A few weeks ago I wrote about Agilewaves, and today CNet has a great overview of more than a dozen ‘dashboard’ technologies ranging from simple wall plug adapters that offer a kw reading for individual devices, to a half dozen startups competing in the whole-house market – including Greenbox which was founded by the co-creators […]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Challenging Ideas
The UK’s Daily Telegraph offers up a series titled “Challenging Ideas” to help Honda launch their new Accord. Here’s an excerpt from the first in the short six-part series titled “Natural Leaders”: ‘Biomimicry introduces an era based not on what we can extract from organisms and their ecosystems, but on what we can learn from […]
Showcasing Ideas from Nature
Biomimicry Applications
Peak Oil + Climate Change: Scenarios
David Holmgren (futurist and the co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison) explains the issues and points to scenarios in this fascinating site/paper: FutureScenarios.org presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model. In the process I introduce permaculture as a design system […]
How to Get Started in the Slow Food Movement
Green Books
I’ve always liked the look and feel of those richly illustrated and thoughtfully produced Dorling Kindersley books, so I was pleased to read about their efforts to be a little greener: UK book publisher Dorling Kindersley has created an imprint that aims to ‘green’ an industry whose dependence on dead trees doesn’t necessarily make it […]
FORA.tv
We’ve probably all wasted more time on YouTube than we’d care to admit. But there are alternatives! There are brilliant ideas, expressed everyday in public discussions and events, all over the world. Don’t miss them. FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to […]