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The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Book Byte July 14, 2010 A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in late 2007 when wheat-exporting countries, like Russia and [...]
Readying the Midwest Grid for New Energy
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * Today’s Headline: Readying The Midwest Grid For New Energy * Quick News, 7-12: Wires For Wind Costs, Benefits;Utilities Building New Energy; Little Meigs, Ohio, To Build Big Solar; Germany Wants 100% New Energy Sunday World, 7-11: * Readying Africa [...]
2010 State of the Future from the Millennium Project. Ethical Markets editor, Hazel Henderson, serves on the Plannig Committtee
Where We Are Winning – Where We Are Losing: Futurists Publish Annual Report on Major World Problems and Opportunities Washington, D.C. 12th July 2010 – Can civilization implement solutions fast enough to keep ahead of the looming challenges? The Millennium Project, a global independent think tank of futurists and thought leaders, published [...]
FUTURIST UPDATE July 2010
FUTURIST UPDATE News & Previews from the World Future Society July 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 7) Read online: www.wfs.org/futuristupdate.htm Pass this newsletter along! FUTURIST UPDATE may be freely shared if forwarded in its entirety. In This Issue: * Supercenentarians: Why 110 Is the New 100 * Synthetic Antibodies Fight Bee Stings * [...]
Alternative Energy
Synthetic Fuel from CO2 and Solar Energy? Posted: 21 Jun 2010 12:09 AM PDT Really amazing are the innovative ways solar power is put into use. Now a team of scientists working in Sandia National Laboratories is focusing on exploring basic steps to make synthetic liquid fuel with the help of solar panels. The goal is that this will help [...]
Listening to the Voice of Humanity
By Steven Kull This article was originally published in the Spring | Summer 2010 issue of Kosmos Journal When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing--environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: June 16, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: SUSTAINABILITY AT THE LIMITS OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION * QUICK NEWS, 6-16: EU WIND IN 2010; TOLEDO, OHIO, CENTER OF SUN; COAL IS BETTER THAN WOOD; HIKE WITH AN ENERGY CHARGER YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: EU WIND'S ADMIRABLE [...]
To You from NewEnergyNews: June 8, 2010
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ * TODAY’S HEADLINE: A VISION OF SUN * QUICK NEWS, 6-8: NEW ENERGY RES GOOD FOR DAKOTA; ALASKA BACKS GEOTHERMAL; WORLD EE UP IN 2010; CLIMATE/ENERGY BILL PRICES GHG SPEW YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: PUMPED HYDRO AND NEW ENERGY * QUICK NEWS, 6-7: SCRUB SCRUB [...]
News from Our Colleagues at The Club of Rome
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Newsflash No 85 from European Support Centre of the Club of Rome is available. Please view the complete Newsflash at http://www.clubofrome.at/news/newsflash85.html or select a topic via one of the links below. (more...)
Giant Inflatable Airship Powered by Algae
Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:42 PM PDT This summer, piloted by Captain Allan Judd, Bullet 580 will usher in the return of inflatable giant airships. The 235 ft long and 65ft diameter ship is covered with a type of Kevlar, a material 10 times-stronger than steel but only one sixteenth of an inch thick. An E-green design special costing [...]
