Environment – TimBatchelder

Places with the most lethal air quality

October 11, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
John Metcalfe, grist.org

Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow and…

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China’s Pollution Is So Bad It Can Now Be Seen from Outer Space! (inhabitat.com)
How Does Exposure to Air Pollution Affect Deaths from Pneumonia? (pollutionfree.wordpress.com)

Vikings have more fun: UN reports Danes are happiest people

September 22, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet
Greg Hanscom, grist.org

ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a sane workweek, and umbre…

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What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?

September 3, 2013December 22, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers?
fastcoexist.com

We give hurricanes such friendly, blameless names. What did Sandy ever do to anyone? An advocacy group wants to name disastrous storms after the politicians who are blocking effective climate policy.

Spare a thought for people named Ivan,…

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What If We Named Catastrophic Hurricanes After Climate Change Deniers? (fastcoexist.com)
Climate Name Change aims to connect deniers to storms (treehugger.com)

Architect Michael Green Calls Wood “The Most Technologically Advanced Building Material In The World.”

August 26, 2013August 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

TreeHugger.

Michael Green and the case for wooden skyscrapers [Video] (mnn.com)
INDEX Award winner: Rasperry Pi (treehugger.com)
Scaffolding and shipping containers used to build temporary restaurant (treehugger.com)

An egg that monitors air quality goes online

August 17, 2013August 20, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Systems Science

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Air quality alert issued for Chicago area (suntimes.com)

Americans don’t like the taste of water

May 22, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water
Sarah Miller, grist.org

Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water. And since Americ…

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Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water (grist.org)

For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system

April 10, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system
David Roberts, grist.org

Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort of shuts down when it encounters numbers lik…

Iraq War Could Have Paid For 100% Renewable Power Grid (ritholtz.com)
Renewable Energy Systems renewable power capacity surpasses 8,000MW (cleantechnology-business-review.com)
German Shift from Nuclear to Renewable Energy Gets Expensive (247wallst.com)
Britain resists EU bid to set new target on renewable energy (guardian.co.uk)
Why go for renewable energy option? (greenliving4live.com)
COLUMN-German renewables energy model tough to follow: Wynn (xe.com)

Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time

April 10, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next oil spill is dangerous thinking.

Oil spill…

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The Deep Water Horizon (raceingminds.wordpress.com)
Lessons from Deepwater Horizon: how oil spills could impact BC tourism (vancouverobserver.com)
BP calls for independent probe of claims lawyer (miamiherald.com)
Corexit: Deadly dispersant in oil spill cleanup (sott.net)

Thoughts on rural research

March 8, 2013June 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

In the Hands of God: Thoughts on Rural Research
core77.com

By Jan ChipchaseThis article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homogeneous.Over the last decade I’ve seen an…

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Taking the Rural Pulse, part 2 (ruralmnblog.wordpress.com)
Nanoparticle Tech Could Bring Clean Water to Rural Poor (livescience.com)

North Face launches garment recycling program

March 1, 2013June 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

The North Face Launches “Clothes the Loop” Garment-Recycling Program
ecouterre.com

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by Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/21/13

The North F …

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Marks & Spencer’s Shwopping, One Year Later: Progress and Potential (triplepundit.com)
Sustainability Drives Innovation (noahsprojectblog.wordpress.com)
Community Recycling Helps Universities Divert 1.9m Pounds From Landfill (environmentalleader.com)
[Ꮬ] The North Face Men’s Resolve Jacket Asphalt Grey / Asphalt Grey 3XL! (emjooa.wordpress.com)
Exploring for The North Face Mesh Room – 6 Person Tent Available for Sale (snyykill.wordpress.com)
The World’s Most Sustainable Retailer? Marks & Spencer’s 2013 Plan A Report (triplepundit.com)

10 year old boy starts recycling business

February 11, 2013June 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children
Lana Winter, inhabitots.com

“It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home town of Corona del Mar, California. Inspired …

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Corona Del Mar, CA – Living in the Flower Streets (realestatebythebeach.wordpress.com)

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey perceptions about climate

January 22, 2013February 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it
By Philip Bump, grist.org

You’d think that by now John Mackey would have learned to shut up.

The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my saying so, of course, since — in classic hyper-entitled, superfluously wealthy, privileged white-man st…

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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Thinks Climate Change is Not Necessarily Bad (triplepundit.com)
John Mackey book tour something to chew on (sfgate.com)
Whole Foods CEO: ‘Climate Change Is Not Necessarily Bad’ (thinkprogress.org)
Whole Foods CEO worried about Obama fascism/socialism, not worried about climate change (boingboing.net)

East Village Molecule Cafe

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

East Village’s Molecule Cafe Serves Nothing But Filtered NYC Tap Water!
inhabitat.com

Glass of water photo via Shutterstock

A new watering hole called the Molecule Cafe has opened up in New York’s East Village, and it serves only one thing – NYC tap water. Considering that the cafe gets the water for free, filters it an…

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Police Release New Photo Of East Village Groper (newyork.cbslocal.com)
Brunch at Peels, East Village (bigdesignloves.com)

The Government Open-Data Program

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money.

It’s only a…

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UK postcodes will not be open data, government decides (information-age.com)
Do you want Open historical weather data? (cleanweb.org.uk)

A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Network Science, Systems Science

A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com

To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few parts for just…

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Best DIY Cook Kit For Hiking Wilderness Camping (mobilerik.com)
Homestudioguy.com DIY Keyboard Stand (gearslutz.com)

A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Systems Science

A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water.

Depending on whether you’ve just watche…

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Fracking ‘unlikely to give UK cheap gas’, report says. (independent.co.uk)
Fracking Sites Are Polluting Our Groundwater (neboman7.wordpress.com)
Facts on Fracking: Three Things You Need to Know (theenergycollective.com)
Sign California! Support Fracking Moratorium AB 1301 Petition. 350.org Bay Area (friendnature.wordpress.com)

CO2 Is Why You’re Fat

January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

CO2 Is Why You’re Fat
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

As the atmosphere fills with more carbon dioxide, it might mean that breathing creates a chemical reaction that makes you want to eat more. And more. And even more.

There is no single factor that has caused widespread obesity in the…

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New Discovery: NASA Study Proves Carbon Dioxide Cools Atmosphere!! Global Warming is a HOAX! Carbon Dioxide is a COOLANT ! (socioecohistory.wordpress.com)
Genetically modified microorganism could convert atmospheric CO2 into fuel (gizmag.com)
Enivronmentalists worst nightmare? GMO’d ‘frankenbugs’ could make fuel directly from CO2 (wattsupwiththat.com)

Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?

January 13, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump.

Continuing Australia’s trend of being majorly unpleasant this week, it got so hot in the Outback town of Oodnadatta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas.

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Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia – report (environmentalresearchweb.org)
Focus on climate change (fijitimes.com)
Greenpeace activists board ship carrying Australian coal (guardian.co.uk)
Australia has no choice but to change with the climate (newscientist.com)

Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length

December 28, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length
smithsonianmag.com

If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s really long nose hairs. Which is perhaps why Clean Air Asia has decided to start visualizing each person’s air pollution exposure as super-long, disgusting nose hairs. The group says:

The more…

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Air Pollution Represented By Nose Hair Length? (uniquedaily.com)
Wild & Weird: Adapt to Air Pollution by… Growing Your Nose Hair Out? (earthfirstnews.wordpress.com)
The Strangest Thing You’ll See Today: Air Pollution Represented By Nostril-Hair Length (popsci.com)
Friday Fun: The Nose Hair Indicator for Air Pollution (thecityfix.com)
How much nose hair would you need to protect you from your city’s pollution? (io9.com)
The truth is stranger than data visualization (boingboing.net)
Top 10 Posts for 2012 on Pollution Free Cities-WordPress Edition (pollutionfree.wordpress.com)
Grim First: Air Pollution Makes Top 10 List Of Disease Risk Factors (greencarreports.com)

Made In China - Consumed All Over The World an... — Made In China – Consumed All Over The World and the meaning of the Ningbo/宁波 port town protests against air pollution… (Photo credit: Tjebbe van Tijen / Imaginary Museum Projects)

Citiesense iPhone air quality monitoring

December 27, 2012April 22, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

CitiSense is a Portable Air Pollution Monitoring Device that Sends Data to Your Smart Phone | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Jill Fehrenbacher 5 Tips to Make Your Home Safe, Green & Healthy from Zem Joaquin TweetShare on TumblrEmail You’ve all heard the tired mantras about changing your lightbulbs and recycling at home in order to save the planet – are you yawning yet? Many consumers think that going green is a gesture of self-sacrifice that often comes at great expense and inconvenience – but nothing could be further from the […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

CitiSense is a portable pollution monitoring system that allows you to check nearby air quality on your smart phone. Developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the system delivers real-time d…

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UK in court on air pollution levels (bbc.co.uk)
Air quality app gives real-time pollution readings (utsandiego.com)
NASA tracks air pollution to help make better air quality forecasts (wtkr.com)
Hong Kong to Raise Air Quality Standards and Cut Emissions – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)

Countries where climate change kills

December 27, 2012April 22, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Network Science, Systems Science

The 10 Countries Where Climate Change and Pollution Is Killing the Population
Timon Singh, inhabitat.com

When you hear about the effects on climate change on global populations, some of the places that might immediately spring to mind might include the low-lying island of Tuvalu or Haiti, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of ever-more powerful…

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Earth Day 2013: Monday April 22nd (theobamacrat.com)
Tokelau, 1st country with 100 per cent renewable energy, leads call for climate action (eco-business.com)
Earth Day – 22nd April 2013 (envirowanderer.wordpress.com)

Visualizing cities at night with no lights

December 23, 2012April 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city…

RT @core77: Awesome photos of how major cities would look without light pollution – http://flip.it/yhVfP http://flip.it/VSaLp

Here’s what the night sky would look like without light pollution (venturebeat.com)
Photographs of Darkened Cities (enpundit.com)
City adopts light pollution guidelines for new developments (calgaryherald.com)
WE Curate: Let there be no light. (westeastmag.com)
Light Pollution (nzbackyardastronomer.wordpress.com)

How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation

December 20, 2012April 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Security Privacy

discovermagazine.com

Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a trage…

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How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation

Climate Change as Culture War (climatepeopleorg.wordpress.com)
From The Frontiers Of Cognitive Science: Big Data Meets Tiny Baby (blogs.sap.com)
Is Open Source the Solution to Global Warming? (shareable.net)

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