If you happen to be in the Bay Area Wednesday night, November 14, TED2006 Speaker Phil Borges has a gallery reception in San Francisco and you’re invited:
FiftyCrows Gallery
49 Geary Street, Second Floor, Suite 225
From 6 PM to 9 PM.
An RSVP is required, send an email to goodevents@goodmagazine.com. Here the flyer:
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Algae, a platform for producing energy and more: Jonathan Trent at TEDGlobal 2012Fuel without fossils Jonathan Trent set out to understand if there was a way to develop biofuels that would compete with fossil fuels, but not compete with agriculture. His proposed solution is extraordinary: Make an enclosure with plastic and let algae grow in sunlight in the ocean, taking in wastewater from cities. Generated heat will be […]
