A few random posts, even on vacation:

•Can/must carbon capture work? Via MIT Here

•The last big cat listed, wtf. Hard to believe.
Will listing the African Lion endangered in the US help it? Here
Listed as threatened, the populations in Africa vary by country.
Who wants to be shooting a lion or importing lion parts anyway?
As an already threatened population that should be ultra-illegal here already.

•Current protection plan will not save the Great Barrier Reef, via BBC Here
Will coal exports kill the Great Barrier Reef Here

•Controlling population by 2100 won't solve environmental woes (even though we have to plateau population and decrease soon) Here

Colby is on vacation

In a beautiful part of the world, not far from home, where things don't seem as fucked up.
Will post a bit about that when I'm back.

Battery technology advancements

New technology allows for 70% faster battery charging time.
Keep it coming kids and smart folk... love it.
Here

Natl Geo: One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done

Food waste, and loss, differentiated. Feeding America, excess food to poor, or animals, partial solutions.

Do your part. Here

UN Needs to Step Up to ISIS, ASAP

http://usun.state.gov/about/contact/index.htm   Samantha Power
http://www.state.gov/contact/   John Kerry 

Help out and tell them above.

Dear Honorable Ambassador Samantha Power, please see below, and to forward to Honorable Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, thank you.

Subject: RE: ISIS
From: Colby Allerton
To: inquiries@un.org, letters@latimes.com,
        "letters@nytimes.com" <letters@nytimes.com>

Dear Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, and US Secretary of State John Kerry
(via Webform),

It is past time for the UN to create a coalition and stop the expansion of
ISIS.
This is particularly why the charter of the U.N. was established: "...To
maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take
effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to
the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches
of the peace...."
ISIS has traveled and expanded far enough.
Innocent people in several countries face extermination, and this is not
acceptable in modern eyes, when collectively we can prevent these
atrocities and re-establish the rightful sovereignty and peace of the
trampled cities that people deserve.
Please work immediately to intervene, with as many varied nations
contributing as soon as possible.
Days and weeks ahead is too long.
ISIS needs multi-nationally to be first contained and then sent back --
immediately.
Thank you and please hurry up.

G. Colby Allerton

Natty Geographic: How to Reduce Global Warming for Fun and Profit Innovative uses of CO2 may fuel a new generation of green industry.

I hope the next new generation kills this. So cool, and smart to figure out how to defeat this.
We'll need all the help we can get. Here

Love, Not Fear, Will Help Us Fix Climate Change

Great piece in Time magazine. Let's hope those that love the world most outnumber and lead stronger than those who hate more.

Here

The Desctruction of Mecca

Via the New York Times. Heartbreaking. There is much hand-wringing about the violence from extremist Muslims, rightly so.
But the disdain of modern Muslims in Mecca, dishonoring their ancient sites, is hard to believe.
There is something sacred in the sites, and much is lost when that physical connection to the roots of their religion is broken. This is hurtful to know about.
Here