Category Archives: Greenr
Getting Serious about Solving the Carbon Problem
Outspoken VC Vinod Khosla speaks at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. Is the “the current green movement as more about style than substance”? I might not agree with all he has to say, but Koshla is one person worth following closely.
Open Sustainability Network Event
Building the Bio-inspired City
Biomimicry in Popular Mechanics
The biomimicry meme continues to spread through mainstream media: An airplane systems engineer, a shower designer and a biologist walk into a Costa Rican rain forest. “This is the neatest thing I’ve found this week,†says the airplane engineer, from Boeing, pointing to a cluster of daddy-longleg spiders gently oscillating on the trunk of a […]
Inspried by Trout
What does a water-purification system have to do with a trout? Find out via an interesting post at greentechmedia: When it comes to water technology, nature appears poised to become a major player. Similar to the Watreco and Parc situation, a group of startups – Novozymes and Aquaporin – are facing off against an industrial […]
Find Good Stuff
Sounds useful: Increasingly, you want to know about the impacts of the products you buy. On your health. On the environment. On society. But unless you’ve got a Ph.D, it is almost impossible to find out the impacts of the products you buy. Until now… GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of […]
Biomimicry Seminar – September 24th, 2008
The Green Enterprise – ZDNet Video Series
ZDNet offers up a series of short “Green Enterprise” videos: A look into the enterprise to explore eco-friendly practices and innovations. In this ZDNet video series learn about what’s motivating green tech, and how green technologies are impacting IT. ZDNet joins other great video resources like TED, Green Festivals, Sundance Channel, One Minute Shift.
Animal Minds
Fascinating program from one of my favorite radio shows/podcasts: In Baltimore, Maryland, there’s an octopus that likes to play with toys. In Vienna, Austria, there’s a border collie with a vocabulary of 340 words – more than many toddlers. Southeast Asia is home to dozens of elephants who like to paint. In this hour of […]