News
Medicine
Curing a disease by causing another one seems counter-intuitive, but that's just what scientists at Yale University have done. Specifically, they have modified a virus and injected it into mice with several kinds of inoperable brain cancer. Three days later, the tumors were gone.
Energy
E. Coli can be used to produce energy: For most of us, Escherichia coli (the bacteria commonly known as E. coli) doesn't exactly have the most pleasant connotations, unless, for some strange reason, you really love to follow a meal out with a trip to the emergency room. But … by genetically modifying a strain of e. coli [Thomas Wood]… has discovered a way to make it produce 140 times more hydrogen than it would under ordinary circumstances.
Solar
Solar-collecting roads heat buildings in the Netherlands. Solar is a highly efficient way to heat water. Combine it with underground storage, and a year-round system can be created where the system can cover heating requirements in the winter and cooling in the summer. The Dutch company Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV has taken this concept and moved it a step forward with the Road Energy System® (RES).
Shout Outs
Contest
If Not Now is looking for ideas for a contest. We'd like to encourage people to think about how to work together across generations, so we'd like a cartoon or film clip that will carry our message and gain viewers. Any ideas for the topic? And, while we're on the subject, kudos to Dave Schlafman for his video entitled Sky is Falling: it's wonderful; take a look.
Investing Guild
Rebecca is interested in finding ways for people to become involved in inter-generational Mission Investing with small dollar-amount buy-ins. You can read more in the Investing Guild section.
Goods
For so many reasons we need to stop turning objects into garbage. By now we've collected a LOT OF STUFF, and it ought to be moved along to people who can make use of it. Please don't throw your no-longer-pleasing goods away, instead, please send us ideas about how to get objects to people who can use them, and take a look at www.freecycle.com.
Support
Around the World
www.flickrvision.com lets you watch photos as they are posted - it's an amazing view of what folks with cameras and internet access are up to.
Quote Of The Day
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
Mentors
Theater
A troupe of clowns in Columbia need advice on US visa, bookings, food....
Guilds
GUILDS are user defined groups that are focused on a particular problem such as homelessness, microfinance, or global warming etc. Read about how Guilds can be started here.
Do you have experience with Mission Investing? Do you have investment conversations with a grandchild? Are you interested? If so, we'd like to hear from you.
Housing stability is an issue with far-reaching ramifications: There's no guild formed yet, but if you want to learn more here is a great Interview with an Expert.
“Affordable rental housing is going to be rented to people earning no more than 80% of the area median income. But in a high income area like Boston, that could be folks earning up to $60,000.00 a year.”
Jobs
Ecological Farming
Seeking: someone who can teach/guide about ecological farming.