Rewards for Creativity « BLUE PLANET ALMANAC™

Posted by: Mike Austin | October 1, 2011

Rewards for Creativity

From John Orlin’s TechCrunch on Sam Keen’s SXSW interview, I found the film, “PressPausePlay.” For someone like me in the throes of writing a book and working on film projects, I needed to see this and give it some thought. And you? The film includes interviews with Seth Godin and Moby.

Posted in children, consciousness, SXSW, TechCrunch | Tags: consciousness, creativity, PressPausePlay, Sam Keen, Seth Godin, SXSW

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South Pacific small island states to link marine reserves.
Small island states in the South Pacific are to link up their marine reserves this year in an effort to sustainably manage one-tenth of the world's oceans. The project aims to ease the impacts of overfishing, pollution, acidification and climate change and covers an area bigger than the combined territories of the US and Canada.
Hospital continues 'green' commitment.
Hackensack University Medical Center increased its commitment to "going green" Thursday by signing an agreement with the federal government to reduce air pollution and the use of plastic, and to increase recycling and other environmentally friendly practices.
Solar panel installation on Ridgewood schools is set to begin.
The Board of Education approved the submission of its solar energy plan to the state Departmentto the DOE that the thumbs up has been given to begin the installation of solar panels on the village's schools.
CU-Boulder looks for more green ideas.
Semester-long bike rentals, reducing paper towel use in bathrooms and using golf carts instead of gas-guzzling trucks to transport food around the campus are just a few student-generated ideas receiving funding from the University of Colorado's Environmental Center.
Beacon earns award for greener method of clothes laundering.
At Beacon Cleaners & Laundry, the fresh scent of clean clothes is free of the chemical odor of solvents, making it the first laundry in Spokane County that isn’t regulated for hazardous air emissions.
Battery desalinates seawater.
For the first time, researchers have designed an electrochemical cell that can desalinate seawater. They think that its cost and efficiency eventually could improve on standard techniques of purifying seawater.
Reclaimed bus yard begins life as urban wetland.
It took three years and more than $26 million to turn an old MTA bus yard in South Los Angeles into what it is today: a sprawling park and urban wetland that will store and clean millions of gallons of storm water — while also giving children a place to play. Some say it is a model of how cities should treat polluted runoff.
A hydrogen advocate whose time may have come.
Advocating for hydrogen cars has been, at times, a lonely profession, because fuel-cell vehicles have long been just around the next bend. But several major automakers have committed in recent months to hydrogen car production by 2015.
Innovations in light.
Today, about 1.5 million people in Africa use solar lamps. That’s a huge number - but it’s less than 1 percent of the potential market.
Green walls create new urban jungles.
Vertical gardens are cropping up all over cities these days, transforming drab urban facades into vibrant jungles of color. A recent creation erected on the side of Edgware Road Underground station in central London is hoping to improve air quality.
Shareholders boost carbon disclosure – study.
Disclosure about greenhouse gas emissions and carbon-reduction strategies can lift a company's economic value, a new study has found.
Copenhagen's green sheen is not just about the bikes.
A new study illustrates the economic and social benefits that come with busy bike lanes, a swimmable harbor, and smart, integrated transit.
Low-carbon cement paves a development path (or sidewalk).
Carbon emissions from cement are set to grow explosively as developing countries such as India create a "first-world" infrastructure. Scientists and entrepreneurs are struggling to push alternative technologies out of the lab and onto the street.
Creativity runs wild as students devise environmentally friendly communities.
SeaSun Harbor, for now, is a kind of diorama on steroids. Tasked to come up with an energy-efficient future city, two students devised one that floats in the ocean. The students were competing Saturday in an engineering contest at UC Davis.
Revived photo collection shows America during EPA's infancy.
"Documerica" is a project U.S. EPA commissioned 40 years ago to document the state of the environment when EPA was a fledgling agency. The project captured the country before most federal regulations, before widespread recycling and the controversy over "green energy."
Pushed to brink, swans rebound with help from global warming.
Hunted to near extinction in the 19th century, the trumpeter swan is taking advantage of warmer, longer summers to expand its range and numbers - one of the few good news stories of global warming, at least for now.
Goats being used, instead of pesticides in Eastham.
Eastham, which took the lead opposing wind turbines and banning NStar from spraying, is making waves with another first: the use of goats to control vegetation, perhaps on NStar’s right of ways so that the utility won’t have to use toxic sprays.
American eagle is soaring again thanks to Canadian wings.
The bald eagle - the U.S. national bird and a species on the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states just a generation ago - is now thriving again in the heartland of the American Revolution thanks to a series of transplants from Canada.
A youngster's bright idea is something new under the sun.
A new way of collecting solar energy has polarized scientists around the world and ignited fierce debate on the Internet, where the innovator in question has been called everything from an alien to the agent of a global conspiracy. The scientist, Aidan Dwyer, is 13 years old.
Carbon dioxide super-scrubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.
Scientists have announced a potential breakthrough in developing a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the air. CO2 scrubbing could be a useful tool against global warming.

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