/2013/06/17/how-reg
ENERGY - Mining Industry Forecast: 2013-2014
The global mining industry is softening, as evidenced by Caterpillar's recent announcements of layoffs in their Wisconsin mining equipment factories. Various mining companies have announced layoffs in recent weeks ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2013/06/17/mining-in
ENERGY - NREL Releases Cost of Renewable Energy Spreadsheet Tool
The following was first published on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory websiteThe Cost of Renewable Energy Spreadsheet Tool (CREST) is an economic cash flow model designed to allow policymakers, regulators, and the renewable energy community to assess project economics, design cost-based incentives (e.g., feed-in tariffs), and evaluate the impact of various state and federal support structures. CREST is a suite of four analytic tools, .. ...
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http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/17/nrel-releases-cost-of-re
ENERGY - Renewable Energy Roadmap For Central America - Time To Develop One
In partnership with the INCAE Business School, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), and the Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America (EEP), the Worldwatch Institute has published a "roadmap of roadmaps" for renewable energy in Central America. Check out the news below.Washington, D.C.-Nearly 22 percent of the world's electricity is now supplied by renewable energy, and Central America is part of this global tr .. ...
ENERGY - Wind Turbines Are Tornado Proof?
I have a lot of love for the wind turbine and always have. Driving around the southern coast of Victoria, here in Australia, you'll come across wind turbines spinning majestically within view of the crashing waves that make up our beautiful coastline. The winds are constant, and at times genuinely terrifying, but nowhere near as terrifying as the tornado that ripped through Canadian County in Oklahoma.A tornado that did little or no damage t .. ...
HOMES - NoArq Extends Roof of NP House into the Ground to Enlarge a Home for Four in Portugal
Read the rest of NoArq Extends Roof of NP House into the Ground to Enlarge a Home for Four in PortugalPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Daylighting, eco design, green design, green renovation in Portugal, NoArq, portugal, sustainable design, sustainable renovation, Vila Nova de Famalicã .. ...
HOMES - Renzo Piano's Tiny Diogene Hut is an Off-Grid Shelter for One Person
Read the rest of Renzo Piano's Tiny Diogene Hut is an Off-Grid Shelter for One PersonPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: Diogene, Diogene Cabin, Diogene hut, net-zero energy, off-grid cabin, photovoltaic, rainwater retention, renzo piano, Solar Power, tiny house, Vitra, Vitra Campus, Zero Energy Hous .. ...
MOVIES - Monarch movie: the beauty of a vulnerable butterfly
Rare footage of butterfly sanctuary captures a step of the Monarch migration ...
SCIENCE - Utilitarian Approach To Science Is Killing Arab Astronomy
A professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, Nidhal Guessoum writes in the latest issue of Nature, that the utilitarian approach to science in Arab countries has had a devastating effect on the field of astronomy ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2013/06/17/utilitari
SPACE - NASA video gives unprecedented view of Mercury's surface
The planet has never been seen in such detail before. Thanks to the MESSENGER probe, we can finally see what our neighbor closest to the sun actually looks like ...
URBAN - Sea Creatures and Dinosaurs Inspire a Virtually Indestructible Home in Berkeley, California
People who live in Berkeley, California are certainly used to seeing some strange things on the streets of their city. But those who live in the neighborhood near 2747 Matthews Street may point out a structure that's a little odd to even the most weathered of residents. Nicknamed "The Fish House" by locals, the Tsui House built by architect Eugene Tsui is touted by its creator as the one of the world's safest dwellings. The design is based upon a ...
URBAN - Studio Andrew Todd Unveils Plans for Circular Theater Made from Recycled Paper
Read the rest of Studio Andrew Todd Unveils Plans for Circular Theater Made from Recycled PaperPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: 2013 World Stage Design, eco design, Globe Theater, green design, paper bale architecture, recycled paper theater, Studio Andrew Todd, sustainable design, sustainable theate .. ...
WIND - The Seychelles islands get their first wind farm (6MW) to replace dirty diesel generators
The Seychelles are a group of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, about 1,000 miles east of the coast of Africa. The archipelago currently relies on expensive and dirty diesel generators to produce most of its electricity ...
WIND - World Wind Turbines To Cross 300,000 Megawatt Mark
Wind turbines are here to stay. They are increasing in numbers every day, and industry figures show that the amount of energy they are able to generate has reached tremendous levels.The 19th century belonged to coal, the 20th to oil, and the 21st century belongs to clean energy, with wind energy being one of the foundations of that."This is the big one, the centerpiece, the dominant source of energy in the new economy is wind," believes Lest .. ...
WORK - Five Keys To Getting The Best Possible Sales Job
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WORK - Who's Cloud Is It Anyway? Battle of the Enterprise - HP Takes On Amazon AWS - Workday is Working On Own Cloud
The cloud industry of Abbott and Costello took place last week - Who's on first..what's on second and I don't know who is on third? This was the cloud drama that happened last week in what is now a full blown fierce competitive marketplace for enteprise grade cloud industry. HP vs Amazon Web Services - folks the cloud wars are on. HP is taking the gloves off ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2013/06/17/whos-clo
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