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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 »

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 »

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 »

Vaccines!: The Good Fight, Funding Struggle, Breaking the “Cold Chain” and a Bit of Biomimicry

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

TrackerNews “Tumblr” posts are short intros to new link suites on the aggregator. However, the Vaccines! post ran a bit longer than usual, so we have decided to reprint here as well. – Ed. Few things bring as much “bang for the buck” in global public health as vaccines. It is simply a lot cheaper [...]

Filed under: agriculture, disease surveillance, epidemiology, food, soil health, TrackerNews, vaccines, water | Tagged: antibiotic resistance, biomimicry, diarrheal diseaeses, edible vaccine, HIV vaccine, malaria, molecular farming, pnuemococcal diseases, TB, TrackerNews, vaccines | 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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Germs, Soap & Water: Link Suite Overview

Vaccines!: The Good Fight, Funding Struggle, Breaking the “Cold Chain” and a Bit of Biomimicry

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