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#geohacking

Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin's Skyline

Berlin's Tempelhof Airport closed its operations last year, leaving a vast swath of land currently unused. An increasingly vocal group wants to replace the airport with the world's largest man-made mountain, adding snowy peaks to the now-flat city. More »
11/10/09
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By Lauren Davis
#climatehacking

Moscow Mayor's Climate-Hacking Plot: a Winter Without Snow

Click here to read Moscow Mayor's Climate-Hacking Plot: a Winter Without Snow
It sounds like a supervillainous plot, but Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov has vowed that Moscow will see no snow this winter. Luzkhov is pushing through a plan to ensure that the city's trademark blizzards land in someone else's backyard. More »
10/19/09
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By Lauren Davis
#madscience Click here to read Geohackers Want to Transform the Sahara into a Forest

Geohackers Want to Transform the Sahara into a Forest

A group of scientists have a radical idea for combating climate change: terraforming the Sahara Desert and replacing it with a lush forest. But will its carbon capturing potential outweigh the negative ecological consequences? More »
09/16/09
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By Lauren Davis
#warmtheories Click here to read Could Overpopulation Save The Earth From Global Warming?

Could Overpopulation Save The Earth From Global Warming?

A team of scientists at Cal-Tech think they might have found a way to save the planet from global warming: breed faster. The more of us there are, the more nitrogen we take out of the atmosphere, cooling the planet. More »
06/15/09
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By Megan
#entropist

Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

Click here to read Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth
It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. If we can hack Wiis and iPods and old Segas, make garage door openers into mobile phones and cause elevators to run backwards — or turn upside-down, or do whatever it is that elevator hacks are supposed to do — then could we also hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology? Could we use plate tectonics to re-direct whole island chains, color rocks, print cities out of magma, and build mountains where mountains have no right to be? Here are the Entropist's top five ways to change the surface of the earth. More »

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02/15/08
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