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Visions for Tomorrow: How You Can Save The World, presented by SCI FI


	Health and Fitness Not everyone can have a car if we still want a planet — unless we change Much has been made of rising aspirations of the middle class in developing countries, with the implication that this must mean literally hundreds of millions of cars — and hundreds of millions of tonnes of oil use and a... POSTED Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Food deserts, and how individuals can fight scarcity For many of us, the gateway drug toward a lifetime of experimentation with world-saving endeavors was food. With so many points of personal relevance — from health concerns to the pleasures of taste to the simple fact of its... POSTED Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Back to (flight) school! I started a blog a couple of years ago in honor of “Flight School,” the name of my annual conference for entrepreneurs in air and space. Last June, we canceled this year’s event; we were getting a foretaste of... POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008 Change the food system, and you can change the world I spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week at Zeitgeist, the annual meeting that Google hosts for its partners and a few invited guests. On Wednesday afternoon, during the “Serious Sustainability” session, the award-winning author and journalism professor Michael... POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Is your cheeseburger causing global warming? Little things can have a surprising impact. Take global warming. Increasingly, we’re being asked to think about our “carbon footprint,” the amount of greenhouse gas produced to do the things we do: emissions from our cars, emissions from the... POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Where will the average stand in a world filled with genetically enhanced beauty and ability? In Grover Beach, California, nineteen-year-old Cameron Clapp trains for his next track meet — on battery-powered, robotic metal legs. Meanwhile, in Framingham, Mass. a pharmaceutical company is splicing human genes into cow and goat embryos, enabling the animals to... POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008 A case for vegetarianism, without the guilt trip “Think globally, act locally” is a well-known approach to enabling change in the deep structure of our society. Perhaps the ultimate local action is what food we choose to place into our bodies. While deciding on a personal diet... POSTED Wednesday, August 20, 2008