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Midday Muse: Flooded London

Jul 16 2008 - 11:00am by casasugar
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Midday Muse:  Flooded London Some climate change models indicate that many of the planet's coastal regions will be underwater in the next 50 to 100 years. Deciding to put a positive spin on this rather dreary prediction, media production company Squint/Opera used a combination of photography and digital modeling and manipulation to create an altogether surprising vision of the future. The company's images, which were presented as part of London Festival of Architecture 2008, show Londoners fishing from parking structures, playing near submerged sidewalks, and completing high dives from St.
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Casa Verde: Designing For Climate Change

Jun 18 2008 - 4:30am by casasugar
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Casa Verde: Designing For Climate Change Architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a city that floats on the ocean and can house 50,000 people. Why? Given the projections for rising ocean levels due to melting ice caps, a lot of land, especially coastlines, will be under water in the 21st century.
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Casa Verde: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Opens

Feb 26 2008 - 4:00pm by casasugar
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Casa Verde:  The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Opens Today in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors to the first deposits of what will eventually be 100 million seeds from over 100 countries. Seeds such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato were some of the first deposits in the seed vault. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault contains the most diverse and comprehensive collection of food crop seeds in the world.

This Just In: Al Gore Wins Nobel Prize

Oct 12 2007 - 8:47am by casasugar
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This Just In:  Al Gore Wins Nobel Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, and to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work in educating the world about the dangers of climate change. I'm so proud of Al and the U.N.

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