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POPSPrimitivism Another viewpoint and value system than the current all-will-be well, if only we rush a faster and learn to accept all that is new and shiny. Or at the very least: food for thought.
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POPSFather of India's Green Revolution Prepares for Evergreen Revolution
“In every crisis is an opportunity” Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. In the early ‘60s, India grew 12 million tons of wheat every year. Starvation was rampant and the country imported much of its food. Swaminathan, an agricultural geneticist, developed new strains of high-yield wheat for his country and the programs that led to an India that exports food. Today, India grows some 70 million tons of wheat and has become the world's second-largest wheat producer. He says that today India has reached a plateau in production and productivity because a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure. His M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development follows a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
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POPSHIP2B² (fyi - for the kids) Mark Shuttleworth's splendid project to get kids "to realize that you can do amazing things, using the vehicles of math, science, technology and entrepreneurship."
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POPSWorld's Largest 38,500-meal Solar Kitchen in India This is pretty damn incredible. A total of $5 million has been spent on this endeavor. The Academy for a Better World is interested in renewable energy technologies and the program is part of a special demonstration project of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India.
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POPS Free Alternative To Commercial Software Adrian is a technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology. He also also runs a popular blog called The PC Doctor. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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POPS$100 laptop hits $200 One of the hopes was to provide economies of scale. Reducing price through volumes that were expected to be ordered. The orders have not been as great as hoped, and few details of the orders have been disclosed. Wayan Volta, an expert on using technology to promote economic development, said the original $100 price tag was unrealistic, and the low figure has damaged the credibility of the development. I was thinking, and it is no doubt happening to a point, that with the short life span of a laptop and P.C.s in the west, purely through the introduction of a more advanced model, there would be great scope for the scrubbing and recycling of laptops, as opposed to them becoming toxic waste. They could use linux.
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POPSHigh-Tech Spousal Abuse Getting Worse GPS makes it easy to track victims The latest twist: GPS gadgets that sell for hundreds of dollars that can be secretly installed on a victim’s vehicle. The unit beams coordinates to a Web page that maps the victim's car wherever it goes.
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POPSCemetery Technology: After Death - What would Grandma say? The drive-by cemetery with tilted, glow-in-the-dark tombstones creeps me out. Another creepy suggestion is for Grandma to write e-mails addressed to you before she dies and arrange to have them delivered to you periodically after her death. Yikes! :eek: I would, however, give a lot to hear my grandmother's voice again. She died in 1985. :(
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