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This Week in PopTech: "Smart" Energy Grid, an Arctic Bunker and the Edge of Change

Emily Qualey ( Bio / Posts ) | Friday, June 25, 2010 UTC

Happenings:

Want to know more about connectomes or programmable bacteria? See what happened when we brought together four speakers, a performer, and a lively and engaged audience for a salon on Science, Living Systems, and the Edge of Change in Washington, DC.
READ: Eco IQ’s, Violas, Mammoths, and Genes that “Seek and Destroy”
LOOK: Images on Flickr

This week we also released Massoud Amin’s 2009 PopTech talk on the critical need for a “Smart” Energy Grid. Massoud believes this will provide national as well as environmental and financial security.
WATCH: Massoud Amin: A Smart Grid

We explored a bunker in the Arctic that stores the seed for human survival. Agricultural impresario Cary Fowler gave the PopTech audience a sneak peak of the seed vault as it was being constructed.
WATCH: Cary Fowler: Conserving Bio-Diversity

We congratulated 2009 PopTech Fellows, Josh Nesbit and Jason Aramburu for acceptance into the Echoing Green Fellowship program.
WATCH: Josh Nesbit: Mobile Healthcare and Jason Aramburu: New Energy

We’re still collecting quotes on failure. We got some great ones this week, so keep ’em coming. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
FAILURE QUOTES

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