New York Times’ blog post on open innovation for solving big problems
City dwellers to face more frequent hot summer nights
Global warming will make cities hotter—and when people try to cope by using air conditioning, they’ll make it worse
Read: “Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita”
article by John W. Day Jr and colleagues, published in Science in 2007
Working with water
Nations threatened by sea level rise are starting to look at how they can work with nature to defend their coastlines.
Social Innovation Generation blog
Canadian research center’s blog
Should roads have an animal “migration lane”?
Designing bridges and roads to help animals migrate could help them adapt to climate change
“It’s a circus, and the tent’s on fire.”
—novelist and commentator Bruce Sterling on the state of the world in 2010
Success story: Regreening Africa with forested farms
Farmers in West Africa are encouraging saplings to grow, making their land much more productive
“Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?” by Gaia Vince
in Yale e360, 2009-11-02
“The only near certain conclusion we can draw is that there is little time left in which to act.”
—James Lovelock, chemist and originator of Gaia theory
