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Hungry Planet

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

Link suite overview on malnutrition, blighted futures, dumb food aid, sachets of hopes, micronutrient magic, microbiology and new markets There are now, by recent tally, 7 billion people on planet Earth and at least 2 billion of us are hungry. Malnutrition, either from lack of food or too much of the wrong food is a [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, famine, food, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: chickpeas, diarrhea, GAIN, Grameen Danone, hygiene, malnutrition, medicins sans frontieres, micronutrients, MSF, nutrition, peanuts, Pepsico, plumpy'nut, prebiotics, probiotics, Shakti Doi, starved for attention, ultra rice, VitaYeast, wawa mum, WFP, World Food Programme | 1 Comment »

Hello, Sunshine!

Posted on October 12, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview on solar scale up: better tech, lower costs, variety, better batteries and bottle bulbs The shades may have been drawn on Solyndra, but the sun still shines on solar. Despite Big Carbon’s industry front group-funded campaign to sell us on a fossil-fueled future, solar is going mainstream fast. Even heads deeply buried [...]

Filed under: climate change, Diaster relief, energy, solar | Tagged: bottle bulb, China, concentrated solar power (CSP), Daniel Nocera, flexible solar, Make It Right Foundation, MIT's D-Lab, nanotech, Rocky Mountain Institute, solar, Solar chargers, Solar Decathlon, solar ink, solar leaf, Solyndra, TrackerNews | Leave a Comment »

Bite!!! Life in a Warmer, Wetter World

Posted on July 15, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview: On vector-borne disease and climate change, connecting the infinitesimal and the invisible, Dopey Does DDT, the need for ecosystems thinking & bugs gone borg It is a midsummer night’s feast and we are on the menu. Nibbled and sipped by winged vampires and blood-sucking squatters, we scratch, swat and fret. But the [...]

Filed under: climate change, disease surveillance, epidemiology, food, TrackerNews, vaccines | Tagged: Amy Stewart, babesia, borrelia, climate change, Disney, ecosytems thinking, fleas, global warming, Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems (HI-MEMS), leisthmaniasis, Lyme Disease, malaria, mites, moose, mosquito abatement, mosquitoes, parasites, salmon lice, sand flies, Tara Smith, ticks, typhus, vector-borne disease, Wicked Insects, Winged Scourge, winter ticks | Leave a Comment »

Soggy Spring, Silent Seas (link suite overview)

Posted on May 6, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On storms, floods, food prices and foolish farm policies; Redistributing fertility from where it’s needed to where it’s not; Corn, gullies and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone According to insurance industry consultancy EQECAT, the damage caused by the hundreds of tornadoes that exploded across the southern tier of the US in April rank right [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, floods, food, soil health, water, water pollution | Tagged: Aldo Leopold, Cairo IL, Environmental Working Group, Facebook, FEMA trailers, food prices, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxic dead zone, insurance, levees, Mississippi River, Ohio River, Qaudror, soil erosion, spring planting, Tornadoes, Tuscaloosa | Leave a Comment »

Japan: The Big One

Posted on March 14, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On primal forces and perspective, how climate change may make nuclear an even more dicey option and better, smarter search & rescue bots (background and link suite-story overview) The March 11 earthquake off the east coast of Japan was one for the record books. Now rated a 9.0 on the Richter scale by the Japanese [...]

Filed under: climate change, earthquake, floods | Tagged: Chernobyl, climate change, Disaster City, earthquake, Hiroshima, Japan, kinect, lithosphere, nuclear plant explosion, radiation, search and rescue robots, survivor buddy, tectonic plates, tsunami, volcanos | 2 Comments »

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