News from the Microsoft Futurists: A Cool Montage and Video of Visions of Clean Technology in 2019

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Microsoft presents it’s vision of the year 2019, and I’m so pleased to see some thinking on the green tech side, as I’ve tried to capture in the screen-stills below. Ten years is not too far out, and some of these ideas are fun. For example: * Connected classrooms where learners share a lesson in [...]

Corn-Based BioFuels Still Counterproductive

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Here comes more dour empirical data. Ongoing deforestation in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia has been further linked to the rising demand for biofuels, according to speakers at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): “If reduced U.S. soybean production results in a parallel increase in Brazilian [...]