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: TrackerBlog, oil | Tagged: China, BP, Nigeria, Deepwater Horizon, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, Peter Diamandis, X Prize, Gulf Oil Spill, Michigan | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 27, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
The past as prologue: fortune-telling from tree rings; The Green Revolution hits the skids: genetically resilient pathogens and monoculture crops What happens when the future comes early? When does record-breaking weather segue from unfortunate inconvenience to an inconvenient truth? When… China reports massive floods affecting 75% of its provinces? The tally of dead and missing [...]
Filed under: TrackerBlog, agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, drought, epidemiology, famine, floods, food, water | Tagged: climate change, hunger, An Inconvenient Truth, China floods, Russia drought, heat waves, tree ring data, extreme weather, Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, wheat stem rust, Ug99, blights, late blight, cassava virus, famine | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 8, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
At TrackerNews, our approach is a little different from most aggregators. While they focus either on the latest or most popular stories, we focus on context. Stories cycle through the site in groups to deliver a more faceted experience: breaking news is paired with archived stories, research papers, blog posts, websites, book reviews, e-books – [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Hope Phones is one of those “Gosh, yes!” ideas: Get people to donate old cell phones to a recycling company Get recycling company to assign each phone a value Use value to trade for refurbished phones Donate refurbished phones to clinics in developing countries to use for sending health-related text messages Good begets good Stanford [...]
Filed under: conflict minerals, eWaste, energy, innovation, mobile devices, recycling | 6 Comments »
Posted on May 7, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Last week, the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic rating for swine flu (aka H1N1) all the way to an unprecedented “pandemic imminent” level 5, with a top-of-the-chart 6 considered inevitable. Was it time to wear masks? Stock up on Tamiflu and canned goods? Update wills? Pull out old high school lit-class copies of [...]
Filed under: TrackerNews, disease surveillance, epidemiology, swine flu | Tagged: Ian Lipkin, swine flu, H1N1, influenza, World Health Organization, epidemiology, WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Decameron, WHO phase of pademic alert, global public health, Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, Mass Tag PCR, GreeneChips and High Through-put Sequencing, rabies, 28 Days Later, Pop!Tech | Leave a Comment »
