Just to show that — despite ongoing wars and fights in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Congo and street protests in Athens, the credit crisis and more — there are also positive developments in this beautiful world of ours, and these are mostly underreported:
First, good news for biodiversity: treasure trove of new species found in the Mekong Delta (CNN).
The preliminary work on the space elevator moves onwards: recent conventions in the USA, Japan and the Benelux, with the latest progress report on the tether (and its possible material) just out.
Also, in the real world, President-elect Barack Obama appoints Nobel Laureate Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy, and calls — on a press conference last Monday (December 16) – green energy a ‘national mission’.
Steven is uniquely suited to be our next secretary of energy as we make this pursuit a guiding purpose of the Department of Energy, as well as a national mission.
Then there’s Free Press releasing broadband stimulus proposals, designed to turn around the economy, also endorsed by Marty Kaplan on the Huffington Post.
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Allen Taylor