The Guinness Book of World records recently certified that the tallest tower in the world is indeed the Sky Tree which stands in Tokyo, Japan.
A work in progress since 2006, the Sky Tree was constructed to be a radio and television tower
while at the same time helping to revitalize tourism after the earthquakes and tsunami the country experienced. Sporting two observation decks, at 1, 148 feet and 1
It s because the Sky Tree is technically not a building but a tower, it captured it s own world record#You may be saying to yourself,
#Representatives of the project have assured the public that the Sky Tree can withstand quakes of up to 8. 0 in magnitude.
With nine different television broadcasters and three FM transmitters, the Sky Tree s main purpose is to enable terrestrial broadcasting to the city again,
The figures 6 (mu), 3 (sa), 4 (shi) when translated into Japanese stand for Musashi#an old name of the region where the Tokyo Sky Tree stands. via National geographic Share Thissubscribedel. icio
Wind Turbine Repair Techs The proliferation of windmills around the world will dramatically drive the demand for repair techs who are not afraid of heights
Geoengineers Weather Control Specialists We are moving past the age of meteorology and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.
and protect against erosion in ways annual plants and their skimpy root structures simply cannot.
However he added there was hope of reversing the rising tide of health problems saying: The opportunity for prevention is not an unrealistic expectation.
and built with the combined efforts of Ecologic and Stratasys in the UK. Tissue engineers create artificial blood vessels on a 3d printer Tissue engineers are now printing#new body parts,
and harvesting of their crops is not the same precision they use to control their growing environment.
and our personal information cloud will handle the details. Product variations will be driven by consumer demand,
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And all of this for relatively little environmental benefits, if any. In short: Making fuel with food is madness,
cities and our natural environment. HP will take its first step toward this goal in about two years, according to Pete Hartwell,
and now wind rights future farmers will also have the option of selling information rights.
but also help save the environment. They have launched a three million euro (£2. 65 million) project to promote the eating of insects
and that flying insects should be regarded as shrimps of the sky#.#Old sources of protein will be feed insufficient to the growing world population,
because their pods are sealed essentially environments. They recycle water so they only use 10%of that consumed by traditional farms.
Backhaus says they plan on exploring rain water collection methods so that each pod captures all the water they need for their crops.
In the meantime, an old shipping container around the corner that provides the neighborhood with fresh lettuce sounds just perfect.
#Veatch said the autonomous system holds the possibility of 24-hour planting during often rare good weather in April.
With Iowa weather, there are only narrow windows for planting and harvesting. You need more innovative equipment for more production.#
For the picky eater, theres always yogurt-covered granola bars. 7. Chicken soup Feeling a bit under the weather?
Running that same application today in Amazons cloud costs about $1, 500 a month. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services
while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. This problem is even worse than it looks
However 10.8 billion tonnes is released as a consequence of deforestation as trees are chopped down and a further 28 billon tonnes is generated by cars, factories and other sources of fossil fuels.
Dr Simon Lewis, a tropical ecologist from the University of Leeds and co-author of the study
said trees are much more important to tacking climate change than previously thought. He pointed out that halting deforestation
and planting more trees could make a huge different. Humans are altering the worlds forests in a number of ways,
from their outright destruction to the much more subtle impacts on even the most remote forests caused by global changes to the environment.
which highlights the critical role forests play in the global cycling of carbon and therefore the speed and severity of future climate change.
if schemes to reduce deforestation are successful they would have significant positive global impacts, as would similar efforts promoting forest restoration.#
Burning strips of paper swirled into the hot summer sky as they carry the names of the dead above a temple in Fukushima where thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the omnipresent radiation.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant some 50 km away suffered a series of core meltdowns and explosions after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems,
It is as if an invisible snow had fallen on Fukushima and continued to fall, covering the area,
This snow, which doesnt melt, brought a long, long winter to Fukushima.##Some 80,000 people were forced to evacuate from a vast swathe of land around the reactor as engineers battled radiation leaks,
which their spirits are reunited symbolically#with their neighborhood, and encouraged temple visitors to take home flowers and seeds of their own.
when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50%more electricity,
The detrimental impact that GMO cultivation has on our environment is widespread including creating dead zones where biodiversity is abolished all but and the contamination of heirloom and organic seeds with GMO varieties.
#Are we ready for a true Cloud Phone? Off on a cloud with your phone.
As we approach the fall, all the rumors of the Apple empire descend upon us. And this year may be the craziest yet because for the first time since the iphones inception,
The icloud iphone will rely heavily on Apples new cloud based offering, and less on internal storage.
if the world is ready for a cloud-based smartphone? And theres a side question:
what if this cloud phone is a data-only device? To the first question, with Apple rolling out icloud this fall, the timing could be right.
Apple hasnt turned on things like music streaming from the cloud yet, but they easily could.
Local bees have adapted to this environment. Theyre the survivors.##City governments, won over by beekeepers passion,
#but they say likely culprits include pathogens, parasites, environmental strains and bee management practices that cause poor nutrition.
where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition.
It could be in a New york high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert.
floods and the cost of energy required to plant, fertilize, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable.
Climate change makes long-term crop planning uncertain. Farmers in many parts of the world already are draining available water resources to the last drop.
herbs and house plants in enclosed and regulated environments where even natural light is excluded. In their research station, strawberries, yellow peppers, basil and banana plants take on an eerie pink glow under red and blue bulbs of Light-emitting diodes
In a larger climate chamber#a few miles away, a nursery is nurturing cuttings of fittonia, a colorful house plant, in two layers of 70 square meters (750 sq. feet) each.
Dickson Despommier, a retired Columbia University professor of environmental health and author of the 2010 book The Vertical Farm,#began working on indoor farming as a classroom project in 1999,
eliminating the need to transport it long distances at great costs of fuel and spoilage and with little dependency on the immediate climate.
manufactured by the chemical giant Dupont and okayed for use by the EPA, is causing mass tree deaths in a number of vulnerable species across the US#UPI reports:
because it was claimed to be safer for the environment than predecessors#Amy Frankmann, head of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, said she has seen not such widespread tree death since the emerald ash borer ravaged ash trees.
To envision how this silver tsunami will challenge a youth-oriented society, just consider that seniors soon will outnumber schoolchildren in hip,
They need to live in an environment that allows them to participate.##In East Harlem, a yellow school bus pulls up to a curb and 69-year-old Jenny Rodriguez climbs off.
#More than 200 times, school buses have taken older adults from senior centers to supermarkets in different neighborhoods.
if seniors who live in a walkable neighborhood really are healthier as a result. He has found that social capital#think friendly neighbors,
low crime and good sidewalks that encourage getting out#is as important to older residents as access to supermarkets, public transportation and good housing.
We cannot control the weather or economy or government spending. But we can control how we execute
The environmental impacts of cultured meat could be substantially lower than those of meat produced in the conventional way,
Tuomisto is correct in her assumption that conventional animal raising methods have a terrible environmental impact.
grass-fed operations is helping to not only decrease negative environmental impact, but also to improve environmental conditions by bolstering soil quality
and restoring the integrity of grass and pasture lands. Encouraging more small-scale, pasture-based farms will not only help to make individuals more self-sufficient,
they will also reverse the negative environmental impact created by factory-scale farms that are polluting the environment,
and with our ecological values. They are all set in the forest where we live, a refinement of the local conditions.
It is the story of three men from the urban environment who look to get back to their roots by building a tree house together.
TX Its no surprise that Austin kept its second-place ranking from last year#ts a way-cool progressive city in a warm and sunny climate.
and nothing beats the clear night skies of the Iowa plains for stargazing. Des Moiness low unemployment rate of 6. 1 percent is partly due to big employers in the insurance industry,
Seattle gets a bad rap for its rainfall, but the steady precipitation results in lush vegetation, earning Seattle the nickname the Emerald City#and serving up plenty of locally grown goodness.
the weather is mild and perfect for heading to the nearly 5, 500 acres of parks.
Here in the United states, too, the climate may be shifting. In a statement accompanying the announcement of the Johns Hopkins findings, Jerome Jaffe, a former White house drug czar now at the University of Maryland School of medicine
The fog has lifted.##The best thing it did for me was heal me psychologically and emotionally and allow me to be back in my kids lives,
Fruit prices in Australia were up 24.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter and vegetable prices 18.7 percent (due in part to floods;
and other toxic chemicals,#said Dr. Phillip Landrigan, director of the Childrens Environmental Health Center at Mount sinai School of medicine in New york city.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
is registered also with EPA. In two recent scientific publications, when oil of lemon eucalyptus was tested against mosquitoes found in the US it provided protection similar to repellents with low concentrations of DEET.
and approved for individual use by the Environmental protection agency (EPA). Oil of lemon eucalyptus is plant-based repellent oil made from leaves of Eucalyptus citriodora.
This means that bees and their stingers could become important to making better environmental sensors.
but also could be useful environmental sensors. Its certainly an interesting use of venom especially after we recently saw that scorpion venom can be used to create pesticides.
The sky rocketing price of corn, which has shot up nearly 50 percent in the past couple of months,
But more than the underlying economics of tournaments are the fluid social environments that are evolving around us.
Wind sculptures are a novel art form; designed around an artists ability to mesh mechanical movement with the power of the wind in a grace and beauty that captures the mind.
Each visit to this park will seem different, with artwork flowing and sculptures moving to the rhythm of nature.
Brilliant thoughts are triggered more easily in creative environments, and live music provides a great triggering mechanism.
In a retail environment, are inclined shoppers more to come to a place where the shopping experience helps convey the brand and the image,
when environmental impact statements on biotech crops are outsourced to the GMO industry itself? The U s. is already cultivating 165 million acres of genetically modified crops, up 7 million acres from just two years ago.
which will outsource environmental impact statements on biotech crops to the GMO industry. Obviously, biotech companies are thrilled with the idea#Once the industry conducts its own crop environmental impact statements
which will no doubt paint a glowing picture of each Round up Ready gem, it will present the assessment to the USDA in the hopes that they will approve the assessment.
According to Karen Batra of the Biotechnology industry Organization Oregon-based ag journal Capitol Press, Under the agencys new two-year pilot project, biotech developers would conduct their own environmental assessment of transgenic crops
while it finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets effect on other crops and the environment.#
According to Grist, Judge White warned that environmental impact statements on crops were being conducted too fast,
It was reported this week by the Environmental Working group that three studies published simultaneously all came to the same eye-opening conclusion.
EWG explains how the latest findings are a direct failing of the EPA: Between 1999 and 2003, EPA put in place restrictions on the most toxic organophosphate pesticides on crops and in homes.
In 2006 the Agency concluded those restrictions would be sufficient to protect childrens health, but these studies show further restrictions over the use of organophosphates in agriculture may be necessary to protect kids health.
For years, EPA used complex models to assure us that pesticide exposures were said safe Environmental Working group senior scientist Sonya Lunder.
These studies strongly suggest that kids remain at risk. The next time EPA and the pesticide industry tell you all is well with the food system
dont rush to believe them.##As a starting point for what produce to avoid if you cant eat entirely organic,
The health benefits go beyond just small amounts of food, to improving air quality, the natural environment and providing healthy exercise.
Add to it a safe environment for creative ideas to flourish, a few resident experts to answer questions, some tools for breathing life into ideas,
Planning for a Rainy day While residents are indeed seeing some of the revenue overflow returned to them via income tax and property tax cuts,
but I also dont think every states residents would be so behind saving current revenue for a rainy day.
#Wind Turbines Contributing to Decline of Bat Population Wind turbines are a major threat to bats.
Wind turbines are killing many thousands of bats contributing to a population decline that may be costing farmers millions of pounds,
Scientists found the blades of wind turbines were a major threat to bats particularly when they are migrating.
Several migratory tree-living species of bats were being slaughtered in unprecedented numbers#by wind turbines said the researcher.
when theyre up by the wind. They have wings and can fly far,##Leskey says.
who serves on the Childrens Health Protection Advisory Committee for the Environmental protection agency. Moms and dads will say,
companies reduce their environmental impact. Pepsi says the new plastic will cost about the same as traditional plastic.
Its one of several steps Pepsico has taken recently to reduce its environmental impact. The company created a fully compostable bag for its Sunchips line.
making yields as variable as the rainfall. But since most wheat is winter wheat, which is planted in the fall,
and early March rains and snow have lessened the drought effect, we could easily see Chinas wheat harvest drop from 115 million tons last year to 110 million tons this year.
which is rapidly changing due to climate change and deforestation, said study leader David Hughes, an entomologist at Penn State university.
Hughes and colleagues made the discovery after noticing a wide diversity of fungal growths emerging from ant victims,
We need to ramp up sampling#specially given the perilous state of the environment.##Healthy Camponotus rufipes ants scamper across a Brazilian forest floor.
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#Mcdonaldâ##s â Oatmealâ#Has 11 Weird Ingredients, More Sugar Than a Snickers An oatmeal dont.
dark environment so the device has a second, ambient sensor which scans the surrounding area to ensure it is dark enough for the UV light to be activated.
Its the tip of the iceberg,#Lipshultz ventured. How many people take the time to call a poison control center
One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse effect. The polar ice caps had melted all but;
These Antarctic ecosystems were adapted to the long months of winter darkness that occur at the poles,
One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse effect. The polar ice caps had melted all but;
These Antarctic ecosystems were adapted to the long months of winter darkness that occur at the poles,
he stumbled over fossil plants on the Beardmore Glacier at 82 degrees south. The extra weight of these specimens may have been a factor in his untimely demise.
Hot weather. Once the weather turns hot, pea production will pretty much shut down. Grow peas in early spring and late summer/autumn,
and fall in most areas#hot weather will cause them to bolt. In addition, many of these greens are members of the Brassicas family,
#After piling the snow over 100#high, Barry realized he couldnt find his car...Nothing says gross supermarket#quite like kiwi fruit with hairy backs...
since tracking rains and droughts began. However, researchers are now saying that the drought the region struggled through in 2010 was likely even worse.
The impact of two major droughts within a decade could mean that the rainforest so important to carbon capture could be hitting an irreversible downward spiral.
but is unfortunately consistent with those climate models that project a grim future for Amazonia.#
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And we think that#we have not even had a chance to read the whole thing Ecological Impact Statement report about GE alfalfa over the weekend.
hitting record levels last month as a jittery market reacted to unpredictable weather and tight supplies, according to a United nations report released Thursday.
an economist and the grain expert at F. A o. People dont trust anyone to tell them about the harvest and the weather,
Volatile weather patterns often attributed to climate change are wreaking havoc with some harvests. Heavy rains in Australia damaged wheat to the extent that much of its usually high-quality crop has been downgraded to feed, experts noted.
This has pushed the demand and prices for American wheat much higher, with the best grades selling at 100 percent more than they were a year ago,
Even positive news, like good rains in Argentina and a strong harvest in Africa, has failed to keep prices from rising.
are working on to reduce the carbon tire track that autos leave on the environment#For instance,
#However, the cost of petroleum rose at the same time as interest in protecting the environment, and Ford decided to jump on the green trend with some success. Currently,
and that helps the environment.##Green plastics are a growing part of the car market, and Mielewski says it may be possible to actually grow car parts.
The weather was cited also as a deterrent. Kids Closer to Nature Campaign The survey complied by Onepoll was commission by Arla Foods UK,
The companys environmental targets for its own operations are a 34%reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020
with aerial photographs giving a glimpse of people whove had known no contact with anyone except their tribal neighbors.
an environmental-and-cultural-conservation group that works in southeastern Peru. Fagan said the photographs are important for providing documentation of the group,
demand for which fuels deforestation of tribal territories. Man in the Garden A closer view shows the man in clearer detail,
smart people who want to work in an industrial environment is not easy, #he said. Laval said the local workforce-training system,
environmental science and chemistry#in an effort to make the material relevant both to the lives of students and to the needs of employers.
Devin Blizzard the programs executive director, said part of the idea is to make students career-ready.
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the head of the universitys Environmental Education and Bird Research center, told the state-run Anatolia news agency recently.
Its health giving properties were also much less likely to be affected by changes in the weather.
Organic supermarket milk showed higher levels of nutritionally beneficial fatty acids compared with ordinary#milk regardless of the time of year or weather conditions.
the researchers discovered the surprising link between milk quality and our changing climate. Their results suggest that
who are part of the Universitys Nafferton Ecological Farming Group and its Human Nutrition Centre, looked at the quality of 88 different milks in supermarkets across North East England at varying times of year over a two-year period.
The FAO reports that there are more than1000 edible insect species. Insects can provide protein in the diet at a much lower environmental cost than traditional livestock, such as cows, pigs, or sheep.
Food deserts, often located in impoverished urban environments, are areas where residents have little access to fresh fruits
when policies present difficult, costly or time-consuming obstacles to innovative and holistic projects and neighborhood food security.
We are close to a zero-waste environment, a zero-landfill environment,#said Matthew Homyak, a cofounder of Stag Dining.
As far as employees are concerned, volunteers work the events for now, but there are ambitions to become a thriving legal business,
It really changes the way you view the natural environment, #he said. Via New york times Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati s
Bumblebees can fly in colder weather than other species, and are key to pollinating native species in the tundra and at high elevations,
This technology could also sniff out minuscule amounts of environmental toxins before they hit critical mass,
the app world is weighted an ecology heavily toward a few winners. A quarter of the respondents said they had made less than $200 in lifetime revenue from Apple.
Half a ton of his Sky Greens bok choy and Chinese cabbages grown inside 120 slender 30-foot towers,
who directs their the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center. The limiting factor is light. The total food produced depends on the amount of light reaching plants.
The Sky Greens vegetables are flying off the shelves, #reports Channel Newsasia#perhaps because the vertical veggies are fresher than most available in Singapore,
The strong winds that buffet the island#mentioned in the Iliad ##and the lack of natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its history.
At sunset, they either visited neighbors or neighbors visited them. Their diet was also typical:
a breakfast of goat s milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread. Lunch was almost always beans (lentils, garbanzos), potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion or a spinachlike green called horta) and whatever seasonal vegetables their garden produced;
your neighbor has no problem disciplining them. There is less crime, not because of good policing, but because of the risk of shaming the family.
fish from the same sea as their neighbors on Ikaria. But people on Samos tend to live no longer than average Greeks.
At day s end, you ll share a cup of the seasonal herbal tea with your neighbor because that s what he s serving.
Your neighbors will cajole you out of your house for the village festival to eat your portion of goat meat.
they need to live in an ecosystem, so to speak, that makes it possible. As soon as you take culture, belonging
The power of such an environment lies in the mutually reinforcing relationships among lots of small nudges and default choices.
but then he warned me that some of his neighbors were coming over for a drink in a few minutes
#Eliminate the worry of harming the environment or beneficial insects with Dragon Juice Dragon Juice naturally helps eliminate many common plant problems.
Up to 90 per cent of tropical deforestation can be attributed to organized crime, which controls up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade, according to a new report from the United nations Environment Program.
For years, environmental regulators thought that illegal logging was decreasing worldwide. But they were just looking in the wrong places,
says Christian Nelleman, author of the 27 september report from the United nations Environment Program. Import and export records don t tell the whole truth
he says. When the report s authors factored in the impact of sophisticated concealment techniques of the kind used by drug cartels,
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