Huang Ming is known in China as “The Solar King” and he has certainly earned his crown. Ming lives in Dezhou City, in the province of Shandong, China. What he has developed Dezhou into is known as ‘Solar Valley’. Because of his innovative ideas and cutting edge technology, it is comprable to America’s Silicon [...]
The problem of overflow storage has been a hindrance to the renewable energy industry, namely wind power, but the increasing demand for renewables has opened up new opportunities for technology to meet this challenge. Danish architectural firm Gottlieb Paludan has taken on this issue. They created a low tech solution for storing overflow energy, [...]
The definition of charity, is to volunteer or collect money to help others in need, what could be more simple than that? Project 7 is taking that premise and making it even easier. This innovative organization intends for you to help others without really trying.
By purchasing items you would have most likely bought anyway; i.e. [...]
There were nearly 900 attendees from 32 countries on 40 panels, and more than 100 speakers at this year’s three day Social Capital Markets annual event. Today was the last day and the tweets are already steadily streaming in. The event, now in its second run, was created to match up social investors with foundations, [...]
As if I needed one more reason to love French Wine…I now have an excuse to imbibe the nectar of the gods more often. I have to admit that I usually drink my Pino out of a bottle (I do use a glass even if I’m by myself), half of the wine drinking experience is the elegant [...]
Eight years ago this month, a series of terrorist attacks brought down 4 planes, two towers, took thousands of lives and shook the world. Regardless of your religion or political affiliation, the attacks on that day resulted in nearly 3,000 people losing their lives. September 11th has been an un-official historic day in the [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that my cell phone situation has never been on the cutting edge of technology, my – I’m not buying into the whole ‘2 year contract’ – attitude has kept me with a ‘pay as you go’ phone for years now. The only way I could see obligating myself to [...]
The International Peace Day (IPD) movement is on September 21st across the globe. This annual event is an international effort to stop war and violence if only for one day, I can’t think of a better way to spend my Monday.
When I think of promoting peace, some of the great men behind its evolution come to mind, Martin Luther [...]
I have highlighted a few celebrities in my recent blogs, but this one deserves some long overdue recognition. The Make It Right Foundation (MIR) combines my favorite things, Responsible-Sustainable Architecture, positively changing people’s lives, New Orleans and Brad Pitt! Everybody wins in my book, and judging from the “Brad Pitt for Mayor” t-shirts that [...]
The International Ecotourism Society or TIES along with its sponsors and the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference or ESTC, met last week to confirm the date of September 8-10th 2010 in Portland, Oregon for the next ESTC conference. “Together with our destination hosts, Travel Portland and Travel Oregon, TIES will utilize the coming months to [...]
Former president Bill Clinton has made headlines lately for his world famous negotiation skills, coordinating everything from for the release of two American journalists in South Korea to cutting a deal with pharmaceutical companies to reduce HIV/AIDS drugs to $1 a dose. In fact it is hard to keep up with all the developments [...]
I was excited to hear about this new awesome technology - ‘photovoltaic paint’. Could this be my new favorite green tech product? Well you cannot walk into your favorite hardware store, choose a gallon of solar paint and tint it to that perfect shade of beige, yet. This is a highly sophisticated process. It requires a two [...]
