Stimulating coral growth with electricity

Can electricity give declining coral reefs a new lease on life? It may seem counter-intuitive, but it apparently has been effective for the last decade, thanks to marine biologist Thomas Goreau and engineer/architect Wolf Hilbertz, who have been experimenting with regenerating coral reefs using electricity in a technology called Biorock.

From treehugger.com

Bush Outlines Proposal on Climate Change

Of interest for some contemporary context issues:

Artic Hunt

More on the sea bed grab.

Scalable Textures?

China is drying up

Chinese cities are drying up in the North East because of record economic growth. See this NYT special features for more details.

Posts from BLDGBLOG

"It's sci-fi regionalism – architectural design in an era of global climate change."

"The future of architecture lies in weather control."

Recent Links from WIRED

New book from Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger on "post-environmentalism",
Break Through: From "The Death of Environmentalism" to the Politics of Possibility.

One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil.

Rising Oceans.