Opportunity for Creativity: Environmental Crisis Solutions

Water Harvesting to Divert Flood Causing Rainfalls.
The flood in the Philippines could have been a gift from heaven for populations suffering from drought.
Water harvesting is a habit we all need to nurture.
I imagine hundreds of robotic drones flying to the area as soon as the rains start.  Each drone would drop a large curved flexible plastic sheet tethered to the drone at four corners in order to catch the rain.  When the plastic sheet is full enough a gadget would pop out of the drone and tie up the top of the sheet, cut it free and let the large balloon full of water drop to the sea where boats would pull it to Africa.
We already have the drones and the balloons that are pulled by boats (for example, to take water to Santorini and other islands without fresh water supplies in the summer.)
I know we have engineers that could design the rest.
This seems to me to be a win-win situation.  Catch the water -
save the Philippines from a devastating flood and give water to those who must have water to survive.
It could happen!

This is part of an idea originally posted at Big Think.  Give Big Think a visit to share your Big Ideas!
http://bigthink.com/vickinikolaidis/environment-opportunity-for-creativity

Extremists using double standards to get their way.

 Unfortunate resignation at the White House.

Today's disappointing news from The States is the resignation of the dynamic Mr. Van Jones.


Van Jones should not have resigned. I'm very sorry he will no longer be an advisor in this administration's White House.

With Van's resignation, many will feel vindicated to use smear campaigns, not facts, to persecute anyone they don't like for any reason.   Just like parents who can not teach their children inappropriate behavior, unfortunately the Republican Party has not been able to bring its extremist members back into the fold.


Creating jobs in a green economy
Mr. Jones is a mover and shaker with great ideas for job creation in a green economy.  Maybe a more sophisticated government can snap him up and use his advice while giving him respect.

I don't understand how comparing Pres. Obama to a monkey wasn't considered "coarse rhetoric and extremist" by the same people that want to ruin Mr. Jones' reputation.  Through use of hyperbole, scare tactics and with no evaluation of the quality of his work they succeeded in forcing him out of the administration.