This is the first installment of the Open Horizon Scanning blog post series produced by the BioEcoJust project. The goal is to share the top three to
five most interesting items recently found on the FFRC blog. These posts synthesize analysis of found horizon scanning items. Five named horizon scanning items are presented: Milk from Bioreactors, DNA for Data Storage, Inequality and the biosphere, Other Species recruited to help humans sense impacts of the melting ice sheets, and Large-Scale Walls vs. Large-Scale Complexity.