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Climate change
Climate change (sometimes "global warming") refers to the long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns on Earth over time, as well as the environmental policy that seeks to address it.
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Mapping tool models climate change in California
At UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility software developers are building a Web-based mapping tool to help scientists prepare for the changing climate conditions in California. The team has...
3 | October 27, 2011 9:21am
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Microsoft studying global warming in the Amazon Jungle
At the Green Net conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, talks about how the company is examining climate change by studying carbon cycles and the...
4 | April 22, 2011 1:55pm
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Operation Ice Bridge: NASA's airborne mission to monitor global warming
When, NASA's satellite for monitoring climate change from space--ICESat-1--ceased operations in February 2010, the agency drew up a new plan: Operation Ice Bridge. The mission is to use NASA DC-8...
25 | November 29, 2010 3:32pm
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Was the Copenhagen Climate Conference a failure?
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Bryan Walsh, environmental columnist with Time magazine, moderates a panel on international policy for tackling climate change. He asks Dickon Pinner, a...
4 | February 26, 2010 8:12am
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Meet the 'Indiana Jones' of NASA
NASA scientist Chris McKay takes his work to the far reaches of planet Earth, studying extreme conditions in order to find life on other planets. Through the collection and study of various Earth...
7 | February 5, 2010 2:25pm
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A greener IBM
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Peter Williams, CTO of IBM's Big Green Innovations, discusses the role of technology in the green movement. He addresses everything from new virtualization...
1 | February 27, 2008 4:24pm
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Coffee cup lid changes color to show temperature
Listen up, cafés. No one wants a cold cuppa, but a piping hot latte can cause some serious damage. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das tests out the SmartLid cup topper which turns a different color depending...
7 | January 25, 2012 8:15am
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How liquid nitrogen is changing the future of ice cream
At Smitten Ice Cream the secret ingredient is in HOW the scoops are made. Founder Robyn Sue Fisher shows SmartPlanet how machines known as "Kelvin" use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in less...
11 | January 3, 2012 8:48am
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Mapping tool models climate change in California
At UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility software developers are building a Web-based mapping tool to help scientists prepare for the changing climate conditions in California. The team has...
3 | October 27, 2011 9:21am
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VC: How the 'hypernet' is changing the Internet
At the Always On Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee says the devices we attach to our belts are changing the fundamental architecture of the Internet.
1 | July 29, 2011 12:46pm
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'Smart' windows adjust to outside climate
Andre Anders, a senior scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leads the team that develops technology for "smart" windows. The window glass lets more or less light into a building...
2 | July 5, 2011 5:31am
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Operation Ice Bridge: NASA's airborne mission to monitor global warming
When, NASA's satellite for monitoring climate change from space--ICESat-1--ceased operations in February 2010, the agency drew up a new plan: Operation Ice Bridge. The mission is to use NASA DC-8...
25 | November 29, 2010 3:32pm
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Was the Copenhagen Climate Conference a failure?
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Bryan Walsh, environmental columnist with Time magazine, moderates a panel on international policy for tackling climate change. He asks Dickon Pinner, a...
4 | February 26, 2010 8:12am
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New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint
San Francisco based, Climate Earth has developed new software technology that measures and analyzes the carbon impact inside the supply chain, from the production of a carton of orange juice to...
5 | January 20, 2010 8:58am
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Counting carbon to find bottom-line benefits
What could your business do better? At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., panelists explain what "The Climate Registry" is, and how...
1 | May 15, 2009 12:34pm
