Stu Rich

"The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department is a foretaste of his major new book, sure to provoke widespread debate." - Stu Rich from Bookmarklet

"Aral Sea Rebirth? Thursday October 29, 2009 The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan might not be dying as quickly as it once was and might even be coming back to life. Kazakhstan built a dam to divert the water of the Syr Darya river into the portion of the Aral Sea located in Kazakhstan. Thus, the fishing industry along with ecosystems based on the Aral Sea are seeing some signs of recovery. It's a great story of what was once the world's fourth largest lake (and now isn't even in the top ten). The Associated Press has a fantastic story on the rebirth of the Aral Sea." - Stu Rich from Bookmarklet

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"Despite a worldwide effort to cut the number of hungry people around the world, as part of the Millennium Development Goals, the number of hungry people worldwide rose more than 100 million to 1.02 billion people. Thus, more than one in seven people on the planet have serious food security issues. According to researchers, food production needs to be increased by 50% to meet the needs of the growing global population. I am a bit surprised by this fact as I had long been of the understanding that food distribution, and not production, was the issue" - Stu Rich from Bookmarklet

"I had been tracking Google PowerMeter, a Google initiative that lets people monitor their energy usage online, but it was only available to customers of electric providers who were using so-called "Smart Meters". Smart Meters send usage data back to the provider, and PSNH isn't one of them. Then, this week, Google announced on their blog that normal mortals could now order a device called The Energy Detective (or TED, as he's known by his friends...) TED is made by Energy, Inc. out of South Carolina, and consists of a minimum of two components. The first piece is an inductive current measuring device that lives out in your circuit breaker box. The second is a gateway device that plugs into a wall socket and has an Ethernet jack. Optionally, you can also get a stand-alone display, so that you don't need a computer to view your usage." - Stu Rich from Bookmarklet

WOW! this is amazing! "Indoor Autonomous Mapping and Navigation The movie below details the work led by Nick Roy at the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL, MIT. It is extremely impressive, while a little scary at the same time, note the real-time mapping and 3D model production as the helicopter scans the environment: You can find out more about the research and the robotics group in general at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg..." - Stu Rich from Bookmarklet