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Global warming work ahead on heels of presidential summit
Chinese President Hu Jintao is in D.C. for a state dinner with President Obama and for a series of meetings over the next three days. They have a lot on their plate (both literally and figuratively), so climate change won’t be the only thing that they discuss. But you can sure bet that it will come up.
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Worldwatch report highlights how lopsided discussion is about Africa, food, and biotechnology
How come we hardly see op-eds on what paved roads, improved sanitation, more efficient distribution networks, soil conservation and a reduction in food waste might do for world hunger?
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Farmer-scientist group wants to 'hack society' through open-source technology
The Open Source Ecology team's ambitious first project is the Global Village Construction Set -- a sort of life-size Erector set of the most essential machines for building a "small civilization with modern-day comforts."
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IBM heads to Rio with its Smarter Cities program
IBM has partnered with Rio de Janeiro to create an operations center that will give the Brazilian city's emergency-management team access to a vast array of data.
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Who will own the smarter cities of the future?
As cities get smarter, concerns about privacy and corporate control are growing. Plus, big corporations can be pretty stupid.
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FoodTubes wants to take food distribution back to the future
The brainchild of "a consortium of academics, project planners, and engineers," FoodTubes wants to move our fossil-fuel based transport system underground.
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Chu criticizes anti-innovation conservatives
In a conference call, Energy Secretary Steven Chu derided the conservative desire to turn back the clock on technological innovation.
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Find out where your city is most walkable with Walk Score's new heat maps
Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable.
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Climate action plan: Innovate first, regulate later
Technology policy -- not carbon caps -- is our best hope for fighting climate change.
