Category: Systems Science

  • 33% of seafood is mislabeled in NYC

    Study Finds A Third Of NYC’s Seafood Is Mislabeled, Posing Health Risks Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (J Dailey)It isn’t just Los Angeles that is having a problem with mislabeled fish — a new study that tested seafood on menus, at grocery stores and in fancy specialty shops in New York City says plenty of the…

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  • Japan explores remote, virtual workforce after disasters

    After a Disaster, Japan Looks for Alternatives to the Office bloomberg.com Cour­tesy Soco­co Think your boss is stub­born about let­ting you work from home? Try going to Japan. Telecom­mut­ing is sim­ply not built into the busi­ness cul­ture there. Just 12 per­cent of Internet-connected Japan­ese office work­ers woul… RT @BloombergTech: After a disaster, Japan looks for…

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  • Sony engineers shift to food industry for sustainable careers

    Sony Loses Science Talent as Student Resumes Go to Dairies: Tech By Mariko Yasu & Shunichi Ozasa -, bloomberg.com Japan’s sci­ence stu­dents are eschew­ing tra­di­tion­al high-powered employ­ers such as Sony Corp. (6758) and Pana­son­ic Corp. (6752) to help make ice cream and yogurt. They are apply­ing to dairies. That says quite a bit about the…

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  • Visualizing cities at night with no lights

    This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city… RT @core77: Awesome…

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  • Follow the journey of your trash

    The GPS-Tracked Life Cycle of Garbage By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new project uses location-based data from a throwaway mobile phone to track the life cycle of New York’s garbage. A New York-based techie’s new prod­uct uses mobile phone loca­tion data to track the path of garbage from trash bin to land­fill.… RT @FastCompany: The…

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  • Convert NYC into wetlands to hurricane proof the city

    A Plan To Hurricane-Proof New York, With A Ring Of Wetlands By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com A grassy buffer zone around Lower Manhattan might work better than big seawalls—and look better, too. In the wake of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, there have been a flur­ry of ideas on how to deal with the prospect that storms of such…

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  • Remote car starter is a sign of the apocalypse

    (via The Best Daily Deals in Boston North – Meineke Car Care Center – Remote Car Starter and Installation)

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  • Why sustainability is not appealing and what else to call it

      Green Blog: What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation By RACHEL NUWER, nytimes.com What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet. What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change…

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  • Clothing brands that are correcting their toxic tactics

    Triumph Lingerie Gets Oeko-Tex’s Eco-Friendly Seal of Approval ecouterre.com Photo by Jas­min Malik Chua for Ecouterre One of the world’s largest pro­duc­ers of lin­gerie, under­wear, and loungewear is final­ly giv­ing Ma Earth the sup­port she deserves. Tri­umph Inter­na­tion­al announced Thurs­day that its entire… RT @inhabitat: Lingerie giant Triumph shows it’s possible to green up your…

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  • How worms can make money off of airport waste

    1.9 Million Worms Chomp Down Airport Waste in North Carolina | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Jill Fehrenbacher HOW TO: Green Your Christmas Tree TweetShare on TumblrEmail Christmas trees are one of the most enjoyable traditions of the holiday season, and there are lots of easy ways to go green with…

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  • Eco disaster redistributes tech to those in need

    Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing wealth By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Politics New York­ers weary of urban inequal­i­ty have taken it upon them­selves to pil­fer equip­ment from lux­u­ry devel­op­ment sites in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, and redis­trib­ute it to those in need. The group is oper­at­ing… RT @WiredUK: Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing…

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