This will help us understand how to maximize their productivity as well as monitor for any biosecurity risks,
you have heightened risk for bacterial infections and other diseases in the bees that could require burning entire hives.
In the summer 2009 I went to the remote Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, located about halfway between Hawaii
and the work of the CBC to mitigate threats to biodiversity. How do you make people think about their impact to an ecosystem?
I usually use the lens of threats to biodiversity. Over the last century humans have come to dominate the planet.
or aggravate, armed conflict, cause mass involuntary migrations. And this can result in negative effects in communities and age groups least able to adapt.
How much are you saving by using rail? It all depends. Let s say there s a Procter & gamble manufacturing plant in Dover, Delaware.
but we re looking into That is the savings passed along to your customers when things are shipped by train?
calls to the Apple headquarters and searches of the Web site do not provide any insight.
and had died from blunt force  trauma to the head. Right, so back to the autopsy.
Last month, Apple further fueled speculation of a smart watch device when it sought trademark protection in Japan for iwatch.
since for trademark protection in several other countries, including Mexico and Taiwan. If Apple does indeed develop
because city officials continue to struggle to find how to best use the city's many vacant properties as its population has shrunk over decades.
As for concerns of fire risk, large timbers are naturally fire-resistant and perform better in fire than structural steel.
commenting that there is a real danger of burnout. In addition, the greed of Apple sometimes gets in the way of other more noble values,
when English philosopher John Locke traveled across Europe with a supply of kidney bean leaves as defense against bed bug bites.
The Royal Austro-Hungarian Army used bean leaves to cleanse encampments and U s. researchers observed the effect in the 1940s, Borel noted.
Operational savings? Environmental impact? Local leadership? DC: I don't really think I can prioritize them,
but it takes more energy to produce--you have to do mining to get the materials.
Big farms or small, the struggle to feed 10 billion peoplean article in Foreign policy this week asks a daring but realistic question:
because an organism out of whack means its defenses are, too. Quoted in the article is Sapphire Energy cofounder Stephen Mayfield
who are at odds over the risk of engineered algae escaping into the wild. Venter says algae should be engineered with a suicide gene to shut down
Why the U s. Navy wants our green jet fuel What'synthetic life'could mean for the energy industry The Algaeus algae-fueled Prius hits the road Just look at that diversity!
military--you name it. But the debate really comes down to this: like genetically modified (GM) food--such as Roundup Ready soybeans--should we be concerned that scientists are tinkering with Mother Nature?
Agriculture, of course, is a big one, alongside healthcare, financial services, energy and defense. The New york times'Randall Stross profiles a few of these companies,
Brooklyn to host nation's largest rooftop gardena Brooklyn Navy yard warehouse will soon serve as a host to the nation's largest rooftop garden.
Brightfarms will soon be opening the nation's largest rooftop garden on top of an old Navy  warehouse  in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
but a few recent examples provide shelter and protection for the fuzzier fellow citizens of planet Earth.
Barclay originally discovered a maternity roost of bats during a demolition and had to adapt his project to the tune of six extra weeks and $70, 000.
Because of the declining bat population, British legislation protects bats and their roosts. Fungal disease and habitat destruction have endangered the bats and modern buildings pose new problems for bats pushed out of rural habitats to urban areas because of development.
The concern is so great that the Royal Institute of British Architects is offering a course, in conjunction with the Bat Conservation Trust, on designing bat roosts.
is there a risk that the exhibition might be seen as somewhat slick and gimmicky by politicians and suburban dwellers themselves?
The premise of Bpeace is that more jobs means less violence. Explain that. The organization started in 2002, the year after 9/11,
You have mentors in the U s. who work with entrepreneurs in countries where there has been a good deal of conflict.
We only work in post-conflict countries or what we though was Špost  at the time.
The U s. military had been in Afghanistan just under a year. Today, Rwanda is very peaceful.
which is getting squeezed by drug wars to the north and to the south. So very few countries meet your criteria?
We looked at a lot of countries where jobs could have an effect on the recurrence of violence.
and employment wont help violence there. We also looked at countries that would want us.
where idleness contributes to violence. In El salvador, most of the violence is gang violence. Working people dont belong to gangs.
How is funded Bpeace? For our Afghan work, the U s. Department of state partially funds it. We receive grants from foundations,
Our tagline is, Å More jobs means less violence. Â The women in Afghanistan would never say that means fewer suicide bombings or Taliban incidents.
They say less violence in the home. They think if there is less violence in the home,
there will be less in the streets. We know anecdotally when a women brings income into the home
and the financial stress on the household goes up, the violence decreases. So were making a leap of faith there.
Theres a Clint eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars, and his character lives by the creed,
I agree with that message--pro-active measures to fight climate change should be prioritized --but that doesn't remove the fact that these droughts are happening
Most likely a combination of new seed technologies and old agriculture methods like dry farming will provide our best defense against the inevitable loss of precipitation over our farmland.
Theres this strange conflict that emerges. Im asked about biodegradation which we want in some cases (we want the water bottle to biodegrade),
Changing elephant poo to green paperjaipur/DELHI--The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle-or something on those fantastical lines.
Following a decade of scrimping and saving, he was able to buy some basic equipment to make his own paper.
 The poo source Thrice a month, the two brothers set out on a motorbike to collect 1000kgs of dung from the elephant quarters behind the Amber fort.
which begins in the elephant sheds behind the Rajput fort, leads to an ethnic market called Dilli Haat, a hugely popular hangout in the capital city.
he has to provide security of of Rs. 18 lakhs ($36, 000. Â Å Ive tried with ten banks
--but the United states is at risk of watching other nations pass it by if it doesn't recognize the trajectory and implications of globalization.
The battle to feed all humanity is said over, Chu quoting author Paul Ehrlich. A subsequent major development was the development of disease-resistant strains of wheat that could handle artificial fertilizer and produce higher yields.
During the bleakest moments of our country's history--the Civil war--you would think that the country could not spare all of its resources to something not dedicated to fighting a war
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
and established a headquarters operations in Los angeles. Lew Roth, vice president of business development for Climateminder, said the company will target its technology at farms in prime California agribusiness districts such as Oxnard, Salinas and Watsonville.
We must put cities on the front line of the struggle to adapt. Â Is this the smarter way to reverse human impact on the atmosphere?
Casey B. Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, raised the idea in Species Protection and Technology, a post on The New york times Economix blog.
He acknowledged the protection of biodiversity as a legitimate goal for public policy, but noted that the costs of saving species often fall on landowners and businesses,
while we incur real economic costs protecting others. By bringing cloning into the set of public policy instruments,
reduce economic costs of protection, or both. Bad copies of priceless originals My first reaction to this brave plan--unfairly,
Back in 1992, physicist and author Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, published Saving the'library of life'in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This would more nearly resemble an emergency salvaging operation than an inventory, for there would be paid minimal attention to studying the sample.
He also argued that saving the DNA should be a complement to traditional conservation efforts that might not always work,
with a goal of saving 25 percent of all wild plants by 2020. Should we eat the babies?
and can better fend off the environmental assaults that inflict $700 to $800 million in damages to farmers'crops each year.
Last year, that efficiency improvement amount to a savings of more than 12 billion liters of water.
In an interview today, Lynn described how Lufa Farms devised a system of insulted curtains to shield sensitive crops from direct sunlight and keep the harvest safe during Canada's frigid winter nights.
Lufa farms competitor  Brooklyn Grange has constructed already the largest rooftop farm in the United states on an old Navy  warehouse in Brooklyn.
I did not use the term agribusiness Â--you might want to read about the four individuals who are recognized just through the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC) Growing Green Awards.
However, it allows for saving during the construction process. For instance, the Stadthaus architects conducted a case study that found a similar nine-story building would take 72 weeks to build compared with 49 weeks for the one built with the lighter timber.
It feels like a losing battle. But a pilot project made possible by a collaboration between TNC,
Independent security researcher Nick Depetrillo has launched istouchidhackedyet. com, a website dedicated to crowdfunding rewards for the first person who can break into Apple's biometric fingerprint scanning technology.
and I was part of a vocal minority of security researchers who argued Apple did a good job.
U k. trade union rebels against biometric employee scanning Could Silentsense rival Apple s iphone 5s fingerprint scanner?
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.
That would cut out both long haul transport and local deliveries. Plantlab has made laudable strides toward piling the crops high.
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.
and even the potential use of weapons. So the study comes at an opportune time
Protecting people & the environment. Growing in developing markets. The Applied Biosciences division, which counts $1 billion in revenue,
energy security, rural community growth, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, food constraints, green jobs. Binetti outlined the advantages of cellulosic ethanol:
The main driver for the switch from manual, paper-based processes is cost-savings and efficiency,
and increase security. Industries that have switched to electronic commerce have saved millions by reducing paper costs and following more efficient methods.
and water pollution and saving the energy needed for manufacturing, distribution and sales. Newspaper circulation is declining,
However, most studies ON IT energy consumption don t to take into account the overall savings in electricity and power usage as a result of mass computerization.
like a banana peel, it does perfect job of just protecting something for a short time.
With protective packaging, anything that weighs more 10 pounds. Anyone that uses plastic foam, we d like to replace it.
when you combine an entrepreneurial organic food delivery company with a regional healthcare system interested helping address obesity
Garden on the go is a partnership between Indiana University Health and Green B. E. A n. Delivery,
an online delivery company that provides organic produce and natural groceries to customers in Indianapolis and Fort wayne in Indiana;
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?
The Chamber of commerce along with a bunch of other groups including the mysterious Coalition for Responsible Regulation had petitioned the EPA to reconsider its finding from late last year.
increase the nation's energy security, and improve our environment. We continue to call on Congress to work through the legislative process,
and there s a population explosion of algae. At first that s not so bad, but when they die
you re in danger of having it running off. So it s more important in how much nitrogen is put down.
Do they know about the risks of phosphorus, for example? No. We put a lot of information on our bags.
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.
the herbicide and GM seeds maker) is developing a new weapon to battle the disorder:
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.
thrust into the spotlight for sounding a public alarm. A supercharged talker, with a blizzard of facts and blazing green eyes, Elmore is indeed waging a big-screen worthy crusade.
Excess food is donated now to shelters and soup kitchens. Used food is diverted to feedstock. And food deemed inedible is turned now to compost for new urban gardens around the city.
But Dana Gunders, a project scientist with the nonprofit National Resources Defense Council which put out a comprehensive issue paper on food waste in August,
and there's also the chance of protecting forests from carbon emissions due to wildfire. However, our research showed that the emissions from these activities proved to be more than the savings.
Clearing forests of their underbrush, dead trees, logging remnants and fallen branches might also affect soil health, biodiversity and wildlife habitat.
when a forest faces the double whammy of standing in a high fire-risk zone and being weakened by drought or insect infestations,
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
When architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien won the competition to transform a colonial explosives storage facility into a gallery
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
An aerial view shows the zigzag bridge that the designers originally wanted to be straight The four buildings that make up the former explosives facility date back as far as the 1850s.
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.
That s what the UK-based Energy Saving Trust concludes in its freshly minted report, The Elephant in the Living room:
It could be the eco warriors. Images: Top, Wikimedia/Linux insidev2; Bottom, Energy Saving Trust More digital global warming:
Facebook plans Subarctic data center Iceland cometh
GE Water sustainability chief Jeff Fulgham: We need a price on waterwhy doesn't water get more attention?
and abusing arsenic for everything from mining to medicine to murder. But a gene found in an ancient plant,
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,
they balked at the required contracts related to security risks of possessing the pieces. Also, schools can only use so much ivory for teaching
Security is a very real concern, as customs departments around the world have run into problems of theft.
GPS saves gas for produce delivery companymichael Gilbert says the Navman Wireless installation paid for itself in 90 days.
a midsize produce delivery company that uses about 65 trucks to deliver fruits and vegetables to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
and long delivery stops (even though the drivers are, in essence, customer service representatives and are encouraged to talk to clients,
Prolonged delivery times: The Navman Wireless technology quickly helped reduce the amount of time that drivers spent offloading their trucks at each stop.
Across the fleet, average delivery times were reduced about 25 percent, Gilbert said. Route optimization: Indianapolis Fruit was able to study each of its routes more closely
The company actually paid for the installation of the technology with its savings within 90 days
which were buried in the 1800s to minimize health risks from polluted water. Now that raw sewage is dumped no longer into the river
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,
Still, rats can be a menace. So why go through all this trouble? For Mathur, it s been a lifelong dream to spend her time growing flowers and vegetables.
Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane. Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute. And so on.
Such it is with high oil prices. Mass transit Last week, I wrote that drivers in the U s. will be forced to simply hand over the keys to new drivers in developing countries as competition for oil increases.
Trucking and delivery services Next to airlines, long-haul trucking companies are arguably the most vulnerable to fuel price shocks.
optimizing routes and shifting deliveries to less congested times of the day. Optimizing the behavior of drivers is another fuel-reduction strategy advocated by companies like Dubai-based Dynamic Technical Training.
For national delivery services like UPS who have optimized already their drivers'habits and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets,
Then when that is complete, the municipality will reduce greenhouse gas by about 30 percent with an annual savings of $880,
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:
The trees provide $11. 2 million in annual energy savings, have a carbon sequestration value of $386, 000,
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.
Located at the US Department of energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the world Â's most capable computer has just been enlisted this month to carry out nuclear weapon simulations.
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.
626 miles on a tank of gas China s new bullet train is world s fastest, smashes record Video:
and those people are willing to take risks on the road to innovation. While she brought that mindset to both Autodesk and Yahoo!
When women face a new risk or opportunity, often those closest to them--their friends and family--are the first to throw up doubts or objections.
so we're dependent on them for food deliveries, Yi said. Despite the plant s apparent environmental benefits, Beijingers remain suspicious.
and in hard-to-reach mining camps and the like: First, the designs either came disassembled,
Half-folded military module So, the friends thought, what if you designed modular boxes with a hinge halfway up the wall,
Normally, in emergency housing situations, he says, You have to do a lot of work at the job site.
Carrizo and Alter Carrizo gives the example of a mining company in Argentina that last year transported ten containers from Buenos aires to a mining camp in San juan, near the Chilean border.
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.
In the U s. Southwest, lawns are under attacklong-term drought coupled with a population explosion is squeezing the water supply in cities throughout the U s. Southwest.
Earlier this month, the government used its emergency powers to force through the Food security Ordinance,
the bill should also provide nutritional security. The Rome-based Food and Agricultural organization estimates that between 2010-12 India had 217 million people at risk of undernourishment.
Å The bill only provides cereals which does not ensure that the targeted population will get adequate nutrition.
They are at risk of losing their lands to erosion and mining or being displaced by government policies to protect forests and coasts.
This trend will play out across the globe. Tribal villagers from the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India are fighting against the expansion of coal mines near their forests.
They voiced their concerns at the U n. Conference on Biodiversity which concluded on October 20 in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Tribal villagers said that jobs in coal mines are temporary but forests are an eternal source of livelihood.
 These targets, with deadlines of 2015 and 2020, include saving marine ecosystems, protecting natural habitats and stopping the extinction of species. For the next two years,
In this capacity, it has set an agenda of linking livelihood with protecting biodiversity. Living at the periphery of subsistence
the poor are the most at risk from biodiversity loss, Prime minister Manmohan Singh  told the delegates last week.
But in several instances legal safeguards of taking forest dwellers consent before acquiring their land are complied not properly with.
CSE's latest data also finds that 119 coal mining projects were given forest clearance during this period
In exchange, 75%of developing countries will have to make biodiversity part of the national agenda as well as spend their own money on saving it.
Ravindranath from the Rural Volunteer Centre, explained that mining activity has made the river water so heavy that farmers can't use it for irrigation.
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