How Schools Of Fish Can Lead To More Efficient Wind Farms More salmon, please! A new study shows how biomimicry can help generate energy.
Updated Fri Nov 4, 2011
Amory Lovins On Creating A Prosperous Economy Without Oil, Coal, Or Nuclear In his new book, "Reinventing Fire," Lovins creates a system for powering a 21st century civilization without using 20th century methods.
Updated Fri Oct 28, 2011
A Video Visualization Of Earth's Fires From Space Though the Texas fires dominated the news this summer, they were not America's largest. NASA's fire detection satellites are useful beyond just generating pretty but painful pictures.
Updated Thu Oct 27, 2011
What Happens To The Ocean If We Use It For Energy? Wave power is virtually unlimited. But like all disruptions to nature, it will probably have some ill effects. Now IBM and friends are trying to figure them out in a controlled setting, before it's too late.
Updated Thu Oct 27, 2011
Big Pharma Giving Away Drug Patents To Help Cure Tropical Disease By offering up their drugs for free to developing countries, drug companies hope to make inroads into new markets, and prevent a few diseases along the way.
Updated Thu Oct 27, 2011
Bluetooth Company Spins Out Startup That Prevents Wind Turbines From Garbling Radar Systems Little known fact: Wind turbines make air traffic control nearly impossible. But Cambridge Consultants is testing a new kind of radar that would let planes and clean power play nice.
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
What Your Home Will Look Like In 2015 It's not the house of the future. More like the house of the near-future. It will be smaller and more energy efficient (but don't worry, you can keep your walk-in closet).
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
The $10 Million Genomics X Prize Will Make Genetic Sequencing Fast, Cheap, And Accurate The latest offering from the prizes-for-innovation organization is specifically looking at the genes of the super elderly. If they've lived so long, there must be something good going on.
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
A Map Of The Geothermal Riches In The U.S. Getting power from ground heat is getting easier and ever. And, thanks to Google, we now know there is way more of it than we previously thought.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
DARPA's Plan To Harvest Space Junk For New Satellites There is a lot of useful material in otherwise dead space junk. Now the military's wing of crazy, cool geniuses is going to build mini-satellites to go get it out. Recycling goes space age.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
A GPS-Enabled Shoe To Track Alzheimer's Patients This simple and dignified way to always know where someone is has applications beyond the elderly, too: small children and runners should get some, too.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
Interactive Dashboard Explores The Impact Of A World With 7 Billion People There are a lot of people in the world, and not a lot of space or resources for them. Click around this dashboard to see how the world's population is faring.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
Why California's Cap And Trade Program Is A Big Deal The state's program will be able to test the theories about whether cap-and-trade reduces pollution without destroying businesses. If it works, expect other states to quickly follow.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
Eat This, Not That: An Energy Star Label For Food Nutrition labels have a lot of information--too much perhaps. What if the fronts of food packages had a simple, easy-to-understand system that let you know if they were healthy or not?
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
Exclusive Tour Of Tesla's Showroom With Apple's Retail Guru [Video] George Blankenship, the man behind the Apple store, is trying to give buying an expensive electric car same cachet as buying an iPad.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
IBM Can Predict Floods And Droughts Days In Advance IBM is testing a new system that--using just weather patterns and detailed maps--can accurately predict 100 hours of future river behavior.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
The Uncollection: Branding That Doesn't Require Buying Anything Unconsumption helps people re-label their products with an anti-branding brand. Here's a collection of some of their work.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
Trashy TV With A Message: Soap Opera Attempts To Teach Women About Finances Call it "Sesame Street" for adults, Dominican-style. "Contracorriente" has the shocking plot twists of daytime TV, but with a secret message about savings.
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
How Open Data Could Make San Francisco Public Transportation Better [UPDATED] Instead of relying on almost-never-correct schedules, Kicker Studio has come up with an innovative system to use the city's data streams to give up-to-date transit information. When can we start using it?
Updated Thu Oct 20, 2011
California's Government 2.0: How Local Governments Are Using Technology To Become More Accessible Enough with long lines at the DMV and other horrors of local government. It's time for cities to drag themselves into the 21st century. Here are the steps some are taking.
Updated Thu Oct 20, 2011
