Monthly Archives: March 2008
Smart Appliances
Its a great time to be remodeling a kitchen with a growing range of ‘smart’ appliances like the new Inspiro oven from Electrolux. Less energy, easier cooking. Sounds like a great combination. Check out the video…
Biomimicry Gets Two Thumbs Up from Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo is one of the world’s leading futurists so it’s great to see him talking up Biomimicry. “And yet Saffo finds biomimicry — a term that describes biologically inspired design — just as interesting. For him, there’s symmetry between the architect who borrows from the working processes of the human body and nomadic workers […]
GreenPlumbers: The Future of Plumbing
I sat in on a presentation by Steve Lehtonen at PG&E this week and learned about a terrific new initiative: GreenPlumbers® was developed by the Master Plumbers’ and Mechanical Services Association of Australia. (MPMSAA). The enormously successful training and accreditation program is being introduced in the United States through an exclusive agreement between MPMSAA and […]
Getting into Hot Water
Work on our green remodel begins next week. There are 101..maybe 1001!…things to consider. Fortunately our local utility provider PG&E runs a regular series of workshops and events. Today’s focused on water. I met some interesting folks including the CEO of Metlund, makers of “Advanced Conservation Technologies: D’MAND Hot Water Systems”: At the push of […]
Green-is-Chic Books – 70 Arriving this Summer!
Joel Makower turns his attention to ‘save the earth’ books and offers his trademarked wry commentary. It will be interesting to watch the book unfold anew. A lot has changed — but in some ways not much has. People are still looking for answers — and simple ones are pretty compelling… ….Of course, Javna’s book […]
Clean Energy Trends
The latest annual edition of Clean Energy Trends has just been published. Joel Makower and his colleagues at Clean Edge have once again identified key trends affecting clean-energy markets and produced their annual forecast, along with 2007’s investment trends. The five trends we cover in this year’s Trends report cover electric cars (how all of […]
Hear the Change!
Every day…another doom and gloom report…you could be forgiven for thinking the problems facing humanity are insurmountable. What gives me hope is that so many smart folks from the hi-tech field are moving into the sustainability. Folks like old acquaintance Doug Kaye: Check out Dougs Social Innovation Podcasting Channel, an initiative with the Center for […]
Bioteams
Ken Thompson, a former European IT Manager with Reuters, has mapped out a new organization model “bioteams” based, based on nature’s best designs: In his book, Bioteams, Thompson offers a way to build exceptionally agile, high performing teams based on a thorough examination of the key communication principles that underpin nature’s most successful groups — […]
Just Imagine – from CNN International
Check out a new series of short interview/documentaries from CNN International “Just Imagineâ€, especially the third in the series that centers Livable Cities and the role of biomimicry in solving some of our greatest challenges. More to follow!