Nice idea: turn all those gym rats into power plants! The Green Revolution – Where Fitness Meets Clean, Renewable Energy. Related articles The Green Revolution. (veggiefitness.wordpress.com) Kazakhstan launches renewables push (upi.com) Could A Donut-Shaped Island Create Permanent Renewable Energy? (fastcoexist.com) In Australia, Wind Power Is Already Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels, And Solar Is Right Behind…
Most people have no idea that you can easily put biofuels into most engines in your home right now. No, your house will not smell like a MacDonalds. However I have found that while local oil company advertises they are a “green” “biofuel vendor” in truth they only put a tiny percent of biofuels in their…
Pretty nice blog about entrepreneurship and related things.. Startup Blender | Entrepreneurship, startups, strategy & marketing. Related articles Fifty Top Startups to be Recognized in Startup Open Competition During Global Entrepreneurship Week (kauffman.org) Kauffman Foundation Partners with Startup Weekend to Help Educate Entrepreneurs (kauffman.org) Startup Weekend: Solving the Jobs Crisis Begins With Empowering One Another…
EnerNOC – Energy management solutions for demand response, energy efficiency, energy procurement, & carbon management. EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC) looks like a pretty solid venture into the new world of combining IT efficiencies with clean, renewable energy. According to their site they are transforming the way the world uses energy. They help commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations use…
Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists,…
Farmigo Nice new startup created by an anthro major who was VP of user experience at SAP and then decided to do something more sustainable and went on to start a web 2.0 company to help organic farmers expand their reach. Related articles Online farmer’s market enables local, subscription-based food communities (springwise.com) Farmigo takes the farmers…
What a great idea. A dedicated, professionally managed portal for selling all of the endless electronic gadgets that accumulate around the house so they don’t end up in a landfill. Sell Used Electronics, Trade In and Recycle Electronics – Gazelle. Related articles Boston Start-up Gives Cash For High End Electronics (forbes.com) [News] How companies keep…
Another top quality school bringing engineering, technology and science education online. Purdue Online Master of Engineering Program – Online Master in Engineering Programs. Related articles Purdue: New concrete may lengthen bridge lifespan (posttrib.suntimes.com) Purdue researchers win $14.5 million NSF grant to take nanoHUB.org to next level (nanotech-now.com) Can Engineers and Scientists…
Walker Percy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Another anthropological writer who had the same theory that owing to the complexities of modern life humans crave destruction and thus have a secret fascination with these events including fires etc. that transcends any feelings of empathy they might also have. Related articles New “Bell…
Sebastian Junger – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Very interesting author who is trained as an anthropologist and has a theory that people’s lives are too complex and thus they crave the simplicity of natural disasters and tragic events such as war which creats bonds and a sense of grounding. Related articles Sebastian Junger launches medical…
Each year, 11% of consumer electronics are returned to stores, but only 5% of those are defective. The other 95% are returned because of poor design. Maya boot camps apply the techniques of usability and anthropology to change the odds. Inside MAYA Design’s Innovation Boot Camps | Fast Company. Related articles Apple acquires eighteen user interface…
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Robochrist Industries is a robotic performance art troupe and direct offshoot of Survival Research Laboratories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robochrist_Industries Related articles A Robot With A Chainsaw! (i-programmer.info) Improv Comedy Resource Page – Costume SuperCenter (costumesupercenter.com) Lego robot teams battle it out in Sacramento (sacbee.com) New York Dance Troupe STOMP Gives Victoria A Preview (vicnews.com) First steps in appreciating performance art…