Tag: environment
[ITP2800] This week in tech discusses the cycle of gadget consumerism
by Greg on Nov.09, 2011, under ITP, Social Activism using Mobile Technology
I was listening to this week in tech and they had this great conversation about consumption. I made a popcorn.js media of it with some commentary to show how it is related to Techcrumbs.org and sourcemap.org.
Event: Tree Rings and Megadrought
by Lauren on Sep.17, 2009, under Science Event, Science Life
Event: Find True Love and Save the Environment
by Lauren on Aug.12, 2009, under Science Event
Join Green Drinks NYC and GiveAndDate.com for an intimate summer evening sail and flirt for philanthropy at the first Green Drinks Single Mingle! Proceeds will benefit Council on the Environment of New York City– a hands-on non-profit working alongside residents to create a clean, healthy, environment in NYC. They run the largets farmer’s market program in the country, while promoting waste prevention and recycling, and creating the city’s environmental leaders of tomorrow.
Event: Sittin’ on the Dock of the Hudson
by Greg on May.12, 2009, under Science Event
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Launching Balloons to Study Space Weather
In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go? This NASA-funded mission is called BARREL, for Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses. Each balloon launched by the BARREL team floated for anywhere from three to 40 days, measuring X-rays produced by fast-moving electrons high up in the atmosphere.BARREL works hand in hand with another NASA mission called the Van Allen Probes, which travels directly through the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts wax and wane over time in response to incoming energy and material from the sun, sometimes intensifying the radiation through which satellites orbiting Earth must travel. Scientists need to understand this process better, and even provide forecasts of such space weather, in order to protect our spacecraft.› Read MoreImage Credit: NASA
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