New Evidence Confirms Land Warming Record

State of the World Forum’s Paul Ray forwards this piece and reminds us of this a key social-political point: The anti-science climate denial campaign is being coordinated by the same PR firms that coordinated the cancer-denial campaign for the tobacco companies. This time they’re doing it for the oil and coal companies. And for the Saudi Arabian government. For those of us with long memories, that’s why there’s a sort of familiar ring to their attempt to create confusion about what the science says, and to employ anti-science ideologues. Joe Romm ClimateProgress.org Everybody but the anti-science disinformers has known for…

Great Coverage from Partners 1Sky

NextNow Collaboratory is a 1Sky Ally (under Media, although we perhaps belong under Civil Society). 1Sky Policy Update 2/15/10 – Extreme Weather Shuts Down Capitol Hill Everything in the nation’s capitol took a backseat to two major snowstorms that dumped over 32 inches of snow on DC last week. Congress fell behind and climate deniers took advantage of the storm to stir up baseless controversy. Momentum is still building behind a much-anticipated senate jobs bill, but members of Congress are home this week for the President’s Day Recess, and won’t take it up until February 22. Throughout this week 1Sky…

The Emotional Power of Visualization: Bella Gaia

“The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries.  The third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents.  By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.” Astronaut Bin Salman Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia, Reflections from Space, The Foundation for Global Community (2008) The vision of BELLA GAIA is to bring the power of art, technology, space science, and real scientific data visualizations together, into a context that is both entertaining and educational, fused with a common goal of raising the awareness and appreciation of our home planet. BELLA GAIA can actually visually display how…

NextNow Collab Joins World Resources Simulation Center and Save the Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

NextNow Collab has become an institutional partner of the World Resources Simulation Center (WRSC) to help create powerful community around the use of information visualization tools to globally “visualize our resources, assess our needs, compare strategies and choose the best course of action.”  Anyone familiar with the goals of NextNow Collab will immediately recognize the synergy between the two organizations. On Wednesday, March 31 from 6-7:30 p.m., Natural Logic (NextNower Gil Friend) and NextNow Collaboratory will host an event for WRSC at our collaboration space at the Strawberry Creek Design Center in Berkeley to introduce this critical work to our…