Tag: Facebook
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Campaign for Local Power
For more information on how you can help this amazing nonprofit win, you could go here. And you might want toLike New Era Colorado on Facebook if you want to see their ongoing progress. UPDATE (9/3/2013, 12 p.m. ET): New Era Colorado Executive Director Stephen Fenberg just emailed me to say: “The response from everyone across the country…
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UAE Firm To Create Green Farm in Ghana
Caline Malek at The National reports on Nahtam, a socially responsible company that is planning to set up a sustainable organic farming system in Ghana. Nahtam will acquire 4,000 acres of land in the capital city of Accra, which will produce food while offsetting carbon production. “Carbon footprint is a global issue and the simplest…
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Blue Planet HD 189733b Rains Glass
NASA’s ever-peering eye into the heavens, the Hubble Space Telescope, has found a distant planet whose blue hue could be the result of glass rain. The planet, HD 189733b, is located 63 light-years away, and it wasn’t until recently, when the planet passed behind its host star, that scientists were able to surmise that the…
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Millennials Meet to “reRoute” Our Economy
By: Keith Harrington: Huffington Post In case you missed it, this past spring students at over a dozen universities and colleges across North America gathered on their campuses to lay the foundations of a new millennial-led movement for economic system change. This month, these leaders will take a good hard look at the next strategic steps for their…
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Newly found clouds double the amount of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs
From Design & Trend, by Jessica Passananti: Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University studied the influence of cloud behavior on exoplanets far from our solar system. The newly found clouds double the amount of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe. In the Milky Way…
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Invisibility Cloak Fast Becoming a Reality
In The Mail Online, James Rush provides fascinating information on an invisibility cloak, designed by scientists, that is big enough to hide a human or a satellite orbiting earth. Can the search for Planet Q’onoS be far behind? Over the last ten years scientists have investigated two main ways of creating invisibility cloaks, according to the MIT Technology…
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Honoring Abdullah Comert
Abdullah Comert is now the second confirmed casualty of the uprising in Turkey. The 22 year-old was pronounced dead last night from wounds to the head sustained by “unidentified gunmen,” but eyewitness accounts are placing the blame on police, whose brutal tactics have been well-documented by protesters. His final Facebook post is up on reddit. If you want to…