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Welcome to Planet 100 for November 17, 2009. Here's what we're covering today:
WATCH VIDEO: Whales Saved by Japanese Recession, Giant Disco Ball in Space, and Feeding the Planet
Planet 100: Whales saved by Japanese recession (11/17)
Arctic whales may have a reprieve due to Japan's slow economy. Japan's new cost-cutting government has targeted the Overseas Fisheries Co-operation Fund and its manager The Institute of Cetaean Research, in order to slash billions of interest-free loans that are the lifeblood of the whaling industry.
TECH WATCH: Giant disco ball in outer space (Karl Burkart)
Imagine what alien space visitors would think of a planet so fabulously bedecked in mirrors that it resembled a 70's era disco ball.
It sounds like sci fi fantasy (or a whole lot of something slipped in your KoolAid) but enshrouding the earth in millions of mirrors is one of several geo-engineering solutions being considered by top scientists from the British Royal Society as a means to slow the effects of global warming.
Via: MNN.com
LINK: Climate solution: earth disco ball
Image: Karl Burkart
AND FINALLY...Good news for carnivores.
Researchers from Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Research say that we will be able to feed the planet's 9 billion people sustainably by 2050. And surprisingly that includes three guilt free servings of meat per week.
Via: Treehugger
LINK: You Don't Have to Quit Eating Meat to Save the World by 2050
Illustration: Megan Jo
