It seems the timing of my earlier post was somewhat fortuitous as NESTA (the UK-based National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts) has launched a £1 million contest to find the brightest ideas to fight climate change. The Big Green Challenge, as they call it, is intended to stimulate the search for “Eureka moments” for […]

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Don and I have been ruminating over the potential to develop the equivalent of the human genome project for climate change and would like your input on the issue.
An optimist could argue that we’re in the early days of something unprecedented—thanks to the web 2.0 the entire world is beginning to collaborate around a […]

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I doubt anyone who has watched Fox news recently will find the content of this YouTube video particularly surprising. Nevertheless, it reminds me of a conversation I was having a yesterday with a few New Paradigm colleagues about the Bush administration’s concerted attack on science. This attack is now well documented (see The Scientist, subs […]

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Virgin’s Richard Branson has joined forces with Al Gore to launch an innovation challenge to find new approaches for reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The goal is to find an efficient way of removing one billion tones of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually - for ten years. Innovators have 5 years to […]

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Climate change policy has been in the news a lot recently with the United Kingdom set to release its report on the economic costs of climate change today. I’ve had a chance to read the highlights and find myself increasingly convinced that we have reached a tipping point in a decades-long campaign for a more […]

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