Monbiot: We can't both conserve more and consume more
George Monbiot, one of the great environmental writers and thinkers, introduces us to some economic theory ("decoupling") that addresses the question of how to achieve a »
European Commission moving toward a circular economy
The European Commission is planning to present a new "circular economy" strategy late 2015. It's an approach that seems to be gaining some traction. The Guardian »
eBanking could cut bank staff by half
There's an article in the Guardian quoting a former Barclay's executive to say that banks could lose up to half their staff (and branches) to e-banking »
Coming soon: widespread antibiotic resistance
It's been known for some time that liberal use of antibiotics among both humans and agricultural animals has caused increasing resistance in bacteria of these remedies. »
Bezos beats Musk: toward recycling rockets
Who knew? Bezos (head of Amazon) is in the space race too with Blue Origin, and what's more has just beat Musk (and his SpaceX) in »
CRISPR makes genetic engineering available to garage labs
According to Huffington Post a genetic engineering technology called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has become inexpensive and reliable enough to become available to »
Atmospheric CO2 above 400ppm
According to many sources (like climate central) atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) has passed the 400ppm (parts per million) mark as of March 2015 or so. The »
OpenCon2015: About the Academic World
I just spent the day at OpenCon2015 Toronto (about open access and open data), at the well-used and welcoming Mozilla meeting space near Spadina and Adelaide. »
Brand New Site Software: Ghost
I've just installed this Ghost blog software for my personal website. Was curious about a nodejs cms. So far so good, and pretty easy to set »