“In an unprecedented television and internet event, ABC News is asking you to help answer perhaps the most important question of our time - What could our world look like over the next one hundred years if we don’t act now to save our troubled planet?” Watch the trailers, imagine the future, and figure out [...]
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Imagining the future
Published September 21st, 2008 in Change, Cleanup, Climate, Collapse, Earth, Ecosystems, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Global Warming, Global Warning, Greenhouse Gases, Ideas, Imagine, Innovation, Life, Natural phenomena, Oceans, Population Growth, Save the planet!, Science, Statistics, Sustainability, Toxic wastes, Uncategorized, Urban decay, What are we doing to ourselves? and What can we do?. 0 CommentsMIT discovery primed to unleash solar revolution
Published August 1st, 2008 in Cleanup, Earth, Ecosystems, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Global Warming, Ideas, Innovation, Invention, Natural phenomena, Off-the-grid living, Plants, Science, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized and What can we do?. 3 CommentsBIG STORY from MIT today. From Anne Trafton, MIT News: “In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t shine. Until now, solar power has [...]
Earth ships a perfect home for earthlings?
Published July 18th, 2008 in Architecture, Attitudes, Change, Cleanup, Climate, Earth, Ecosystems, Electricity, Energy, Environment, Evolving planet, Future, Global Warming, Human World, Ideas, Images, Innovation, Invention, Low tech ideas, Man-made phenomena, News, Off-the-grid living, Plastic, Recycling, Solar Energy, Success, Sustainability, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized and What can we do?. 3 CommentsMore than ever, we earthlings are wondering how best to live on our planet in an efficient and environmentally friendly way. There is an entire community that has been doing just that since the 1970’s in New Mexico. Their homes made out of surrounding dirt, old tires, bottles, cans, refuse and waste. Even though [...]
Top ten tantalizing tidbits from Ted Talks
Published June 30th, 2008 in Attitudes, Body & Mind, Brain Science, Change, Climate, Computers, Earth, Ecosystems, Education, Environment, Evolutionary Biology, Future, Gifted and Talented, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Health, Human World, IQ and Intelligence, Ideas, Innovation, Invention, Life, Mathematics, Mental health, Mind, Motivation, Natural phenomena, Neuroscience, Oceans, Philosophy, Population Growth, Poverty, Psychology, Right Brain/Left Brain, Savantism, Science, Statistics, Success, Technology, Ted Talks, Trends, Video, Virtual Reality and Webcams. 0 CommentsI’ve been watching TED TALKS for a while now, and find that other people refer to TED in casual conversation just like I do. TED’s alternative name is “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and the talks are truly that. Scientists, theorists, philosophers, writers, environmentalists, people of all sorts give short presentations to TED audiences, and [...]