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Don’t Just Be The Change, Mass-Produce It!
Posted by davidwfox on 24 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business, products
Here at Greenr we want to ‘Accelerate the Change”. Over at WorldChanging, founder and editor Alex Steffen says we should be mass producing it: “We need, through brilliant innovations, bold enterprise and political willpower, to make sustainability an obligatory and universal characteristic of our society, not an ethical choice. We need to remake the systems in which live. We need to redesign civilization. Anything less is failure.” Continue reading…
Whether we ‘be the change’, accelerate it or mass produce it, one thing is for sure, business as usual needs to change. Fast.
Wal-Mart Chief Offers a Social Manifesto
Posted by davidwfox on 24 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business
New York Times reports that Wal-Mart’s chief H. Lee Scott Jr. pledged Wednesday to cut the energy used by many of its products 25 percent and to force the chain’s suppliers to meet stricter ethical standards. “We live in a time when people are losing confidence in the ability of government to solve problems.” Wal-Mart “does not wait for someone else to solve problems.” Assisting Scott in what must be a massive undertaking is Adam Werback (who stocked up some controvesy in a recent SF Chronicle interview) and his team at Act Now.
Abu Dhabi Investing US$15 Bln in Green Energy
Posted by davidwfox on 21 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business
While giving no specific timeframe, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan told the World Future Energy Summit in the emirate. “I would like to underscore the government of Abu Dhabi’s commitment to the Masdar initiative by announcing an initial investment of US$15 billion.” Next month ground will be broken on Masdar city, the world’s first carbon-neutral city. The money will go into infrastructure, renewable energy projects such as solar power, and manufacturing, to position Abu Dhabi as a leader in the global clean energy market. GoogleNews references…
SolarSailor - Innovation Inspired by Insects
Posted by davidwfox on 20 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: biomimicry, business, transport
Solar Sailor is an Australian company innovating in the marine industry. Recent CNN coverage is gratifying - it’s not easy to turn old industries around. See recent video on CNN. (Disclosure: I’m an investor in this company and served on the board for a couple of years.)
New Eco-Patent Commons Aims to Open Source Cleantech
Posted by davidwfox on 20 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business
A new initiative spearheaded by IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowes and Sony will give companies a way to “donate” patents relating to cleantech or environmental science for use by entrepreneurs, governments and researchers, starting with a seed fund of some 30 patents shared by the four companies….
http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/14/new-eco-patent-commons-aims-to-open-source-cleantech/
Clorox Aims to Show that ‘Green Works’
Posted by davidwfox on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business, products
Joel Makower asks: “Can a major consumer packaged goods company with a name indelibly associated with household bleach become a leading light in the green marketplace?” That’s the hope of Clorox, the Oakland-based company, which this week is launching its first new brand in twenty years: Green Works, a line of cleaning products. more . . . »
Bill McDonough at AlwaysOn Green
Posted by davidwfox on 12 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business, events, video
In case you missed Bill speaking at AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen conference last year (and at $3k per seat, you probably did!), here are some excerpts from his “strategy of hope” for sustainable design keynote.
http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/2282
http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/22932
Delphi Introduces Innovative Electronics Cooling Systems at CES
Posted by davidwfox on 10 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: biomimicry, business, company
“The patented technology behind these fans was developed through a license agreement with PaxIT, utilizing technology developed by PAX Scientific, Inc. This industrial design firm specializes in identifying, evaluating and replicating the flow efficiencies of nature into streamlined design geometries, a concept known as biomimicry. In the case of Delphi’s fan technology, the use of biomimicry results in fan blades that generate airflow streams with significantly reduced turbulence to deliver quieter, more energy-efficient performance.” More at TradingMarkets…
Big congrats to (fellow Aussie) Jay Harman and his team at San Rafael based PAX.
Tipping Point? Two Evening Events Start The Year Green
Posted by davidwfox on 05 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: business, events
While they typically talk bits and bytes, hardware and software, these Silicon Valley institutions have decided to start the year out with green themes:
Commonwealth Club in conjunction with Computer History Museum start out the year with: IT’S EASY BEING GREEN | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sv/ (sorry…no direct event link…)
and Tuesday, January 29th Churchill Club presents “The Green Rush: Prospects, Perils, and Opportunities” http://www.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=759
