fantastic walk through Pompei!

ecological construction and environmental protection of a city cluster and more than CNY500 billion will be invested to build this eco-city cluster, which is to be centered on Wuhan.

University Alliance for Low Carbon Energy   Three universities, including Tsinghua University, University of Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have fostered up an alliance on November 15, 2009 to advocate low carbon energy and climate change adaptation The alliance will mainly work on 6 major areas: clean coal technology and CCS, homebuilding energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency and sustainable transport, biomass energy and other renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy, intelligent power grid, and energy policies/planning. A steering panel made up of the senior experts from the three universities (two from each) will be established to review, evaluate, and endorse the goals, projects, fund raising activities, and collaborations under the alliance. With the Headquarters at the campus of Tsinghua University and branch offices at other two universities, the alliance will be chaired by a scientist selected from Tsinghua University.   According to a briefing, the alliance will need a budget of USD 3-5 million, mainly from the donations of government, industry, and all walks of life. In this context, the R&D findings derived from the alliance will find its applications in improving people's life.

interesting initiative - also with respect to "space and water" a theme we should explore a bit better in my view ...

interesting approach ... though don't like the GDP link, but this is subjective of course ...

here we go - a quite significant step in getting SPS off the ground !!

actually nothing new ...

nice article reflecting on how to best "protect" ideas ....

just discovered this thought cloud alpha stage website .... I am sure that Kevin would LOVE this one ...

very nice approach ...

nice tool ... but apparently not open source :-(

fantastic images from the deep sea ...

still watching ... hoping to see either Andrés, Ian or Dario appear in there!!!!

but they are not !!!! what a shame ....

sorry for the german ... but underlines the unfortunately failed idea storm proposal I made :-)

nice paper ... José and Luzi you will like it ...

nice article sent by Andrés ...

new programming language - hybrid between c and python .... from google .... of any interest for us?

sorry - did not see Juxi's entry ....

new article about Japanese SPS plans ... in general all that is written is actually also true ....

Sea Level Rise and the Future of the Netherlands ....no comment