How cheap sensors, ubiquitous computing, and networks of enthusiastic amateurs are building a new planetary nervous system.

Algorithms – step-by-step sequences of operations that solve specific computational tasks – are transforming the world around us.

Videos from the Green Economy Through Open Innovation conference in Munich in February 2016

Thanks to preservation of habitat in countries like Nepal and India, tiger populations in those countries have increased.

The Freshwater Trust has partnered with Portland State University’s Sustainable Water, Energy and Environmental Technologies Laboratory and Oregon State University to test how drones can help monitor the health and growth of streamside forests.

Seed bombs began as a fun and friendly tactic for greening abandoned lots in urban spaces. “Guerrilla gardeners” throw balls of seeds and fertilizer into fenced-off spaces that are otherwise neglected, such as brownfields or land in zoning limbo.

PlantNet is an app that will help you identify a plant just by taking a picture of it — think of it as the Shazam for plants. Okay, so the ratings are low and the geographic coverage is limited, but you get the idea...

Learn how the work of the new pastoralists promote carbon sequestration, health of soil & water, good food, fiber & the pursuit of happiness, as we dine and imbibe.

This two-day event will feature more than 70 different speakers from the food and agriculture field. Researchers, farmers, chefs, policy makers, government officials, and students. (Sold-out but offering a free livestream.)

An abundance of different species in any habitat provides the resilience and strength necessary for a system as a whole to survive and to thrive despite the inevitable changes Mother Nature casts its way.