It's bad enough forgetting to recharge your mobile phone overnight – the inconvenience is likely to be far worse if you fail to plug in your electric car. Now an array of technologies are being developed to ensure that absent-minded drivers don't run out of power on the road, but the come with a downside: [...]
Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) Photo: Travis Nelson, ScienceDaily (June 1, 2010) — The many populations of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska act like a diversified portfolio of investments, buffering fisheries and incomes from the ups and downs of particular stocks. Sockeye salmon are one of the most valuable fisheries in the U.S., and since [...]
(Reuters) – Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has weighed in on the U.S. oil spill crisis, condemning efforts by major energy companies to promote their environmental credentials and use their money to influence "their parrots in Congress." In a five-minute YouTube video, produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Redford says the worst oil [...]
It was a stunning announcement. Eighty-one satellites are to be built by the Franco-Italian company Thales Alenia Space (TAS) for Iridium's next-generation network. The European manufacturer had beaten Lockheed Martin of the US to one of the great industry prizes of recent years. TAS will get some $2.1bn for their part in the $2.9bn project [...]
Show your support for Apple’s decision to ditch Fox News below. Apparently, after Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” and progressivism “cancer”, some companies took notice and decided enough was enough. 33 companies, including Apple, told Fox they wanted their ads moved from Glenn Beck’s show to another advertising slot last August. This didn’t [...]
YOU can't beat doubt as a corporate strategy – especially if your product is life-threatening when used as directed. These days we don't have to speculate as to whether industries have manufactured doubt. They have admitted it too many times. Producing a smokescreen (Image: Andrei Pungovschi/AP/PA) In 1972, Tobacco Institute vice-president Fred Panzer outlined his [...]
URGENT action is needed to diversify the global deep-sea cable networks on which the internet depends, to secure them against attacks and accidents that could lead to economic turmoil. Laying down the line (Image: Luis Marden/Getty) 2 more images So says a report that highlights the vulnerability of businesses worldwide to the targeting of "choke [...]
Optical transistor using a quantum of matter. (a) The presence of the atom results in light reflection (“off” action of the transistor) (b) Using single atom EIT, the atom becomes transparent and full transmission is recovered (“on” action of the transistor). (Credit: Image courtesy of Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) ScienceDaily (May 14, 2010) [...]
The abundance of mammals, birds, reptiles and other creatures is falling rapidly. The Earth's ongoing nature losses may soon begin to hit national economies, a major UN report is to say . The third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) warns that some ecosystems may soon reach "tipping points" where they rapidly become less useful to humanity. [...]
Image Credit: Seamoor via flickr/CC license Guest author Jack Lundee of Everything Left provides us with this thoughtful and thought-provoking article on green spaces, green architecture and green infrastructure. The addition and/or substitution of green spaces have been quite controversial topics as of late. Senior resident of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Ed T. McMahon states: [...]
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