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by Jess Zimmerman. Artist Jonathon Keats has cooked up a light meal for plants. The full five-star affair will be showing at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, but here’s the fast-food version, suitable for your houseplants or your urban garden: “My recipes are all based on the scientific study of plant physiology, applied to the fine art of cuisine,” Keats told Wired.com. “I’m publishing the recipe book so gardeners everywhere can prepare gourmet sunlight for their plants at home
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Feed your plants this photosynthetic gourmet meal
Say one thing for smart meters and their vocal opponents: it’s certainly helped liven up conversations about some formerly dry subjects. When, for example, could you have previously imagined the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) being heckled at a Silicon Valley event … while discussing the minutiae of AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile, no less? But that’s exactly what happened this week, as FCC chair Julius Genachowski was answering questions about the pending merger, all of it captured in a YouTube video posted by VentureBeat (the fireworks begin at around the 4:31 moment). The protesters were eventually removed, but not before delivering dramatic assertions like, “Three per cent of the population is electromagnetically sensitive,” “Millions of people are getting sick,” “Cellphones cause brain tumours — wake up,” and, simply, “Stop smart meters.” It’s hard not to utter the word “Luddite” upon seeing outbursts like this.
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When smart meter opponents attack
Photo Credit: Alan Brandt The switch has been flipped on Facebook’s first owned and operated data center.
From Dublin to Palo Alto via Milan, Colombia, and London, with world records and airships, in English, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese, Facebook got a clear message this week, delivered in many ways – it’s time the world’s largest social networking site connected its 600 million users to renewable energy, not dirty, dangerous coal and nuclear. The week started at Facebook’s Dublin offices – where Facebook staff got a clear message about the global support for Facebook to choose renewable energy from over 700,000 Facebook users, and a pledge for Mark to sign in support of renewable energy. On Wednesday we set a new world record for the most Facebook comments in 24hrs, with
Power Shift 2011 is running a livestream here of their opening keynote session in DC featuring Al Gore and Van Jones at 7 pm. Follow the action on Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , and the Power Shift blog . Here’s a video about the conference:
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Watch Al Gore and Van Jones live tonight