Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone #TED : http://on.ted.com/q0TOb
This is a great solution to illegal loggers.
Very cool solution.
The importance of rainforest deforestation may be overstated with the stats. It may not be more important than anything else… But there are several ways to look at it. Very, very important though.
Modern economies are often evaluated by growth, productivity, and short-term profitability. Yet these metrics can obscure a more fundamental question: Is the system solvent when all costs are counted? The distinction between a linear economy and a circular economy is not primarily an environmental debate—it is an accounting one. Linear systems extract resources, convert them…
11 disruptive technologies that could/should change the future.http://www.cnbc.com/id/101707755/page/1
From Streaming Chaos to Athlete-Owned Brands It is Sunday afternoon. The game starts in eleven minutes. He knows which team he wants to watch. He has followed them for thirty years — through bad seasons and worse coaches, through stadium renovations and ownership changes and one inexplicable trade he has never forgiven. He has the…
Here’s a great InfoGraphic about the FinTech market and the unicorns ($2B startups) that are hanging out, and disrupting, in the Financial space.Natania K brought it up on LinkedIn: Our Global Startup Heat Map showcases 4 top asset management solutions, ready to impact the energy industry: http://bit.ly/2L2FlfE I love this “Innovation Map” and the unicorns…
How GenAI, LLMs, and the Accelerated Half-Life of Invention Are Forcing Us to Unlearn Limits We are entering an era of innovation reframing the possible through GenAI and large language models (LLMs), forcing leaders to rethink long-held assumptions about capability, time, and innovation itself. For decades, humans have internalized constraints—what we can do, what we…
Energy and Ecology: Comparison of global CO2 emissions estimates by GCP, IEA, BP, EDGAR, and US EIA (1990-2012): Here is a cool chart of the estimates for global carbon emissions. It shows the estimates from various sources and proves an interesting view as to high and low estimates. So we are probably at about 35B tonnes…
