A few days ago, NextNower Bruce Damer’s EvoGrid “Evolution Grid” project–an attempt to model the origins of life on Earth, a kind of “Artificial Origin of Life” experiment in a large computer simulation–was featured in the New York Times in an article written by veteran science and tech reporter John Markoff. The article includes reflections from Prof. Richard Gordon and George Dyson and two color images from the original EvoGrid movie. We hope this will raise the visibility of the project tremendously, assisting in attracting funding sources or partners to allow Bruce’s team to expand the effort in 2010 and…
Month: September 2009
Google Earth Visualizes Climate Change Scenarios for COP15
Google Earth has released this Climate Change Intro Tour, ahead of the United Nations‘s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15) as part of the Google Earth Outreach program. Below is the 5 minute intro video; you can view these tours on YouTube, or visit http://www.google.com/landing/cop15 to see scenarios including Climate Projections under a High Emission Scenario Climate Projections under a Low Emission Scenario
NextNow and Building the Second Renaissance
NextNow Collaboratory is part of the Renaissance2 Great Shift Gathering which will take place in Perpignan, France from 22nd to 26th October, including a launch of the WorldShift Alliance. Our partner, Renaissance2, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to catalyzing global social innovation, is inviting NextNowNetwork members to join the Great Shift Gathering by offering a 30% discount on tickets to the event. The discount code will arrive in an email to NextNow members. Please use this discount when registering to receive 30% off the fee. The Gathering is designed around two main events. Event 1 is on Designing a Resilient Civilization…
Consensus on Standards That Matter: Global Footprint Releases 2009 Footprint Standards and Comments on Stigliz Report
Global Footprint Network, our collaborator on the Summit of Ecological Creditor Nations, has just released its 2009 Ecological Footprint Standards, building on the 2006 standards (the first set of internationally recognized footprint standards), and including more than five substantial revisions. You can download the Ecological Footprint Standards 2009 but be advised that the report is not for a general audience, lacking extensive, introductory material on analysis or communication. Reading the report, however, is not necessary for non-experts to get excited about the evolution of consensus not only on Footprint standards themselves but on their increasing importance to sustainability and thrivability. …
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