Sustainable Future

First, Google’s Street View mapped our neighborhoods. Then, the camera-adorned bike made its way to Antarctica. Now, the Street View team has mapped a section of the Amazon. The project stitches together more than 50,000 photos to give viewers a virtual tour of the Rio Negro region. It allows people to float up the Amazon, visit villages, and [...]

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, Technology on March 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

China recycles, big time (Image: View China Photo/Rex Features) Don’t throw out that broken toaster: it’s key to our prosperity. Redesigning the economy so that all waste is reused or recycled would be good for business, according to two new reports. For centuries the global economy has been linear. Companies extract resources from the environment, turn [...]

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, Technology on March 1st, 2012 | No Comments »