Creating a sustainable human age we actually want to live in.
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In more and more pockets of the industrial landscape, the byproducts of one process are becoming the raw materials for another, trash is getting a useful second life, and waste is becoming a thing of the past.
Imagine a culinary future with in vitro meat . . .The real thing may not be as far away as you think
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
Almost imperceptibly, we are stepping off the consumption treadmill
For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and tools for manipulating it—have opened up novel approaches potentially more powerful than mere imitation to solving Human Age problems.
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
Here's how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases