by Leroy Hurt | Jun 8, 2013 | Issues.Progress, Issues.Sustainability, Sectors.SciTech.Materials
Via Elephant Journal: A startup company named Ecovative has a vision of making a vast variety of building materials from mushrooms, and the company CEO, Eben Bayer, is not hallucinating—at least some experts think he’s not. The building materials are grown in dark...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 8, 2013 | Issues.Progress, Issues.Sustainability, Sectors.SciTech.Materials
Via Elephant Journal: A startup company named Ecovative has a vision of making a vast variety of building materials from mushrooms, and the company CEO, Eben Bayer, is not hallucinating—at least some experts think he’s not. The building materials are grown in dark...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 18, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Community, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Workplace, Issues.Employment, Issues.Progress, Issues.Sustainability, Sectors.Energy
Via Business Insider: Ten years ago Williston, North Dakota was a quiet agricultural town with a population around 12,000. Now, oil prices and drilling advancements have turned Williston into one of America’s biggest oil boomtown, pushing its population to over...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 18, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Community, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Workplace, Issues.Employment, Issues.Progress, Issues.Sustainability, Sectors.Energy
Via Business Insider: Ten years ago Williston, North Dakota was a quiet agricultural town with a population around 12,000. Now, oil prices and drilling advancements have turned Williston into one of America’s biggest oil boomtown, pushing its population to over...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 20, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills.Career, Individual.Elements.Commons.Arenas.Environments and systems, Individual.Elements.Competence.Multipliers.Technology, Issues.Progress, Issues.Surveillance, Issues.Sustainability, Sectors.SciTech.Online
Via TechCrunch the Android and Apple ads that clog the streets of Mandalay, the temple shopkeeper I passed yesterday playing a game on his Galaxy Note, the teenage girls riding sidesaddle on motorcycles holding their phones carefully just away from the tree-bark paste...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Individual.Elements.Call.Capability.SPINE.Skills.Career, Issues.Environment, Issues.Surveillance, Issues.Sustainability
Via SingularityHUB, impacts on nature: According to a new study, the massive reef has lost half of its coral cover over the last 27 years. Damage from storms, bleaching, and a species of starfish that feed on coral are overwhelmingly to blame for the loss. Forces of...