BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Dorothee Soelle
Dorothee Soelle on our capacity to love being the most essential element of Christian faith .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
BOOKS - Book Excerpt: Voices of Flowers
Rhonda PallasDowney on plants and flowers as spiritual teachers .. ...
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id
CLIMATE - What These Historical Kings and Marauders Can Teach Our Leaders About Climate Change
Never fight a land war in Asia—unless the climate is on your side.There are no two ways about it: Humankind is, for the first time in our recorded history, living through a massive global climate shift of our own making. Science paints today’s crisis as unprecedented in scope and consequence. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t historical cases of societies that have enjoyed the highs and endured the lows of natural climatic changes—from civilizat ...
EARTH - Los Angeles subway dig finds prehistoric objects
An exploratory subway shaft dug just down the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has uncovered a treasure trove of fossils in the land where saber-tooth cats and other early animals once roamed, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-los-angeles-subway-prehistoric.
EARTH - Palaeontologists unearth rare 15-million-year-old bilby
(Phys.org) —An ancient fossil of the bilby, Australia's answer to the Easter rabbit, has been discovered at the Riversleigh World Heritage site in north west Queensland .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-palaeontologists-unearth-rare-m
ENERGY - Charts: The Evolution of US Microgrid Adoption
Microgrids are the topic du jour in the domain of grid modernization, but at the current juncture, there is far more talk than action. Most of the activity today is happening at universities and military installations, but cities are poised to take a larger role in coming years, according to a recent presentation based on an upcoming report from GTM Research, North American Microgrids 2014: The Evolution of Localized Energy Optimization. Accord ...
ENERGY - Energy Storage Roundup: Gridtential, Coda, Ecamion, Tesla, Japan’s Battery Subsidy
There's a bubble surge of newly funded and incumbent businesses looking to tackle large- and medium-scale energy storage in a broad spread of grid edge applications. We just covered Panasonic's aim to use lithium-ion batteries in solar-equipped buildings to solve Japan’s post-Fukushima energy crisis. The Japanese giant is looking to California and other U.S. markets for the business models to make this distributed energy system work. We went de ...
ENERGY - Scholar calls for adjustments to energy forecasting
M. Granger Morgan wants to bring uncertainty back to energy forecasting. Morgan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, has spent his career investigating climate change and the energy system and understands how difficult it is to account for the many variables that can affect gas and oil prices even 10 years into the future .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-scholar-adjustments-energy.htm
ENERGY - Utilities Try To Harness Net Metering In Washington State
Originally published on the ECOreport. The latest attempt to curtail net metering just occurred in Washington state. If HB 2176 had passed, utilities companies would have been able to obtain control of “leased energy” programs. Only the bill has been returned to committee, which, as this session is over, means it is dead. A passage Utilities Try To Harness Net Metering In Washington State was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/17/utilities-try-harness-ne
ENVIRONMENT - A safer alternative to BPA could come from paper-making waste
Researchers have found that lignin, a compound found in wood, could replace BPA in plastics .. ...
ENVIRONMENT - River in China Catches Fire
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http://solarthermalmagazine.com/2014/03/16/river-in-china-ca
FURNITURE - Stair of the week combines desk, storage and alternating treads in one dramatic sculptural form
The handrail police will go crazy over this one .. ...
HOMES - Homes In More Danger From Meteors & Cars Than Wind Farms
Wind farm setbacks are an unnecessarily controversial issue in many parts of the world. While public health organizations, major utilities, the government, and the wind industry have worked closely together to find a good balance, t0 establish guidelines and laws, and to put in place modelling software to assist in site planning to minimize impacts, Homes In More Danger From Meteors & Cars Than Wind Farms was originally published on: CleanTec ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/17/homes-danger-meteors-car
HOMES - In Soviet Russia, They built an all-plastic house too
Was it a test bed for plastic building technology or a response to the Monsanto House of the Future .. ...
PLANTS - Bionic plants use nanotubes to boost photosynthesis and act as environmental sensors
The emerging field of plant nanobionics could boost photosynthesis and turn them into biosensors for environmental monitoring .. ...
SCIENCE - Researchers recovering metals and minerals from waste
Scarcity of clean water is one of the most serious global challenges. In its spearhead programme, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed energy-efficient methods for reuse of water in industrial processes and means for recovering valuable minerals and materials from waste for recycling. Rapid tools were also developed for identification of environmental pollutants .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-recovering-metals-minerals.htm
SCIENCE - Scientists can't claim to be neutral about their discoveries
There is an enormous gap between the effects and consequences of science, and how much scientists consider these consequences. This is dangerous, but there is something we can do about it .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-scientists-neutral-discoveries.
SPACE - Astronomers discover echoes from expansion after Big Bang
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Astronomers announced on Monday that they had discovered what many consider the holy grail of their field: ripples in the fabric of space-time that are echoes of the massive expansion of the universe that took place just after the Big Bang. .. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/17/us-science-bigbang
SPACE - Big Bang Theorist Told of Gravitational Wave Discovery: Video
It's a wonderful moment in any scientist's career when they are informed that their bedrock theory is proven. Continue reading .. ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/big-bang-theorist-told-of-gr
SPACE - Hunt for water intensifies—on two planets
(Phys.org) —Scientists are using a promising new theory to track down hidden water both on Earth – where fresh water is becoming dangerously scarce in some regions – and in the quest for life on the red planet, Mars .. ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-intensifieson-planets.htm
SPACE - Primordial gravitational wave discovery heralds 'whole new era' in physics
Gravitational waves could help unite general relativity and quantum mechanics to reveal a 'theory of everything'Scientists have heralded a "whole new era" in physics with the detection of "primordial gravitational waves" – the first tremors of the big bang.The minuscule ripples in space-time are the last prediction of Albert Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity to be verified. Until now, there has only been circumstantial evidence of thei ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20
URBAN - Can an inflatable vinyl bubble building really be called green?
The Casa Bubble does tread lightly, sort of. It is an efficient use of materials, sort of. Too bad about the fan .. ...
URBAN - Revamping existing buildings to make them energy efficient
Tackling energy loss from buildings is one of the key objectives to reach greater sustainability, when it comes to energy consumption. The EU-funded BRICKER project aims to develop ways of reducing energy consumption by 50% in existing buildings, within the next four years. Specifically, it will turn public buildings in Spain, Turkey and Belgium into showcases to demonstrate the level of energy savings that can be achieved. Project coordinator Ju ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-revamping-energy-efficient.htm
WIND - Young Adults Prefer Offshore Wind To Fracking
According to leading market research company Ipsos MORI who have recently conducted a new poll, there are more young people in favour of offshore wind development than there are in favour of fracking. The poll, commissioned by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Economic and Social Research Council, shows that 85% Young Adults Prefer Offshore Wind To Fracking was originally published on: CleanTechnica.http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/17/young-adults-prefer-offs
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