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Dwindling fish stocks from overfishing have prompted humanity to create farmed supplies, beginning with the most accessible environments on or near land.
It will be built to withstand Category Five typhoons, and will produce the natural gas equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil per day.
While few groups could afford to build a floating city capable of weathering such storms
and rest at the surface in good weather. The long vertical trusses holding up Pauley's design use Fuller's principles for strong, lightweight"tensegrity  structures.
and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.
which Rachel Carson, author of the seminal environmental book Silent Spring, noted is not quite fatal.
roots) adapted to different kinds of environments and using a range of resources. For example, needle-leaved Canadian evergreens make the most of scant sunlight
Bioprocessing units may be designed to house different kinds of ecologies to suit particular habitats. For example, in estuary environments so-called oystertecture, in which shellfish are farmed on sculptural metal structures,
could be used to filter impurities, improve water quality and increase biodiversity. Â These developments in living technology suggest that we will evolve solutions using the transformational properties of natural systems.
Perhaps the future of our urban environments will not be about designing buildings, as we know them,
but in the production of synthetic ecosystems, which improve the quality of our lives. For more in our Building Tomorrow series, click here.
software can begin to build up a picture of the machine's surroundings. Â Using it in combination with GPS and other location technologies,
and an environment that was modified more pervasively, then previously thought, Â said Fisher. Instead of a wilderness, here were two continents with vast populations, grand urban centres and widespread agriculture.
as with all developments in computing, Fisher expects to see that cost continue to fall and its use to sky rocket."
It works by funnelling wind around a metal box  lined with fabric and kept  water-soaked.
A century ago, vast flocks of passenger pigeons covered the North american skies. Hundreds of millions, even billions, stretched across the horizon in every direction.
like a dragon going through the skies, Â says Harvard Medical school geneticist George Church. And then European settlers arrived.
this majestic sight could one day return to our skies. Â Armed with new reproductive biology
though he does not underestimate the effort required to bring the passenger pigeon back to the skies.
And when you factor in climate change, limited fresh water supplies and competition for harvests from biofuel makers, it is clear the world faces a major challenge.
In 2006, Long and his colleagues described how climate-change experiments have shown that rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide lead to higher rates of photosynthesis in plants.
they found a strain that did not waste precious energy trying to elongate itself above the waters when submerged by a flash flood,
they then crossed this flood-tolerant strain with a high-yield strain of rice.""This form of breeding used to take 6-15 years,
Some environmental groups, including Greenpeace, fear that this genetically modified strain could contaminate and harm other vital rice strains.
finding a small number of maize varieties that grow in both tropical and temperate climates and
and avoid environmental harm by not adding unnecessary fertiliser or water, Khosla says.""But with precise input management, farmers can also influence grain yield and efficiency.
Another big pressure is climate change. A third is the lack of water. Â Khosla says."
and places in the story a description of the Mayfair neighborhood in London where the protagonists live or a history of the Black death plague,
which the government should support given the damage forest fires do to our ecosystems, he said.
Controls will be exercised along a broad spectrum from environmental conditions such as light, water, and oxygen levels in the air to genetic manipulation according to approved safety guidelines.
Vertical Farmingthe precision we use to monitor consumer demand will translate into ultra-precise farming operations in highly controlled environments.
and external wind generators for power, these self-contained farming silos can be constructed in desolate climates, deserts, on rocky ground,
#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,
Multitasking renewable solutions It has often been said that there will be no one solution to solving the climate crisis and all those issues that surround it, such as energy sources, food prices and water supply.
an engineer Bill Watts of Max Fordham & Partners, an engineering firm that focuses on energy efficient systems for the built environment.
which can use up to five times more water to irrigate crops than the respective regions average annual rainfall.
and returns to the earth as rain, fog or dew. What Does concentrated Solar power do? CSP is seen currently as one of the most exciting and powerful ways of harnessing the suns energy to create power.
and entrepreneurs who are attacking the payment ecosystem, seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks
Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services.
or anyone outside the Paypal ecosystem a friction-free shadow economy in its own right. All of these advantages meant that Paypal could charge lower transaction fees than traditional credit card companies.
and entrepreneurs who are attacking the payment ecosystem, seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks
Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services.
A form of money used in an online virtual world, such as oelinden Dollars in Linden Labs Second life or oegold pieces in Blizzard Entertainments World of Warcraft.
As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.
me than he does with his neighbors, and I could well share more overlapping concerns and experiences with him than with my neighbors.#
#The circles we move in, Hutchins explains, are defined by interests#and activities#rather than geography#:#Beijing has a lot in common with New york, London, or Mumbai.
high-rise Moscow office building recently put together a deal that exemplifies just this kind of intra-emerging-market Trade last year, Digital Sky Technologies,
who complained of wanting to get his life back after the Gulf oil spill and then proceeded to do
rainless environment housed in their underground research facilities. Plantlab uses artificial light and only 10%of the water typically needed.
By keeping the plants in a contained environment, Plantlab can also recycle evaporated water, which helps them grow crops using just one-tenth the water needed in traditional greenhouses.
but eventually mobile payments will create an entirely new data-driven ecosystem of rewards, purchase history, daily-deals and more.
Going Waitless In our highly competitive business and social environments, we have need a to be active
Data can be sent directly to a doctor or saved (confidentially) to the cloud. Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria.
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 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,
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.
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
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
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.
Upgrading Distribution Inside a spartan garage in an industrial neighborhood in Palo alto, Calif, . a robot armed with electronic eyes
and to carefully controlled environments where the lighting was just right. But thanks to an inexpensive stereo camera and software that lets the system see shapes with the same ease as humans,
yet these days some former employees describe a work environment that was too hectic and stressful, thanks in large part to the runaway popularity of the iphone and ipad.
All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A c. C.)#which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it#as the key to congestion relief.
A Nice Little Cabin in the Sky The typical plane cabin is drier than the Arizona desert,
This brutal environment contributes to the parched exhausted feeling you get after you fly. But there are already planes in the air#made mostly of carbon fiber#that solve this problem.
which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.
and the less aware they ll be of their surroundings. Leif Kennair and Ellen Sandseter s ideas have won the support of playground experts on both sides of the Atlantic;
and release a flood of mood-lifting endorphins. But for various reasons#you re at work,
Environmental Health News highlights the failed hope of GM crop developers: That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted
invested in Monsanto, supports a high-tech vision of agriculture, rather than the low-tech, affordable, diverse, climate-resistant,
that he finds it ironic that most people who oppose genetic engineering in plant breeding live in rich nations that he believes are responsible for global climate change that will lead to more starvation and malnutrition for the poor.
Resistance to new technology is again hurting the people who nothing to do with climate change happening,
But, like his absurd statements on climate change and renewable energy, his focus on high-tech agriculture,
and a new air pressure sensor that allows it to be more stable when hovering. That said, these drones have very short battery life (10 min max),
or situational conditions such as announcing the sale of umbrellas during the start of a rainstorm. 11.)
or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Panasonic at CES 21.
as a six-year old boy named Falcon had gotten somehow trapped inside a small weather balloon that was flying over the Midwest.
Henry ford s vision of the Sky Car is now here and the popular Aeromobil models can often be spotted over the capital,
The highways and test tracks they navigated were controlled strictly environments. The instant more variables were added#pedestrian,
Its robotic Humvee, Sandstorm, drove just seven and a half miles before careering off course. A helicopter later found it beached on an embankment,
His robots had crawled over Antarctic ice fields and active volcanoes, and inspected the damaged nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Carnegie mellon with its two military vehicles, Sandstorm and Highlander; Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley.
They had Highlander run at a fast clip#ore than twenty miles an hour on average#hile Sandstorm hung back a little.
it was more than ten minutes ahead of Sandstorm and more than twenty minutes ahead of Highlander.
but it also raises questions about environmental safety and biosecurity and revives ethical debates about#oeplaying God.#
Proponents characterize bio-factories as examples of#oegreen technology#that are sustainable and immune to fickle weather and disease.
reducing the cultivation of cash crops in places where that practice hurts the environment, break our dependence on pesticides
But some environmental groups are skeptical. They compare the spread of bio-factories to the large-scale burning of coal at the turn of the 20th century#a development with implications for carbon dioxide emissions
and break down oil spills and other contaminated waste at a rapid pace. Revenue from industrial chemicals made through synthetic biology is already as high as $1. 5 billion,
#That justification has caused an uproar among some consumer protection and environmental groups. They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,
or even protocols for assessing the safety of synthetic organisms in the environment, #Thomas said.
Amyris s Newman says he is confused by environmental groups criticism and points to the final chapter of Rachel Carson s#oesilent Spring##the seminal book that is credited with launching the environmental movement.
In it Carson mentions ways that science can solve the environmental hazards we have endured through years of use of fossil fuels and petrochemicals.#
#oethe question you have to ask yourself is, #Is the status quo enough?####Newman said.##oewe live in a world where things can be improved upon.#
and you have a point-cloud: a 3-D model mapped at a 1: 1 scale and accurate down to the centimeter.
too, is seen as the tip of the iceberg. Wayne Gerdes, the father of#oehypermiling,#can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
#Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky Futurist Thomas Frey: With all of the water we have in the world,
Later the Incas were able to sustain their culture above rain line by collecting dew
Since we all depend on the rains to provide the water we need, what if we could extract this rain at the very time
and place we need it? On-demand water extractors. A new breed of inventors has emerged to tackle this exact problem.
These small-scale agricultural operations require high humidity environments, and The Aquamist produced a water-replenishing environment to satisfy those needs.
More about the other entries here http://grabcad. com/challenges/atmospheric-water-generator/entries Meet the Water Harvesters A new breed of companies has begun to spring up around the world,
looking to the skies to solve the world s looming water issues. These companies are using a variety of technologies to drive costs down for extracting water from air.
Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries
Their fog collectors can be used in dry regions and even deserts that receive less than one millimeter of rain each year.
But to work, they do require fog and light winds. Eolewater http://www. eolewater. com/Living in the Caribbean in 1997, inventor Marc Parent came up with the idea of using a windmill to extract water from the air.
With a French venture capital investment Parent moved the company to Sainte Tulle, France. After many years of development and testing, the WMS1000 (shown above) became the world s first wind turbine able to produce 1, 000 liters of water a day from air condensation.
The first unit was shipped to Abu dhabi for extended testing in the extreme weather conditions of the Middle east.
Airdrop http://www. jamesdysonaward. org/Projects/Project. aspx? ID=1722 Developed by James Dyson Award winner, Edward Linnacre, the Airdrop irrigation concept was developed for poor agricultural conditions in periods of severe drought.
It works well for collecting water in virtually any environment, even in polluted areas. About 12 gallons of fresh water can be extracted from air in a single day from one 300 sq ft unit.
Dropnet Fog Collector http://www. greenmuze. com/nature/water/2358-fog-harvesting-dropnet. -html Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany s Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
The collectors extracts tiny water droplets from fog clouds and turns them into drinking water at a rate of roughly 4-5 gallons a day.
Mist Water Canarias http://www. aguadeniebla. com/Developed over the past 5 years on the Canary islands by Hernando Theo Olmo and Ricardo Gil,
and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:
namely, wind resistance. To be fair, eliminating this factor doesn t so much up the ante as it blows up the entire house containing the card table.
#oewe no longer can afford to continue to pollute our skies with heat, chemicals and noise,
and the environment needs, said Powell, the maglev pioneer.##oewe had the Apollo project and people got really excited about that.
Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created#oeperfect storm#conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
Operating drones day and night through inclement conditions like wind hail, and rain will require an enormous effort.
But so does a full-frontal attack on a fire by smokejumpers, bucket-bearing helicopters,
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.
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.#
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
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,
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
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.
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.
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