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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 [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, drought, famine, floods, food, population, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews | Tagged: Chicago Blizzard of 2011, climate change, climateprediction.net, commodity prices, Consumer Goods Forum, cotton, distributed computing, editor's blog, Egypt, extreme weather, floods and climate models, food prices, food riots, Greenpeace Solution, groundhog day, North African protests, the journal Nature, trackerblog, weatherathome, World Bank | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, floods, food, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: ARk storms, atmosphereic rivers, australia, blizzard of 2011, Brazil, Chicago, climate change, commodiity prices, commodity prices, Cyclone Yasi, floods, food prices, Jim Cantore, mudslides, Queensland, the weather channel, thundersnow | 3 Comments »

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 [...]

Filed under: cancer, epidemiology, food, population, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews | Tagged: Alzheimer's disease, baby boomers, cancer, dementias, demographics, diabetes, obesity, population pyramid, Ray Kurzweil, Shock of Gray, Simon and Garfunkel, Technocalyps, Ted Fishman, the Singularity, TrackerNews, transmhumanism | 5 Comments »

Germs, Soap & Water: Link Suite Overview

Posted on November 29, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

At TrackerNews, we tend to shy away from issues that have “days” as almost a sure mark that the cause, however noble, is all but lost. Awareness is whipped to fever pitch, followed almost inevitably by a “what do we do now?” hang-over, and an ADD sprint onto the next issue du jour. But World [...]

Filed under: agriculture, Haiti, innovation, maps, recycling, sanitation, soil health, TrackerNews, water pollution | Tagged: cholera, Clean the World, CLTS, Community-Led Total Sanitation, Flush Tracker, Haiti, hygiene, J.A. Ginsburg, Kohler Arts Center, latrines, microbiome, night soil, Rose George, sanitation, soap, The Big Necessity, toilets, tubeless toilet paper | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, climate change, energy, food | Tagged: Amy Larkin, aquaponics, CFC, Claudette Juska, F-gases, Greenfreeze, Greenpeace Solution, HFC, natural refrigerants, perch, Refrigerants Naturally, Sweet Water Organics, Will Allen, Worldview | 1 Comment »

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

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

Germs, Soap & Water: Link Suite Overview

And Now for Some Good News—Really

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