A Noxious Problem

Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
How We Get To Next

Fowl Plague

Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Duncan Geere

Disability Futures

We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
Kenny Fries

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

How Gothenburg’s Excess Heat Actually Keeps the City Cool

The city’s district cooling system turns wasted energy into summer coolness.
Duncan Geere
1 min read

Watch: Colonizing the Solar System

Earth is doomed! Once we’ve run out of room and resources on our planet, where should we go?
Duncan Geere
19 sec read

The Solar System’s Hottest Real Estate

Where can we live other than Earth?
Duncan Geere
3 min read