Stephen Hawking: It’s Time to Go

He’s known for being incredibly intelligent, and now he’s saying something that is in many ways earth shattering – that the only chance for human survival is to spread out into space. And he considers himself an optimist. Watch the Video at Mouvment: Videos To Change Your World.

Apple Ranks Last for Environmental Response

A report (Chinese only) by the Beijing-based non-profit Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) ranked Apple last among 29 tech companies for their responsiveness to health and environmental concerns in China. The report says that Apple ignored concerns at Wintek, the touch-screen factory where plant workers became ill from n-hexane exposure, and the IPE [...]

Eco-Friendly Laptop Case Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

Plaid Doctrine, a company devoted to crafting environmentally-smart and sexy bags manufactured entirely in the USA, has the answer: a chicly crafted briefcase ($449) with outer fabric made from recycled bottles (it’s both water and stain-resistant), and vegetable-tanned leather trim. In a classic houndstooth pattern, the case is ideal for a 17” screen, and measures [...]

China warns of pressure on food supply in next 5 years

Chen Xiaohua, a vice agricultural minister, said he expected China’s consumption of grains to grow by 4 billion kgs a year between 2011 to 2015. Consumption of vegetable oil will grow by 800,000 tonnes a year over that period, while meat demand will rise by 1 million tonnes annually. “Our country is facing great pressure [...]

Millions face water shortage in China

More than 2.2 million people and 2.7 million livestock are facing a water shortage as the worst drought in decades continues to linger in many parts of China. Some wheat-growing regions, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, have received little rainfall since October. More than 4 million hectares of crops across the [...]

Coral crisis part of Thai national agenda

“We will seriously solve this problem,” Songtham Suksawang said yesterday in his capacity as the head of DNP nationalparks division. Many diving sites at famous marine national parks in the Andaman Sea have been closed to tourists since January 21 after coral bleaching killed a large portion of reefs. “We will propose zoning for diving [...]

Vertical farming boosts production of vegetables

Singapore has successfully developed a vertical farming system prototype, which could help the land-scarce Republic maximise its production of leafy vegetables. Vertical farming is a technique of producing agricultural products at multiple levels, conserving land space in the process. A six-metre tall structure rotates at one millimetre per second, distributing sunlight to all the plants. [...]