In The News: The more dancers bounce and shake, the more energy produced by the floor of a new green nightclub. Old tires are perfect as new water filters. Acoustic recognition technology identifies the sounds of aggression in human voices and automatically calls the cops. 80% of companies have never done an energy audit, costing them money and wasting the planet's resources. A new kind of plastic shape-shifts into three medically useful configurations based on temperature. Cell phones with near field communications (NFC) could act as credit cards, passports, and backstage passes. The U.S. ranks behind 21 other countries in gender equality. A baby-boom in India makes its umbilical cord blood banks a potential source of huge profits. Scientists weave living brain cells into silicon threads. A genetic breakthrough yields edible cotton. (All Below)

 

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China’s Media Morphosis

The Chinese television industry has witnessed numerous changes and amazing growth over the past decade. For one thing, idol shows are now becoming extremely popular throughout the country. This article from Beijing Review provides the latest industry news and trends as well as good insight into investment oppportunities in China’s TV market.

“After successive years of continuously high growth, the total pre-tax profit of the media industry has exceeded that of the tobacco industry, making it China’s fourth largest business. Advertising revenue has increased in volume 20 times in 10 years, topping the 100 billion yuan mark in 2003, with average annual growth of 35 percent.”

 

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Hollywood

Surprise! Hollywood’s A Major Air Polluter
By Daniel B. Wood, CS Monitor
Although it's widely known for a 'green' image, the film and TV production industry in California is actually a significant contributor to America's dirtiest skies, sending 140,000 metric tons of ozone and diesel particulates into the air each year. Read full article...

Hollywood Plots Freeway Coverup
By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times
Leaders push a plan to enclose half a mile of the roadway in a tunnel and place a greenbelt on top. Read full article...

Alternative Energy

‘Green’ Nightclub Plans Unveiled
By Staff, BBC News
A new nightclub in the Netherlands plans to offer clubbers an environmentally-friendly night out - in part by having them power the place through their dancing. Read full article...

Communication

Bright Green Marketing Challenge
By Joel Makower, TomPaine.com
The question of how to engage Americans on pressing environmental issues is a perennial one. Surveys over the past quarter century have shown that Americans are concerned about deteriorating air and water quality and the loss of parks and open space in their own communities, if not the rest of the world. But that concern never seems to translate into political action to press politicians and companies to value planet over profits, let alone to accelerate the transformation to a more sustainable society. Read full article...

Cloning

Research On Ice
By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine
New details of disgraced Korean geneticist Dr. Hwang Woo-suk's experiments emerge: cloned woolly mammoths, anyone? Read full article...

Ten Years After Dolly, No Human Clones, But A Barnyard of Copies
By Maryann Mott, National Geographic
Born July 5, 1996, at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, Dolly was the genetic copy of a six-year-old Finn Dorset ewe. Because of a patent application on the cloning process, her birth was kept a secret until February 27, 1997. Read full article...

Consumer Responsibility

Rich To The Rescue
By Jane Lampman, CS Monitor
Among the more than 8 million millionaires in the US, making a global difference is becoming 'the cool place to be.' Read full article...

Corporate Responsibility

Green IT: Do It For The Money, If Nothing Else
By Will Sturgeon, C-Net
Businesses that haven't audited their IT-related energy usage are missing out on financial benefits, say experts. Read full article...

Green Design

Recycled Rubber Tires Could Clean Water
By Catherine Brahic, New Scientist
Rubber tyres, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State university in the US. Read full article...

Tech Trends

Mobiles Hope To Be ‘Smart Wallet’
By Staff, BBC News
Mobile phones are closer to becoming smart wallets, following agreement among mobile operators on an approach to near field communications Read full article...

Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts To Injury
By Staff, PhysOrg.com
So Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp. Read full article...

National Security

Alarm Over China’s Arms Pursuit - In Space
By Peter N. Spotts, CS Monitor
New alarms are sounding over signs that China may be developing space weapons, reinforcing suspicions that the People's Liberation Army is increasingly interested in the final frontier as a theater of war. Read full article...

Politicians Embrace ‘Cybersecurity’ Month, But Why?
By Declan McCullagh, C-Net
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took the bold step of enhancing America's cybersecurity by approving a resolution in support of "National Cyber Security Awareness Month." Read full article...

Chinese Sub Secretly Stalks US Fleet
By Sally Peck, Telegraph
China's Song-class diesel-powered attack submarine shadowed the USS Kitty Hawk undetected and surfaced within five miles of the aircraft carrier Read full article...

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3:00pm Lou Dobbs Report on CNN
7:00pm Scarborough Country on MSNBC
8:00pm Hardball With Chris Matthews on MSNBC
8:00pm The Daily Show on Comedy Central
8:30pm The Colbert Report on Comedy Central
9:00pm Washington Week In Review on PBS
11:00pm Tavis Smiley on PBS
11:30pm Charlie Rose on PBS

Hollywood Hill New Member Presentation
The Hollywood Hill gives a presentation for non-members to explain the organization and its plans for the future. Please RSVP to
7:30pm

All The Presidents Men Screening and Panel Discussion
Screening of the film followed by a panel discussion with Robert Redford. Hosted by Newsweek film critic David Ansen. Samuel Goldwyn Theater 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills https://www.oscars.org
8pm

The Woodrow Wilson Center holds a conference titled, "New Thinking in International Trade: National Strategies to Build Comparative Advantage," which will be keynoted by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Washington, DC

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich discusses "Work over Welfare" at the Brookings Institution after speaking at the GOPAC Fall Member Charter Meeting, Washington, DC