Indonesia Launches Tsunami Warning System
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffJapanese TV warning of tsunamis, Sept. 2004. Image credit: Wikipedia.Early warning system aims to avoid a repeat of the devastating disaster that hit the country in 2004, killing 168,000 people by Ian MacKinnon On Tuesday, Indonesia launched ...
Better Living Through Lasers
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffWind-sensing light beams could boost windmill output by 10%. This is cool: A new fiber-optic laser system can measure wind speed and direction up to 1000 meters in front of a wind turbine, giving the massive ...
Ultra Clean Water: New Technology for Cleaner Industry
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffBy Adele Peters Industrial cleaning has long been a dirty business. Degreasers and solvents, which are used to clean manufacturing equipment, can cause long-term contamination of water and soil, and can potentially lead to severe problems of ...
Reader Report: Solar Innovation in Costa Rica
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffBy Max Levin In May 2007, the government of Costa Rica announced the ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2030. Though Costa Rica has a rather large head start on alternative energy – 78 percent ...
Paper from Wheat, not Wood
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffBy WorldChanging Canada writer Rod Edwards. There's an interesting development lurking in your magazine rack (provided you subscribe to Canadian Geographic): paper made from wheat straw—the stem & stalk waste product of grain farming. Indistinguishable from regular ...
Who Wants What? Google Insight on Spam, Pirated Software and Other Fun Stuff
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffOh man. Google Insights for Search is good fun. I’m supposed to spend this week finishing a number of writing projects. But I spent almost all today running different searches and being basically stunned at how ...
Reader Report from OSCON: The Tenth Annual Open Source Conference
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffBy Paul Mackay Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like ...
Reader Report from OSCON: The Tenth Annual Open Source Conference
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffBy Paul Mackay Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like ...
ETech Goes Worldchanging
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffETech -- the excellent O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, where I spoke last year (video here, though not my finest talk, unfortunately, as I had an airplane flu) -- has released their call for proposals, and it ...
Visualizing Social Networks… in Excel
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffIn the spirit of attending OPCs - “other people’s conferences”, conferences where you’re invited, but not part of the demographic/professional group the conference is aimed at - I’m now at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. ...
From Sampling to Monitoring to Gulping Data Down in Great Big Chunks
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffOne of the forces facilitating the possibility of a bright green economic transformation is insight into the systems around us, particularly the kind of insight we gain through making visible the invisible and manifesting backstories. As the ...
Gold Farmers
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffThe documentary i was dying to see at the Homo Ludens Ludens exhibition at LABoral in Gijon was Gold Farmers, by Ge Jin. Image courtesy of Ge Jin Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by ...
New Brave World workshop: RFID and art
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffIt's Monday and although everyone else is probably thanking Easter break for providing them with an opportunity to lay in bed until lunch time, i've been up early to give the final touch of my presentation ...
New Brave World workshop: RFID and art
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffIt's Monday and although everyone else is probably thanking Easter break for providing them with an opportunity to lay in bed until lunch time, i've been up early to give the final touch of my presentation ...
Information Visualization is a Medium
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffI arrived in San Diego for etech08 after a 25 hour trip. The morning after i was sitting in the main conference room wondering why on earth i was doing that to myself. I could have ...
Information Visualization is a Medium
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffI arrived in San Diego for etech08 after a 25 hour trip. The morning after i was sitting in the main conference room wondering why on earth i was doing that to myself. I could have ...
Nanotechnology and the Near Future
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Emerging Technologies, Green News | Comments OffMike Treder looks back over the first five years of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology's work, and draws some conclusions about where we are and where we're going in the field of nanotechnology: There is a huge ...