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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 »

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 »

Nature as Nurture: A Paradigm Shift at TEDxMidwest & Our Place in the Greater Scheme of Things

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

On humans as animals, the dawn of the anthropocene, designing nature, nature-mediated design, culturally smart rainforest restoration, doing right by orangutans and energy positive skyscrapers Go Meave Leakey! With the addition of a single word tucked into a sprightly 6-million-year time-travelogue of our species’ history, the reigning matriarch of archeology’s most famous family blithely breezed [...]

Filed under: climate change, conference, disease surveillance, energy, epidemiology, green building, lighting, maps, rain forests, solar, water | Tagged: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, anthromes, anthropocene, biodiversity, Bruce Mau, building retrofit, Chicago Central Area Decarbonization Plan, Frans Lanting, Gordon Gill, Masdar Headquarters, Meave Leakey, net postive buldings. Pearl River Tower, net zero architecture, oil palms, Oranguatan Outreach, polycuture, rainforests, stromatolites, sugar palms, TEDxMidwest, Willie Smits, Willis Tower, zoonosis | Leave a Comment »

Trees, Food, Pakistan & the Lessons of Medieval Monks: How Ecosystems Thinking Can (Still) Save the World

Posted on September 13, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

On deforestation, floods, global commodity markets and food empires; The lessons of medieval monks; Urbanization and ecosystems thinking; Saved by a worm? Of all the horrifying stories to come out of Pakistan in this long waterlogged summer of raging floods, perhaps the most tragic is why the disaster become a full-blown, future-blighting catastrophe: Deforestation had [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, drought, energy, famine, floods, food, forests, oil, rain forests, reforestation, soil health, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: Al Jazeera, Andrew Rimas, aquaponics, charter cities, Chris Anderson, Cistercians, city farms, deforestation, disaster response, Empires of Food, erosion, Evan Fraser, famine, floods, food prices, Growing Power, illegal logging, ISDR, Jacqueline Novogratz, medieval monks, megacities, Norman Borlaug, oil, Pakistan, Paul Romer, Russian drought, slums, Sweet Water Organics, timber mafia, Ug99, urban agriculture, urbanization, wheat, wheat rust, Will Allen | 2 Comments »

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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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And Now for Some Good News—Really

Nature as Nurture: A Paradigm Shift at TEDxMidwest & Our Place in the Greater Scheme of Things

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