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Green Revolution 2: Apps for Farmers

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2013Technology8 nations, african nations, america, apps for farmers, australia, australia based tradiepad, australian freelance writer, canada, g8, global north, green revolution 2, group, icow, Kenya, m pesa, paradigm, real time data, sharon freeman, sms, tradiepad, trial and error, vodafone, world bank

Doing paperwork has proven to be unsustainable but also entirely cumbersome in recent years given the multiplication of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. From Australia to America, Canada to Kenya, a paradigm shift towards cloud computing is being felt in the world and this could only expedite the clamor for less paper consumption.

Tradespersons have progressively depended on cloud-based applications to manage invoicing, bookkeeping and other jobs instead of filling their dashboards with unnecessary clutter. In particular, most farmers have looked and used the Cloud for a chance to turn a profit and save the earth all at the same time. (more…)

Politische Forderungen von Greenpeace an die neue Bundesregierung

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2013Environment, Politicsbundesregierung, bundestagswahl, co2 emissionen, energiewende, Greenpeace, jan haase, kanzlerin merkel, klimaschutz, klimaschutz in europa, matthew field, pkw, politische forderungen, projekt, reichstagsgebaeude von westen, umweltpolitik, umweltprobleme

Die Bundestagswahl ist vorbei – jetzt kommt es darauf an, dass die künftige Bundesregierung den Stillstand in der Umweltpolitik beendet und bestehende Blockaden auflöst. Greenpeace hat Kernforderungen an eine neue Bundesregierung erarbeitet, wie Deutschland seiner besonderen politischen Verantwortung beim Umwelt- und Klimaschutz wieder gerecht werden kann.

Umweltpolitik in Deutschland wurde in den letzten Jahren reduziert auf die Energiewende. Und innerhalb der Energiewende wurde über kaum etwas anderes debattiert als die Frage nach der Stromversorgung und dem Strompreis. Die Energiewende ist tatsächlich das herausragende umwelt- und energiepolitische Projekt – aber sie darf nicht nur im Stromsektor angegangen werden, sondern muss auch in anderen Bereichen wie Wärmeversorgung, Verkehr oder Landwirtschaft stattfinden. Und über der Energiewende dürfen andere, drängende Umweltprobleme nicht vernachlässigt werden, wie dies in der letzten Legislaturperiode der Fall war. (more…)

Texas May Be Feeding its Red Drum Fish More Than They Need, Say Researchers

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2013Scienceaustin, breeding season, capital breeders, climate change, cynthia faulk, effects of pollution, environmentally friendly, fuiman, lee fuiman, marianna grenadier, migratory patterns, natural population, port aransas, red drum fish, reproductive cycle, spawn, survival rate, university of texas

Austin, TEXAS — It’s not the chicken or the egg, but marine scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have answered a basic question about red drum fish and their eggs that may eventually help save the state of Texas a lot of money in hatcheries management and make fish farming more environmentally friendly.

Every year the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department spends millions of dollars breeding red drum, a popular game fish, releasing between 20 and 30 million hatchery-raised fingerlings into eight different bays and estuaries along the coast. In order to maximize the numbers that survive to adulthood, the practice has been to provide adult fish a diet rich in fatty acids for nine months before breeding season. During breeding season, in order to save money and resources, the diet is less rich. (more…)

From military to MBA

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Educationafghanistan, arabian peninsula, black sea, charles altman, d day planning, ernie lietzan, gi bill, heidi sandell, infantry, Iraq, level of accuracy, marine captain, marine corps base, marine infantry, mba program, middle east, military service, military to mba, national guard, operation new dawn, persian gulf, philip miller, quantico, robert paulus, university of minnesota, virginia

How the Carlson School supports veterans going for an MBA

Looking to apply to an MBA program, Heidi Sandell faced a common problem among veterans.

“I had a hard time translating my skills into something the business world could use and appreciate,” says Sandell, who served four years in the U.S. Navy. (more…)

Welches Fleisch soll es sein? Warum Bio besser ist

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Health, Natureantibiotika, betriebskooperationen, bio, bio bauern, bio huehner, biohof, bioland, demeter, deutsche, deutschland, fleisch, immunsystem, markus wolter, niedersachsen, oekologische landbau, parasitenbefall, schweine, soja aus suedamerika, tierfutter, treibhausgasemissionen, trinkwasser, wwf landwirtschaftsexperte

Wir Deutsche essen sehr viel Fleisch. Das hat Folgen. Intensivtierhaltung ist bei uns längst die Regel. Dabei werden die Tiere den Bedingungen angepasst und nicht umgekehrt. Auf einem Biohof dagegen zählen die Bedürfnisse der Tiere. Bio-Fleisch ist auch besser für das Klima – und für unser Trinkwasser.

Hausschweine haben einen großen Bewegungsdrang und sind sehr reinlich und neugierig. Bio-Bauern berücksichtigen das und bemühen sich um eine tiergemäße Haltung. Ihre Schweine bekommen Stroh als Spielzeug, zum Nestbau und zum Wühlen. Liege- und Kotplätze sind voneinander getrennt. Bioschweinen steht ein Auslauf im Freien zur Verfügung, wo sie Regen, Sonne, Wind und Gerüche erleben können – im Gegensatz zur reizarmen Umgebung eines konventionellen Stalls. Außerdem stärkt das ihr Immunsystem und sie brauchen weniger oder keine Antibiotika. (more…)

Today’s worst watershed stresses may become the new normal, study finds

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Environmentboulder, cires, climate projection, demand for freshwater, ge sun, james meldrum, kristen averyt, noaa, peter caldwell, power plants, steve mcnulty, united states, university of colorado, us watersheds, watershed stresses, western water assessment

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is “stressed,” with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new analysis of surface water in the United States. What’s more, the lowest water flow seasons of recent years—times of great stress on rivers, streams, and sectors that use their waters—are likely to become typical as climates continue to warm.

“By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,” said the study’s lead author, Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. “This is likely to create growing challenges for agriculture, electrical suppliers and municipalities, as there may be more demand for water and less to go around.” (more…)

Study explores complex physical oceanography in East China Sea

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Environmentcontinental shelf, continental slope, east china sea, hydrographic surveys, ocean floor, typhoon morakot

Just days before a team of researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and National Taiwan University set out to conduct fieldwork in the East China Sea, Typhoon Morakot—one of the most destructive storms ever to hit Taiwan—made landfall on the island, causing widespread damage and drastically altering the flow of water along the nearby continental shelf. (more…)

Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material

By Guest PostSeptember 22, 2013Scienceatomic force, block copolymers, butterfly image, chemical nanopatterns, chemical pattern, dna molecule, double stranded, electrohydrodynamic, hanyang university, imec belgium, ink jet, invention, jet prints nanostructures, john rogers, korea, magnetic storage, microscope image, nanometers, paul nealey, photolithography, printing technology, resolution, ribbons, semiconductor, serdar onses, substrate, university of chicago, university of Illinois, urbana-champaign

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines top-down advanced ink-jet printing technology with a bottom-up approach that involves self-assembling block copolymers, a type of material that can spontaneously form ultrafine structures.

The team, consisting of nine researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago and Hanyang University in Korea, was able to increase the resolution of their intricate structure fabrication from approximately 200 nanometers to approximately 15 nanometers. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, the width of a double-stranded DNA molecule. (more…)

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