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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 »

The Days, Years After: Recovering from Bigger, Badder Disasters

Posted on August 31, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview: on recovering from disasters; the lessons of Irene, Joplin, Fukushima, Pakistan flood, Queensland flood, Christchurch quakes, Haiti quakes, Katrina; collateral damage and eco-smart design as insurance It has been a banner year for disasters in the US with a record-breaking 10 “billion-dollar-plus” knock-out punches, and still four months to go. So far: [...]

Filed under: Diaster relief, earthquake, energy, famine, floods, Haiti, hurricanes, maps, philanthropy, social networks, technology, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, Uncategorized, water | Tagged: Christchurch earthquakes, economics, Fukushima, green energy, Haiti earthquakes, hurricane irene, hurricane katrina, Joplin tornado, Pakistan floods, Queensland floods, resilience | 1 Comment »

Plastics: Eco-Comedy / Eco-Tragedy

Posted on March 27, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On the power of humor, one farmer’s stand, birds, bottle caps, better bottles, trash-tracking and why corporations need to push politicians toward smarter recycling policy Here at TrackerNews, where our unofficial tagline is “One Damn Thing After Another,” the focus tends to be on the grim. Floods, droughts, plagues, blights, quakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, climate change, [...]

Filed under: eWaste, food, oil, plastic, recycling, water pollution | Tagged: albatross, AshEl Eldridge, Ben Zolno, Chris Jordan, Chris Palmer, closed loop design, cradle to cradle design, eco-comedy video competition, green circle, Green Sangha, Henry Brockman, Henry's Farm, Jenni Perez, Kris Krug, Midway Island, MIT's Senseable City, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pepsi, PET, plastic state of mind, recycling, Scott Walker, single use plastic bag, Terra Brockman, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »

The Nuke Factor: How to Make Disasters Worse and the Implications for Humanitarian Aid

Posted on March 21, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On 400+ aging nuclear reactors, quake-prone countries, food chains, trade networks and what this means for first responders and social entrepreneurs Let’s get right to the point: What happens the next time a nuclear reactor goes rogue in the wake of a natural disaster? Japan is a worst case scenario in a best case place. [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, Diaster relief, disease surveillance, earthquake, energy, epidemiology, food, nuclear, soil health, water, water pollution | Tagged: Amory Lovns, Chernobyl, China, food, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, Iran, Italy, Japan, milk, nuclear contamination, nuclear meltdown, Pakistan, radiation, radioactive, Three Mile Island, Turkey, water | 2 Comments »

Green Circle: Redefining the Extractive Economy—TrackerNews.net Link Suite Overview

Posted on December 7, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Recycling isn’t just sorting the trash for garbage pick-up any more. A new generation of designers, entrepreneurs and activists is coming up with all kind of clever ways to connect seemingly disparate supply chains, turn expense into profit and redefine the “extractive economy” through a mix of biomimicry and circular thinking. “Green Circle” – New [...]

Filed under: energy, eWaste, innovation, recycling, TrackerNews | Tagged: biomimicry, Bloom Laptop, C2C, circular economy, Compostmodern, Core 77, cradle to cradle, design-thinking, Eben Bayer, Ecovative Design, Edouard Martinet, Edward Scissorhands, Ellen MacArthur, exaptations, extractive economy, GOOD magazine, J.A.Ginsburg, Looptworks, Micromidas, Pop!Tech, Recycle Match, recycling, reuse, Ryan Smith, Stanford, Steve Johnson, Sustainable Retrainables, TED, Terracyle, upcycling, William McDonough | 2 Comments »

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