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 July 2, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
The bottlenose dolphin swimming the Gulf of Mexico was “splattering oil out its blow hole.” The obscenity of such a thing was too much for marine conservationist, author and founder/director of the Blue Ocean Insitute, Carl Safina, whose voice broke as he told the story in the middle of a lecture at the TEDxOilSpill conference. [...]
Filed under: agriculture, energy, food, natural gas, oil, soil health, water | Tagged: @bpglobalpr, Amory Lovins, bioremediation, BP, British Petroleum, Carl Safina, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Christen Lien, corexit, Darron Collins, Dave Gallo, Deepwater Horizon, Duncan Davidson, Earth Echo International, Elizabeth Coffman, Exxon Valdez, Gulf coast oil spill, John Wathen, Kris Krug, Lisa Margonelli, Marine Environmental Research Institute, Mike Tidwell, Mission Blue, New America Foundation, oil derricks, Paul Salopek, Peter Diamandis, Philippe Cousteau, Pinar Ozger, Rocky Mountain Institute, Ron Atlas, Susan Shaw, Sylvia Earle, Talon Security, Ted Hardin, TED Prize, TEDxOilSpill, Veins in the Gulf, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution, X Prize Foundation | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 20, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
Despite my general rule that once a day is designated for a cause, the cause is likely lost (or at least in serious trouble), I found myself rooting mightily last Saturday for Solarday. Missed it? It is only in its second year, but with global aspirations and the power of the sun on its side. [...]
Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, climate change, energy, food, innovation, natural gas, oil, oil spill, solar, transportation, water | Tagged: Amory Lovins, Willie Smits, Will Allen, urban agriculture, Daniel Nocera, Gulf coast oil spill, oil spill, BP, Reinventing Fire, contraception, Solarday, wind power, microwind, wave power, Bill Gates, nuclear, Catalytix, Rocky Mountain Institute, negawatts, efficiency, small people, sugar palms, Nigeria, TEDxOilSpill | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 8, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
If only there were a rewind button. From the first, almost cheerfully do-able estimate of 1,000 barrels of oil spewing daily into the Gulf of Mexico to a… jaw-dropping 5,000 barrel revision horrifying 19,000 barrel update are-you-kidding-me? 25,000 barrel recalculation and an it’s way-way-way-more-than-the-Exxon-Valdez admission …the bad news on the BP catastrophe has gone so [...]
Filed under: agriculture, climate change, energy, food, natural gas, oil, oil spill, soil health, water | Tagged: climate change, greenhouse gases, Gulf coast oil spill, oil spill, BP, Philippe Cousteau, underwater oil droplet plumes, bioremediation, dead zones, hypoxic, N2O, colony collapse disorder, CCD, honey bees, bees, Avatar, pesticides, herbicides, Roundup Ready, Michael Pollan, monsanto | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 15, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Leave it to an 8 year-old. Specifically, the 8 year-old son of Jim Warner, managing director of design consultancy Brandimage, who took one look at a plastic bottle his dad had helped create and said, “Oh. You make trash.” Once the sting of that nasty little unvarnished truth wore off, Warner set to work to [...]
Filed under: climate change, innovation, oil, recycling, water | Tagged: 360 paper bottle, albatross, Bisphenol A, Brandimage, Chris Jordan, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Jim Warner, Message from the Gyre, plastic bottle | 2 Comments »
