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"When completed, the Giant Magellan Telescope being built in Chile's Atacama Desert will gather images of the universe that are 10 times sharper than those produced by the Hubble Space Telescope." … more »
IFC.org
“The barrier to adoption for sustainable infrastructure isn’t customers wanting it,” he says. “It’s that customers don’t want to pay for it with a big upfront check, first and foremost, and second, they don’t want to operate it, because most customers aren’t power plant managers.” … more »
Iris Dai
"Jacobs correctly argued that city planners did not really understand how cities worked. Unfortunately, Jacobs was equally convinced that she did understand how cities worked. She admitted that her principles didn’t apply to “what goes on in towns, or little cities, or in suburbs,” but that part was forgotten. … more »
Bangkok Post
"Scientists have invented an instrument to peer deeply into the billions and billions of posts made on Twitter since 2008 -- and have begun to uncover the vast galaxy of stories that they contain."We call it the Storywrangler," … more »
PML
"Knowing that mussels are “naturally voracious filter feeders,” Lindeque says (one adult mussel can filter up to 15 gallons of water a day), she thought they might be able to look to nature to address this issue of microplastic pollution." … more »
YIMBY - Housing is a Human Right
Maybe you’ve read an article about YIMBYs or heard a friend mention the term. Or maybe you saw something on Twitter, but still don’t understand what YIMBYs are. Here’s the lowdown by Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning advocacy journalist for Housing is a Human Right. … more »
EcoHealth
"The emissions amount to a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest had previously been a carbon sink, absorbing the emissions driving the climate crisis, but is now causing its acceleration." … more »
MasonCummings
"Seeing animals and birds is one of the main draws of spending time in nature. But as researchers who study conservation, wildlife and human impacts on wild places, we believe it’s important to know that you can have major effects on wildlife just by being nearby." … more »
Josh Bauer/NREL
"Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible." … more »
