Moving Towards the Future: Eric Olsen
Video: Eric Olsen, the 2008 Next Generation Design Competition winner, discusses his revolutionary project.
No to Child Labor! Yes to Education!: Nina Smith
Video: RugMark’s independent certification label appears on the back of more than 40 different rug brands, ensuring that manufacturers have complied with its no child labor standard. A percentage of its sales support education in South Asia. Nina Smith, RugMark USA Executive Director shares this inspiring story.
Social Minded Product Design: Emily Pilloton
Video: Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, a website that encourages and supports humanitarian product design solutions, talks about her vision, and the recent success of the new Greener Gadgets Conference.
Spec It Green
Video: Tanu Kumar, director of business services, and Tzipora Lubarr, project manager of sustainable initiatives, at the New York Industrial Retention Network speak about Spec It Green, an initiative to raise green building awareness and connect local green manufacturers with designers and builders.
Solar in a Box
Here’s a video our neighbor Don’s friend Josh made about something I’ve wanted to push solar companies on for a while. In the same way that Samsung and Sony make flat screen TVs that I can buy in a box, bring home, plug in and start watching, there should be a similar ease of use for small solar kits.
Algae Biofuel
One of our favorite alternative energy sources is the fastest growing plant on the planet, a plant that doesn’t have to compete with food crops for land. Algae is sexy. Algae is cool. And Algae can be grown in a Wal-Mart parking lot, the desert, or in any industrial, commercial or residential neighborhood.
Jim Hunt on Sustainability
Video: Jim Hunt, the Chief of Environment and Energy for the City of Boston, believes that some of the best drivers for sustainability are innovative financial models, not new technologies. Though solar panels and wind turbines are promising to both governments and businesses, it is the funding and support of these technologies that gets them off the ground and into people’s hands.
Carbon Sequestration & Bioplastics: Smithsonian’s so close, yet so far away…
This month’s Smithsonian contains some food for deeper thought on the subjects of carbon sequestration and bioplastics. But, I’d rather sink my teeth into algae, instead of corn kernals and 50-foot tall machines.
Environmental Graffiti: It’s all About Cleaning
An artist scrubs a city clean, and calls it reverse graffiti
Double Bubble Trouble: Eric Janszen and NAU
Eric Janszen of iTulip and Harper’s Magazine forecasts the future of NAU…and it ain’t pretty.
