A single model was morphed to represent species within the entire space in order to calculate the engineering performance of different skull shapes.
Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.
when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow and we have no good way of storing enough of it to supply the grid for long said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber M d. Ph d
The two thermostats were separated by an empty space into which were added radiative shields that could mimic individual hairs in a fur coat.
The researchers also compared their ground-based photos with color data from a satellite looking at the same forest over the same period of time.
That suggests that cameras are a good way to validate data from satellites. This is really exciting
which analyzed data from ranches in western Montana including 15 years of records on ranch husbandry satellite-generated climatological data spatial data on wolf pack locations and confirmed depredations on 18
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and lead to sustainable intensification of food production that we must achieve to meet the demands on the planet's finite resources.
Sunscreen which blocks dangerous rays from the sun is your best bet to avoid skin cancer.
Because the carbon and nitrogen cycles are linked so strongly our previous results indicated that changes in carbon dioxide sequestration will gathered occurrodrigues'team samples of soil from the Fazenda Nova Vida site in Rondonia Brazil one of three states
or west, research getting a solar system. In many areas, third-party financing companies will install a solar photovoltaic PV system to generate electricity on your house for zero money down,
Solar thermal (hot water) and heat pump systems (ground-loop'geothermal'or air-exchanging systems for space heating) can also be good investments,
For both efficiency upgrades and solar systems, there may be rebates and other incentives available to help with the cost.
and to help the planet. Smart buildings can help people translate the mass amounts of data that our buildings generate,
At least in the concept images, this seems like a large space to just use for growing food.
Space is maximized by using towers, so I think it's smart that the area is designed for multiple uses.
Then they contracted with third-party financier Solarcity to install solar systems on several large city buildings,
What to do with all that abandoned space? Â Let the city take it over and convert it to parks and recreation areas?
The vertical farm will only take up about one-third of the building space. The rest will be an incubator for sustainable food businesses,
As the sun began to set, he would chase after the shadowy insects swarming around the glowing street lamps.
a fitness center, research space of 30, 000 square feet, a central plant, and parking.
in order to keep tabs on all the raw data needed to make a farming operation more sustainable--such as the daily evapotranspiration ratio (how quickly the sun will suck up moisture from plants and the dirt) and wind speeds.
The company is capturing the sun's energy to kill nocturnal insects that feast on crops.
Jean-Charles Noudell, manager of green spaces and gardens of the 3rd arrondissement, says that the recycling program helps create mulch for the gardens that will keep soil moist,
so there this big clear space that ready for the tower to come in. Grow NYC served as farm advisors.
and heart for the three-block project, will feature five floors of work space. The public green space will include a playfield, off-leash dog park, two-way cycle track on 7th avenue and a weather-protected walkway between the buildings.
The intent of the structure, which is designed by NBBJ, the same firm behind Google and Samsung's projects, is to create an alternative environment where employees can work
NBBJ has designed the high-rise workplace in such a way that each employee will be no further than one floor away from green space.
Part of it is less space, reducing our usage of natural resources and now having the ability utilize technology that effectively reuses resources like water instead of letting it go to waste by flushing it down a storm drain.
Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela-both 14 years old-developed a looked into growing lots and lots of crops and veggies with limited space and no soil.
The dark surface of the lake's water will then capture more heat from the sun
if satellites and aerial photography can be used to detect trends. The roles of methane and wildfires The first reason the thawing of the permafrost is especially worrisome has to do with methane.
It's not entirely clear exactly how these changes will impact the Arctic, the permafrost or the planet as a whole.
Grant Park is one of the city's finest green spaces. The 300-acre park,
Get the most out of Philly's parks and outdoor spaces during the spring, summer,
to feeding our hungry planet? Perhaps. Not only are the perennial grains efficient, they can be bred easily from annual crops.
it was the Venus'Flower Basket sea sponge, a glowing creature that thrives in the inky depths of the sea.
REFORESTING CITIES Biomimetic principles are already transforming public spaces in the most densely populated areas of the U s.
Space that was unused in a dense city is now teeming with life, and increased the size of public space in a city with no physical room to grow.
It parkland moving across an industrial object. It's accomplished a quite wonderful thing in the preservation
In the United states, parking lots may be the most regularly used outdoor space. They are public places that people interact with and use on a daily basis,
parking lots could actually become significant public spaces, contributing as much to their communities as great boulevards, parks or plazas.
including their durability on working farm, the Kansas city Star reported. The study also tracked milk production because of concerns the LED lights could harm the animals by interfering, for example, with their feeding schedule.
food wastea new report from the United Nation's Food and agriculture organization points to a major global food waste problem that's hurting the economy and the planet.
it's the ultimate public space. But for a number of decades it has not been treated that way.
The space will provide magnificent views of the gardens and the mall. There will be a restaurant in the pavilion to attract people to this corner of the mall that is often overlooked.
what the National Mall needs to become a great public space. All the designs are bold yet thoughtfully integrated into the mall,
Fly me to the moon. Well, maybe not the moon. But the tiny brain in this little thing could take you places you've never been before,
and bring you back again. The honey bee has a puny brain. But man is that miniscule mound of gray matter finely tuned as the winged pollinator's mission control center.
after well-guided sojourns through unfamiliar flowery territory, using the sun and an acute sense of smell.
Demographics the size of the population influences the demand for space and services; Urban form and density sprawling cities tend to have higher per capita emissions than more compact ones;
Å By placing hives on the roof spaces of cafes, restaurants, hotels and individual gardens in and around Melbourne,
and Queen of the Sun Become involved, donate, purchase local honey or sponsor a hive.
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.
Of course, without access to the sun, they will rely on a hydroponic growing system with LED lights.
The Standouts As the sun broke through the fog, the festival streets filled with groups of chatty friends and families with small children,
The Vancouver Sun reports: The inside of the greenhouse will be anything but ordinary. Four-metre-high stacks of growing trays on motorized conveyors will ferry plants up, down and around for watering,
to capture the sun's rays and then move them into position for an easy harvest.
The greenhouse will cover less than half of the available space on the rooftop leaving open the possibility that a second,
High-tech greenhouse planned for city parkade rooftop The Vancouver Sun Photo: Valcent Products
Vertical gardens reaching new heights in Milanthe 27th story of a building provides a skyline vista,
and take off vertically--an advantage in tight spaces. They could one day come in different sizes
Plant types Soil composition Slope of the soil Sun exposure The type of irrigation you're using (hose versus sprinkler versus drip lines, etc.
when it fails to account for our wellbeing and that of the planet on which we all rely.
humans have come to dominate the planet. Ecosystems are being altered rapidly for numerous reasons, and the planet is undergoing a massive loss of biodiversity due to habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, pollution, invasive species,
and climate change. Many of our everyday actions, from consumption to our choices of where we live, impact biodiversity.
the Chesapeake bay Foundation and Sterling Planet on a new initiative to reduce greenhouse gases and improve air and water quality in the Chesapeake bay region.
In 2001, a psychologist called the G-spot a gynecologic UFO: much searched for, much discussed,
And until then, the G-spot will probably remain that same gynecological UFO. Via: Eurekalert Photo:
Back in October, NASA satellites spotted a massive crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
Over the years, glaciologists have kept a close eye on the Antarctic as changes in this region known as the end of the earth plays a significant role in the fate of our planet.
Mysterious site spotted from space Mysterious Ëoenazca Lines ruins discovered in Saudi desert China s massive Ëoepollution cloud can be seen from space NASA satellites unearth Egypt s lost
The plant will provide landowners with economic incentive to keep open spaces open. Â Without this particular solution for our challenge
With the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC), the city is partnering with the Baltimore Community Foundation and Constellation Energy to do energy audits,
If the test shows this use of a renewable fuel in our locomotive is successful, its a home run for our passengers, for our partners and for the planet.
Bioserve Space Technologies: The magic behind shuttle experimentsbioserve Space Technologies, a center within the University of Colorado Boulder, specializes in conducting microgravity life science research
and designs and develops space flight hardware. It currently has two piece of its hardware on the International Space station and two on the Space shuttle mission.
Yesterday I spoke with Stefanie Countryman, the centers director of business development and director of its K-12 science education payloads.
and spiders in space and why she wouldnt be a good candidate for space flight.
Say theres a researcher who wanted to conduct an experiment in space. Where do you come in?
So if you can fly a tree in space, the lignin is like the bones in your body--your bones dont need to support your structure in space.
So the seedlings dont lay down as much lignin. And if you could figure out a way to do that On earth
They get the whole process of flying experiments in space. So for a time now
An astronaut on STS-126 activating an experiment Tell me about the spider in space for your K-12 program.
so they grew up in space. Were hoping theyll still be alive when they come back.
The experiment was to look at how they would spin their webs in space They spin these half orbs that have a three-dimensional aspect.
In space they spun circular webs, which are very different. On the ground, they sit on the top of the web looking down.
In space they sat in the middle of their web and faced all different ways. You can see Youtube videos here and here.
If you had an opportunity to travel in space, what experiment would you conduct? I get sick on roller coasters,
I guess I would just like to see the life science experiments in space continue. Now that the shuttle is retired, its hard for the life sciences.
The model is that we send our experiments to space and then bring those samples back
There is some hardware being developed to do some analysis in space while on the station, but its a difficult thing to do.
but a few recent examples provide shelter and protection for the fuzzier fellow citizens of planet Earth.
and solar panels increase the temperature of roof spaces, which can disturb the animals. 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.
it's only fair to give a little space back. Via: CNN Eco Solutions, Artinfo, Â University of Buffalo Press Images:
IBM analytics technology helps Sun World use drip irrigation to decrease its water usage by 8. 5%.That difference is readily apparent in a new agribusiness case study that was brought to my attention by the IBM mid-market group.
It involves Sun World International, a midsize operation in Bakersfield, Calif, . that produces various fruits and vegetables on approximately 12,000 acres of farmland across the state of California.
Sun World has been collecting information about its business for years. An example: The company has been acting on its water consumption to change irrigation techniques,
Sun World, which specializes in table grapes, peppers, stone fruits and citrus varieties, can now look at everything from unit costs
according to IBM and Sun World. Fuel usage has also been cut by 20 percent. The sales team can also use Sun World's data in conjunction with industry buying trends to figure out the best timing for campaigns.
This has helped with balancing product mix. It also resulted in $3 million in new business in 2009
Sun World is tracking $175 million in total annual revenue, according to Robertson. The plan is only as good as Day One.
Steve Greenwood, Sun World's director of budgets and reporting, says the technology behind these changes was Cognos,
Sun World worked with an IBM Business Partner Applied Analytix, to craft the solution. Here's his perspective from the IBM press release about the solution:
director of business analytics for IBM, says there are typically three things that hold entrepreneurs back from a technology investment like this that could yield results similar to the Sun World example.
If you want to be generate results like Sun World, you'll need to get over all three things
--which they want to remake into a mix of residential and commercial spaces--around basic services,
Public spaces are included for recreation. As with the other projects on view, office spaces are mixed in to encourage start-ups and small businesses to flourish.
Studio Gang's proposal is based also around the idea of the limited equity cooperative (LEC) model of ownership,
which protects forests and farmland and other outdoor spaces. WORKAC's design shifts the existing proportion of built environment
And again, the designers propose a mix of live-work spaces. Zago Architecture's Property with Properties design for Rialto also echoes the other designers'strategies.
and then paraded out on stones that heat up in the sun. Å I treat them like my children,
a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
That arguably may put us in the lead in the space. Smartplanet: And the hurdles? How will you meet your goals?
To be successful in this space, there's no on-the-job learning. You can't afford to make one mistake.
Mars, IBM, USDA publish cacao genomemars, the maker of M&ms, IBM and the U s. Department of agriculture said Wednesday that they are making the cacao genome sequence publicly available.
Mars has a vested interest in the cacao genome given that it needs it for chocolate.
Mars adds that the findings won't benefit the bottom line initially, but will allay supply worries in the future.
In a statement, Mars said:(The project) marks a significant scientific milestone that is already starting to benefit millions of farmers,
Mars provided most of the funding and IBM supplied the computing power with its Blue Gene supercomputer.
but there's plenty of space for rooftop greenhouses. Lufa Farms is on the verge of an urban greenhouse-building spree.
The planet is facing a very serious environmental challenge with respect to food and agriculture and it is clear that we won t solve them without engaging in action with respect to the food system.
Innovations that Nourish the Planet. Â You have to pay for the full report, but like the United nations analysis, it calls for a focus on local and indigenous vegetables as a means of curbing food shortages
Said Danielle Nierenberg, co-director of Worldwatch s Nourishing the Planet project: The solutions to the price crisis won t necessarily come from producing more food,
and allow space between larger pines. With the Timberguide software, which runs on a tablet computer mounted inside a wood harvester,
Cultivating cucumbers where the sun don't shinethere s an old adage in the retail industry:
because every tech company contributes to the carbon footprint of the planet not just through its own business operations
taking up 25 percent of the space. The 25 percent is from an EPA study, and that s by volume.
You can think of it as being biocompatible with our planet. But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road,
according to a report in the Kansas city Star. It goes without saying that side-curtain air bags have been shown to dramatically reduce highway deaths.
The Star's investigation found that hundreds of Impalas already sold had been advertised incorrectly online as having the safety feature.
the Star reports Enterprise as stating. Enterprise determined that 745 Impalas were marked incorrectly and that it would send letters to all 745 buyers notifying them of the problem.
& Environmental Research center at the University of North dakota once worked on technology to convert waste from a space station and future Martian bases into heat and power.
The measures have been a major setback to seed giants like Monsanto who argue that GMOS--like those that produce crops resistant to disease--are feed necessary to a growing planet and pose no harm to humans or the environment.
In the dim speakeasy style space, a barback slices limes and a waiter wipes down glasses.
I've been in the space my whole career, about 25 years. I was first a chemical engineer for Nalco Chemical.
There's a lot of interesting work going on right now in the ag space--part of it is the shift to low-flow
Some of the sites had packed densely plants, with 1, 000 specimens in a 50-meter space.
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,
The new design wasn't massively expensive (at least as much as it could have been) due to a seemingly intelligent use of the existing space and materials.
the space is reclaimed full of  or recycled materials to great effect, in compliance with Google's famed Red List that focuses on removing toxic ingredients of materials.
and if a lucky allotment-tender doesn't take proper care of their space, a wait-lister gets a chance at the plot.
The Secret Gardens are private booths on a balcony (the designers say it's sun-trapped,
hosing down outside spaces, maintaining lush gardens, and so on. Indeed, energy in general is too cheap in Abu dhabi at about $1. 80 for a gallon of gasoline
So while it would take up space in an already dense urban area it would still be an active place.
While it would use space efficiently, it would also be a way to reduce energy use for transporting the fruits long distances from the tropics to cities with cooler climates.
This has helped us win a lot of space in big-box stores. We've upped sales. We've won clients.
The state of food in 2012 China mulls vegetables on Mars $282 million of turkey trashed during U s. Thanksgiving Your next refrigerator could be a magnet Fenugreen's Freshpaper lets produce keep for longer
and often offering activities â has gained widespread attention as a symbol of the city s lack of open, urban space and as a response to the strong desire for healthier lifestyles.
or the first food eaten in space, it s that the Internet's not inherently a place for lies any more than a bottle cap is a place for truth.
including Constellation Gallery, which is the business I run. It s an artists collective, and we share the responsibly
Kansas city-owned farm turns human waste into revenue Kansas city Star h/t Grist Photo: Flickr/pasa47
a talk with NASA's space food managerwhile it's not exactly five-star cuisine,
astronauts survive on more than the freeze-dried space food found in museum gift shops. To get a look inside NASA's kitchen,
when producing food for space? All of our food has to be shelf stable, meaning is has to be safe to eat
Hopefully by the time we're ready for Mars mission, those kinds of technologies will be very common.
whether it's Mars or somewhere else, we have the advantage of some partial gravity.
How else are you preparing for the possibility of a Mars mission? We've worked for several years trying to find a high-barrier packaging material that does not contain foil.
I'm developing food for Mars. It makes the job very special. Image, top: As seen in artist's rendering,
astronauts exploring Mars will build hydroponic growth labs where vegetables can be grown. These crops will provide the crew with added nutrition and variety./
With 1. 2 billion methane-burping animals on the planet today, the digestive systems of livestock are worthy of examination.
With one truck, you can carry six or seven of these in the space of one container,
Nobody knows exactly how many people around the planet think of bugs as lunch. Some estimates say that 70 percent of the world's cultures have a tradition of eating insects
But bugs should not be considered the sole solution to the problem of feeding a growing planet.
and what s just taking up valuable space at taxpayers expense it has been reported that keeping Ho Tung Gardens could cost taxpayers $380 million.
In Korea, old brews get new lifeseoul--As the sun sets over Seoul, a low-lit basement bar in a back street in the traditional district of Anguk fills up with a cool, 20-to 30-something clientele.
, ironwork sculptors--Greg, Tianna and Camille Leavitt--that is featured throughout the space. Later in the week, Handmade Gardens will earn the coveted Best in Show award for the highest-scoring major landscape exhibit.
This year, its presence sprawled across several booth spaces. General manager Darren Rufe notes that the mindset of attendees has changed significantly in the past three years.
Their cattle have open spaces to graze. We won't give up our jungle, she said. Everything will be destroyed.
The beach is disappearing so fishermen have no space to put their boats or to spread their nets,
NASA has culled available data from its network of satellites to generate a map that depicts the amount
This was achieved using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the Quikscat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
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but he plans on getting more from the strong and steady Italian sun namely, electric and heat power.
and tilt to catch sun rays shining down from different points in the sky. At 500 times the intensity, the sunlight strikes the system's non-silicon solar cells to generate electricity.
The bottles are shifted around the shelf in the same way the move in space, bumping into each other
 With the sheer volume of food packaging on the planet plus the stringent safety and health regulations surrounding edible products, it seems only natural that high-tech packaging design innovations would begin with food.
Today s generation will do more to save the planet than any other generation. The biggest problem is one word no one wants to talk about, for religious regions or political reasons:
and have installed over 300 farms throughout Los angeles. Could this model spark a shift in how we think about farming practices and the use of urban space?
we would need two planet Earths to feed us, we ve only got one and she is dying.
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