Earth Tech

Stewart Brand's Environmental Heresies: A maverick environmentalist advocates saving the planet via nuclear power, mass urbanization, genetically engineered food, and geoengineering.(Book review)
The Futurist; 1/1/2010; 1187 words; Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto...geoengineering. Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog, and co-founder of The Long Now...change, we must search for innovative high-tech solutions and embrace what Brand calls...

Bay localize: building resilience.(EARTH ISLAND PROJECT NEWS)(resilient communities)
Earth Island Journal; 1/1/2010; 1966 words; ...power our vehicles and buildings, and maintain our high-tech health system. A growing chorus of reputable energy analysts...to "green growth" demands, we will further compromise the earth's life support systems and jeopardize the quality of life...

NORAD: keeping tabs on Santa Claus.(News)(North American Aerospace Defense Command)(Brief article)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 627 words; ...of Santa Claus. In recent years the initiative has gone high-tech via NORAD's Santa tracking center [www.norad santa.org...progress with two-dimensional Google maps or in 3-D using Google Earth. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake.
NewsRx Science; 12/27/2009; 941 words; ...percent of the activity was not being determined or reported," said Zhigang Peng, assistant professor at Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. In examining how these aftershocks occurred, Peng and graduate research assistant...

The car park: a celebration of its place in history
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 1100 words; ...Washington DC, must be one of the most spectacular interiors on earth. Just one amenity is lacking; a parking garage. But right...prompting one critic to rave about this "soaring, angular hi-tech testament to form following function". But South Beach is...