ILSR’s Energy Self-Reliant States: New Report! City Power Play: 8 Practical Local Energy Policies to Boost the Economy

Jay OwenGreentech

It’s out! Check out our latest report featuring 8 Practical Local Energy Policies to Boost the Economy, with examples illustrating the policies in action and links right to the ordinances that made them work.  Also, I just posted a panel presentation I gave to the Society of Environmental Journalists last Friday, …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems  Enzyme from wood-eating gribble could help turn waste into biofuel  A grassy trend in human ancestors’ diets New way fish camouflage themselves in the ocean: Manipulating how light reflects off skin  Tiger moths: Mother Nature’s fortune tellers …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Newt transcriptome offers insight into tissue regeneration

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Newt transcriptome offers insight into tissue regeneration Genetic variation controls predation: Benefits of being a mosaic How predictable is evolution? Mutant champions save imperiled species from almost-certain extinction New approach alters malaria maps  Jurassic records warn of risk to marine life from global warming How seals …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: How tadpoles re-grow their tails: Implications for human healing

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News How tadpoles re-grow their tails: Implications for human healing What did our ancestors look like? Hair and eye color can be determined for ancient human remains Scientists reassemble the backbone of earliest four-legged animals using synchrotron X-rays Genome of diamondback moth provides new clues for …