but they have remained poorly understood because of the difficulty of observations Among the new techniques that have helped to propel the field forward is the use of satellite data:
While the submerged waves raise the surface of the water by less than an inch long-term satellite data can clearly discern this difference.
A resulting 12-hour periodicity is clearly visible in satellite data. Beyond their effects on climate internal waves can play a significant role in sustaining coral-reef ecosystems
and Surveillance Modeling Network found that while some 17.6 million Americans have died since 1964 due to smoking-related causes 8 million lives have been saved
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
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and providing them with the opportunities and advantages they need to excel in areas that they didn't before said lead author Kristy Howe.
The degree of this fragmentation averaged 2. 4 times greater at nest locations in the study area than at random unaltered sites.
and they avoided junipers more so than on random sites. The results of these findings pointed to further increases in raven abundance in formerly natural sagebrush steppe following alterations made by people specifically those associated with energy development and an expanding electric grid.
Overuse can be avoided by redirecting water from larger bodies of water via pipes and distribution networks.
Metropolitan areas look like carbon footprint hurricanes with dark green low-carbon urban cores surrounded by red high-carbon suburbs said Christopher Jones a doctoral student working
The project website includes a tool that calculates carbon footprints for essentially every populated U s. zip code city county
and Energy Upgrade California will be accepting applications for new cities in February. Each city creates their own targeted strategies to reduce barriers
At the source we build innovative intelligence networks across landscapes to preempt and prevent poaching.
and stop trafficking using sniffer dogs apps for customs officials and training for enforcement staff.
This Thanksgiving, Be More Grateful than Wasteful NRDC Switchboard Photo: Flickr/Pink Sherbet Photography
10 ways to get ready for the end of oillast week a reader wrote to me:
For both efficiency upgrades and solar systems, there may be rebates and other incentives available to help with the cost.
In the United states, search the Database of State Incentive for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) to find available opportunities in your area.
and the Web is unavailable and your ipad is nothing but a paperweight. Books on gardening
home repairs, cooking, and every other imaginable sort of how-to books. Good tools and books are hard to find,
Try the Transition Network, The Post Carbon Institute, and  Peak Prosperity.##8: If necessary, reconcile with your family.
Dave Bartlett, the Vice president of IBM's Smarter Buildings Initiative, recently made predictions for the top five building trends that are going to make a big impact in 2012,
For example, IBM is involved in a project in Boston's Backbay to help the neighborhood implement smart grid technology that electronically monitors
According to Bartlett, this system helped IBM identify carbon in unexpected places like in methane leaks from utilities.
IBM â¢s campus in Rochester, Minnesota has implemented this system of transparency. The buildings there take up a massive 3. 2 million square feet,
and IBM takes real time data from over 300,000 data points, combining the results help make the campus as efficient as possible,
Sensor technology, that is coming from the physical infrastructure (like that used on the IBM campus),
is making way for a huge amount of objects that are connected to the Internet that can help people with tasks.
Apps, like the parking app Streetline that helps drivers find available parking spots, use this sensor technology too.
and apps can help them contribute, said Bartlett. He called this environmental crowd sourcing, or the ability of a citizen to use their smartphone to alert the city to building issues,
potholes or water problems by uploading photos or using an app to identify the problem.
Bartlett said that IBM has found that people want to be involved in the improvement of their communities,
and have been very receptive to the apps that have been introduced so far. Â Just as smarter buildings and smarter neighborhoods are the building blocks of smarter cities
people are as well. Prediction 4: More energy options for buildings Bartlett predicts that in the near future,
This method was implemented on IBM's campus, following a new sustainability mandate. I think that it is said really cool
IBM has been working with New york city a city whose buildings are much more responsible for green house gasses than many other cities due to its density,
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.
Aires Almeida/Flickr, IBM
A capitalist's view on water conservation (or, why a price on water is impractical) Laura Shenkar,
Those  early streams of success. The Internet 20 years ago was not one concept,
 The difference with water is that the Internet is a nice thing to have,
Look at the cell phone--they sell them incredibly in Asia and Africa. But that was only when it was developed and matured and proven in the developed world.
Look at Google. It's really changed the world in a lot of good ways. But they never set out to do that.
and syncs with your smartphone without the use of wires. With nary a rubberized extrusion or brightly-colored part (indicating it's for sport),
Vu left his Ph d program in Linguistics at the  Massachusetts  Institute of technology (where he studied under Noam Chomsky) to start his own software company.
Before long, Vu diversified into hardware with a second startup company, Â Agamatrix, a pioneering mobile health company known for making the first glucose meter for Apple's iphone.
In the last 10 years, Agamatrix has amassed   a value of some $300 million,
The device is wireless by design, but its exterior material makes it difficult to transmit and receive signals.
Vu and company worked around this hurdle by allowing the wearer to place the Shine on their Apple iphone.
When a corresponding app is launched, the device will begin transferring its data automatically. We were inspired by a scene from Iron man 2,
and he puts a flash drive on a TV screen and the information just flows out of it.
Via Co. Design Photos: Philips, Antaean/Flickr
A year after Fukushima, how life in Japan has told changedas to Laura Shin by Yuki Kokubo Yuki Kokubo is based a Brooklyn filmmaker who focuses on social and environmental issues.
How people find reliable information A lot of people have become skeptical of NHK, the big television network in Japan.
People are reading blogs, and Twitter is huge. I can't read Japanese very well, but I have come across citizen journalists who have become very visible activists on Twitter.
For more information on Kokubo's film, see her site: www. kasamayakifilm. com. photo: Top:
We started this blog called, Are you Done with That, like when a waiter asks you if you â¢re done with your meal.
and vegetables grown on site. Completing this holistic system, food harvested from the Urban Food Jungle can be used to supply local restaurants.
or creating a market could attract more people to the site to make it an economically productive urban use.
Develop local financing options for rooftop PV and residential efficiency upgrades through local banks and credit unions.
Create biking-and walking-friendly live/work districts in core urban areas, with easy access to public transportation,
answered a few questions on a touch screen about my insurance and emergency contacts, selected my appointment for the day,
shying away from computers and never having the right records available. That's only money
and the computer is faster than the human. Also smarter. It always knows my co-pay,
It's a TABLET PC, a classic Microsoft windows application, custom built for Allscripts. The staff told me that they clock in with a fingerprint reader.
or nurse talking to a computer or tablet. We're extending the edges of where the EHR reaches:
or connect VPN (virtual private network) to the clinic. So how do we make it easier?
And for doctors, we should make it electronically easy for them to pick up their smart phone,
I think with the new wave of devices like ipads and digital pens, a challenge is figuring out what to do.
Given the amazing capabilities of an ipad, what should do to have the biggest impact on health care?
We need to come up with ways we can use information technology as every other industry uses it today.
Allscripts Remote (for the Android, iphone) is another. Allscripts Referral Network is another way. Our CEO is impatient;
he wants to change health care, and wants to change it now. Rather than waiting for a national clearinghouse to exist,
how about just connecting the 180,000 physicians who use Allscripts software? We started about a year,
steer away from the Internet and send you a handwritten statement every month. What's your next move?
Ma â¢s IPE has developed pollution databases and online maps that give citizens and companies doing business in China,
It followed with two databases of air and water pollution violation records spanning years. The initial response was tepid by the public
and our Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
 The databases gave journalists and environmental activists in China easy, quick access to government pollution records.
and that he hoped to spark by using the Internet was not immediate. While doing an environmental consulting job for Western companies that used Chinese factories,
and in 2008 it began using IPE â¢s database to identify factories in its supply chain that were problematic.
the information provided by IPE â¢s databases was a powerful tool the retailing titan could use to help clean up its supply chain.
Alcatel and Nokia began working with IPE â¢s databases to make more informed choices about Chinese business partners, the world â¢s largest company,
They provided details of Foxconn workers being hospitalized after cleaning Apple's ipad and iphone touch screens with dangerous chemicals and highlighted high rates of suicide among the workers to paint a portrait of dire working conditions.
They also documented sometimes outrageous pollution. Â Using data collected by Ma, a number of significant environmental violations at companies that made parts
Our farting microbes are farting methane to power our generator which in turn feeds into the distillery's electrical distribution network this also fuels Reynier's electric car.
Wikipedia Commons and Flickr/Joshua Rappeneker
Apple bakes fitness deeper into its ipod nano device with Nike+Ten years after its debut, Apple is integrating fitness more deeply into its line of ipods.
and data is uploaded to the Nike+website. The company has sold more than 300 million ipods. Internet-connected devices are taking off,
thanks in part to more affordable sensors that can be attached to appliances, toys and other gadgets.
For instance, Withings, a French developer of Wi-fi enabled scales and blood glucose monitors keeps track of users'bodies and Fitbit,
The awareness that Apple will bring to market will likely just increase demand for fitness-related gadget and apps.
Already, the ios health and fitness app space is expected to expand from 9, 000 to 13,000 healthcare-related apps by next year, according to Mobihealthnews.
Self service health technology will become more and more common as the cost of sensors decrease and ubiquity of smartphone software increases,
meaning that there will be more startups leveraging low cost computation on smart phones, sound, position and phone attachments for self-service outcomes.
Baking fitness apps into ios devices will allow those already using the tech to start tracking their fitness.
At Health 2. 0, apps for helping you sleep, breathe better Three consumer health apps that you should know about Wellnessfx launches with a platform that can help you lead a healthier life
Apple prepares to pull Evi from the App Storeevi, the Siri-like iphone and Android app, is gong to be pulled from the itunes App store,
Techcrunch reports from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Apple has approved versions of Evi for the App store many times,
but on Friday evening True Knowledge received a call from Apple representative Richard Chipman saying that Apple is going to pull Evi from the store
because it was took similar to Siri. True Knowledge launched the artificial intelligence app in January, 2012,
and all though Siri and Evi do not use the same search engine, they both use the same Nuance's voice recognition technology.
The Evi app appear confusingly similar to Siri, but their functions have a few differences. Evi is unable to do tasks like adding information to your calendar,
but unlike Siri, Evi  will provide you a list of recopies with web links
whether or not you want to search the web to find and answer. The rule being cited for pulling the app is number 8. 4 in the App store's T&cs where it says that apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product
or advertising theme will be rejected I don't think it takes too much of a leap of the imagination to realize that'confusingly similar'is code for'competitive with,
Right now, about 200,000 Apple users have purchased already the app without the ability to get updates.
Evi is still on Apple's App store, and although iphone users will not be able to continue using Evi the app will still available for Android users
Apple submits detailed proposal for'Spaceship'campusas NASA puts its historic spaceship mission to rest,
According to Cupertino's website, the proposal includes plans for a research and development building that is 2. 8 million square feet, a thousand seat auditorium,
while reducing the building's overall footprint on the site. The office will run on it's own on-site central power plant,
Our actions from thorough site audits to industry-leading training programs demonstrate this commitment. Apple requires that suppliers follow their principles and standards of a'supplier code of conduct'.
Via WSJ) Photo credit: Jason Ralston/Flickr
Apple will begin manufacturing Macs in U s. next yearin a wide-ranging interview, Apple CEO Tim cook tells Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple will begin manufacturing some of its products in the United states. N ext year we are going to bring some production to the U s. on the Mac.
Apple already  manufactures some parts for some products in the U s.--including the processor for the ipad and iphone in Texas and glass for Apple products in Kentucky.
an entire line of computers will be manufactured in the U s. Cook says that the move will be a $100 million investment.
It's legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams, of course. And it's no surprise that Jobs
Frog Design's Adam Richardson reminds us over at the company's Design Mind blog of the huge debt owed by Jobs,
senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive and the rest of the Apple design team to Rams'modern, minimal and rational approach to solving problems.
Rams'rationalist and minimalist approach design is emblematic of Modernist design of the first half of the twentieth century.
Rams'10 principles of good design are as follows:..is innovative. Design is not an end in an of itself;
In the 2009 documentary Objectified, Rams outlines his philosophy further: Unsurprisingly, director Gary Hustwit cuts from Rams to Ive:
Which begs the question: if Rams'approach is so successful, why do so many product manufacturers fail to learn from him?
Is it a lack of confidence that a product designed to avoid attention can be successful?(
as well as  Sophie Lovell's new book on Rams
Apple's retail interest signifies Brazil's growthapple will open its first retail store in Brazil by Mid-march, according to press reports.
An iphone 5 costs over US$1, 000 in Brazil due to its government's decision to discourage imports.
However, IDC found that Brazilians are now buying around 21 million smartphones annually, so the potential market is substantial.
Android has around a 56%market share compared to Apple's 0. 4%,Kantar Worldpanel,
and has worked with regulators to bring its latest phones to market in Brazil earlier than usual.
who wield gadgets including iphones 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.
when it comes to replacing personal service with that of a computer. We survive without a ticket agent at the airport, a cashier at the grocery store and a teller at the bank.
and a touch screen for those who hadn't ordered remotely. Nater pulled out his iphone
and entered Melanie as the pick-up name so the robot would announce that the drink he was about to order was for me.
Customers place (and pay for) orders on their computer, mobile device or at the kiosk touch screen. When they open an account,
Numbers on the screen flashed quickly like digits on a blood pressure monitor, measuring things like temperature, pressure
So passengers will be able to get on their mobile apps and place the order while they're standing in the security line.
and Nater pulled out his ipad, showing me renderings of the new Briggo robot, which was designed by an internationally recognized industrial design firm.
The new version includes countless upgrades. It will run totally unmanned, 24/7 (for the ER doctor at the hospital or the late-arriving passenger at the train station).
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,
for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agro-business. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,
Thus, the Trakã Â r could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina
and a processor to run the show. The Trakã Â r is no exception. Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
and the amount of remaining chemical to a computer outside the greenhouse, where an operator directs the Trakã Â r virtually.
or cameras and algorithms or satellite GPS, this is guided by a cable that emits a electromagnetic signal.
Smarter sprinklers help your garden growpodcast Your browser does not support the audio element. My husband and I live in San francisco. The lawn in our backyard is the size of a coffee table.
The two groups have separate databases where Dove team logs each incident. Commercial airlines report strikes on a voluntary basis;
identify it and then email the field person with the ID, Dove says. If it just blood or tissue, we send it to the DNA lab
the information is entered into a database and sent to the airfield where the strike occurred.
Software helps land managers see the trees for the forestwhen it comes to asset management, things like forests and woodlands are in a league of their own.
and software to optimize its land use for years. But more recently, over the past decade, it has looked externally to Remsoft, Fredericton, New brunswick,
Remsoft's software which is used by both the private and public sectors, can help a company like Weyerhaeuser
The software helps document the software of information needed for environmental compliance. It can also help land management
In one recent project, the software helped guide a landowner's harvesting practices in order to improve the rate of return on that harvest by 35 basis points
forest operations analyst for the State of Washington, had to say about the software as part of a published Remsoft case study:
Our stakeholders like the transparency of the modeling provided by the spatial utilities and open programming environment.
which has been using Remsoft's software in Canada for about 12 years, in Uruguay for eight years and is now bring the application into its core operating units in the United states
. Although the company was at first reluctant to look outside for this technology, its plans to extend the software's use throughout the organization are a testament as to how the application has improved returns.
In some cases, Weyerhaeuser is able to return twice as much per acre as its competitors,
A complete list of times and locations is available on the city website here. Recycling points in Parisian parks
, in the future site of Alexandria Center west tower, where construction was suspended temporarily due to lack of financing.
How many of these sites are available in New york city? There are over 600. It called the Stalled Sites Program.
Because so many real estate plans were slowed down or stopped, instead of letting developers lose their permits, this program gives you a couple years to pause the development until financing can be obtained.
You can do anything with this land until you re ready to develop. This plot of land eventually will be a building,
How long will you be able to stay at this site? We know at a minimum we have the full next season.
have heard you from developers interested in doing this? We re doing this because we wanted to create food for the restaurant
Apple, Google, Facebook and Samsung all have plans for new, striking and audacious, headquarters or additions.
the same firm behind Google and Samsung's projects, is to create an alternative environment where employees can work
Meanwhile, Google is building a 1. 1-million-square-foot headquarters called Bay View near its current complex in Mountain view,
Google is pulling out all the stops in this new facility and promises to break new ground in environmental sustainability, reported Bloomberg.
will occupy a 42-acre site, including eight acres of bayside salt marshes the company plans to restore and open to the public.
Startup brings farmers markets to your doorgood Eggs delivers from farm to table Online services are delivering groceries, takeout and even ice cream trucks.
but Good Egg makes it a daily occurrence by delivering orders directly to the consumer or designated pickup sites.
which are listed on its Web page, include mandates such as working with the seasons, no artificial ingredients, no antibiotics for animals, cage free birds and no GMO ingredients or hormones.
Rob Spiro, the former product lead for Google+and cofounder of social search engine Aardvark (Google acquired it) founded the company.
There a lot of demand for things made of wood--watches, iphone covers. It like a return to nature, says Sergio Ora, the Italian agent for Shwood.
It even makes computer cases for Apple's Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. The Madrid-based company now sells its bags, jackets and shoes in stores like Barney's
She just developed a collection, available at her Web site and at London's Dorchester Hotel.
Mick Peel Via: Adventure Journal
Super bug bacteria in meat and poultry, study saysif you grab chicken or some other meat from the grocery store,
Scientists hope they won't be the only one. via TGEN News Photo: procsilas Related on Smartplanet:
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by expanding the network of farmer's markets, we could see a further groundswell around the support for organic foods.
Lots of investments in mobile telecom; many Africans want bank access but aren't near brick-and-mortar branches.
Linkã Â ping's mayor, Paul Lindvall, said at the groundbreaking ceremony that he's proud his city has been chosen as the site for the greenhouse and as a testbed for urban agriculture solutions for other cities, as well.
an iphone? Derek Peterson sure hopes that may someday be the case. The 36-year-old former investment banks is CEO of Growop,
nutrient injectors and even an app that allows owners to control all these processes remotely from their iphone.
Metaphorically speaking, he's betting the farm that the next revolution in agriculture will be more about software and machines than soil and irrigation.
Greek yogurt is the yogurt du jour-according to NPR's blog The Salt, the past five years have seen Greek yogurt sales swell to about a quarter of the yearly yogurt market.
Via: NPR, The Salt Image: imallergic, Flickr
Teenagers from Swaziland snag $50, 000 prize for hydroponic systemhow many teenagers have $50, 000 just laying around?
the two students won the money in Scientific American's first ever Science in Action contest at the Google Science Fair for developing a hydroponics system to help local farmers.
On their website they explain that Mahlalela's family lives in a rural region of Swaziland.
Scientific American's Budding Scientist blog spoke with the two winners (they spoke with them before they knew they won the award.
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.
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