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


	Urban Planning 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 The public school assembly line is broken What happens when one size fits all becomes one size fits none? If you’re trying on a pair of stretch pants, it’s an awkward sartorial moment. When you’re talking about the education of our children, however, it’s a disaster... POSTED Monday, October 20, 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 Why your personal carbon footprint matters One of my proudest moments as an environmentalist came when the Santa Monica Main Public Library answered my plea to install more bike racks. The racks were hard won: I photo-documented then blogged about the over-crowded racks at the... POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008 Who Stands to Lose The Most in The Wake of Nature's Wrath? On May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis touched down on Burma’s western coast, and – according to top U.S. diplomats – may have claimed the lives of 100,000 people. As Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science has... POSTED Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Opening up new horizons for solar energy, not a moment too soon Recently, MIT announced the launch of an interdisciplinary, faculty-led study of the future of solar energy. The study will focus on four key solar technologies: photovoltaics, solar heating and cooling, solar thermal power, and production of fuels from the... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008 Understanding the steps toward improving tomorrow's schools On a recent trip to hunt up something for dinner, I popped into a food store that recently opened in my neighborhood. It's one of those new mega markets, about the size of an airplane hangar, that's designed to... POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008