West Coast Green ConferenceWest Coast Green Is The Premier Conference on Green Innovation for the Built Environment.Join 11,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers at the drawing board for a cleaner, brighter future.Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2010 Fort Mason Center | San FranciscoVisit the event website for full schedule, speakers, and highlights.
EVIDENCE FOR A SOLAR INFLUENCE ON NUCLEAR DECAY RATESAnalyses of data acquired during two experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and one at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany have yielded strong evidence for an annual variation of some nuclear decay rates. Since it has not proved possible to explain this variation in terms of an experimental ...
Dr. James T. Caldwell, head of the Green Building Task Force and a director of the US-China Green Energy Council, discusses Chinese measures for improving the environment as it makes massive investments in domestic infrastructure. Smart cities, improvements to the built-in infrastructure, technology standards for new green buildings, harmony with ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Chris Jordan: Running the NumbersIn this series, begun in 2005, Jordan envisions staggering statistics of American consumption. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: two million bottles are depicted in a larger-than-human-scale digital photograph entitled "Plastic Bottles," literally representing the number of plastic beverage bottles used in the United States every five minutes. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 general, $10 members
The Blood Banking Challenge in Africa: The 'Safe Blood Africa' ResponsePresented by John Edward Watson-Williams, M.D., past Professor of Medicine and Hematology on three continents, on Advisory Board for "The Safe Blood Africa Project" through the Rotary Club of Carmel Valley. One quarter of a million people die annually in Nigeria from lack of blood products. Its National Transfusion Service ...
A journey through the landscape of Earth's greatest floods.Glacial Lake Missoula released scores of cataclysmic floods, sculpting the bizarre landscape of Washington's Channeled Scabland New video depicts the enormous 3-day flood releasing 500 cubic miles of water Floodwaters poured as deep as 1100 feet down Columbia Valley, carrying enormous boulders ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Stargazing Adventure on TransportedSF Join us for an Equilibrium & Transported SF Stargazing Adventure.We'll make our way out of the city to a special location where telescopes and star guides await our arrival. Get hands-on with the wonders of astronomy as our guide instructs you in proper telescope use for planetary and galactic viewing. ...
