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Jean Lievens: Can Analytics Save The Earth?
This Earth Day, Let’s Start Using Analytics To Conserve Energy The success of new energy projects relies on one crucial skill: the ability to derive insights from massive amounts of rapidly changing data. That’s why utilities and energy companies are adopting analytics to meet the rising demand for renewable energy from more sophisticated customers.
Reflections: Paradise Found – Redefining Prosperity
Profit is Sustainable – If You Build Upon Intelligence with Integrity There are so many success stories today on the edges of the economy and society – EcoVillages, Transition Towns, and Intentional Communities among them – but the core concept of sustainable profit consistent with social and ecological integrity has yet to go mainstream. At …
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Stephen E. Arnold: Google as Architect of Cities?
Google and Its Possible Really, Really Big Ambitions I read “Looking Past the Search Results: Google 2.0 Will Build Airports and Cities Says Report.” The “report” appears to be the work of an outfit doing business as “The Information.” The founder of The Information is Jessica E. Lessin. She was a Wall Street Journal reporter. …
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Yoda: Big Data Potential — and Ignorance
Baby steps… What Big Data Can Mean for Sustainability The first Industrial Revolution showed the world how much machines could accomplish. What GE calls the “Next Industrial Revolution” is now showing how much machines can accomplish when they communicate with each other. And just as steam — and later electricity — powered the first industrial …
Robert Steele: UMD Does It Again – Graphene-Based Light Detector Can “See” Much That Has Been Hidden
The University of Maryland is a national treasure, one I consider the equal of MIT in part because it is much more focused on practical needs. Many possibilities in the way of innovative technology have been repressed these past decades by proprietary interests, while others have remained undiscovered due to biases and short-comings in research …
EVENT: 27 SEP – 3 OCT Free Online New Story Summit from Scotland — Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future
New Story Summit Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future Physically gathering in Scotland, free online. 27 SEP – 3 OCT 2014 To prosper going into the future, we must come together to define that future — to articulate a new narrative that reverses the dysfunctionality of past practices including the fencing of the commons and …
