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India Calling: The Green Cell Phone Revolution What if corporate executives and unschooled women in remote villages could join forces to change the world? In India, that may be happening -- thanks to the cell phone. George Black, executive editor of NRDC's award-winning OnEarth magazine, talks about his story for the Spring 2012 issue, online now .
Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial . Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that refutes global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis?
Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined
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The Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed the first-ever national standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants. These historic safeguards are critical to ensuring a cleaner future for American communities: no longer will new electric plants be able to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it... Read More » Every Friday we select our favourite videos from the climate movement to feature on TckTckTck. This week's round-up is dedicated to World Water Day 2012.
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Science achieves a consensus when scientists stop arguing. When a question is first asked – like ‘what would happen if we put a load more CO2 in the atmosphere?’ – there may be many hypotheses about cause and effect. Over a period of time, each idea is tested and retested – the processes of the scientific method – because all scientists know that reputation and kudos go to those who find the right answer (and everyone else becomes an irrelevant footnote in the history of science). Nearly all hypotheses will fall by the wayside during this testing period, because only one is going to answer the question properly, without leaving all kinds of odd dangling bits that don’t quite add up.
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Welcome to the future! Here you will find a speculative timeline of future history. Part fact and part fiction, the timeline is based on detailed research that includes analysis of current trends, projected long-term environmental changes, advances in technology such as Moore's Law, future medical breakthroughs, and the evolving geopolitical landscape.FUTUREPREDICTIONS.COM Source of Likely and Preferable Futures ™
Picture Source: Tedtalks.com He points out that Bruce Bueno de Mesquita does not provide the details of the models he uses for the predictions. Moshe produced the presentation: Black Swans, Modern Nostradamuses, Voodoo Decision Theories, and the Science of Decision-Making in the Face of Severe Uncertainty ( PDF ), with a detailed review of his objections and arguments in a examination of the body of work.
Worldchanging: Bright Green
It's been seven years in the making, but the new Worldchanging book is finally here. Now we need your help this week getting this young book on its feet. Not only do initial sales often determine how other booksellers treat the book (spurring bookstores to put the book in more visible locations, for instance), but initial buzz about a book...Farming Futures
Breeding new forage varieties that meet farmers' needs and reduce the environmental impact of livestock production is being carried out at the... Susan Buckingham, IBERS ~ 10th Apr 2012 ~ 10am | A major new initiative that could boost the green economy in Wales and make a significant contribution to combating climate change is to be launched... Farming Futures ~ 30th Mar 2012 ~ 10pm | Knowledge transfer experts Heather McCalman and Sue Buckingham report on the results of a series of farmer workshops on outwintering livestock on...
I am a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment, and sound science. I am not a climate scientist. I’m a meteorologist, and the weather maps I’m staring at are making me uncomfortable. No, you’re not imagining it: we’ve clicked into a new and almost foreign weather pattern.
Climate Progress
Have a look at this nice peice of work from Nature … corrects a piece of evidence that didn’t quite add up. Carbon dioxide was the big driver that ended the last Ice Age, according to a new study of ice core data from around the world. About 10,000-20,000 years ago, Earth started to emerge from a quarter million years of deep freeze as the terrestrial ice sheet rolled back and warmer temperatures prevailed.
Climate Shifts
The Story of Stuff
When Annie created and launched The Story of Stuff in December of 2007, that was supposed to be it. One movie, one web page. But when that movie went viral, the response was undeniable. A chord was struck, a community was galvanized and The Story of Stuff Project was born!Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born? In our time, many of the political battles over the body revolve around reproduction, and therefore the rights of women. Abortion and birth control, specifically, are epicenters of controversy in the United States, and the site of a fervent cultural clash between religious ideas about sex and reproduction and democratic ideals of personal liberty.
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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will address a plenary session, and take questions from the audience, at the World Renewable Energy Forum, on Wednesday morning, May 16, at the Colorado Convention Cente... More »Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Homepage
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Some times I want to read about something but never have the time to be able to read up as much as I wish that I could. by weyboom Feb 22
preaching to the choir my friend! haha by joshuadunaway Feb 22
I always am looking for new sites. The problem is if I read any more my eyes are going to fall out! by apollo702 Feb 21
hope you enjoyed my futurism pearltree, stop by again! by joshuadunaway Feb 18