One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
In honor of Earth Week, this week we took a moment to think about the origins of this now-global event, exploring why we need Earth Day and how our society can possibly tackle the 7 biggest threats to our environment.
Being Earth Week and all, it's not too surprising to hear of San Diegans stretching their mental might and figuring out an effective way to convert carbon dioxide to fuel, but according to the University of California, San Diego, that's precisely what they've done.
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Did you watch the passing of Asteroid 2012 DA14 near Earth last week?
After an asteroid passed close to Earth last week, scientists in California have proposed launching solar-powered lasers to vaporize incoming asteroids.
He'll then spend over a week orbiting Earth on the space station.
As various bibles maintain that the earth was created in one week, I decided to wait seven days to see if any of the biggest media outlets would bring light to the subject.
Imagine having to recount everything you ate in a week while orbiting the Earth.
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The question lurking, with growing alarm, in the minds of Europe's politicians this week has been what on earth do they do now?
If it's mobile, then it will probably feature somewhere, in some form, at the Mobile World Congress (or MWC to insiders), one of the biggest gadget shows on earth, and held in Barcelona next week at the Fira Gran Via, from Feb. 25-28.
We're not sure about in space, but here on Earth for many people this has been the week of the iPhone.
The sun has spewed out numerous intense spikes of energy over the past week, including several that did hit Earth, producing geomagnetic storms and some of the best aurora displays in years.
Last week, on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, I found myself in an interesting discussion with business leaders in one of our Executive Education programs at Thunderbird School of Global Management, focused on the roles of business and government in creating not only a livable and sustainable environment, but a stable and predictable society.
Several hundred pounds of supplies would be brought aboard, and after about a week, the Dragon would undock and return to Earth.
"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average, " Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said last week.
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This has never been more evident than last Sunday, as Forbes CMO Editor Jenny Rooney reported earlier this week, when skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped 24 miles to earth.
Detonating the Earth takes about as much energy as the sun puts out in a week.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is geek heaven on Earth -- a Super Bowl, Disney World and New York Fashion Week all rolled into one for the techies who flock to Vegas to eyeball the newest gadgets from the world's leading manufacturers.
Disney, which was flying high last week with Up and The Proposal, is expected to fall back to earth.
Meanwhile, Sherwood sees the space tourism industry growing up around resort hotels in earth orbit, which would be initially marketed to high rollers able to spend a week in space.
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But this isn't the only news this week, for starters Discovery has its latest title, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, which we expect to sell well, but nowhere near what Planet Earth did.
Last week the BBC World broadcast a special GOOS and Argo episode of the "Earth Reporters Sea Change".
How on earth can the stock market be going up (we just had the biggest one-week rally in two years) with these imposing and potentially long-lasting problems all around us?
Barclays Capital has been saying the Chinese economy would bottom in the second quarter, and as China heads into the third quarter this week, Barclays says it sees some green shoots sprouting up in the cracked earth.
The point is that astronomers say that we don't know anything about 5 or 10% of the near-Earth asteroids that are larger than 1km in size - 20 times larger and radically heavier than this week's visitor.
Llewellyn won the 1998 National on Earth Summit, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, six years after winning the big race in General Election week aboard Party Politics.
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So what on earth is the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, doing going on the London talk radio station LBC every week to do a phone in?
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Radar observations made during this week's close encounter with the asteroid Apophis have ruled out the risk of a collision with Earth in 2036, NASA says.
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