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Fisker Automotive, a manufacturer of electric sports cars, has run into trouble. That’s bad enough, but that may be really bad news for lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems and for the entire sector. The MIT Technology Review broke down the domino effect like this: [Read more...]
The time for mobile nature reserves has come. What, you haven’t heard of them before? They don’t actually exist yet. The idea was just proposed at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver. As reported in the Guardian, mobile nature reserves would work as follows: Instead of restricting areas by their [...]
It’s not news that global warming is destroying ocean ecosystems by increasing the acidification of the water. Higher levels of carbon dioxide raise the acidity of the water. And this isn’t just theory. We are already seeing the effects. Oysters are already dying in greater numbers in the Pacific Northwest according to Elizabeth Grossman: Ocean [...]
Technology can have unintended consequences. The automobile was designed to get people from here to there. What perhaps wasn’t foreseen at first was the changes it would have on society. The car enabled people to flee the cities and move to the suburbs. The structure of how we all live and work was completely transformed. [...]
It’s hard to predict right now which we will hear more about this year: Solyndra as a symbol for Obama’s failed environmental policies or Romney’s low personal tax rate as a emblem for all that is wrong with Republican economic policies. Unfortunately, only one of these is really fair. Let’s see which one.
While many of us are just worrying about not being betrayed by our favorite philanthropy (I’m thinking about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation right now), many large donors and foundations are trying to figure out how they can get the most bang for their buck. This movement has been described as venture [...]