It’s Melting! It’s Melting!: Linking Weather to Climate, Food to Revolution and a Rare Ray of Win-Win Hope

Posted on February 18, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On making predictions: Groundhogs and weather, distributed computing and climate, commodity markets and poverty and why a better way to keep things cool may help cool off the planet It is hard to quibble with climate change when the freaky weather is freaky good. Less than three weeks after the Great Blizzard of 2011 stopped [...]

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Cry Me a River…and Pass Me a Shovel: On Rain, Snow, Sleet and Ice, Atmospheric Rivers and a World Gone Soggy

Posted on February 1, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

The opening rounds of a potentially record-shattering blizzard swirl outside my office window. It is one thing to report on extreme weather around the globe and quite another to literally be in the howling midst of the story. It is a storm the likes of which has not been seen, at least in the hundred-some [...]

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The Age of Old: The Population Bomb We Should Have Seen Coming (link suite overview)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On demographic destiny, boomers as geezers, population pyramids, the Singularity, dementias, Simon & Garfunkel, why humanitarian & public health policymakers have even more to worry about and areas ripe for impact investing and social enterprise “The Age of Old”—  New suite of links on TrackerNews.net The future, it turns out, isn’t all that hard to [...]

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And Now for Some Good News—Really

Posted on November 22, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

At TrackerNews, we have long mulled adding a tagline to our masthead: “One Damn Thing After Another…” But every now and again, we come across stories that gives us hope. The tale of “Greenfreeze” refrigeration technology is one them: a better, more energy efficient answer to cooling and a successful environmental / industry collaboration. Sweet [...]

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Vaccines!: The Good Fight, Funding Struggle, Breaking the “Cold Chain” and a Bit of Biomimicry

Posted on October 1, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

TrackerNews “Tumblr” posts are short intros to new link suites on the aggregator.  However, the Vaccines! post ran a bit longer than usual, so we have decided to reprint here as well. – Ed. Few things bring as much “bang for the buck” in global public health as vaccines. It is simply a lot cheaper [...]

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