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Category Archives: Energy & Sustainability
Through the Anthropocene Looking Glass
There’s no doubt that humans have drastically changed the Earth. The global scale impacts of humans on the environment has led many scientists, scholars, and environmentalists to use the term...
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Through the Anthropocene Looking Glass
There’s no doubt that humans have drastically changed the Earth. The global scale impacts of humans on the environment has led many scientists, scholars, and environmentalists to use the term...
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Glowing Futures
Back in 2010 I was a teaching fellow for a group of undergraduates competing in the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM) with a project on “personalized”...
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Posted by in crowdfunding, Energy & Sustainability, iGEM, patents, plants, policy, regulation, synthetic biology, Technology
Bacterial Encounters at the Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake, stretching 35 miles along the San Andreas fault about 150 miles east of Los Angeles and 200 feet below sea level. It is surrounded by harsh desert...
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Petroleum Replicas
The language of innovation often stresses disruption–eliminating inefficient industries and replacing them with more streamlined, technologically advanced versions. Nowhere is disruption more...
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