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more about #green cylon_conspiracy: I take it this io9's response to the CRU email leaks. I was wondering if/when you'd acknowledge the story. Now I have my answer. "Deafening Silence." ... more » Im_your_Huckleberry: "It's an interesting contrast, but maybe not a contradiction: He worries what we're doing to the planet, but he's also celebrated the way we're transf... more » dabismail001: Melting icebergs don't raise sea levels. more » BangarangRufio867: I'm really confused. How does little Emily go from 1st grade to 2nd grade in less than a year? This little Emily does make you think about ice melti... more » Jes St.Lawrence: Just waiting on someone from the Billy Bob School of Thermodynamics and Swine Management to come tell us it's all a hoax. more » iCurmudgeon: Reminds me of the pods in Logan's Run. more » ParryLost: And then of course there is the solution from Elizabeth Bear's Carnival: Build AIs that will save the planet... by literally taking apart every human ... more » NotChoinski: Hooray! You're reading Lem! more » jbq: If they ever did a sequel to Highlander, I hope they wouldn't let it involve Connor MacLeod designing a force field to shield the earth from solar ra... more » foolish-rain: re: Restart the Gulf Stream. Sure, it hits -50 in Washington and the world leaps into action. What is the world doing about the -50 temperatures we c... more » The_Sporean_Bob: Here's an an idea: make humans at least slightly autotrophic, i.e. make us photosynthetic, so we don't eat nearly as much. that way you need fewer me... more » LittleDragon: Lets just do a controlled eruption of Yellowstone so it sends enough ash in to the air to lower the temperature. We can do that, right? Right? more » dazoid: SAVE THE TURTLES! more » darthsodomizer: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths more » WestMantooth: Drop a bomb on the ozone. That's the American way. more » Doctor Who?: Another option is saying "Screw it", and creating a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere. Entirely out of the question with modern technology, though. more » ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: For the Urban Fantasy selection, Harry Dresden messes with Global Climate Change by getting involved with a Faerie civil war. more » CoyoteBrown: In Rainbow Six, (by Tom Clancy), a group of eco terrorists genetically engineer a virus strain in the hopes of wiping out enough humans to reverse the... more » geesejuggler: Hey, you forgot how the Sentinels in the Matrix made massive clouds to-- Maybe we should just forgot that route. more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I thought science fact has pointed towards the earth heating up all on its own regardless of human interferance! Maybe the question is not what should... more » -
#ecodystopia
Photographer Documents Melting Icecaps, Celebrates Our Cyborg Evolution
Photographer James Balog is best known for his death-defying trips to Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, where he's documented the melting icecaps using photos and time-lapse images. But he's also made stunning images of cyborgs and "techno sapiens." More » -
#triviagasm
10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Science Fiction
Hot enough for ya? Our crazy fossil-fuel orgy is driving the planet's temperatures through the roof. Good thing science fiction books and movies have come up with 10 can't-fail solutions (well, maybe they'd work) for stopping global warming. More » -
#greenhornet
Green Hornet Pushed Back To December 2010, But Seth Rogen Feels Just Fine
Oddball superhero flick Green Hornet has certainly had its share of troubles. After losing Stephen Chow, twice, the latest Hornet news is that the release date has been pushed back to December. You know, when real movies come out. More » -
#greenpunk
Could Greenpunk be the New Steampunk?
Steampunk's Victorian and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with its imagined technologies has captured the imagination of designers, hobbyists, and writers. Now a literary publicist hopes to launch the same kind of movement for green technologies. More » -
#futuredisasters
The Shattered World Of 2050 Glows With Unearthly Beauty
The sands of a renewed desert claim the remains of Las Vegas in 2050. It's not a still from Resident Evil 3, it's one of the terrifying future visions from The Age Of Stupid, a new environmental docudrama. Gallery below. More » -
#hotbookshelfinjection
Steampunk Brothel Spies And Million-Year Quests, In June Books
Whether you want a fun beach read or a sweeping philosophical epic, June's books have you covered. You can encounter witches in Toronto and killer courtesans, or you can delve into America's dismal future, or Alastair Reynolds' eon-spanning colonization saga.
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#bookreview
A Courtesan-Turned-Warrior's Head-Kicking Journey
Jay Lake's sixth novel, Green , is an inventive fantasy of exotic cities, weird gods, conspiracies, stabbings, and kicks to the head. And here come the spoilers...
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#fabricsofthefuture
An Iridescent Butterfly Gives Rise To Naturally Bright Fabrics Of The Future
This is the blue morpho butterfly, which has a cool alien-sounding name, but also has inspired a new biomimetic fabric that refracts light like the butterfly's wings. It's just one of the eco-friendly future fabrics. More » -
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#quoteoftheday
The Best Green Technology Is Population Control
"I don't see our environmental ills as a failure of technical capacity. Many technologies can have a positive effect on the environment; the problem is us, and where we tend to focus our innovative energy. More » -
#ecotopia
The Eco-Paradise That Never Was
Back in the 1970s, eco-idealists dared to dream big. Just check out this fantastic concept art from the never-produced movie version of Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia. Gallery below. -
#triviagasm
The Emerald-Skinned Women Who Make the Universe a Greener Place
The most recent Star Trek trailer briefly featured a particular species of green-skinned female known for their seductive powers. Green women are a force to be reckoned with in science fiction, and they range from pint-sized invaders to powerful warriors and cunning schemers. We list the green-skinned ladies who make the universe a more colorful place. -
#rant
Is Peak Oil a Lie?
At the Cleantech Forum this week in Washington, DC, prominent futurist Peter "Long Boom" Schwartz argued before a packed room of investors that peak oil is wrong. He claimed that the Earth would not be running out of oil any time soon, and that people who use the idea of peak oil to motivate the production of alternative energy are going to wind up screwing the Earth over in the end. More » -
#megapollution
Beneath the Sulfurous Skies
Nothing like a stark data visualization to impress upon you just how bad pollution has gotten in Beijing. Here you can see the levels of sulfur in the air over the past several years in three similarly-sized regions of the world: on the far left is the U.S. midwest, the middle is eastern Europe, and the right is the Beijing region. Areas shaded red have the highest sulfur emissions. Created by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, these images are a stark reminder that economic development is often accompanied by environmental degradation. More » -
#conceptart
Tokyo's Eco-Apocalypse
It's the famous Tokyo 109 building (named after io9 of course), now falling into the same eco-ruins that overtook Manhattan in plague wipeout movie I Am Legend. In fact, Tokyo Fantasy has posted a whole series of images that all feature Tokyo in a post-apocalyptic state which manages to look rather lovely due to all the lush greenery. Reminds me of the abandoned amusement park in Miyazaki Hayao's anime Spirited Away. More green doom below. More » -
#architecture
Now Your Car Can Pollute an Environmentally-Friendly Garage
Could this parking garage in Santa Monica, California, become the first certifiably "green" parking garage in the U.S.? LEED, a green building organization that awards certifications to structures that are demonstrably eco-friendly, says it may grant its certification to the garage any time now. More » -
#environmentaldisaster
Western U.S. Cooked by Climate Change Sooner than the Rest of the World
Over the past five years, the western United States endured temperature increases that caused droughts, deadly heat waves, mass death of trees, and insect infestations. Now a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization demonstrates why: the U.S. West has experienced an average temperature increase that is 70 percent greater than the world as a whole. The warming is directly related to greenhouse gas emissions. More »
