Wood Ant Hill
The current green revolution looks to renewable energy and green products to replace the polluting industries of the modern era. What is often left out of the discussion is our relationship with the living biosphere and how our technology much revolutionize itself to not just being low-carbon, but operate under the principles of how nature organizes itself. Janine Benyus, a scientist and founder of the company Biomimicry Guild, has been looking to nature to develop technologies that maximize efficiency prinicples inherent in the natural world. This new movement, labeled biomimicry, asks homo sapiens sapiens to tap into the intellengence of nature in our design principles. The natural world is not seen as a dumb organic machine, but rather a dynamic force that intelligently adapts to environmental changes to produce rhobust living ecosystems.…
From the “Game of Life’ Files, comes this stub about Adaptive Meter, a company who has invented an internet application that makes energy conservation an engaging game.
The company, which makes web applications such as Stickychicken and Twitterlike, is developing an interactive gaming platform in which players bet on others’ energy usage. The stock-market style game, called Lost Joules, will use smart-meter data from consenting players, and other participants—including those without smart meter —will be able to stake virtual cash on whether those players can reduce their energy use or not.
Think you know all about energy? What kind of energy we use? How much we use? How much we can save?
This brain-busting quiz from National Geographic will identify the real energy experts. Energy 2.0 took the quiz and the results were… we passed. Barely.
Beware the trick question.
Our ‘friends’ over at American Daily have a unique theory about how to cut the deficit. Eliminate the Department of Energy. That’s right… eliminate.
Apparently, they believe Job#1 of the DOE is to eliminate the import of foreign oil.…
