Segment 1: Nearly eight years in the making, The Leonardo is nearly ready to open its doors to the public. What makes the art-science-technology museum a unique destination and what can visitors expect? On Thursday, Jeff Robinson gets a sneak peek and takes listeners along. Guests: Lisa Davis, spokeswoman, The…
An experimental piece of architecture just installed in The Leonardo on Library Square isn’t just meant to be looked at – it also responds to its environment and even to human touch. Canadian architect Philip Beesley is the creator of Hylozoic Ground, a meshwork creation visitors will see when The Leonardo opens on Saturday, October 8th.
The Leonardo science, technology and art museum on Salt Lake City’s Library Square now features 148 solar panels on its roof, paid for by Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program and the voter-approved bond used to remodel the building. Leonardo Executive Director Peter Giles notes that energy is an important part of the museum’s visitor experience.
A prestigious $12 million grant from a federal agency is being put into forming a new research center at the University of Utah, called the Center of Excellence in Materials Research and Innovation. KCPW’s Jessica Gail explains what this new center will do.
Salt Lake City’s new natural gas-powered garbage trucks were unveiled today as part of an ongoing effort program to “green” the city’s fleet of service vehicles. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, the new trucks will replace the city’s diesel-powered sanitation trucks, which the city says will be a cheaper, quieter, and cleaner alternative.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was in Utah today as part of a heat illness prevention campaign. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, she toured a Sandy facility responsible for studying workplace hazards, and introduced a new smart phone application designed to keep outdoor workers safe in the heat.
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a Utah medical device company’s use of its new near-bloodless scalpel. The company says it results in a less invasive surgery overall and a faster recovery. KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports on the FMwand, invented by the Salt Lake City-based Domain Surgical.
Twenty-six million Americans still don’t have high-speed Internet access, according to the FCC’s annual report to Congress. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, Utah has met high standards in broadband deployment, but there are some areas that are falling behind.
The Salt Palace Convention Center is preparing for a 2.5-megawatt jolt from what’s being called the largest single rooftop solar system in the United States. The project, led by Salt Lake County, took off last September, but hit a speed bump when the county didn’t complete contracts in time to receive necessary federal tax credits. Darrin Casper, the county’s chief financial officer, says they were just late in the process, so they had to wait for the 2011 tax credits.
While clean energy technology can revolutionize the nation’s power supply and economy, exactly where that power is developed is key to preventing the problem of energy sprawl. That will be the message presented Wednesday night by Jonathan Hoekstra, Senior Scientist with The Nature Conservancy, as part of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s 2011 Nature of Things Lecture Series.
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