The Cycle Of Green Innovation

A new Center for American Progress (CAP) report by Sean Pool presents the “network lifecycle” approach to clean energy innovation. The paper shows how the innovation lifecycle of clean energy technology can be divided into five phases, each involving a different an evolving network of participants with its own challenges and... Read More

Amazing Water Bottle Sky “Light”

After a nice break this weekend full of mountain biking and hanging out with the family on Fathers Day I received and interesting video from Anika Lehde on some simple but quite amazing water bottle sky lights. The automatic on / off interior solar lamp was invented in Brasil by... Read More

KinetiCompost; Fosters Quick and Stylish Sustainability

After reading an article on how a small Japanese village recycles everything under the kitchen sink to reach 2020 zero waste goals I started to look around unique ways people can start reducing their waist in cleaner way. Smells, aesthetic appeal, and time it takes to create your own compost... Read More

Uncertainty Avoidance to Avoidance Accommodation

On of the first frameworks developed for understanding innovation and technology and its relation to the economy has been the linear model of innovation. The model proposes that innovation starts with basic research, then adds applied research and development, ending with production and diffusions: Basic research  Applied research  Development... Read More

The Crunchies "Best Technoloy Innovation/Achievement"

I haven’t been much of a fan of anything Microsoft has put out in the past couple of years but interestingly enough Microsoft’s Live Mesh which won best technology innovation/achievement at the Crunchies. Live Mesh went up against Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. “With... Read More