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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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For decades, our vision of the future has been stuck in a 1960s-era dream of science fiction embodied by The Jetsons and space travel. In fact, what if our vision of that particular technologically advanced future is all wrong? But we can change our attitudes. What's more, we are changing.

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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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Their study appears in Global Change Biology. Feral swine are descendants of escaped or released pigs. The researchers used predictive population models coupled with advanced mapping techniques to estimate the climate damage wild pigs are causing across five continents.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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“It’s really important to excite students from a variety of backgrounds about engineering,” she adds, “because it’s vital to the future of STEM to have a lot of different voices contributing. “So So much of our world is based on technology, so we need to have a lot of voices to shape its future. “I

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Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. However, the effects of natural gas on climate change have been difficult to calculate.

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Researchers Find Warming Arctic Current Triggers Release of Methane from Methane Hydrate

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Methane released from gas hydrate in submarine sediments has been identified in the past as an agent of climate change. The data were collected from the royal research ship RRS James Clark Ross, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s International Polar Year Initiative. Westbrook, G.

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It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

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Inspired by President Obama’s election and the collapse of the ponzi scheme economy, I decided to work full time, pro bono, on the issues I cared about most – climate change, renewable energy, energy conservation and sustainability. Fortunately the Greenius Decade is here and so am I. Time for me to get back to work.

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What’s In It For Me?

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There is no doubt that my fate is to be part of the first generation in American history to leave behind a future radically worse than the one that was gifted to us. Because my father’s mother was a Romanian Jew, an illegal immigrant, who fled to America to escape World War II, all Jews and all refugees on the run are my family.