Worldprocessor: Data as Globes

Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]

Clean Energy: Solar Systems is building world biggest solar power station

Australian company Solar Systems today announced that it is going to build the biggest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in the world in north-west Victoria, Australia.
The power station is estimated to provide 154 MW into the national electricity grid - enough to meet the annual consumption of over 45,000 homes.
Australian Treasurer Peter [...]

UN: 24-October-2006 United Nations day

Today is United Nations day and it is the last for Kofi Annan. Let’s see what the next 365 days will bring for this planet…

…For the tenth and last time as Secretary-General, I offer friends and colleagues around the world my best wishes on United Nations Day. I have spent almost my whole [...]

OLPC: Negroponte getting USD100 laptop ready for delivery

Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC project is taking up speed with selected manufacturer Quanta Computer now having started the test production of the low-cost laptop intended for students and children in developing countries. Initial test run outputs should be available next month. Quanta has earlier selected its new plant in Changshu, China to produce the computer [...]

Weekend activity: Cloud spotting

With the weekend coming up we would like to suggest to you something different: Cloud watching or cloud spotting as its also called by UK based Pretor-Pinney who has founded the Cloud Appreciation Society. The society now has about 5000 members from 39 countries.

38 year old Oxford University graduate Pretor-Pinney who calls himself a [...]

Interactive Map: World’s Most Polluted Places

The Blacksmith Institute has created a list and interactive map of the Top-10 worlds worst polluted places.
The list was compiled with the help of a technical advisory board including experts from John Hopkins, Hunter College and Harvard University. The Top-10 were selected from more then 300 potential sites by evaluating where human health is [...]

Full length (updated: was) online: Who killed the Electric Car?

Those of us that did not get a chance to watch Chris Pane’s documentary “Who killed the Electric Car?” when it was released during June 2006 now, thanks to Google Video, got a chance to watch it in full length from our computers.
Wikipedia and IMDb both provide additional information on the movie.
We have [...]