Instead of clear skies and open air, our atmosphere could be filled with lacy meshwork that filters air
and renews the environment. Technical crafts made possible by new research in thermodynamics are now presenting remarkable new opportunities for architectural designers to work with air
Exploring new chemical reactions within dynamic gaseous and fluid environments British and Danish artificial life researchers such as Rachel Armstrong and Martin Hanczyc are designing#oeprotocells#a mix of chemicals
The glasswork houses a carbon capture system that works in much the same way that limestone is deposited by living marine environments.
and interact with their surroundings. A new city capable of handling unstable conditions where it could shed heat,
and harsher environmental conditions we will have to battle with, and it becomes vividly clear that our current food production systems will be taken by storm very soon.
Last month, the UN released a comprehensive 185-page document advocating the rearing of edible insects to be used as food by humans
which may help reduce environmental contamination. And to cap it all the risk that insects may transmit zoonotic infections may well be less significant than the very real risk posed by cattle, pig and poultry, from
now that you know how it can help the environment, consolidate your diet and potentially pull people out of poverty?
and even export surpluses to their neighbors. The mounting evidence of this historic reversal is impossible to ignore.
Ken Sakwa, a farmer in eastern Uganda, profitably farms a dozen plots he leases from neighbors
The flood of well-educated people going into farming has sped up the absorption of new technology across the board.
farmers in central Malawi who had relied previously on rain to water their crops learned the benefits of spooning water directly onto their plants.
In highly fertile Uganda, where ample rains permit three growing seasons annually, the government has encouraged exports to neighboring Kenya, Rwanda,
#Jessica says. 9. Climate change has an upside Harsher environments will force African farmers (and their counterparts around the world) to work smarter
He describes such efforts by farmers in parched Niger as#oethe biggest environmental transformation in Africa.#
#Climate change can also be managed by greater reliance on drought-tolerant crops. Here, hearty cassava is a natural choice.
Indeed, hotter temperatures and and less rain may actually result in higher cassava yields, according to climate scientist Andy Jarvis, lead author of a 2012 paper in the journaltropical Plant Biology.
Jarvis and fellow researchers at the International Center for Tropical agriculture, headquartered near Cali, Colombia, found that cassava outperformed potatoes, maize, beans, bananas, millet,
and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models. The best hedge against potential food shortages created by climate change?
Bringing Africa s hundreds of millions of hectares of fertile unused farmland into production. 10.
The discovery that changing the bacterial environment, or microbiota, in the gut can affect the brain carries significant implications for future research that could point the way toward dietary
#oeour findings indicate that some of the contents of yogurt may actually change the way our brain responds to the environment.
or gut environment, than people who eat the more typical Western diet that is high in fat and carbohydrates,
Hey, who turned on the wind!..Drag racing, where it s much more about the drag than the racing!..
what s good for the farmer is good for the environment, #writes Lisa Park, a spokeswoman for TNC.
#Farmers and the environment profit. Yet the central technology in this effortvariable rate irrigation (VRI) wasn t a commercial endeavor delivered directly to farmers clamoring for the technology.
Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit and environmental protection.#
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The key is an alarm pheromone that some species of wild plant have evolved to mimic the chemical warning signals put out by aphids#a major crop pest in the temperate zones
But critics question their environmental, social and economic impacts. Researchers, farmers activists and GM seed companies all stridently promote their views,
As soon as you introduce plastic substrates you have all kinds of issues with sensitivity to the environment
When we talk about commercializing Willow a big part of our development activity is enabling the ecosystem to handle
The ecosystem needs to be trained to handle it. He sees demand, particularly from video gamers, for Willow-based curved screens,
This behavior follows a clear pattern in China in the case of environmental catastrophe, and is one of the single leading causes of anti-government sentiment in the country.
No country is immune to environmental catastrophes, but that doesn t mean we shouldn t try to draw conclusions to them.
Hurricane Katrina in the United states resulted from a terrible storm#ut also from a chronic government underinvestment in infrastructure as well as an incompetent federal emergency-management organization.
China s government seems unable to prevent the environmental catastrophes that most threaten their hold on power.
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#oebacteria, fungi, lots of these things we think of as bad#they re all part of our environment,
#oeit s some interaction between the genes and the environment that s causing these rates to skyrocket.#
#But researchers can t say which particular interactions with the environment help prevent disease later on.
and environmental differences were conferring an advantage, but they were less conclusive about which infections conferred the greatest advantage.
We re just talking about living in a more microbially rich environment. That means you don t need to use antibacterial soaps or wipes,
To restore diminished ecosystems. To advance the science of preventing extinctions. To be sure, humans have played a role in the extinction of many species,
will revived a species learn to adapt to its new environment? Will they be able to reproduce in sufficient number to ever be fully viable?
or will those differences make them ultra-adaptable where they will thrive to the point of becoming a pest to their surroundings.
an ecosystem scientist working in Africa when he recommended the slaughter of 40,000 elephants to help prevent desertification,
transforming its grassland ecology as dramatically as the industrial quantities of corn and cattle being produced
The over utilized locations with exposed soil are then vulnerable to erosion from wind and water,
Precipitation patterns in this environment can be like a knife cut. You can see that, with conventional fencing,
while the rainfall takes place along the other Edge in two weeks, where that rain has fallen, we are going to have a flush of annuals coming up,
which would provide high-quality nutrition. But, if you have the animals clear over three pastures away,
then you ve got to monitor the rainfall-related growth, and you ve got to get labor to help round those animals up
upon the current year s pattern of rainfall, pattern of poisonous weed growth, pattern of endangered species growth,
and you notice a spot that received rain in the recent past and that has a flush of highly nutritious plants that would
Currently we have a very active program here on the Jornada Experimental Rangein landscape ecology using unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance.
#Human judgment and expertise on the ground is still essential to making a methodology like this be a positive, rather than a negative, for landscape ecology.
or fires or where there were environmental issues that humans really shouldn t be exposed to. Of course, even if it can be done scientifically,
You learn from day one in all of your ecology classes and animal science classes that you are dealing with multiple dynamic systems that you are trying to optimize in relationship to each other.
or other environmental object with the stimulation event even if the virtual boundary is held static. It s always going to be just in the general area.
and the internet to neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia. Hot spots can be found in Philadelphia churches, schools and nonprofit organizations.
##oestaff, partners and volunteers create lively Story Town neighborhoods like Literacy Lane, Fairytale Trail, Book Walk, Downtown,
host sky gazing parties, sidewalk events and other programs at libraries on how to use the telescope
and how to look at the night sky.##And some more#oeunusual Stuff to Borrow#at the Ann arbor District Library system in Michigan:
and how it can serve individuals, neighborhoods, nonprofits and small business.##Createit and itnation programs give teens experience using various digital media software
#Home Energy Evaluation Kits##oeto help residents save money on utility bills while helping the environment, the Jacksonville Public library partnered with the local utility company (JEA) to circulate Home
In the long term, their disappearance means parks and neighborhoods, once tree-lined, are now bare.
and other elements of natural environments might affect our health in more nuanced ways as well.
Environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan attributed nature s apparent restorative ability to something they termed#oesoft fascination#:
Indeed, an analysis of numerous studies in BMC Public health found evidence for natural environments having#oedirect and positive impacts on well-being,#in the form of reduced anger and sadness.
and forests in the vicinity of people s homes and their ability to act as a#oebuffer#against stress.
while parks in poor neighborhoods attract crime and are thus undesirable. The researchers hypothesize that the rich communities that thrived before the blight arrived
and protect the health of the environment. Honeybees alone contribute more than $15 billion in value to U s. agricultural crops each year.
but in a way that is also sustainable and less harmful to the environment? There is an urgent need to develop new methods for sustainable food production.
and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.
and wind turbines with greenhouses to provide self-generated renewable electricity on-site. But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting.
This works particularly well in a brainstorming environment where thoughts and ideas can be sketched quickly out, described,
Controlling Weather Weather control technology is still in its infancy. In what year will we see the first hurricane stopped by human intervention and
what is the technology that will be used? 23. Hyper-Individualized Medicine Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow believes we will soon be using 3d printers to replace traditional pharmaceuticals with hyper-individualized medicines that are printed specifically for the person at the time they ordered them.
The vet told him she was allergic to something in the environment, her food or their home.
Its story begins in 2006 with a Silicon valley startup, the Climate Corporation. Set up by two former Google employees,
and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
The Climate Corporation planned to use these data to sell crop insurance. But last October Monsanto bought the company for about $1 billionone of the biggest takeovers of a data firm yet seen.
By adding these to the Climate Corporation s soil-and-weather database, it produced a map of America
and spacings, varying all this according to the weather. It is as if a farmer can know each of his plants by name.
the Climate Corporation has set up a free data storage service for farmers, which others cannot access without the farmers permission.
Because of the clean environment, all plants will be germfree, which means they ll have longer shelf lives
Until now the absence of gravity, rainfall and a conventional light cycle meant that horticulture was impossible.
The solution appears to be aveggie flight pillow a tailored environment which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food.
Engineering Closed ecological systems: Ecosystems that do not rely on matter exchange outside the system. Such closed ecosystems would theoretically transform waste products into oxygen,
food and water in order to support life-forms inhabiting the system. Such systems already exist in small scales,
but existing technological limitations prevent them from scaling. Scientifically viable in 2015; mainstream in 2020;
and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream in 2023;
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
Jessica Duggan grew up in this starchy historic city in the 1990#s. She remembers field trips with her mother to the historic Battery neighborhood,
The mild weather and easy access to nearly 200 miles of beaches don t exactly hurt.
The demographic change in Charleston has opened up previously sketchy neighborhoods for development a change that for many locals has been nothing short of breathtaking.
Many employees want to raise their children in a less high-stress environment, and they love the ability to live close to work,
If the wind comes up, our kite-surfers head to the beach and then get online later.
The IPCC document HS 15332 Climate Change Impacts: Securitization of Water, Food, Soil, Health, Energy and Migration explains how the UN plans to secure resources to use at their disposal.
which facilitates a drastic shortage and untold damage of aquatic ecosystems. The document stated: In the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the nine billion people On earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water.
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.
trying in the heady days of the dotcom boom to behave like the information-technology startups that were its Silicon valley neighbors.
Issues like climate change are part of a long list of challenges that could and likely will impact that way we live.
it was also about creating an environment in which it could be successful. Not unlike Steve jobs, Musk is constantly designing his products
When you think of Tokyo you you think of smog and skyscrapers, and people, lots of people you don t really think of green spaces.
We started this vegetable garden business out of a desire to contribute to the environmental maintenance and the revitalization of the area along the train line.
At the same time, every new technology also requires new skill sets for those working in those environments. Here are just a few of the skills that will be prized highly in the future. 14 Hot New Skills 1. Transitionists Those who can help make a transition. 2. Expansionists A talent for adapting
along with a growing environment. 3. Maximizers An ability to maximize processes, situations, and opportunities. 4. Optimizers The skill and persistence to tweak variables until it produces better results. 5. Inflectionists Finding critical inflection points in a system will become a much-prized skill. 6. Dismantlers Every industry
Environmental Minimizers Sound diminution engineers, visual aesthetic reductionists, etc. 45. Drone Traffic Optmizers 46. Automation Engineers 47.
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.
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,
A typhoon wiped out most of an important genebank storing rice in the Philippines and Japan recently sent barley samples (its first contribution) to the doomsday vault as scientists there fretted their own genebank s safety following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The doomsday vault is said to be impervious to nuclear war or asteroid strike, and its location on a remote island in a rich, stable European country adds security.
With a series of infrared rangefinders, the robots can sense their surroundings, even reacting to human visitors to their garden by stepping out of your way.
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,
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
which is a welcome sign to ecologists hoping to reproduce plants in Martian soil. If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction,
This antibody sets up a healthier environment in an infant s intestinal tract, so they re better prepared to withstand environmental problems later in life,
says Charlotte Kaetzel, who led the study. Although the team only looked at mice, Kaetzel notes that several studies have found that breastfed babies are less likely to develop IBD later in life.
The barrier is a good fence that makes for good neighbours. But if newborn mice can t get SIGA from their mothers,
and environmental factors like food-borne illnesses that can trigger inflammation. These mice had altered two sides of this triangle,
and sustainable#ven in the middle of an Indiana blizzard#ike you can get at Sunrise Hydroponics, an Amish farm.
and highly efficient as people manually control the simplified environmental mechanisms. Cucumber, lettuce, and tomato Tower Gardens The importance of vertical aeroponic farms like Sunrise Hydroponics is accentuated
Strawberry Tower Garden In the coming decade, we look forward to helping Indiana heal the environment
Variations in their routines may indicate a change in environment such as exposure to pesticides. Over the past decade, millions of bees have died as entire beehives have turned suddenly into tombs, a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD.
it may point to exposure to something in the environment, whether a pesticide or parasite.
Although the Christmas holiday season is known typically for its wintry weather carolers and tasty treats not all Christmas traditions around the world are one in the same.
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and proceed to ride them around in the sky. So as a result all the broomsticks are hidden due to superstition.
Op-Ed) Mike Jacobs is a senior energy analyst for the Climate & Energy program of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
One called his wife predicting accurately that he would have to work late and another complained it was not a good day in the neighborhood.
and smoothes the variability of wind energy. Independent System Operators were not as mature in 2003 as they are today.
As climate change makes conditions for power generation more challenging and fossil-fired plants are affected by hotter weather
and droughts more flexibility and unanticipated energy trades between power providers will be needed to avoid blackouts.
Storms droughts and fires knock out whole sections of the system; control errors and flubbed operations trigger shutdowns;
In the summary of 13 power outages below listed chronologically notice how the weather and the operations of the grid caused the blackouts.
October 2012 Hurricane Sandy: Flooding damaged vulnerable equipment and downed trees cut power to 8. 2 million people in 17 states the District of Columbiaand Canada many for two weeks.
Windstorm damaged trees and equipment cut power to approximately 4. 2 million customers across 11 Midwest and Mid-atlantic states and the District of columbia.
A record early snowstorm brought down trees and wires. Outage restoration could only follow the removal of snow and fallen trees.
More than three million customers in Mid-atlantic and New england states were without power many for 10 days.
Hot weather after the end of the summer season as determined by the power-grid engineering schedule conflicted with generation
A lightning storm in Minnesota initiated a transmission failure. A 345-kv line was struck by lightning.
Underlying lower voltage lines overloaded. Soon lightning struck a second 345-kv line. Cascading transmission line disconnections continued until the entire northern Midwest was separated from the Eastern power grid forming three isolated islands with power. 52000 people in the upper Midwest Ontario Manitoba
Hot weather and inadequate tree trimming set up a transmission collapse. Through the afternoon five power lines in Oregon and nearby Washington short-circuited on trees.
This article first appeared as Not a Good day in the Neighborhood on the blog The Equation.
& Their Health Effects<p>Environmental Working group an organization that advocates against the use of toxic chemicals has released a list of the 12 worst hormone disrupting chemicals.</
>which includes information from Environmental Working group (EWG) and other sources:</</p><p><p>This chemical is found in many products including canned foods plastics
Whether levels of BPA in the environment are harmful to people is still being studied.</</p><p>These are long-lived chemicals that are widely found in foods
exposure (exposure to normal levels in the environment) is expected not to affect human health on average WHO says.</
In 2000 the Environmental protection agency determined that atrazine is not likely to cause cancer in people.
on atrazine and its health and environmental effects " to ensure that the agency’ s regulatory decisions continue to protect public health and the environment"
the EPA says. Buying organic produce and using a filter for drinking water can reduce exposure to atrazine EWG says.</
The EPA is developing regulation that would put a limit on the amount of perchlorate that can be in drinking water.
) are very persistent in the environment. They can disrupt thyroid activity and have been linked to health effects such as lower IQ according to EWG.
The EPA recommends that women who are pregnant or considering becoming pregnant consume no more than 12 ounces (2 average meals a week) of fish low in mercury (canned light tuna salmon pollock and catfish.)<
</p><p>This element is naturally found in the environment and also in some pesticides and so it can find its way into food and drinking water.
and the pressure on fragile ecosystems and traditional societies hopes that its international year designation will heighten public awareness of the nutritional economic environmental and cultural properties of quinoa for its indigenous growers as stated in the Resolution
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
For example iceberg lettuce is inexpensive but it contains less protein fiber calcium folate and Vitamin k per calorie than its pricier counterpart romaine.
When the weather cools down my body starts craving more savory fiber-filled meals. But I also like eating seasonal produce because
including environmental stressors bacterial infections and viruses — work together to build up and steadily threaten a population before rearing back smacking down and taking an actual toll in
Researchers have blamed the record rainfall of 2013 on the outbreak which could have changed seawater chemistry
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That struggle could spread as climate change and other manmade pressures change the availability of water around the globe
when it was safe to be a politician who supported environmental causes even among conservative Republicans.
In today's political climate however the conservative right seems to view deviation from a strident anti-environmental position as heresy.
despite their conservative bona fides were among the most influential supporters of the environment. 1. Margaret Thatcher Trained as a chemist at Oxford university the late British Prime minister Thatcher may have understood the scientific underpinnings of climate change and other environmental issues better than most other
The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted It is mankind and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways she once said according to the Guardian.
The result is that change in future is likely to be more fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known hitherto.
Change to the sea around us change to the atmosphere above leading in turn to change in the world's climate
however calling climate activism a marvelous excuse for supranational socialism. 2. Richard Nixonâ Â Â Â Â Â Before he resigned in disgrace following the Watergate scandal Nixon signed into law
an almost unbelievable catalog of environmental legislation. The National Environmental Policy Act the Marine Mammal Protection Act the Environmental Pesticide Control Act the Safe Drinking water Act and the Endangered Species Act were signed all by
or supported by Nixon according to Mother Nature Network (MNN. com). He also established the Environmental protection agency (EPA) as a cabinet-level federal department.
Some question however whether Nixon acted out of real concern for the environment or mere political expedience:
He once reportedly said that environmentalists wanted to live like a bunch of damned animals. 3. Theodore Roosevelt A renowned big-game hunter
I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
Shortly before he died in 1998 Goldwater joined the Republicans for Environmental Protection (now known as Conservamerica.
But from the beginning he showed an abiding interest in environmental protection and was involved actively in Hoosier-state water-and air-pollution legislation.
After Nixon created the EPA he appointed Ruckelshaus as the organization's first administrator. Among his many achievements there Ruckelshaus banned the use of the pesticide DDT.
Still involved in environmental causes in later life he once reflected of his time in government At EPA you work for a cause that is beyond self-interest
and larger than the goals people normally pursue. You're not there for the money you're there for something beyond yourself. 6. Sherwood Boehlert
when the cause simply wasn't cool earning the moniker Green Hornet for his support of environmental causes.
and serves on the board of Al gore's Alliance for Climate Protection something that is inconceivable now for any current Republican member of Congress reports MNN. com. Follow Marc Lallanilla on Twitter and Google+.
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