Nov 22, 09
Blogs We Love: BUSINESS
While reading our daily news, we often come across media makers whose messages echo our own mission. Weekly and even daily, we come back to their sites to see what innovative ideas and projects they've created. Below is a list of the Blogs We Love that help us think about BUSINESS. Acumen Fund Blog The Chief Happiness Officer NextBillion.net The Fair Tracing Project HarvardBusiness.org The Green Leap Forward Greenormal Visual Economics Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward London School...
The Beauty of 10:10 Is That It's Both Achievable and Meaningful
by Ian Katz The world's response to global warming is a classic case of all mouth and no trousers. This new initiative aims to show that we can all act now - and achieve something significant Future generations writing the history of climate change may be struck by an apparent paradox: while millions of educated people – perhaps most of them – alive in the first decade of the 21st century acknowledged the threat posed by the buildup of greenhouse gasses and their part in creating it,...
Turning Charcoal Into Carbon Gold
by David Adam A chocolate maker and music promoter aim to create a £1bn biochar industry, in a controversial effort to fight climate change In a patch of woodland on the outskirts of Hastings, on the English south coast, a group of men huddle around a brick laboratory as smoke curls from its two chimneys. The men are trying, with some chemical trickery, to bring a lucrative piece of South America to Sussex, to spark what they believe could be a £1bn industry in Britain.The business is...
Indian Government Opens Climate Debate To Youth
By Anna da Costa India's government has set a new international standard for engaging youth on climate policy. In June, the Ministry of Environment and Forests invited the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) to comment on the government's climate change regulations. Inputs from the youth movement were then raised in India's lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, in an unprecedented gesture to the nation's youth. "The Government is aware of the recommendations and duly keeps these in...
Worldchanging Interview: Shawn Frayne
Shawn Frayne, president of Honolulu- and Hong Kong-based Humdinger Wind Energy, is a prolific inventor and innovator whose work has been inspired by the need for resourceful problem-solving in the world's most vulnerable regions. While working in Haiti, Frayne noted that providing wind power on a global scale would require hardware that's simpler and much cheaper than what we've got. In response, he teamed with aeronautical engineer Jordan McRae and mechanical engineer Dr. Kurt Kornbluth to...
WeCommune: Tech Support for Communes
Post-ownership living may be closer than we think. We see the evidence all around us, in the form of innovations from community kitchens to emerging mobility solutions. So, if people are recognizing the practical potential in social solutions, why aren't even more models for collaboration, sharing and product-service systems thriving? According to architect Stephanie Smith, spurring the movement may be a simple matter of providing the tech support. This week Smith, who heads WeCommune, plans...
China’s Complicated Internet Culture
The Chinese internet is lots more complicated than you think. That's the core message of Rebecca MacKinnon's talk at the Berkman Center on the Chinese internet, deliberative government and internet filtering. Most of the models we have for understanding the Chinese internet are wrong, or at the very least, deceptive. Scholars who follow the Chinese internet closely, like Rebecca, and wrestling with explanations of what, in fact, is happening with the Internet and movements towards...
Project Get Ready Aims to Create Electric Vehicle Revolution
Creating a well functioning smart grid – cyclically connected to smart vehicles and buildings and houses, as well as personal and public renewable energy systems – will be no small infrastructure feat. Utility providers, technology innovators, neighborhood councils and local governments will need to come together to provide needed support -- both monetarily and ideologically. Although U.S. President Obama and the recently passed stimulus plan are pushing the renewable, electric energy...
War Stories, Cultural Bridge-Building and Sustainability
Field Notes of an Accidental Eco-Tourist, Part 4: Holiday Reading I will say this, right off the top, for the Houston airport: it has excellent shopping. Houston was my transit point en route to Costa Rica back in December, and I took advantage of my twelve-hour layover to stock up on some holiday reading. This consisted mostly of spy novels and glossy magazines, but I also decided on a couple of "important books" for the serious side of the docket. Still, I intentionally chose two titles...
Philadelphia's New Green Future: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving
By Paul Glover The Dark Season closes around Philadelphia. Wolves howl, "Tough times coming!" Young professionals with good jobs study budget cuts, watch stocks flail. Career bureaucrats are laid off; college students wonder who's hiring. Old-timers remember when Philadelphia staggered through the terrible Depression years without jobs or dollars, while crime and hunger rose. Some districts here never escaped that Depression — they're still choosing between heating and eating. As usual,...
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