Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Nature to the Grid: Bioenergy
Saturday, January 17th, 2009

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The clean tech economy is taking off, and it’s going to be very interesting to see what will actually work. What concept will bring it all together?
From a production (energy) standpoint, you’ve got solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, hydro, and ethanol. And with consumption, you have to ask how are we going to create products, how are we going to deal with waste, and where are we going to get our food and water?
When you start looking at all these variables, you seem to get to the root of the sustainability problem… it’s very fragmented. There needs to be a new holistic approach that attacks the whole issue. Where do we get our energy, our food, and a new paradigm for products and waste? To us, the answer is quite clear… it’s found in nature, where the essence is growth. Grow our food, grow our energy, grow our resources. It’s all about growth energy… bioenergy.
Tags: biodynamics, bioenergy, clean tech, Coskata, Daniel Nocera, ecolism, Energy, grow, hydrogen fuel, MIT, nature to the grid, photosynthesis, renewable energy, Solar energy, sustainability, Technology
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ShopWiki for Christmas
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
For all you last minute Christmas shoppers, check out ShopWiki. It’s an interesting site attempting to revolutionize online shopping by crawling Google for
every online store on the internet. This is cool because most online marketplaces and shopping sites have selective stores that that they set up deals with, whereas ShopWiki brings in virtually every store on the web, allowing you to better compare price data and make more informed decisions on what to buy. Furthermore, it has a near flawless user interface and interaction, which is the name of the game in retaining users and making money.
Tags: affiliates, Ajax, Christmas, Online shopping, ShopWiki, sustainability, User Interface
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Obama’s Energy and Environmental Team Completed
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Tags: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, cap-and-trade, carbon tax, Carol Browner, clean tech, Energy, Environment, Ken Salazar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lisa Jackson, News, Steven Chu, sustainability, Tom Vilsack, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Secretary of the Interior
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LOHAS Philosophy of the Future
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
LOHAS – Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
A holistic philosophy on products, services, businesses, organizations, and humanity as a whole that advocates growth and change through systems thinking. I recently found an amazing write up at the LOHAS website about how this philosophy will help the business culture of the future.
Here’s my favorite excerpt:
“For the last 250 years, we have been living in what Peter Senge calls the ‘industrial age bubble’, based on a ‘take, make, waste’ worldview. Behind this way of life has been a set of attitudes and beliefs about economics, wealth, and business. We tend to think of these beliefs as “common sense”, or even as objective natural law. But in fact, they are received knowledge, the inheritance of centuries of cultural, political, and philosophical tradition. Our way of business is based on learned behavior, not natural law.
With this worldview, we’ve created unprecedented wealth, knowledge and communication. And, we’ve created environmental toxicity, cheap throw away products, denatured industrially-produced food, and a culture of low self-esteem and spiritual poverty.”
Tags: About, bio-inspiration, Biodynamic agriculture, ecolism, Energy, God, LOHAS, Natural law, News, oneness, Peter Senge, philosophy, Spirituality, sustainability
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Recycle Bank
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Here’s a company that’s doing something very special. I watched Ron’s presentation at VLAB (MIT/Stanford Venture Lab) Green Tech for the Consumer Market this past January and got very excited. Then after hearing Trae Vassallo’s glowing presentation at the Silicon Valley West Coast Green conference, I knew they were out to change the world.
Tags: Austin Energy, Bed Bath & Beyond, clean tech, Coca Cola, Coca-Cola Company, Energy, garbage, Kleiner Perkins, KPCB, Marketing, material recovery facilities, MRF, News, Pepsi, Recycle Bank, Recycling, RFID, single stream recycling, sustainability, Trae Vasallo, VLAB, Whole Foods
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