I’m not sure how much ‘foresight’ this report offers to readers of this blog, but interesting to note that a research organization is covering biomimicry… Biomimicry is the practice of drawing inspiration from nature to solve human problems and inspire innovation. A small but growing number of products now imitate natural plants and animals, with […]
Category Archives: research & reports
Towards A Resilience Pattern Language
If climate goes the way most scientists predict, then “resilience” is a word we’ll read ever more often. Last weekend I attended “Design 4 Resilience” and here is an example of what emerged: Chris Byrne, a participant at D4R last Saturday, has catalyzed D4R’s first informal workgroup to discover a resilience pattern language. Chris’ curiosity, […]
Disturbing Report from Pew
IÂ generally focus on solutions rather than preaching to the choir about the issues, but sometimes a report like this is a wakeup call for me and everyone who believes there is a good chance that human influence climate change (chaos!) is underway. “Number of Americans who believe in climate change drops, survey shows only […]
GoingGreen 100 Announced
AlwaysOn is a silicon valley media that hopes to “identify the sweet spots in the market, where technology innovation is disrupting behavior and creating explosive new entrepreneurial opportunities for both startups and big businesses” so it’s not surprising that they’re tracking the ‘green’ market. They’ve just announced their Top 100 list: Investment and public interest […]
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 […]
Energy Farms
CEC Report: Biggest, Easiest CO2 Emissions Cuts…Green Buildings
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 […]
Mapping the Human Impact on Oceans
While this blog tends to focus on solutions more so than problems, as a keen surfer I’m particularly attuned to the ocean – so this BBC coverage of findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston. Only about 4% of the world’s oceans remain undamaged by […]
State of Green Business 2008
Trying to understand who’s who, and what’s what in green business? Help has arrived via Joel Makower and the editors over at GreenBiz.com. Their first report into US green business activities is now available at www.StateOfGreenBusiness.com. The report debuts the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of green business progress including measures of how […]