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Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home

In our latest From the Field, Frontline SMS CEO Sean McDonald talks about their new environmental sensor, designed to bridge the environmental data divide with open hardware.

Many thanks to Sean McDonald for sharing this article about the exciting environmental sensor technology Frontline SMS have developed with Feedback Labs. To find out more about their great work, be sure to follow them on Twitter @FrontlineSMS – you can follow Sean at @McDapper.

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2015/08/112015/08/10

Sepp Hasslberger: Electrical Grid Powers Muscles

Earth Intelligence

What an interesting study – our muscles are ‘energized' by a network of mitochondria using electrical impulses…

Spectacular Discovery Reveals Power Grid in Muscle Cells; Design Implications Are Profound

EXTRACT

Scientists are reporting the first clear evidence that muscle cells distribute energy primarily by the rapid conduction of electrical charges through a vast, interconnected network of mitochondria — the cell's “powerhouse” — in a way that resembles the wire grid that distributes power throughout a city.

2015/08/102015/08/09

Sepp Hasslberger: Complicated Stuff

Earth Intelligence

In this article, the cause of gravitation is modeled as a result of particle spin and macroscopic rotation. Vortices distort the space-time matrix, inducing attraction between masses as the matrix seeks to un-distort. Gravity from rotation of a larger mass adds to the gravity produced by particle spin. Angular momentum is a pre-condition for the existence of particles as well as cosmic bodies.

2015/08/082015/08/07

Jean Lievens: Community Land Trusts and the Commons

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

New Report Explores Community Land Trusts and the Commons

In a new report, Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty, authors of the book The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, explore the connection between community land trusts and the Commons.

Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons is broken into three articles that cover different aspects of the connection and provide a “crash course” in community land trusts, cooperative land banks, and how “practical land reform can be systematically implemented to return land to the Commons.”

2015/08/062015/08/05

CounterPunch: The Perfect Earth Storm

03 Environmental Degradation, Earth Intelligence

The Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm

The oceans of the world are currently experiencing a “perfect storm” that is nasty, real nasty with too much warming, too much acidification, too much CO2, too much fishing, too many chemicals, too much Ag runoff, too much radiation (Fukushima), and too little ice (Arctic Ocean) bringing on too much methane (CH4). Whew!

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2015/08/052015/08/04

Yoda: Dubai – City of Gold in Four Dimensions?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Possibilities, we see.

Dubai to become first ‘four-dimensional city’ in the world

A group of technology companies in the UAE have launched a project to make Dubai the world’s first four dimension city, according to Al Arabiya News channel. The project, called “D4D” or Dubai 4 Dimension, will create a digital replica of the city in the shape of three-dimensional imagery and will allow users anywhere in the world to roam through the city in real time using tablets such as iPads.

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2015/07/312015/07/29