Articles by Maywa Montenegro

The music video

OK, it won't win any Oscars or snag a screening at Sundance, but this little clip only asks for three minutes of your time:

Davos attendees to focus on global warming

Admittedly, I don't know much about the World Economic Forum, other than that these annual meetings are usually protested by the likes of causes I tend to support. (A cabal of the powerful the wealthy gathering to cement their status is one image that comes to mind ... but this may be an unfair judgment given the number of exemplary altruists on the guest list.) Nonetheless, it caught my attention when the business reports said climate change would be the focus of this year's summit.

Among the highlights:

Giving a whole new meaning to bird lady

Part rooftop birdhouse, part funky science experiment, and part architectural marvel, Natalie Jeremijenko has created an urbanized playground for birds in Manhattan. View her work and listen to her take on "interactive collective" environmentalism.

Science magazine weighs in

Yesterday I came across a head-turning new biofuels study by researchers at the University of Minnesota that found that planting a mixture of native grassland perennials produces biofuels more efficiently than corn and soybeans (no surprise) and even more efficiently than any single-grass plots (hmm, interesting).