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seawater, sun, and desert sand, and looking to what was needed: food, energy, and clean water.#

I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.

the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.

Whether thermal scanners are mounted on satellites high altitude aircraft, low attitude drones, or some combination of these, monitoring hotspots

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new public gathering spaces could be layered softly, their resilient woven fabrics arranged in multiple hovering skins.

new clothing by Amsterdam couture designer Iris Van Herpenelevates beyond the surface of the body and extends into surrounding space,

and dispersing around our bodies might become a tangible part of future public urban space. In the hands of new researchers, these kinds of subtle energy exchanges might develop even further to become part of new artificial living systems.

and closing solar powered#oesunflower#umbrellas capture the sun s rays during the day and fold at night releasing stored heat in a continual cycle.

By following the projection of the sun continuous shade is provided to the main plaza of the city.

and comes with great socioeconomic benefits for a lot of people in the poorer regions of the planet.

and increasingly essential to a sustainable food economy for the entire world. 1. More Africans now live in cities Africa is the most rapidly urbanizing region on the planet.

Africa has the greatest amount of idle arable land on the planet. For example, the Guinea Savannah zone covers around 600 million hectares in West Africa#hrough Uganda and Tanzania and encompassing Malawi, Zambia, Angola,

Now measuring and application technologies from automatic sprayers to satellites are so cheap and effective,

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Language can move the future back and forth in our mental space and this might have dramatic influences on our judgments and decisions.

But, bringing the charm of gardens in the life of people who suffer a space crunch are vertical gardens that will bring the garden inside the comfort of your house.

who have been creating lush oasis on vertical spaces from quite some time now. The pockets have been made from salvaged materials

7. Maze Wall hanging The Maze Wall hanging Garden will grace both inside and outside spaces. The basic structure of the plates is in the form of a maze,

and will keep your spaces twinkling with greenery. The vertical garden is a great way to stay connected with nature even in the hustle-bustle of city life...

what new mythologies might Anderson s satellite-enabled, autonomous gather give rise to? Our discussion ranged from robotic rats

So that s the reason why we are using GPS satellites to define the perimeter of the polygon.

#Digital Media Lab The Skokie Public library in Illinois#oeoffers a digital media lab, a space with content creation tools that allow patrons to create

Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.

you should analyze this space closely because the next Google, Facebook, or Amazon might be born in the Internet of things.

in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.

and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:

hydroponics or aeroponics, and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.

This increases efficiency, not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely, making more efficient use of space.

9. Space Colonies In what year will there be an election for the first President of the Moon?

Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.

Robotic Earthworms The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources.

So if you re getting too much sun on the beach, shining darkness on yourself becomes an easy solution.

I live in one of the most walkable cities on the planet, San francisco . I Lyfted everywhere, got groceries delivered, etc.

Imagine two star-crossed lovers staring deeply into eachothers phablets. Playfully destroying pigs or experiencing mind-numbing insta-gasms.

We have more computing power in our pocket than that necessary to put the first man on the moon.

So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees.

Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.

Neville went on to explain that the leaves rotate with the sun to ensure maximum efficiency.

NASA scientists believe they may have found a solution to how to grow vegetables in space.

If shoots emerged there was no sun. In short the space station is a gardener s nightmare. The solution appears to be aveggie flight pillow a tailored environment

The veggie pillows are bags of space dirt with slow-release fertiliser. Wicks are inserted into the soil,

which models development around mixed-use development and pedestrian-friendly spaces. These places seem to be built for people

work and play in the same space, City manager Rashad Young says. When Young thinks of the young professionals in Alexandria,

both of them 31, held a wedding rehearsal dinner in an upstairs event space. In between, an early-evening crowd drank beer,

Maki says office space here isprobably a quarter of the price of comparable space in Silicon valley.

There is an estimated 366 million, trillion gallons of water on planet Earth. That number appears to be fixed, according to UNESCO s Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Program (HIP.

Fresh water makes up 2. 5%of the total water supplies across the planet. It is estimated that 70%of it is snow and ice-pack.

The document says that because of the impact of man on the planet the earth s chemistry and climate have been altered

which has evidenced itself in the measureable hydrological cycles of the planet. This obviously unsustainable course is causing the contamination of our fresh water supply.

the clichã is for existing entrepreneurs to say it svalidating the space. Often, clichã s are clichã s because they re true,

it s about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet. The great business challenge now is not just how to build a successful organization,

the kind that serves people and the planet, that is fueling entrepreneurship and the transformation of old world businesses within the Purpose Economy.

By thinking of these as markets, we can imagine powerful new ways to create value by helping people and the planet.

and people, lots of people you don t really think of green spaces. But in an effort to green the city, officials have given up the space on the roof train stations to make community gardens.

The Soradofarms sit atop five train stations that are run by the East Japan Railway Company. The first one in Tokyo is located on top of Ebisu station

gardening the space is used as a community gathering ground, where locals come to picnic and children play in.

Today, satellites, manned planes and walking the field are the main ways farmers monitor their crops.

Impact Assessors Creating the God Globe Thegod Globe is intended to be a master command center for planet earth,

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

Space-Based Power system Designers At some point, the burning of earth s natural resources for power will become a thing of the past.

Space-based systems will capture and transmit power far more efficiently than anything currently in existence. 156.

In addition to civilization ending disastersnuclear war, asteroid or comet strike, biblical floods, zombiesthe world s 1, 400 genebanks and their precious seed stores are susceptible to war, poor management,

and prisms lit by the arctic sun in summer and fiber optics in winter. Genebanks in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, were destroyed in recent years.

#How NASA scientists plan to farm on Mars Scientist Angelo Vermeulen on a Mars mock-up in Hawaii.

NASA has big plans for Mars in the coming decades, including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020

and send a manned mission by 2030. But long before humans step onto Mars barren terrain,

scientists and researchers from around the world want to understand more about its potential to support human life.

They re especially interested in the possibility of growing plants on Mars, a more efficient process that would partially remove the need to ship expensive freeze-dried rations to the planet.

Allowing crops to grow there that produce oxygen and scrub carbon dioxide there would make Mars a more livable environment.

For a long-term settlement, there is probably no other option than growing food on Mars, says Angelo Vermeulen,

a Belgian artist and scientist who was the crew commander of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Site (HI-SEAS), a six-person,

NASA-funded team that spent four months last year on the hills of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii to study

and experiment with ways to prepare foods on Mars. The HI-SEAS habitat was located in an abandoned quarry of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii.

Why we need plants on Mars The HI-SEAS team selected Mauna loa because they believe the mineralogy of its basaltic

volcanic soil is similar to that of Mars. Vermeulen says one of the team s main concerns was combating what s known asmenu fatigue in astronauts.

members were encouraged also to devise their own studies on the Mars mock-up. Vermeulen chose to research food growth and remote-operated, robotic farming.

The prospect of successful food growth on Mars is promising in part because plant waste there could be composted

Martian soil Ecologist Dr. Wieger Wamelink of the Alterra Institute in The netherlands also recently studied the possibility of food growth on Mars. Wamelink planted seeds of 14 plants on artificial Martian

If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction, it would bode well for them both physically

and Buzz Aldrin when they were on the moon. Now you can be the talk of your dinner table this holiday a perfect turkey tidbit to impress holiday dinner guests. 11) Bald eagle who?

A space rock threatens Earth when NASA out? The Asteroid Watch program based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies.

Fortunately however the Minor planet Centerâ in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth. 15.

Most searched terms by Americans over the last seven days While there was an explosive increase in Google searches for government shutdown

After 17 years underground the so-called Brood II cicadas are about to have their time in the sun. Millions of these root-sucking insects will come out into the open

</p><p></p><p>The Asteroid Watch program based at NASA&#39; s Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies.

Fortunately however the<a href=http://www. space. com/23035-government-shutdown-dangerous-asteroids-search. html>Minor planet Center</a>in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth.</

</p><p>Despite its name and the shield with 17 stars on the front of it the clock is meant not to celebrate the 17th state Ohio's statehood according to the U s. Senate.

or how many stars should be placed on the shield.</</p><p>The dial to be about two feet in diameter an hour minute and second hand a Spread eagle on the top and the United states arms at foot.

Because quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet cooked like rice gluten-free

Even NASA is considering quinoa for long-duration planetary space flights perhaps as an apology for its Tang years.

</p><p></p><p>Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure.

</p><p></p><p>Carnivorous bog-dwelling plants called bladderworts can snap their traps shut in less than a millisecond 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap.</

</p><p></p><p>Gravity on the moon is a sixth of what it is On earth.

Someone who weighs 150 pounds (68 kg) on this planet moves the scales at only 25 pounds (11 kg) on the moon.

because the moon is just 1 percent the mass of Earth.</</p><p></p><p>As of 2011 Twitter users sent 200 million Tweets per day according to the social media website.

The sun's rays are the best source for this vitamin but not everyone can get the necessary sun exposure due to climate or skin cancer concerns.

There are a few food sources of Vitamin d such as swordfish salmon tuna and fortified foods but this is one case where

 Increasingly longer hours spent inside office buildings and homes rather than visually stimulating landscapes like forests and other natural spaces can also lead to sight problems Lieberman said.

</p><p>The number of humans on the<a href=http://www. livescience. com/41308-11-billion-people. html>planet could reach 11 billion people</a>by the end of the century

</p><p>Agriculture uses about 70 percent of the available freshwater on the planet. Around the world most farming relies on flood irrigation &mdash;

</p><p>As the planet becomes drier countries will have to shift their economies so that drier regions produce less thirsty products and wetter regions make<a href=http://www. livescience. com/22814-meat-eating-vegetarianism. html>water-hungry products such as

t really suitable for a big glass of water (unless<a href=http://www. space. com/20867-astronauts-drink-urine-and-other-wastewater-video. html>you&#39;

The number of humans on the planet could reach 11 billion people by the end of the century the United nations projects up from just over 7 billion people now.

Irrigation Agriculture uses about 70 percent of the available freshwater on the planet. Around the world most farming relies on flood irrigation where fields are drenched with water and the excess runs off into nearby streams and rivers.

As the planet becomes drier countries will have to shift their economies so that drier regions produce less thirsty products and wetter regions make water-hungry products such as beef.

and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways she once said according to the Guardian.

By 2100 it's estimated that there will be 11 billion people on the planet 3 billion more than there are today.

The planet can definitely produce enough food for 11 billion people experts say but whether humans can do it sustainably

These are just a few examples of how humans are contributing to the sixth-largest mass extinction in the history of the planet according to most biologists.

Take advantage of the rich nutritional quality of these insects by frying sun-drying smoking or steaming termites in banana leaves.

Though it does at least look like a star. Like true panda bears red pandas spend much of their time munching on bamboo up in tree limbs.

#7 Resolutions for a Better Planet 2013 is here and everyone is busy making (or already breaking) their New year's resolutions.

Mother Nature took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to share a few thoughts on how to improve the situation here on our planet with some New year's resolutions that should be taken up by mankind.

The forests also supply the planet with an enormous supply of oxygen. Even so from 2000 to 2010 for example about 93000 square miles (240000 square kilometers) of the Amazon rainforest were razed covering an area roughly the size of the United kingdom. 3. Protect areas with high biodiversity Not all areas are created equal.

which has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet but is threatened by deforestation and development.

and harness the sun or the wind or heat from the Earth. The worst effects of warming can be seen in the Arctic and Antarctic due to a phenomenon calledâ polar amplification.

or Ph d. in chemistry Space psychologist No a space psychologist isn't a job for someone who studies the minds of hoarders.

Space psychologists study how astronauts cope with the conditions of spaceflight and the weightless environment in space.

The actual spaceflight involves unfamiliar physical sensations such as weightlessness and acceleration. Space psychologists make recommendations about the best way for astronauts to perform physical and mental work as well as rest.

This profession could become increasingly important as more extended periods of space travel arise such as manned missions to Mars. Gallery:

Scientists at the ends of the Earth Sexologist Talk about a job that raises eyebrows. Sexology is the study of sex or of the interaction of the sexes especially among human beings according to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.

Crowded Planet: 7 (Billion) Population Milestones  3. What we're doing won't work. We are going to need more innovation right now.

Instead it uses passive solar heat from its 1. 2 miles of skylights to warm the space.

Magma escapes from Earth's mantle through this patchwork when forces pull on the crust opening space.

and nutrients such as iron and magnesium and unlike beef or pork most bugs require little energy water or space to raise.

As a result many experts believe that raising insects for food will be a key environmentally friendly way to feed the 11 billion people on the planet by 2100.

Before when the little group of stars the Pleiades came out at sunset and the muricã (Byrsonima crassifolia) flowered it was the time to make gardens Ntã'ni told a seminar on agriculture

The findings bolster the Amazon basin's reputation as being the lungs of the planet taking in carbon dioxide

During the Little Ice age when volcanoes and sun cycle variations caused a global cooling from the 1300s to the 1800s the coral's underwater tree rings narrowed suggesting extensive sea ice cover and short summers.

The algae records also reveal frequent year-to-year variations in the amount of sea ice as satellites have seen in the past decade

so that the entire underlying space is occupied by carved column bases...Translation by Professor David Oates) Another later account is by Diodorus Siculus (first century B c.).He writes that the Hanging Gardens were built by a later Syrian king to please one of his concubines;

It is thought commonly that a massive asteroid or comet slammed into Earth 65 million years ago wiping out the dinosaurs

and killing up to 80 percent of all species. We found this mass extinction event signature in the DNA that just happened to correspond to the extinction of dinosaurs

Shrinking Alaska Glacier Spied from Space A gravel layer about 4 to 5 feet (1. 2 to 1. 5 meters) high appears to have encased the trees before the glacier ultimately advanced enough to plow over them snapping off limbs and preserving

A group of mammals known as the multituberculates flourished across the planet from about 170 million to 35 million years ago a span of 135 million years.

Until now the fossil record of flowering plants suggested they dominated the planet rather quickly after their earliest appearance.

More importantly the threat posed by drought could become even greater as the planet heats up especially in parts of the United states

Warming waters and melting ice During the Antarctic winter when the sun sets in the South pole in March

Satellites will send the data back to the scientists in their laboratories. The sensors are designed to fall off

Groups like the Hills Conservation Network contend that the clearing is actually an environmentally destructive effort to create space for new UC Berkeley facilities.

when the sun is directly in line with Earth's celestial equator or the equator projected onto the sky.

Northern lights Dazzle in Night-Sky Images Particles that get discharged from the sun during such geomagnetic storms zip toward Earth at breakneck speed.

The Gregorian calendar doesn't match up perfectly with the position of Earth in its orbit around the sun. As Earth orbits the sun it revolves around its axis at a 23.5-degree angle

so that it is pointed directly toward the sun at the summer solstice directly away from the sun during the winter solstice and at a right angle with the sun on the equinoxes;

that right angle means the sun shines about equal amounts of light across the Northern hemisphere on the equinoxes.

If this trek around the sun took exactly 365 days Earth would be in its autumn equinox position on the same day each year.

Since Earth takes 365.25 days to make a complete journey around the sun the date is slightly different each year.

because their poop was spotted by satellites in 2009 leaving light brown trails on the ice. Lots of chicks This year's penguin count confirms the accuracy of the satellite monitoring Hubert said.

As the universe and space itself expanded the wavelength of this light was stretched into the microwave range to become the<a href=http://www. space. com/23285-galaxies-classification-type-explainer-infographic. html target=blank

Since then the study of the CMB with space-based instruments like COBE WMAP and now the Planck Spacecraft continues to be a rich source of information about the early universe and it s deepest structure.</

</p><p></p><p>After about 400 million years of expansion following the Big bang the universe was cool enough for gravity to begin coalescing clouds of hydrogen into stars igniting nuclear fusion for the first time.

The prodigious outpouring of radiation from the first stars marked the end of the Dark Age

This re-ionization is the fingerprint of the first stars and can be seen in the spectral signatures of quasars in the polarization of the CMB and in the 21-centimeter emission line of hydrogen.</

</p><p>The birth of the first stars marked a turning point in the life of the universe:

from here on the universe took on the features we see today with<a href=http://www. space. com/23285-galaxies-classification-type-explainer-infographic. html target=-blank>galaxies</a>full of stars surrounded by planetary systems.

Stars perform some of the most important work in the cosmos: they manufacture the elements heavier than hydrogen they create planets as part of their own formation

and they provide energy for those planets as our own Sun does for us. We love stars!</

</p><p></p><p>Yellow G-class stars like the sun are a dime a dozen throughout the universe

but only a fraction of them exist as single stars and contain all 92 naturally occurring elements like our sun. Astronomers now have strong evidence from exoplanet research that virtually all stars form planetary systems as a natural part of their own formation

and this agrees with current theories of star formation. But most of the planetary systems observed so far seem weird and inhospitable for life &mdash;

for example with planets the size of Jupiter orbiting much closer than Mercury orbits the sun or five planets packed into a space smaller than Mercury&#39;

s orbit. Astronomers have yet to see a solar system that is neatly ordered like our own with a nice rocky planet located in the sweet spot for liquid water and life.</

</p><p>Just how special is Earth&#39; s situation?</</p><p>The media was recently abuzz

when researchers estimated(<a href=http://www. pnas. org/content/110/48/19273. abstract target=blank>PNAS Nov 26 2013</a>)that there could be 8 billion or 9 billion stars in our galaxy

with Earthlike planets &mdash; about 5 percent of stars &mdash; making the odds very high for intelligent life elsewhere.

Yet no life or evidence of it has ever been found beyond Earth so the jury is still very much out on the questions of how rare

or common the Earth is and how unique humanity may or may not be.</</p><p></p><p>The presence of Carbon-12 in ancient rocks suggests that life began On earth about 3. 8 billion years ago.

This means that DNA or some precursor molecule had assembled and could begin its relentless self-replication that drove the evolution of life.

But how did such a fragile and complex molecule assemble?</</p><p>Organic molecules have now been seen throughout the universe.

They can be found in the spectral signatures of stars and gas clouds and the Murchison<a href=http://www. space. com/23164-supernova-explosion-seeded-solar-system-meteorites. html target=blank>meteorite</a>that fell to Earth in 1969 contained

92 different amino acids most never seen On earth. However it s a giant leap from amino acids to a living organism with a metabolic system that provides energy

Event</a>.Our planet was covered entirely with thick sheets of ice except near the equator

and since iridium is naturally very rare On earth they proposed that it s source was a meteorite that impacted the Earth at this time.

and finally a meteor crater was found near the Yucatan peninsula that was to about the same age.</

</p><p>The<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26955-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-chicxulub-crater. html target=blank>Chicxulub</a>meteor must have been 10 to 15

If not for the chance encounter with a meteor 65 million years ago it is doubtful

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