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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 »

Frack, Baby, Frack: The Insti-Environmental Nightmare

Posted on August 8, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

How scheme sold as pro-energy independence & climate-friendly unleashed environmental disaster in 5 years; From U.S. to Australia, Poland & India; Clean water as legal casualty; Green lesson from Bangladesh The devil really is in the details: Fine print can kill. In 2005, as part of Bush/Cheney Energy Bill, a then obscure natural gas mining [...]

Filed under: climate change, earthquake, energy, InSTEDD, natural gas, water, water pollution | Tagged: alternative energy, Bangladesh, Bush/Cheney Energy bill, cancer, carcinogens, Ed Jezierski, Eduardo Jezierski, flammable water, fracking, Gasland, Grameen Shakti, Halliburton loophole, Hydraulic fracturing, hydro-fracking, Josh Fox, natural gas, Safe Drinking Water Act, solar power, The Space Show, water pollution | 1 Comment »

More Incentive to Clean Up the Gulf: The X Prize Foundation Announces the Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge

Posted on July 31, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Idea first floated at the TEDxOilSpill conference by Francis Belland of the X Prize Foundation and David Gallo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute becomes real. Since the BP gusher started spewing millions of gallons of crude oil and methane into the Gulf of Mexico more that three months ago, there have other high profile spills, [...]

Filed under: oil, TrackerBlog, Uncategorized | Tagged: BP, China, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill, Michigan, Nigeria, Peter Diamandis, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, X Prize | Leave a Comment »

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

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Frack, Baby, Frack: The Insti-Environmental Nightmare

More Incentive to Clean Up the Gulf: The X Prize Foundation Announces the Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge

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