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By Clark A. Miller Everyone knows an energy revolution is coming—yet the most important feature of that revolution remains obscure to most people, even inside the energy industry. The social and economic organization of energy is about to change radically,…

Normally home to world-class physicists, Canada’s Perimeter Institute also plays host to another high-caliber gathering of thought leaders, change makers, and young visionaries, the Equinox Summit. The 2013 Summit, underway from September 28th – October 3rd, 2013, is focused on…

By Mary Jane Parmentier It has been <a title="Yasuni National Park One of Most Biodiverse Places On Earth" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133510 team collaboration app.htmhttp://” target=”_blank”>said that there are more types of frogs in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador than in the…

Nature, Pristine, Wild. These words ground the modern conservation movement. But a growing circle of new conservationists is making the bedrock shake. The call to action was most clearly sounded in a 2012 Breakthrough Institute essay titled, “Conservation in the…

A middle-aged man with a dialysis catheter to replace his failed kidneys tells the doctor, “I’d rather take this thing out and go on my own…rather die than come here.” The U.S. healthcare system is notorious for incorporating new technologies…

By Michael Burnam-Fink The recent revelations of a set of massive and longstanding NSA surveillance programs have prompted blizzard of accusations, defenses, and recriminations from across the political spectrum, PRISM and related programs have been called everything from “all the…

By Travis McKnight, The United States is moving increasingly closer to an oil shortage shock that will make the 1973 fuel fiasco, in which prices quadrupled in mere months and people stood in line for hours to fill up a…

Latasha Ball and Eric Kennedy, students of CSPO faculty member Gregg Zachary, provide a revealing glimpse of two parallel technological systems in the Navajo nation in northern Arizona. Both systems deliver water to people, but in very different ways. In…