ANIMALS - Fish migrate to escape predators
By individually tagging fish in a lake and following their movements, a research team has shown that migration is a very effective defense against being eaten ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301034605.ht
ANIMALS - New marine species discovered in Pacific Ocean
An international expedition in Papua New Guinea has found a new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like animal ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228155436.ht
ART - Highest-Paid TV Actors
The actors who earn to most on TV ...
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CLIMATE - Meet Bill McKibben, the man behind the climate movement
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice profile of 350.org founder and climate activist, Bill McKibben ...
EARTH - Toxic Sinkhole Threatens Southeastern Louisiana
A giant sinkhole that sprouted up overnight last summer in Assumption Parish, LA is swallowing trees and belching toxic fumes as it expands across the otherwise sleepy swamp waters of southeastern Louisiana. The sinkhole, which was reportedly caused by a release of natural gas, has been a debacle for residents. The most recen ...
ECONOMICS - 2013's Top 20 Billionaires
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ECONOMICS - 5 Big Winners And Losers If Detroit Gets Fixed
Late last week, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder decided to name a financial overseer for the city of Detroit, whose operations are nothing less than a mess. In doing so, Snyder ended a political debate that has raged for months, and opened the door to a semblance of order in the troubled city ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2013/03/04/5-bi
ECONOMICS - 5 Lifestyle Tips to Be a Healthy Entrepreneur
Let's be honest: Living the life of an entrepreneur can take a huge toll on your health. Amid the long days of work and erratic scheduling, it's difficult to find time to exercise or plan a healthy meal. However, it's incredibly important to make a healthy lifestyle a priority, especially for entrepreneurs. You'll find that your mood, productivity, energy levels, and happiness will all improve as a result ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhall/2013/03/04/5-lifestyle-
ECONOMICS - America's 20 Dirtiest Cities
These are the most polluted cities in America ...
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ECONOMICS - Raising an Army of Startup Employees
A promising business model and a pocket full of capital are key elements to any entrepreneur's startup journey. What can hold the caravan back, however, is not having the supporting cast to help move forward ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/03/04/raisin
ECONOMICS - The 10 Hottest Startup Incubators
Here are the best boot camps for hungry entrepreneurs ...
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ENERGY - 3% Of U.S. Electricity Could Come From U.S. Rivers
Upper Mississippi River via ShutterstockThe Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently completed a mapping and assessment of hydrokinetic resources in continental U.S. rivers and found that these undeveloped resources could provide 3% of the nation's annual use of electricity. The assessment is part of an Energy Department effort to assess U.S. hydrokinetic waterpower resources, including river, wave, tidal, ocean thermal, and ocean cur .. ...
ENERGY - 46% Of Brits Interested In Switching To Renewable Energy Electricity Company
Nearly half of all British consumers would be interested in switching to a green electricity supply as long as the cost was the same, a new survey conducted by Ipsos Mori has revealed. Out of those polled, however, only 2% have actually made the switch.The poll included 1,017 people, and found that 46% of them would "switch to a new electricity company if they could get energy that was more environmentally friendly at a comparable price."This .. ...
ENERGY - America's Oil And Gas Billionaires
No one has made a greater fortune from the North American Oil and Gas Boom than Harold Hamm. The founder and CEO of Continental Resources is responsible for cracking the code of the Bakken -- the vast formation of oil-bearing rock that sits beneath much of North Dakota and Montana. With his 72% ownership stake in publicly traded Continental, Hamm is now worth $11.3 billion, making him the 90th richest person on the planet, according to Forbes new ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/03/04/ame
ENERGY - Biogas From Garbage Powers Monterrey's City Lights
Biogas generated from decaying garbage in a landfill in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey is being turned into electricity that is illuminating city lights and making a significant dent in the methane (CH4) emissions that are contributing to global warming.Launched in 2001, the Monterrey waste-to-energy project - the first of its kind in Latin America - thus far has prevented some 1 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, turning the wa .. ...
ENERGY - Coal Is History. Or Is It?
The conventional wisdom is that dirty, polluting coal is the fuel of the past, and that any day now the power plants that burn coal will be phased out and shut down ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/03/01/coa
ENERGY - Cut Off The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Graph Of The Day)
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy.Addressing climate change is seen as the greatest challenge of our time - morally, industrially and financially. But are we making the problem too complex? Benoit Lebot, from the United National Development Program, certainly thinks so. He says we just need to cut fossil fuel use in half and plant more trees.Lebot spoke this week at the 2nd Annual Australian summer study on Energy Efficienc .. ...
ENERGY - GRID Alternatives Gets "Climate Change Champion" Honor From EPA
This article has been reposted from the website of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with minor adjustments:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld this week recognized nonprofit GRID Alternatives as a Climate Change Champion. The EPA Pacific Southwest Region's Environmental Award was presented at a ceremony hosted by the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians in Hopland, California."EPA applauds GRID A .. ...
ENERGY - Improved synchronicity: Preventive care for the power grid
As the U.S. national power-grid network becomes larger and more complex, achieving reliability across the network is increasingly difficult. Now scientists have identified conditions and properties that power companies can consider using to keep power generators in the desired synchronized state. The design could help reduce both the frequency of blackouts and the cost of electricity as well as offer an improved plan for handling the intermittent ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130302125404.ht
ENERGY - Inaction, Threats, And New Tech Prompt Mayors To Form Gas Pipeline Safety Council
Scientists are increasingly making use of new hyper sensitive mobile gas sniffing technology to do what's never been done before: locate, identify the source, and quantify the carbon emissions leaking from natural gas pipelines. What they're finding isn't good. Residents of US cities and other communities are literally sitting atop ticking time bombs, as well as being subject to chronic exposure to methane and other toxic emissions.Credit: Bos .. ...
ENERGY - India's Budget Includes $145 Million Incentive For Wind Energy, Low-cost Funding For Renewable Energy Projects
The Indian government has announced significant incentives for the renewable energy sector in its Union Budget for financial year 2013-14. The Finance Minister of India, Mr P Chidambaram, specifically offered incentives for wind energy and waste-to-energy projects. The incentives are expected to rekindle growth in India's renewable energy sector, which is currently suffering from a downturn.India remains on track to achieve 30,000 MW installed .. ...
ENERGY - Infographic - Structural Changes In Germany
Throughout history, there have been times when the introduction of technology met the needs of the public and a fundamental shift was set in motion. This has been the case with the steam engine, the automobile, the telephone, the computer, the internet... just to name a few. While all of these technology-driven structural changes had huge macro-economic benefits, they were not beneficial for every one. Especially those with business models tha .. ...
PEOPLE - Dan Gilbert Tops Forbes List of The Richest People In Detroit
Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, whose company saw explosive growth in 2012, zoomed past Mike and Marian Ilitch, the founders of Little Caesar's Pizza, to become metro Detroit's richest billionaire, according to Forbes' annual list of The World's Billionaires ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/03/04/dan-gilbe
PEOPLE - The World's Youngest Billionaires: 23 Under 40
With $68 billion between them, these 23 billionaires under 40 years old have it made ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/03/04/the-worl
PLANTS - New insights into plant evolution
New research has uncovered a mechanism that regulates the reproduction of plants, providing a possible tool for engineering higher yielding crops ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301123314.ht
SCIENCE - Getting around the uncertainty principle: Physicists make first direct measurements of polarization states of light
Researchers have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum information theory ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130303154958.ht
SCIENCE - Turbulence in a crystal
When a crystal is hit by an intense ultrashort light pulse, its atomic structure is set in motion. Scientists can now observe how the configuration of electrons and atoms in titanium dioxide, a semiconductor, changes under the impact of an ultraviolet laser pulse, confirming that even subtle changes in the electron distribution caused by the excitation can have a considerable impact on the whole crystal structure ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301051617.ht
SOLAR - 750 MW McCoy Solar Project Put On The Fast Track To Development
The 750 MW McCoy Solar Photovoltaic Project has been granted an expedited review by California's Governor Jerry Brown. This puts the NextEra Energy Resources project, located in Riverside County, on the fast track to development. Current plans are for it to be built in two phases, with phase one done by August 2014, followed by phase two in October 2016.The McCoy Solar Project was granted the expedited review under the Governor's Jobs and Econ .. ...
SOLAR - Graphene could offer 60% solar cell efficiency!
The best known material used in solar cells is silicon, but that might change in the future; graphene, the wunderkind material for which we keep finding new uses, is proving to have very promising qualities for converting light into electricity ...
SOLAR - Ivanpah - The World's Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant - Passes Its First Functional Test
The 377-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant achieved a milestone in its development recently, something called the "first flux."Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant. Image obtained from ivanpahsolar.comAccording to Mike Bobinecz, VP Construction Management, BrightSource Energy, "first flux" essentially demonstrates that the plant is ready for operation.Bechtel Corporation, the company constructing the plant is finally at the last stage, wh .. ...
SOLAR - Shell Scenario: Solar To Be #1 Source Of Energy (But Don't Jump Yet)
This article was originally published on Solar Love.The solar manufacturing industry is now a highly competitive industry. Solar module companies that can't compete are dropping like icicles on a warm spring day. Shell dropped out of the solar module race in 2006, giving its solar business to SolarWorld.Source: ShellNonetheless, Shell is still quite bullish on solar energy in the long term. In one of the two future energy scenarios it just re .. ...
SOLAR - Solar Power Required On Every New Home - Pioneering Requirement From Lancaster, California
A first-of-its-kind requirement for solar power systems is going to be implemented in Lancaster, California. The requirement is that solar power systems be installed on all new single-family homes within the city. Furthermore, this announcement comes from a Republican mayor.All newly-built single-family homes within Lancaster will be required to feature solar power systems starting on January 1, 2014. This is a rather stunning announcement in .. ...
SPACE - Space Invaders -- Asteroids, Mars And Radiation
Space seems to be falling all around us lately. A geologic chunk about 55 feet wide (17 meters wide) with a mass of about 10,000 tons entered Earth's atmosphere two weeks ago near Chelyabinsk, Russia and exploded with a force 20 times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WWII ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/03/03/space-inva
SPACE - Space race underway to create quantum satellite
A new article describes how a quantum space race is under way to create the world's first global quantum-communication network ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228194653.ht
SUSTAINABILITY - What A Mayor Can Do To Green A City (VIDEO)
Here's another great video from Future360 on "what a mayor can do to green a city." Below the video, you can also see a text summary from Future360. Before the reposts, I'll just note that Mayor Villaraigosa of LA and Former Mayor Miller of Toronto have been tremendous green leaders in many, many arenas - which is of course why they were included in this Green Cities panel. Mayors around the world should take a look at what they've done, repli .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/02/what-a-mayor-can-do-to-g
TECH - 3-D printing using old milk jugs
3-D printing lets anyone make almost anything with a simple machine and a roll of plastic filament. Now researchers have found a way to drive costs down even further by recycling empty milk jugs into filament. The process reduces landfill waste, saves on energy compared with traditional recycling, and makes 3-D printing and even better deal ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130301153645.ht
TECH - 9 Energy-Efficient Home Gadgets For 2013
Whether you are looking to save the planet or just a little money, going green is now easier than ever. However, with so many gadgets available on the market, it's hard to know which products are truly green and which are just riding on the eco-friendly bandwagon. Here are nine new products which can actually make a difference in your household energy consumption.Heating/Cooling EfficiencyClimate control, and especially heating, accounts for a .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/04/9-energy-efficient-home-
TECH - Does Google Glass Spell The End Of The Smartphone Wars?
Is the future of mobile becoming a little clearer? Is it in fact settling down into a pattern that will persist over the next few years, one in which Apple and Samsung share the spoils while the rest try, vainly, to wrest from them that elusive commodity called profit ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2013/03/03/does
TECH - How and why LinkedIn is becoming an engineering powerhouse
Most LinkedIn users know "People You May Know" as one of that site's flagship features - an onmipresent reminder of other LinkedIn users with whom you probably want to connect. Keeping it up to date and accurate requires some heady data science and impressive engineering to keep data constantly flowing between the various LinkedIn applications. When Jay Kreps started there five years ago, this wasn't exactly the case. "I was here essentially befo ...
TECH - In Photos: Google Glass
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TECH - Novel wireless brain sensor unveiled: Wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable
In a significant advance for brain-computer interfaces, engineers have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed well in animal models for more than a year ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228093829.ht
TECH - Physicist develops new silicone rubber
A physicist has developed a new type of silicone rubber that may have widespread applications, including shoes, prosthetics, sporting goods and toys ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228155517.ht
TECH - The brain race: Can giant computers map the mind?
In the past month, we have seen two major announcements of huge projects to map the brain - the European Human Brain Project (HBP) and the Obama Brain Activity Map (BAM) ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brain-giant-themind.ht
TECH - Transparent Solar Cell Sticker Covers Being Developed For iPad
Ubiquitous Energy, a new startup company, is currently developing a transparent stick-on solar cell for use with the iPad and other tablets. The stick-on solar cell will be able to keep the iPad powered throughout the day. The company states that its technology will revolutionize the use of mobile devices, making them nearly independent from wall-charging.The solar cells are designed to only collect wavelengths "at the ultraviolet and infrared .. ...
URBAN - Arthur Kupreychuk's Surrealist 'Under the Cloud' Railway Station is Topped With a Floating Roof
Arthur Kupreychuk's creative design for a train station in Sevastopol, Ukraine, consists of a passenger terminal building with a cloud-shaped canopy suspended above it. The supporting structure of the canopy is similar to the structure of an airship. "The shell is filled with helium, and an aluminum frame consisting of longitudinal and transverse trusses makes the external form hard," Kupreychuk explains. "The gas is inside a rigid framework in b ...
URBAN - Historic modern house renovated to Passivhaus standard
The former home of pianist Oscar Levant now uses 90% less energy than a comparable house, and is a lot healthier, to ...
URBAN - School Propped up on Plastic Drums Floats on Nigerian Flood Waters
Lagos has long been plagued by periodic flooding that wreaks havoc on day-to-day life, so Nigerian architect Kunle Adeyemi conceived an idea that would allow local communities to live in harmony with nature. Eschewing the model of placing homes on stilts, Adeyemi proposes to build a floating community complete with modern sanitation, waste disposal and fresh water facilities for up to 250,000 residents. And since everything starts with a good, so ...
URBAN - Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Build Green Particle Accelerator in Sweden
Read the rest of Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Build Green Particle Accelerator in SwedenPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: COBE, eco design, eco lab, eco laboratory, eco research facility, ESS, European Spallation Source, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, henning larsen, henning larsen architects, lund, neutron research, particle accelerator, rainwater collection, research facility, SLA, Sustainable Bu ...
WIND - "Discover The Stories Behind Wind Energy" - 2013 Photo Competition With Cash Prizes
A global wind energy photo competition - "Discover the Stories Behind Wind Energy" - has just been launched by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The first prize will be a €1,000 voucher. The final deadline for competition submissions is May 5th 2013.The photo competition was created to show that wind energy is much more than just a technology. There are countless people whose lives have b .. ...
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