The fossils were discovered from amber mines in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar previously known as Burma.
for 100 days) and greenhouse gas emission equivalent of 800,000 car trips from one end of the U s. to the other, Â according to the Natural resources Defense Council.
Forget about guns and ammo; unless you live in a very rural area, they won't get you very far (a few days or weeks, at most),
and in the hands of most people, a gun is a greater risk to themselves and their communities than a help.
not too many of us are actually going to build a bunker and fully outfit it for months of self-contained living.
food supply will be at risk. But you don't want to wait until that happens before you start gaining some competency in food production and preservation.
This is where the doomer bunker crowd gets it wrong, I think. You can't really go it alone.
and resist the forces that seek to divide you for their own--usually political--purposes.
The same sort of risk applies to homeowners with mortgages. It's the debt that really puts you at risk of losing the roof over your head
and the land that grows your food. It's not easy, and it may take a long time,
The goal, with the help of IBM's carbon intelligence software is to reduce New york city's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017.
but it's not an emergency yet. It hasn't hit the radar. Smartplanet: We've asked water experts about why it matters.
where they're in the war room and he puts a flash drive on a TV screen
The first units are scheduled for delivery in March 2013. I think people want more, Vu said.
I might not take those precautions anymore. It â¢s so expensive, first of all but I â¢m buying into my parents â¢attitude a little bit.
How Japan's anti-nuclear plan could go nuclear In post-Japan quake & tsunami era, Noah offers emergency shelter
AECOM â¢s Urban Food Jungle is conceptual design that responds to the threat of diminishing food security by bringing together sustainable food production, entertainment, education and culinary delight.
Boisvert's article is not so much an assault on grow your own as it is on the inefficiencies of growing
and pitchfork in defense of their city cilantro. It seems to me that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Adam Skolnick described how, under the leadership of mayor R. Rex Parris, the Mojave desert town of Lancaster, California home of turkey farmers, Frank zappa, Edwards Air force Base,
To enable the explosion of solar and wind farms in the Mojave, another key piece of the infrastructure puzzle is being created through a public-private partnership between Kern County, the cities of Lancaster and Pittsburg,
and reaping significant savings revenues that will remain within their communities, rather than disappearing into the pockets of oil companies or the public coffers of Venezuela and Saudi arabia.
and emergency contacts, selected my appointment for the day, paid my co-pay, took my receipt
and I had to tell the security guard where I was going. It was just for a cold,
An unassuming warrior: Chinese environmentalist Ma Jungrowing up in Beijing in the 1970s, Ma Jun spent his summers fishing
but has created also some of the world's worst air and water pollution, deforestation and dangers to public health.
The soft-spoken man with the quiet intensity may seem a reluctant warrior but those who know him say his work to expose labor
which is the threat of very public exposure, Â Economy said. Å Given his beginnings as a journalist, he fully understands the power of the media
I'm no eco-warrior. There are so many hare-brain environmental schemes out there and in the whisky industry that just don't work
a greener whisky rebellion Human waste now heats British homes Image: Wikipedia Commons and Flickr/Joshua Rappeneker
said Sumon Sadhu, the intelligence director at Quid. Self service health technology will become more and more common as the cost of sensors decrease and ubiquity of smartphone software increases,
Currently, Apple â¢s headquarters can only hold 2, 800 people but has 12,000 employees in the Bay area.
Instead of renting out more office buildings at a greater radius from the main office building, Steve jobs would rather house all his employees in one building.
Likening the chaotic landscape of the rapidly shifting technology industry to the cultural tumult following the Great depression and two World wars
Part of the appeal of that style-whether in architecture or design-was provided that it a sense of order after the death, turmoil and destruction of two world wars,
numerous wars of various sizes, a dragged-out global recession, multiple environmental problems, overpowering consumerism,
I've been reading this afternoon online that will appear in the next issue of the Natural resources Defense Council's Onearth Magazine.
100 million mature trees around buildings in the U s. leads to an annual energy savings of $2 billion.
while other regions will have the plan for the threat of fires during dry seasons. Nonetheless, while it's an aspect of sustainable cities that's easy to overlook,
We're going to promote Briggo pre-security, Mahlum said. So passengers will be able to get on their mobile apps
and place the order while they're standing in the security line. Samuel Nahmias, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Studylogic, a research firm
It will provide a great cup of coffee to the world while saving on employee costs.
Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the massesbuenos AIRES--The new Trakã Â r agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals.
and protecting workers are vitally important. But what might be most interesting about the Trakã Â r is its cost.
The robot's operator watches the Trakã Â r's progress through a cheap security camera mounted on its hood, for example.
And there â¢s no danger of electrocution or electric shock because only a very low voltage passes through it, Masiã ¡
Cyber-rain, Rain Bird & Hydropoint all offer smart sprinkler systems, which take into account plant type and use weather data
Smithsonian tracks bird strikes for military, airline industrydr. Carla Dove using a comparison microscope to study feather structure in the Birds Division at the Museum of Natural history.
It didn t take her long to realize that the work performed in this little lab is a big help to the military, the aviation industry and of course, the birds.
So the Federal Aviation Administration and the military fund the Smithsonian lab in order to learn more about the strikes
for the military, it mandatory. What we do know about strikes is that most happen at takeoff and landing, typically at the engine,
but sometimes at the windshield or even the plane wheel well. The culprit is usually a bird,
deer and â on overseas U s. military bases â animals including goats and pigs. Strikes also happen at all altitudes;
the public became more aware of the danger that birds can pose to aviation safety.
the company is installing recyclable Interfaceflor carpet, weight-saving seat covers and life vest pouches, lighter foam fill in the seats and aluminum (versus plastic) seat rub strips.
offering more than twice the durability than the current leather seats as well as a weight savings of almost two pounds per seat.
Life vest Pouch-more environmentally friendly because it offers a weight savings of one pound per passenger,
Apple, Google, Facebook and Samsung all have plans for new, striking and audacious, headquarters or additions.
Meanwhile, Google is building a 1. 1-million-square-foot headquarters called Bay View near its current complex in Mountain view,
Samsung plans to build a new American headquarters in Silicon valley, yet another NBBJ project, featuring a 10-story tower,
a massive Renaissance-era military fort outfitted with temporary structures for 1, 043 vendors, in the timeless city of Florence. Just as the setting mixed old and new, amid the silk, suede, linen and leather,
Denmark, has paid heed to the potential risks and have quit giving their animals low-dose antibiotics.
Light technology can combat superbugs A universal vaccine for superbugs is possible Researchers discover anti-pathogenic drugs to treat superbugs War against superbugs:
A coating that can kill MRSA upon contact The fight for life against superbugs Scientists can shut down a superbug's CPU
Big companies can actually be a force for good in every society in which we operate.
but aren't near brick-and-mortar branches. In Africa, it's very, very important
For example, a price guarantee in Mozambique--once in place, farmers are willing to take risks. It's a virtuous circle:
the banks are willing to take risks. The moral of the story here is sustainable solutions are the best for creating jobs,
We need to start the fight against the scourge of noncommunicable diseases right now, the princess said.
There's no protection around it, he told The Salt. You could make a bowl of macaroni,
And now the two have a chance to travel to Google's headquarters in California, and be a part of a year long mentorship program.
Thawing permafrost spells risks for warming planettemperatures in the Arctic are warming, and along with them,
spring sees an explosion of color and fragrance, and summer brings music, events, festivals and long days for relaxing walks.
Spy black swans, and breathe in the scent of eucalyptus trees. Best Time to Visit: Spring for the sight of dozens of brides in long flowing white dresses;
The battle over tanking ethanol subsidiesthe new year may see the end to some ethanol subsidies.
But not all things bipartisan take course without a fight. Not surprisingly Midwestern senators on both sides of the aisle are clinging to the subsidies that keep federal money flowing to their constituents.
and place at greater risk the thousands of well-paying jobs that the renewable fuels industry has created.
an advocacy group, leaving solar wind and the rest to fight over the remaining third. Corn ethanol cost taxpayers $17 billion from 2005 to 2009, his group estimates.
The production of ethanol wouldn't happen at all without government subsidies and protection. Related on Smartplanet:
We need to talk about both food and ecosystem security. Compared to annual grains, perennial grains have:
it replaced a building that had been destroyed by a terrorist bombing. Yet the inspiration for the tower unique, missile-like design was not militaristic:
it was the Venus'Flower Basket sea sponge, a glowing creature that thrives in the inky depths of the sea.
Right now, biomimetic innovations have provided already revolutionary ideas for how new buildings are cooled and heated, one of the most energy intensive systems in a structure.
the Inuit in far northern North america looked to polar bears to see how thick the walls of their igloos should be.
Pizza could help fight cancer. Yes, if the chef makes the sauce from the latest in tomato technology-genetically engineered purple tomatoes-a 16-inch pie could have the same health benefits as other foods such as blueberries and cranberries.
Anthocyanin has been shown to help fight cancer in animals. The BBC quoted John Innes'Prof Cathie Martin:
Make mine a sausage and pepperoni. Hey, you only live once, and longer by purple.
Can you summarize the dispute between the Justice department and the major publishers and Apple? MS: There are two things at issue.
and that their attack was the collusion not the model. And they, the three companies that settled, specifically said,
So the three that decided to settle just felt that this risk was okay for them to take?
we don t need really to fight with two governments at the same time and we already have enough fighting going on with Britain.
SP: What about the two that continue to fight the Justice department claim? MS: The two that are fighting it, Mcmillan and Penguin,
their executives have made very clear statements, 'we did not collude, we re not going to settle this
throughout its existence, used discounting as a merchandising weapon and as a strategic weapon. And from Amazon perspective, making more people buy e-books from them serves two purposes.
that weakens brick and mortar. Weaker brick and mortar and weaker print means weaker publishers,
because the main thing that publishers do for authors that they can t do for themselves is put books on shelves.
The Oklahoma State study aimed to evaluate the energy savings of LEDS and how they performed overall,
what the cost and delivery volumes will be. And nobody is going to spend billions on port
 Previous research has createdâ tenuousâ links between coffee and a reduced risk of the disease,
FDA tackles antibiotics in livestock Agriculture's future power struggle: Land grabbing, resource control and competition Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fatty foods cause brain scarring, study shows
while keeping the money flowing to the military-industrial complex, exactly as President Eisenhower warned us.
I shot that out the windshield while driving home after Christmas. This tiny little wind-powered oasis, the only gas station along a 100-mile stretch of old Route 66 in the Mojave desert of California, sits next to an active freight rail line.
While overextended major population centers struggle to maintain order and keep the food and fuel flowing as they descend into the zombie apocalypse,
because it efficiently transports important mining products from various operations out there in the desert.
The rising risk of electronic medical recordsit was a low-tech burglary. No one thought that it would blossom into a high-tech security breach.
All it took was a rock--a simple, inanimate, probably centuries-old rock. An enterprising thief picked it up,
which researches data breaches and works for tighter security on people's personal health records.
and employers inaccurate ammunition to deny employment to candidates. Yet the number of patient records contained in electronic databases is fueled ballooning
But there was very little in the bill that did much on the privacy and security side.
and security standpoint because things were moving slowly and we could look at the national and state standards,
So whatever rules we have for privacy and security, they better be up to snuff to guard against the powerful incentives to get hold of that information.
Security loopholes Patient data is protected in some ways in the U s by a federal law known as HIPAA, the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
If data are encrypted, as happens in many exchanges, hospitals are required not by federal law to contact patients
The sheep that texted wolfsheepdogs have warned always herders of wolf attacks. But now the alert system just got a technological boost.
Jean-Marc Landry and colleagues from the research group Kora developed the system as a way to better control the increasing number of wolf attacks on sheep in Switzerland and France.
As the dogs poised to attack, the sheep s heart rate shot from a resting 60 to 80 beats per minute to 225,
and strengthen national security. Yet we re producing more polluting cars now than ever and deforestation continues at unprecedented rates.
Jim devised the tree-protection plan for MTR, which requires a wide buffer zone surrounding the walls where no construction is allowed to take place.
acting as an information relay network in case of emergencies, as well as relaying radio and television signals.
Human breast milk gives human babies unique immunological defenses that they can't get from other animal's milk.
He's created a line of apples called Arctic Apples that can go for days without browning after slicing.
Apples and potatoes discolor through a process call enzymatic browning, which is driven by polyphenol oxidase (PPO).
Carter assures consumers that his anti-browning engineering only applies to browning from exposure, bacterial and fungal-driven browning will still show up to let us know the fruit's gone bad.
He also says we shouldn't fear pollen from his GMO spreading to other orchards.
The on-the-ground experience of apple growers is that risk of contamination is quite high,
There s always going to be some level of contamination and risk. Whether or not consumers are ready for more GMO fruit,
Couldn't humans use some of that sweet neural intelligence? Sure they could. Imagine a plane on a search
and rescue mission, finding its way perfectly over unchartered terrain and back home. Or, sticking directly with the the bee's reason to be,
To cut fire risk, San francisco airport hires 400 goatsshrubs and small trees around airports could become fire hazards for nearby homes
it would take four to 10 years of travel before the wheel to tank greenhouse savings met
it forces us to be our best, he says. When I asked Ronald Krupitzer, vice president, automotive market, of Steel Market Development Institute,
If federal policies accounted for each vehicle's lifecycle emissions from mining ore to recycling auto components automakers would have many more trade-offs to consider.
and, in fact, poses a significant risk of creating overwhelming complexity, which could take down the Internet we now have.
Every security technology becomes obsolete. If we connect all these new things and expose them to external control,
you can bet some of the forces controlling them won't be the designers or owners. As these connected devices age
Research at USC will help towards launching a new flagship transmedia project slated for 2012 that Orange has divulged not yet.
The Health Protection Agency states there is no consistent evidence to date that exposure to FR signals from Wi-fi
How much responsibility does the city have for protecting people who pass beneath its graceful elms, oaks and maples?
According to Glaberson and Foderaro, The struggle will only get more challenging: New york city is more than halfway to its goal of planting a million more trees.
Cook It Raw chefs visit the Lowcountryhave you ever shot a high-powered rifle? Catherine Harrison asked the pretty restaurateur from Calgary.
she had fired never any kind of gun before. A. 35 should do pronounced, Harrison after a pause.
then cook a meal from the local bounty--like boy scout camp with better knives. Launched by Alessandro Porcelli, a gastronomic consultant living in Denmark,
Matthew Jennings'knuckles spelled the word Handmade, Baltzley's throat bore knives. Even Desousa flashed a pin-up girl on her forearm.
David Shields, a professor at the University of South carolina and the week's guest scholar, said that from 1820 to 1920 the Lowcountry boasted an extraordinary profusion of foods.
The Civil war put an end to slavery, delivering a blow to the rice economy. In the early 20th century, cheaper rice from the American Southwest priced Carolina Gold out of the market.
They pounded off the hulls with an old mortar and pestle, winnowed the grains in an antique basket
Desousa did squeeze off a shot, but her prey disappeared into the water. At lunchtime, the chefs grilled an alligator that had been killed the night before.
(and where Union troops torched the main house in 1865). Phil Wood, from Sydney, cured swordfish like ham
The Mexicans handed out suckling pig tacos while a special Canadian contingent cooked up seabuckthorn berry BBQ beef tongue.
The jet fuel was sent to the U s. Air force Research Laboratory for analysis where it passed rigorous testing,
including public supply (water towers), domestic use (showers, faucets), irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, industrial use, mining, and thermoelectric power generation.
4 percent Mining: 1 percent Thermoelectric power generation: 49 percent As you can see, the lion's share of water use comes from two places:
Asia and South america, found that even these final refuges of threatened species are vulnerable to human encroachment and environmental stresses.
The fight to save biodiversity began in 1992 with the UN Convention on Biodiversity which currently has 193 parties.
It needs at least 50 ratifications to come into force. New delhi is getting ready to ratify it before the conference in Hyderabad concludes on October 19.
Biodiversity Act 2002, didn't provide enough protection to communities against exploitative agencies within India as well as multinationals.
unless all protections are in place. We should not announce to the world what it is and where,
a drug that could fight fatigue and protect the liver. Palpu Pushpangadan, head of TBGRI, who had met the tribe in 1987
Pushpangadan, now Director General of Amity Institute for Herbal & Biotech Products Development, who remains wary of his past experience,
They need to get maximum protection
UN: Cities contribute 70 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissionscities are places of great efficiency, innovation,
and--especially in dense cities--energy savings. But cities shouldn't let all that get to their head.
According to a new UN report, cities around the world are not doing enough in the fight against climate change.
battleground for climate change from the United nations Human Settlement Program, or UN-HABITAT, shows that while the world's cities only cover 2 percent of global land area,
poses a significant threat to the honey bees and their pollination services. Å Australia is the last country to not have been invaded by this disease
it will be a stronger more evolved strain posing a significant threat to honey bees and our pollination services,
Using underground air raid shelters from WORLD WAR II, Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hope to transform the space into a unique 2. 5 acre farm that would provide fresh produce to London restaurants and grocery stores.
I think Mr. Pollan has a view different than mine. We both want sustainability and safety in our food.
I m quite convinced we can t meet the future of the world s needs without using every safe tool in the arsenal
640 crop threats and 560 wild crop relatives in Russia and neighboring countries. The maps,
saves energy New soldier uniforms will harness solar power Finally, a urinal for girls More environmentally-friendly innovations:
Future applications Both the military and police could use SAMARAI. Officers could throw the drones like boomerangs to photograph
what is around the next corner or inside a building and report back. Troops could also use them to get ground-level images from airplanes
in addition to the aerial images typically used now. They improve upon drones currently used by the military in that they can hover in place like helicopters
and take off vertically--an advantage in tight spaces. They could one day come in different sizes
Watch the video below (from 2010) to see the SAMARAI be launched like a boomerang, take off vertically and land in a specific spot:
via Popular Science, Navy Times photo: Kobako, Wikimedia
Video: Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow gardenin Oakland, California, a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil.
their proven durability demonstrates that the structures can better withstand being bombarded by flash floods and other destructive forces.
Some users of glyphosate were observed to have a higher risk of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting bone marrow,
but also near the Purdue campus. Talk about your work capturing sounds that are in danger of being lost.
we're in danger of losing the biological signals that we're all used to in the landscape.
We're in danger of silencing the landscape. That's why we hearken back to Rachel Carson's original statements that by modifying the landscape we could be pushing out organisms that are creating the biological voices of that landscape.
We're also in danger of replacing it with the anthrophony, As well as humans continue to disconnect from nature
don't minimize product protection.)My story had a happy ending in the form of a product exchange,
Sometimes, an initiative to minimize packaging (put aside the green benefits for a moment) can result in damages that are 10 to 20 times greater than the value of the initial savings.
So how do you reduce the risk that your green aspirations--especially when it comes to getting product from the point of manufacture into the hands of your ultimate consumer--will wind up costing your company money?
don't minimize product protection Trade group makes case for environmentally sound packaging New battleground in beverage wars:
And it is considered by scientists to be as great a threat as climate change. As the coordinator of the UK partner response to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
instead oe and this is at our peril. We need to reengage with the significance of biodiversity to make a difference in environmental management.
slowing for example the risks of drought or flood and the impacts of other extreme weather events oe such a mangroves providing protection for coastal communities against the impact of tsunamis.
My transferring the charges for pollution from greenhouse gas release from fossil fuels into offsets invested in the protection of forest.
and investment banking sectors to look at securing assets in protecting forest and encouraging the renewal of degraded land by reforestation.
There is no doubt about the risks of loss, and now both the scientific evidence and the economic analysis of the costs of loss are much more robust.
by being degraded, raising the risk of disaster to human communities. In the first example there are a primary regions where there is high genetic
by protecting biodiversity they reduce their water-treatment costs, biodiversity protection is good for business.
This is part of a much bigger need, to think ecologically, and to realize that by working with nature we can do more sustainably,
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