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Midway by Chris Jordan Have you ever seen 500 people stunned into a complete and devastated silence? Photographer Chris Jordan shared a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll with the Poptech conference on Thursday, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre. The crowd, which had [...] – Natalia Allen is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Parsons Designer of the Year. She is founder and creative director of Design FuturistSM, a brain trust and design lab specializing in the development of sustainable, innovative fashion and textiles for client such as Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Quiksilver. The views expressed [...] Some politicians are mentioning “Copenhagen” and “Doha” in the same breath — a worrying lament less than 2 months to go before a U.N. climate deal is meant to be wrapped up in the Danish capital. So is there a risk – if negotiators are not smart — that the new U.N. accord to fight global warming will stall like the long-running [...] The holy grail for solar power is to match the cost of power from coal-fired power plants or other traditional fuel. That goal is still on the horizon. But researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab say the industry is getting closer as the cost of going solar in the United States saw a pivotal year [...] Prized as a nutritious delicacy, eels are fascinating animals. They are grilled over charcoal in asia, boiled in stews across Europe and smoked and eaten on toast or bread in the Netherlands. They have never been observed spawning in the wild, so scientists haven’t yet been able to breed them. So the only way to [...] California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is working to burnish his green legacy in the Golden State. But one of his latest moves to lift a hold on air pollution permit applications is not likely to make environmentalists happy. The governor signed a bill late Sunday that allows the agency regulating air pollution along California’s southern coast to [...] The surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama just nine months into his presidency on Friday may put pressure on him to visit a 190-nation meeting on a new U.N. climate treaty in Copenhagen. The prize will be handed over in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the award’s founder Alfred Nobel, and [...] Hundreds of companies and laboratories are racing to find an economical way to make “green crude” from algae. The biofuel industry is grappling with a series of hurdles, which players readily recognized at a summit this week in San Diego and we cover in this story. One question asked by one of the sector’s early leaders [...] |
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