News & Views Round-Up, June 2007

Article PhotoWe come across a lot of interesting ideas and innovative solutions, but we choose only a few to discuss in detail. The best of the stories we don’t cover get selected and collated as headlines in News and Views. It’s like a little Worldchanging news service, and if you haven’t noticed, the daily News and Views stories are now being delivered via RSS feed either with the other posts, or as a feed by themselves. 2-June Buy One Give One Solar Flashlights Tiny Filters Fix Big Water Problems Small-Scale Agricultural Changes May Help Eradicate Widespread Disease Carbon Labels To Hit Shelves Solar Power at Half the Cost 3-June Long-Range Lithium Battery Turning Cars Into Wireless Network Nodes DIY Diesel and Biodiesel Powered Cycles Biofuel Gangs Kill for Green Profits African Children Do Better With Digital 4-June Silicon Valley’s Plan to Become Solar Valley Kenya Creates ‘Poverty Map’ Soil Offers New Hope as Carbon Sink Solar-Hydrogen Homes Try to Overcome Doubts Bicycle Programs Catching On In Major Cities 5-June Our Green Bubble SoundLlands on Google Earth Chinese Smartmobbers use Mobile Phones to Protest Chemical Factory It’s Not Just About Food Miles Lab-Grown Meat for Ethical Carnivores 6-June Uber-Eco-Towers: The Top Ten… (more)

(Posted by David Zaks in Media at 2:41 AM)