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May 17, 2013

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6:49 PM | A Populated Park and Conservation in the Anthropocene
A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene.
Dot Earth
Environment
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6:30 PM | America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 1
A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Our series follows editor-in-chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the world to see firsthand the ideas that could usher in a new era of true energy independence for the United States. First up: a solar cell in every bolt of fabric. Read about these ideas, and more, in the June issue.-Eds    
Popular Science
General Science
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1:05 PM | Scientists blog for positive change, in environment and community
New faculty members Randall Hughes and David Kimbro set up shop at the Marine Science Center this winter after spending several years studying oyster reefs at Florida State University. During their time in Tallahassee, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the region, dumping nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean over a period of 87 days. [...]
iNSolution
Academic Life | Science Communication

May 16, 2013

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10:11 PM | The hard work of making cities smart and green
By 2050, 90 percent of Americans will live in cities that consume most of the nation's energy and generate most of its greenhouse gases. Whether sprawling cities devolve into ecological disasters or slowly transform into smart, sustainable economic growth engines will depend partly on the next generation of engineers and the technologies they invent.To face the challenges posed by megalopolises, experts say Americans need to do more than just upgrade the current, rusting infrastructure. In a […]
The Mix
Medicine
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10:10 AM | Keep calm and drill on: fracking debate gets heated
Around the world, citizens are divided on the issue of fracking: will it be an answer to the need for renewable energy or will extracting shale gas do more harm to the environment than good?
Science Club
Environment | Marine Biology

May 15, 2013

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1:42 PM | When Heineken Bottles Were Square
In 1963, Alfred Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries.
Food and Think
Nutrition

May 13, 2013

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8:36 PM | National Science Challenge winners underwhelm
There’s only one word really to describe the winners of the National Science Challenge – ‘wow’ writ small. Or, perhaps it is just me that is completely underwhelmed by the announcement of 10 research areas that can comfortably be binned … Continue reading →
Stick
General Science

May 10, 2013

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2:04 PM | Bend, Stretch, Reach, Teach, Reveal, Reflect, Rejoice, Repeat
A short guide to limiting big regrets on the human journey.
Dot Earth
Environment

May 08, 2013

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5:40 PM | Localizing and Networking Basic Technology
guest post by Iuval Clejan Natural philosophy (aka science) is distinguished from pure philosophy or mathematics by coupling theory to experiment. Engineering is distinguished from science in its focus on solving practical problems rather than merely coming up with more accurate models of the universe. Climate change will not be fixed by pure philosophy or […]
Azimuth
Ecology | Physics
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3:50 PM | The Cities We Want: Resilient, Sustainable, and Livable
Resilience is the word of the decade, as sustainability was in previous decades. No doubt, our view of the kind and quality of cities we as societies want to build will continue to evolve and inspire a new descriptive goal. … Continue reading →
The Nature of Cities
Ecology | Environment

May 07, 2013

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1:13 PM | Guest post: Lessons from a Riser Lecturer
April 26 marked the annual Riser Lecture at the Marine Science Center to honor Doc Riser, the founding director of the MSC. I’d had the event in my book for several months, but when it finally came upon us my schedule had been overridden with other junk, precluding me from being able to make it up [...]
iNSolution
Academic Life | Science Communication
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12:35 PM | New Mechanism Converts Natural Gas to Energy Faster, Captures CO2
Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). “This could make power generation from natural gas both cleaner and more efficient,” says Fanxing Li, co-author of a paper on the research and an assistant professor
The Abstract
Academic Life | General Science

May 06, 2013

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10:13 PM | Zeal to ensure clean leafy greens takes bite out of riverside habitat in California
Perceived food safety risk from wildlife drives expensive and unnecessary habitat destruction around farm fields By Liza Lester, ESA communications officer   Meticulous attention to food safety is a good thing. As consumers, we like to hear that produce growers and distributers go above and beyond food safety mandates to ensure that healthy fresh fruits [...]

Sasha Gennet, Jeanette Howard, Jeff Langholz, Kathryn Andrews, Mark D Reynolds & Scott A Morrison (2013). Farm practices for food safety: an emerging threat to floodplain and riparian ecosystems, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, e-View ahead of print (May 6th) Other: 10.1890/1202443

EcoTone
Ecology | General Science
Citation
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8:04 PM | Why Al Gore Can’t Be the Face of Climate Activism
A long time ago, in the pre-blog era, I watched a TV debate on CNN between a newly minted U.S. Vice President and a quirky Texas businessman who, at one point during his extended 15 minutes of fame, was considered a serious presidential candidate. In the span of 90 minutes, Al Gore sold wavering Americans on the [...]
Collide-a-Scape
Environment | General Science

May 03, 2013

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9:10 PM | A Sustainable Strategy to Deal with Urban Poverty
When architect Fernando Arias first arrived in Kumasi, Ghana last year with a Columbia University team researching ways to help the city deal with its many challenges, he saw unpaved roads, trash burning, garbage everywhere, and shoeless children running all around. The children were victims of a situation they did not create and he knew he needed to act on their behalf
State of the Planet
Geosciences

April 30, 2013

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7:09 AM | If Bilbo Baggins had an environmental school
After growing up in a remote corner of Alaska, marine biologist Zach Brown wants to start a school to teach future scientists about environmental sciences and sustainability.  Zach tells producers Mike and Leslie about his vision for the Inian Islands … Continue reading →
Generation Anthropocene
Climate Science | Podcast

April 29, 2013

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6:53 PM | The Three Little Pigs Never Thought of This Building Material
Bricks, sticks, and hay are decidedly pedestrian building materials in comparison to a new building that just opened to the public last Thursday in Hamburg, Germany. Ambitious architects have built an apartment covered in a thin layer of living, breathing algae. The building, known as BIQ (for Bio Intelligent Quotient), meets the extremely stringent passive-house [...]
Symbiartic
Science Communication | Art
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3:39 PM | What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?
The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading public health and communities—without paying adequate compensation to the public good. Economists call this process "externalizing costs," i.e. the cost of environmental degradation in many cases is […]
Featured news from mongabay.com
Conservation
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1:32 PM | Metallic personalities
Civil and environmental engineering professor Philip Larese-Casanova has had a life-long love affair with metals. In his work in aquatic environmental chemistry, he looks at how metallic pollutants transform and behave in freshwater systems. “I just had an interest in the metals,” he told me in an interview last month. “Maybe it’s because I see [...]
iNSolution
Academic Life | Science Communication

April 25, 2013

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2:34 PM | Energy and the Environment – What Physicists Can Do
  The Perimeter Institute is a futuristic-looking place where over 250 physicists are thinking about quantum gravity, quantum information theory, cosmology and the like. Since I work on some of these things, I was recently invited to give the weekly colloquium there. But I took the opportunity to try to rally them into action: • […]
Azimuth
Ecology | Physics

April 24, 2013

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4:14 PM | Is the Locavore Movement Built on a Lie?
In the Fall, I walked with my son’s Kindergarten class and other parents to our local farmers market in Brooklyn. The kids had their list of items they had to find and identify (fruits, vegetables, flowers), I scored some delicious apple cider donuts, and a grand time was had by all on a blustery, sunny [...]
Collide-a-Scape
Environment | General Science

April 22, 2013

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4:00 AM | Earth Day 2013
As you read this take a moment to think about how you are sitting on a planet that is hurtling through a theoretically infinite abyss. In the scale of the universe, our planet is a speck of dust, mixed in with billions upon billions of other specks of dust. With that notion our little world seems somewhat insignificant. What makes a difference is that our speck has life on it. Out of the billions of other worlds that are out there, ours is the only one that we know of that has us, thinking […]
Salvius Robot Project
Engineering | Computer Science
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Editor's Pick
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Citation
Editor's Pick
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Citation
Editor's Pick
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Citation
Editor's Pick
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Citation
Editor's Pick

April 19, 2013

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3:04 AM | Sustainable Agriculture, What Does it Mean?
Almost everything we do in life must focus on sustainability in order to guarantee the possibilities of continuing those practices in the future. However, lately it seems the term sustainability has become more of a buzz word that implies something better, thus opening the doors for advertising and marketers to take advantage of certain elements of their products that seem more sustainable than their competitors. Sustainability is not a buzz word to farmers, as agriculture has always focused on […]
Biofortified
Biology | Biotechnology

April 18, 2013

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2:44 PM | Around the Water Cooler: P3 Promotes Student Innovation and Sustainability Science
By Sarah Blau In Washington, DC this week? Then come on out to the National Mall today and tomorrow, and meet the teams of college students gathering to compete in EPA’s P3 competition as part of the National Sustainable Design Expo. “P3” stands for People, Prosperity and the Planet. Working in teams, students strive to [...]
It All Starts with Science
Environment

April 17, 2013

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5:00 PM | Parks as Green Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure as Parks: How Need, Design and Technology Are Coming Together to Make Better Cities
In my work at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and more recently with the Trust for Public Land, I have been fortunate to be involved at the nexus of landscape architecture, civil engineering, urban design, environmental … Continue reading →
The Nature of Cities
Ecology | Environment
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