The Future of Wild California
So far, most discussion stimulated by the Institute for the Future's Future of California research map and California Dreaming contest have focused on the future of human life in California, mostly ignoring non-human natives, and the largest most critical lifeform, the integral wilderness of California.
- Michael Liebhold's blog
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Crowd-Tracking Noise and Air Pollution
A new noise/ozone sensor watch being tested in Europe.
- Alexandra Carmichael's blog
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Helping others see the pollution you hear
As part of our ongoing work examining the intersection of health and citizen-environmental monitoring, we are always on the look out for new products and services that promote this connection.
- Vivian Distler's blog
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A political brouhaha in the making: Chinese workers sickened for cleaner energy in the West
The Times of London recently had an excellent article that will make you feel horrible every time you use a compact fluorescent lightbulbs to save energy--and that also suggests an emerging cultural flashpoint around which the Chinese public could organize in the coming years. "'Green' lightbulbs poison workers", by Michael Sheridan, describes a surge in
Exinction Risks Underestimated -- NATURE
A new article in Nature argues that current models for estimating extinction risks underestimate the impact of forces beyond birth-death ratio and environment. As a result, biologists may be missing potentially significant extinction threats.
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Creation Care: Evangelicals Embrace Environmentalism
The Sundance Channel aired an interesting new documentary last night called "The Great Warming". What's interesting about it is that it examines how people are coping with forecasts and realities of global warming around the world - in London, in Bangladesh, etc. It's not about polar bears dying off or the Earth in pain... it's about real people suffering and being scared out of their wits. Powerful stuff.
