January 27, 2017

How Does Technology Improve Education Across the Globe?

Posted on January 27, 2017August 30, 2021 by Staff Writer

Educators at the Arizona State University and Smart Sparrow have come up with a bold idea to answer academic’s biggest question: how does technology improve education? Their innovative solution can help those struggling at school by creating an online program that will help students complete their college course.

Inspark Science Network is a state-of-the-art online technology that helps students with their science coursework and can help to guide them in the right direction.

Developers believe that general science education is a big factor behind college completion, and giving students an interactive tool to help them pass their college assignments is a bold step in the development of the education sector.

Smart Sparrow is widely respected in global education circles, first receiving prominence and recognition in Australia, then developing and expanding in the United States.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported the initiative with a 4.5 million USD cash grant to honor Smart Sparrow for taking the first step in this breakthrough in digital education.

There are now more than 50 universities and colleges in the United States using the program and this figure is expected to rise to over 100 by 2017.

The initiative has already kicked off its first online study aid, called Habitable Worlds, which “focuses on the study and finding another habitable planet should the earth fail to provide life to mankind.”

Now that the course is proving successful in the United States, the program is set to go global after education boards in Australia have shown interest in testing the program.

The Deakin University of Australia is planning to introduce the Habitable Worlds program followed by the “BioBeyond” section which focuses on whether we are alone in the universe.

So, as this online tool helps promote critical thinking and raises questions about the ultimate purpose and meaning of life, the science community can benefit from the many new minds interested in the sciences.

It is bold ideas like these that give students the extra push they need to help them through their difficult college years, and to open their minds to many bold ideas and possibilities

Reducing Carbon Emissions From Our Vehicles

Posted on January 27, 2017August 30, 2021 by Staff Writer

Reducing carbon emissions is the latest energy and environment initiatives. Our many modes of transport are under the microscope by scientists.

Experts have identified America’s highest carbon-dioxide emitting energy producer as transportation. Many proposals are about reducing carbon emisssions.

The United States has pledged to help keep the global temperature rise below two degrees. Analysts have said that achieving this goal is possible. However, developing nations should be reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent or more by 2050.

A key driver in the United States’ plan to contribute reducing carbon emissions is in the transportation sector. The U.S. mid-century decarbonization strategy projects that America’s transportation sector requires an 86 percent reduction in fleetwide emissions to reach its targets.

Solutions now come from different types of proposals. Carbon pricing policies are being touted as a means of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions. They significantly contribute to climate change. However, critics say it might be too soon and become a challenge for policymakers to set a carbon price. It’s especially true now that is high enough to lead to a decarbonization of the transport sector.

However, one of the most important emission reducing plans suggested for ground transportation includes switching from petroleum-fueled vehicles to hydrogen or carbon-neutral fuel sources. Another option is to use zero-emitting technologies, such as electric powered vehicles.

Although electric vehicle sales are on the increase, the market value is significantly less than gas fueled vehicles. This is due to low petrol prices and competitive fuel rates across the board. However, as this resource depletes prices will soon rise and other resources will be tapped.

Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Change Transport Sector

According to the Center for American Progress, the transformation of the transport sector will require “time to ramp up manufacturing scale, bring down the cost of alternatives, overcome consumer misconceptions, and deploy new infrastructure.”

Experts claim that the key to reducing vehicle carbon emissions is through technological advancement. Many tried and tested new ways of capturing and storing carbon emissions are coming onto the market.

Energy producers can scrub the mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide before they would separate the remaining byproducts. These byproducts include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. They can also power cars in an environmentally friendly manner.

There is a need for investment in research and development in this area. The key here is most certainly a focus on ensuring the cars on our roads pump out the least amount of toxins into the atmosphere.

There is also a need for investment in charging stations and other infrastructure. It will support the adoption of low carbon options, and technological advancements.

An example of one developer who is helping to contribute to this cause is California’s Zero Emission Vehicle, known as ZEV. The scheme should see 1.5 million ZEVs, about 15 percent of new vehicle sales, on California’s roadways by 2025.

It is bold ideas like these that help reduce America’s carbon-footprint and invite innovation. As the number of cars increase, so too do the ways in which we reduce the carbon emissions they omit, which ensures the United States can play its part in preserving the environment.

Pushing For More Carpool Sharing To Reduce Traffic

Posted on January 27, 2017August 30, 2021 by Staff Writer

Car-pools are in for a revival and receiving a greater push by Lyft founders John Zimmer and Logan Green to truly make a bold impact on heavy traffic congested roads.

Lyft founders John Zimmer and Logan Green have proposed a plan that will see the government impose tolls on highways and streets during times of increased traffic to cut congestion.

Although the scheme might seem obvious, commuters benefit if they travel in a car with three or more passengers, because then everyone rides for free. The aim is to push people into car-pool sharing ‘smart lanes’ to reduce traffic, cut costs and help the environment.

Dubbed the Lyft Line, the scheme is set to grow exponentially and developers claim it’s easy to find others going in the same direction as you.

A recent MIT study found that services like Lyft and other car-pool sharing services significantly reduces traffic, leading experts to believe that this is the way forward.

The cost of rush-hour traffic (price of gas, congestion charges, time wasted in traffic jams, health) throws up many incentives for sharing a ride with other people. The only drawback to the scheme Is whether you mind sharing a car with people you don’t know, however it’s what many of us do nearly every day when traveling on a train or bus.

Lyft claim that if their Lyft Line service were to be applied to all single occupancy taxi trips in New York City, “it would reduce the number of vehicles needed by 75 percent.”

The founders are now pushing their bold idea to lawmakers and are calling for collective action and policy to implement the plan nationwide.

What’s more, the ever-growing self-driving technology fits in well with these plans. Tracking and charging drivers and autonomous cars will become even easier via remote cloud networks, which will help in managing, monitoring and for gaining funding for road and transport projects.

So, as the Trump presidency takes over it’s important for ride-sharing companies like Lyft to engage in policy discussions with the new administration, forge partnerships with local governments and transport agencies and to fight for the scheme to be made legal across the United States

It is bold ideas like this that will revolutionize travel on our roads and create a better environment for future generations.

A Game-changing Vegetarian Burger

Posted on January 27, 2017July 16, 2024 by Staff Writer

Scientists have created a new vegetarian alternative to meat that has been developed at a molecular level to produce the exact taste, look, texture, smell and nutritional value of beef.

Experts from Impossible Foods have created the Impossible Burger by carefully selecting proteins, amino acids, fats and vitamins from plants. The founders say it’s a game changer for non-meat products.

Following five years of development, the creators found that by using wheat and potato proteins, coconut oil and key nutrients, along with a “magic ingredient” of Heme, the product inherits the exact and distinct attributes of beef.

By using only plant products, Impossible Foods claims it will dramatically “reduce the resources needed to feed the world’s population and free land for wildlife and biodiversity.”

The Impossible Burger has been hailed as one of the saviors of an impending food crisis and is extremely environmentally friendly.

Meat farming is estimated to produce around “15 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions which contributes to global warming and uses 25 percent of global freshwater use.”

Animal agriculture is a leading contributor to losses of habitat for endangered wildlife and plants, whereas this product uses only about “a quarter of the water, 5 percent of the land, and contributes 13 percent of the greenhouse-gas emissions compared to a burger from cows.”

Founded in 2011 by Patrick O. Brown, M.D, formerly a professor at Stanford University, Impossible Foods received financial backing from the likes of Bill Gates, Google Ventures, and UBS, to name but a few.

Thanks, in part, to several stages of funding from some of the world’s most powerful individuals and organizations, the Impossible Burger is cropping up all over America. With restaurants opening in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, Impossible Burger is set to make a bold impact on the food industry in the United States.

Not only is this bold idea animal and environmentally friendly, but is also going a long way in ensuring we eat a healthy and well-balanced diet.

Day: January 27, 2017

How Does Technology Improve Education Across the Globe?

Reducing Carbon Emissions From Our Vehicles

Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Change Transport Sector

Pushing For More Carpool Sharing To Reduce Traffic

A Game-changing Vegetarian Burger

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