by Gil Friend | May 16, 2004 | Sustainability
Carl Frankel’s new book — Out of the Labyrinth: Who We Are, How We Go Wrong, and What We Can Do About It — is out and the jacket copy describes it as ‘combining a visionary framework, a personal narrative, and cultural criticism into a story...
by Gil Friend | Apr 26, 2004 | Sustainability
[Economist]: Ancient plumbing warns that all is not well with rising sea levels. Research from Dorit Sivan of the University of Haifa indicate that the sea level has remained reasonably constant over the past 2,000 years. This is in contrast to precise tide-gauge...
by Gil Friend | Apr 25, 2004 | Sustainability
[New Scientist]: For years, apparent increases in illness among marine creatures, from whales to coral, have left marine scientists with the uneasy suspicion that the seas are increasingly plagued by disease. Now, US researchers have uncovered the first good evidence...
by Gil Friend | Apr 25, 2004 | Sustainability
[New Scientist]: The island nations of the south-western Pacific are considering allowing citizens to reclaim legal control of their local seas, in the hope they can use their traditional knowledge, customs and laws to protect fish stocks and biodiversity. The move is...
by Gil Friend | Apr 19, 2004 | Sustainability
The most exceptional of many juicy items in AtKisson Inc’s WaveFront newsletter this month: GAPMINDER.ORG (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) is a web site that translates complicated development trends into easily understood and dynamic graphs. The web site’s software...
by Gil Friend | Mar 29, 2004 | Sustainability
Buckyballs cause brain damage in fish [New Scientist] We’re just at the begining of understanding not only the potential of nanotech, but also its possilbe impacts. But as fullerenes move into large-scale production, accidents are bound to occur....
