Intermission: Vegas's Growth From Satellite

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• Technology

  

  Nonprofit Wants to Buy the World's Biggest Communications Satellite

  There's a huge satellite for sale and the nonprofit group A Human Right wants to buy it to provide internet access to the unconnected.

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• News

  

  Declassified Satellite Images Reveal True Scope of Global Warming

  Without knowing the full story, I'm not going to pass judgment on the motivations of Bush administration officials for suppressing these images of...

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• Design

  

  Zoom Out: Jenny Odell's Google Satellite View Art

  Jenny Odell uses the technology of Google Satellite View and Google Street View to make art.

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• Technology

  

  The Satellite Sentinel Project: Preventing War Crimes with Real-Time Surveillance

  Yesterday, South Sudan began voting on whether to secede. The result could touch off devastating violence. But this time, satellites will be watching.

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Image of the Day: Mount Merapi's Active Volcano as Seen from NASA's Terra Satellite

  NASA's Terra satellite captures images of Indonesia's active volcano at Mount Merapi.

  by Patrick James +

• Environment

  

  Climate Art From Outer Space: Satellite Photos from 350 eARTh Start Rolling In

  The world's first planet-wide art exhibit viewed from outer space is underway. Climate change is the theme. Check out the art from 300 miles high.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  Overload: Kurzweil Doesn't Stress Climate Change, a New Great Extinction, and More

  Peace of mind in technofuturism and mass extinction in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Environment HQ. Enjoy!

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  Earth Day From Above: NASA Satellites' Greatest Images of This Blue Marble

  Put the planet in perspective this Earth Day with these mesmerizing images from NASA satellites.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  NASA Gives One Last Look at Earth in 2010

  NASA pointed a weather satellite at the Americas for one last look at 2010 as Earth completes another celestial rotation.

  by Alex Goldmark +

• Environment

  

  NASA Fails To Launch Satellite, Makes Up For It With Awesome New Google Maps

   Did you hear about the NASA satellite that launched from California in the middle of the night last night, and would float in space monitoring...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Design

  

  Green Building Growth

  Here is an article (via Treehugger) that reports that green building in America was up 34% last year. It's now a 5.8 billion dollar industry. And...

  by Anonymous +

• Technology

  

  The Growth of Twitter's Code

  I will be honest, I am not sure exactly what all the items in this video represent (watch it after the jump). Suffice it to say, Twitter got...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Growth of Community-supported Foodstuffs

  Most everyone living in a big city has heard of community-supported agriculture, or CSAs. A farm, or group of farms, delivers fresh food to a...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Design

  

  LOOK: Creative Growth's Summer of Love

  In 1967, roughly 100,000 young people from every corner of the country made pilgrimages to San Francisco, traveling, as if summoned by a...

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• News

  

  Transparency: The Growth of Food Stamps

  While some economists are declaring the recession over, and although the stock market continues to rise, those on the bottom of the economic...

  by GOOD, Gavin Potenza 1

• Environment

  

  China's Staggering Transportation Growth

  You've probably heard that China is growing quickly, but have you seen the graphs? The Oil Drum's Stuart Staniford picked through data from the...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

  Growth in America's “Dying Cities”

  "Feral houses" and other indigenous species of the rust belt I live in the rust belt and have always found beauty in urban decay. So it will...

  by Anne Trubek +

• Business

  

  Behold the Insanely Rapid Growth of Target

  FlowingData has an awesome map that shows the growth of Target superstores, from a measly one, to as many as 1,682 in 2008-just a few decades...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Business

  

  Infographic: Foursquare's 3,400 Percent Growth and Other Wild Stats

  Foursquare created a year in review of check-ins, from top 3 train stations and wine bars, to the number of Wendys that are mayors of a Wendy's.

  by Alex Goldmark +

• Environment

  

  China's Renewable Energy Growth Now Outpaces Coal

  At the risk of looking at a very polluted part of the world through rose-colored glasses, here's a nice bit of energy news from China. New...

  by Patrick James 1