ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Distinct sensory-motor reflexes in fruit flies: Use odor receptors, visual cues to find fruit

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Distinct sensory-motor reflexes in fruit flies: Use odor receptors, visual cues to find fruit Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:55 PM PST That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems

Jay OwenNature/Biomimicry

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems  Enzyme from wood-eating gribble could help turn waste into biofuel  A grassy trend in human ancestors’ diets New way fish camouflage themselves in the ocean: Manipulating how light reflects off skin  Tiger moths: Mother Nature’s fortune tellers …

Scaling Up in Africa

kristyGreentech

YOUR DIGITAL EDITION OF THE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER RENEWABLE ENERGY WORLD IS READY Click on the headlines below to access these articles. SCALING UP IN AFRICA With the proper stimuli, renewables can and will take off in Sub- Saharan Africa. Private sector investment needs support to spur development. ——————————————————————————– THE NEXT FIVE …

Response to: New York Times “Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind”

kristySustainability News

Response to: New York Times “Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind” By Kathleen Paylor, Founder of Conscious Capital LLC Kathleen Paylor has a Masters Degree in Animals and Public Policy from Tufts Veterinary School. It is hard to know where to begin in response to Blake Hurst’s “Don’t Presume …