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Life based economic development will change our world this century

Fri, 01/27/2012 - 06:16 — bbamboo

As it happens, the Paul Kurgman column in the New York Times has some themes from economic geography as it relates to jobs, and is well worth reading. He points out that by saving GM, the whole supply chain and the associated jobs were retained in the U.S. and that was an amazing accomplishment for the Obama administration. Certainly there have been huge losses in that sector,and it almost went entirely to Asia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/krugman-jobs-jobs-and-cars.htm...

A new generation of biofuels

Wed, 04/13/2011 - 20:04 — bbamboo

Cyanobacteria are one of the oldest lifeforms on the planet, evolving for some 2.8 billion years, very successful and found in an amazing diversity of places on earth. They can photosynthesize but also survive using Hydrogen Sulfide, some can fix nitrogen from the air, transforming it into a form usable by plants, One species of Cyanobacteria, Arthrospira platensis is sold in health food stores as a food suppliment called "Spirulina". Some species of Cyanobacteria produce very toxic compounds, it is a very diverse line.

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