links for 2006-12-29

• A Building That Eats Smog | Planetizen
  A new church outside Rome designed by architect Richard Meier has been built with a self cleaning exterior that also destroys pollutants in the air.
  (tags: environment light_infrastructure pollution materials)
• Tokyo stores to beam adverts to shoppers in real time
  Stores in central Tokyo are set to beam news of special offers, menus and coupons to passers-by in a trial run of a radio tagging system.
  (tags: context_awareness rfid)
• Dr Alison Broinowski - Faculty of Asian Studies
  Formerly an Australian diplomat, she has worked for over twenty years on mutual images of Australia and Asian countries, as reflected in public discourse, in literature, and in the arts.
  (tags: e21 Australia)
• Marketplace: Frozen Assets
  "International politics professor Michael Byers speaks with Kai Ryssdal about the future of Canada and international shipping in a world with an ice-free Northwest Arctic shipping passage."
  (tags: arctic climate globalization transportration Canada)
• Strategic Foresight Group - Korea confronts the future Frank jurgen Richter
  "The new article by Frank-Jurgen Richter co-authored with John Barry details and presents a comprehensive study on the futures of North and South Korea both, as an economic and political entity."
  (tags: Korea future)
• Global Freshwater Resources: Soft-Path Solutions for the 21st Century -- Gleick 302 (5650): 1524 -- Science
  "Twentieth-century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure... [but] transition is under way to a "soft path" that complements centralized physical infrastructure with lower cost community-scale systems."
  (tags: e21 water rivers environment)