A threat to corporate innovationas Apple moves forward without Steve jobs one of the bigger challenges it will face is how to manage the creative process.
and help identify potential targets for fighting back. Related on Smartplanet: Thinking Tech: Potato blight and flu have much in common
It is working with the Green Production Guide to source onset products and services that have the least impact possible.
because it's likely to be protracted a dispute. But did you know that the U s. Chamber of commerce has filed actually a lawsuit with the U s. Court of appeals in the District of columbia that challenges the U s. Environment Protection Agency's decision not to reconsider its position on greenhouse gas emissions?
Although, pollination fees that beekeepers charge almond producers have doubled more than in recent years--a portion of this increase is attributed to the onset of CCD.
Food fight: White Castle vs biofuelstaking a bite out of biofuels. White Castle and other chains say that corn-based biofuels are driving up food prices.
--U s. chain restaurants and a group of congressmen are launching an assault against biofuels on the grounds that fuel produced from crops like corn are pushing up food prices.
White Castle and its fellow meat marketers are hoping to take a bite out of the renewable fuel forces that they say are pushing up prices.
Even though the FDA concluded three years ago that the fish posed no threat in the wild or to humans,
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, has lead the fight saying that approving the fish is messing with Mother Nature in a very serious and big way.
there's a secondary battle looming: how to label it. Aquabounty says it simply should be called Atlantic salmon,
The amendment now faces an uncertain battle on the senate floor in the coming weeks.
a urinal for girls ââ Ëoeswiss Army studio apartment transforms into 6 rooms
Friends of Earth rains on Lufthansa biofuel paradefriends of the Earth today condemned Lufthansa s use of biofuels on commercial flights as greenwashing that makes an environmentally destructive practice appear eco-friendly.
Et tu Brute, renewable energy? Biofuels fly mainstream: Lufthansa passenger flights taking off Airbus and Europe map jet biofuel goal Will the real biofuel Lindbergh please stand up
Fruit-bat colony forces architects to change building designa v-shaped walkway was designed around the trees housing rare bats HONG KONG
little did they know the force of nature they were up against. A group of endangered fruit bats had taken up residency in the trees where the designers wanted to build a covered bridge to connect two of the buildings.
But Jack Wadsworth, vice president of the Asia Society headquarters in New york city who oversaw the project
the Guerrilla Grafters develop partnerships in each neighborhood they graft in so there's someone local to monitor progress.
A fungus called Phytophthora austrocedrae is so much on the rampage that according to The Telegraph it could wipe out the already shrinking population of the U k.'s native juniper trees.
Gin gave Dutch courage to 17th century soldiers before battle-the word gin comes from among other sources, the Dutch jenever for juniper.
It could be the eco warriors. Images: Top, Wikimedia/Linux insidev2; Bottom, Energy Saving Trust More digital global warming:
Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate changethe  philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
Google's new super headquarters open in London's Covent Gardengoogle s new super headquarters in London by designers PENSON may be home to some Union jack flag themes,
the wall echoes the recently-unveiled  2, 380-square-foot green wall at the bank's Pittsburgh headquarters
Even H. H. Lieutenant general Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown prince of Abu dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed forces (who is referred always to that way-yes,
We have a sewer system that was installed just after the Civil war and needs massive updates. The old system puts the sewage and storm water in the same pipes,
So part of our struggle is to get ourselves off fuel, and that s part of the $11 million bond:
How wireless networks could keep cows from burping methanehere s a novel way to combat global warming:
CSIRO s Sustainable agriculture Flagship in Brisbane, Australia may have found an unlikely solution in wireless networks.
The intensive computing work will allow scientists to test the replicate explosions to check the effectiveness of the military Â's current arsenal without the need to perform actual underground tests.
Half-folded military module So, the friends thought, what if you designed modular boxes with a hinge halfway up the wall,
Carrizo says the company is in the early stages of negotiating deals with mining companies as well as with The argentine military.
and let the tiny ants rush to the attack, climbing onto my skin and pricking me with their minuscule pincers.
Among the regular Apple fans and tech junkies were small armies of Šprofessional queuers  who were being paid a fee by dealers to wait in line.
Across town, in a tangle of alleys in Noksapyeong, a foreign-centric district across from the giant U s army base, thirsty patrons crowd into a string of bright, packed pubs.
and is now a partner in the ŠThe Booth  a chain of craft beer pubs with its flagship in Noksapyeong.)
They don t have to go to the military, so graduate two years earlier than males and have disposable income.
The threat of snow was blamed by show organizers for wilting the crowds on the last few days.
Earlier this month, the government used its emergency powers to force through the Food security Ordinance,
space station s streaming webcam to let users spy on earthlings More interactive maps and graphics:
Evolutionary not revolutionary. Indeed, the  CNET review of the 64 GB model described the ipad as an Ipod Touch with a glandular problem.
The Veterans Administration started soliciting bids from contractors to help them manage as many as 100
and toppling like bowling pins with too much force. Competing products are shuffled into the nearby virtual shelves,
Guilds, or groups of species, have evolved to share a resource without conflict. For example, bees, birds and some bats might all visit the same flower for nectar,
or so through a new hybrid delivery truck that will be used to deliver products in a 70-mile radius from Oakhurst's headquarters in Portland.
this doesn't have to become a conflict. It's a challenge for food science to mass produce healthier meals in ways that can be loaded on trucks
but this is not going to turn into a war between fast food and health. The company that can deliver a healthy fast food meal is going to make a lot of money
This Intelligence Squared debate, co-hosted by the Wheeler Centre and the St james Ethics Centre was executed in the traditional style of Cambridge and Oxford Union debates.
of Open Food Foundation have launched recently their flagship project, Open Food Network, an online marketplace connecting consumers to local producers and food hubs.
Now familiar with the war over GM food? Here's a quick primer: 2005: The U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) approves the sale of GM alfalfa seeds. 2005 onward:
New battleground in beverage wars: sustainable packagingnot to be outdone by its arch-rival, The Coca-cola Co,
Then, they need to replicate the wear that comes with people sitting down with different amounts of force over a long period of time and the effects of exposure to light over several hundred years.
The authenticators are also harnessing high-tech tools in their fight against fakes. Â Some use radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and other techniques to accurately date the antiques.
I predict we're about to see an interesting  publicity war over the continued need for the real thing.
But these parents are worried about the threat pollution poses to their quality of life. We have a lot of nice things in Huilongguan, Â Meng Yu,
or whether they might be from an area of conflict in the Ivory coast. Even though the bar codes on shipments may be correct,
The force has asked Apple to fix the issue, but in the meantime, perhaps rival firm Google's mapping service or a traditional A to Z would be a better option.
app FTC creates guidelines for facial recognition technology use The spy-free app you can use to stop surveillance
Lush Walls Rise to Fight a Blanket of Pollution New york times Photo:
Potato blight and flu have much in commonin 1846 the first of my ancestors arrived in America.
the occasional building on fire and riot police come to mind. In Brussels, there is a new weapon of choice--milk.
How the FBI can read your emails Will coffee soon be a thing of the past
It addresses land use conflicts, between residential and industrial, in one part of the neighborhood. In many cases, the residences not well-kept and are blighting influences.
I think if I'd have known how big of a war it is between pro-zoo and anti-zoo people,
I was tired of wars. I was writing about the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict for so long.
At the zoo I was going into a different war. As an outsider, I was able to say,
I'm not taking a side here. I'm not an animal-rights activist. But on the other hand,
In your blog you mentioned that there is little reliable data in the field of nutrition science where you found that poor stats conflict with other studies.
and the tech that might save humanshumans are considered now to be the greatest force impacting the geology of Earth.
the mad-science arm of the U s. defense department? DB: They are not as crazy as DARPA.
The military doesn care what it spends on an application. ARPA-E has a different customer, us.
There's certainly a lot of conflict. We're showing what is possible now. We want to get the community involved to continue making refinements and improvements of the tree,
Handling conflict in the tree of life is something that not only are we facing now,
they may conflict. We want to show that, but it's unclear what's the best way to do that.
Businesses join the fight Behind the scenes, businesses are playing a growing role in the healthy school food movement,
especially since the new standards, said Lawrence Soler, president and chief executive of the Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit working with the private sector in the childhood obesity fight.
â Â Matts said. â Å It been institutionalized for so many years. â Â Obstacles outside school walls might pose the biggest threat to the school food movement.
Scheidel of Iowa said the childhood obesity fight needs to move into homes and communities. â Å When
although the U s. Space Surveillance Network is supposed to be watching for debris. A second generation ICESAT won't be launched before 2015.
â Å Both the World health organization and the United nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation agree that the biggest threat to health post Fukushima is the fear of radiation, not the radiation itself.
and you can capture that intelligence, spotting early warning signs that the animal isn't feeling so well.
The Wall street journal reports that firms across the region are adding  beehives  to their headquarters
000 bees and the four hives at Google's headquarters. In addition to pollinating flowers on their grounds and throughout the region,
or community land that is under threat,"said Michael Taylor from the International Land Coalition.""If it is grazing land or land that local people use,
It is on this land that we see the gravest of threats, "he said. The database now uses a wide number of data sources to help increase both accuracy and transparency.
Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping:
The research arm of a Chocolate Factory War! Scientists say they have determined the complete DNA sequence of the tree that produces cocoa beans,
what some might consider the research arm of a chocolate factory war. The candy maker Mars is expected to announce on Wednesday that a project it financed has completed essentially the raw sequence of the genome of the cacao tree,
That battle was declared officially a tie. Still, scientists in both groups say that cocoa farmers,
rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,
The first resistant species to pose a serious threat to agriculture was spotted in a Delaware soybean field in 2000.
4-D, a component of Agent orange, the defoliant used in the Vietnam war. Still, scientists and farmers say that glyphosate is a once-in-a-century discovery,
and Mr. Perry said the pest could pose as big a threat to cotton farming in the South as the beetle that devastated the industry in the early 20th century.
Beddington has increased called for production to counter a"perfect storm"of food shortages that could become a global threat by 2030.
and notified the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI), which brought in the Department of Homeland Security and charged him with bioterrorism.
The motives of the FBI which has experts capable of examining Mr Kurtz's art scientifically,
But the FBI may genuinely be wary of biohackers; rumour suggests it has followed up the case by discreetly instructing reagent suppliers not to sell to individuals,
"It's been a real struggle in the past few years with the decline in bees generally.
Thus, according to Medawar hypothesis, aging is caused indirectly by the declining forces of natural selection to select the best fitness genes for the aged animal as reproductive capacity declines.
In summary, we age because of the declining force of natural selection in adult life, which leads to unfit gene expression with age.
The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them. Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
so that Marines could go in. If a robot can launch an invasion, how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically?
like gas-powered engines, the trick is to produce force on turbines, but to do so without creating emissions.
says Okamura. oeyou can have force-sensors and other ways of examining force, and then you re acquiring data at the same time that you re doing the procedure,
so you can be getting even more information that can be used for diagnosis or in scheduling postop appointments.
The advertising war was fierce. Farm-group ads said the law would raise food prices,
Egg farmers worried they would lose those battles, says Gene Gregory, president of United Egg Producers (UEP),
and see if we can t resolve this conflict,""Gregory says.""And surprisingly, we were able to do this.
The U n. Convention to Combat Desertification has submitted a proposal for the United nations to adopt a Sustainable Development Goal of zero net land degradation by 2030
Meanwhile, on a more practical tack, food scientists in the wake of the food shortages after the Second world war often speculated on the possibility of manufacturing meat
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
Across many industries, products and practices are being transformed by communicating sensors and computing intelligence. The smart industrial gear includes jet engines,
Computer vision software can analyze facial expressions for signs of severe pain, the onset of delirium or other hints of distress,
using computing intelligence to create more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
To meet increasing demand from customers in North america they ve built a US headquarters in Pella,
A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farmingwhat they re doing on Marsden Farm isn t organic.
the threat of catastrophic disease outbreaks in monocultures, an insatiable demand for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticide-resistant bugs and herbicide-resistant superweeds,
The office building of the futuresocial forces and advances in communications technology are driving changes in how and where people work.
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
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