Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, computer science professor Randy Pausch, decided to give his last lecture in front of a full auditorium in September 2007. The lecture is about achieving your childhood dreams and inspiring others. I am not going to write so much more about it, but just recommend that our readers watch this video, as almost 12 million people have done already on You Tube. Read more..
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When I look back at my time at the university in the nineties, I often wish that I had the web in its present form available to me back then. Because many times there were just too many students for the lecturers and the so called student assistants to handle. So, if you got stuck working on a problem, you remained stuck, because you never got around to ask anyone to help you out. There always seemed to be too many other students waiting in line ahead of you. Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentThe world’s first prototype of a power plant that utilizes osmosis to produce electric power was recently opened in Norway, by the state owned power company Statkraft. It is indeed a prototype, in the sense that it produces a rather limited amount of electric power, but a full scale plant is planned to be in place during the year 2015 Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentPreviously we have written about the Transition Movement as well as the TED conference here on “Green Tech the Open Source way” Here is Rob Hopkins of the Transition Movement delivering a speech at TED earlier this year. If you want to know a good approach to a world beyond oil dependency, and if you want to know how local resilience is a step beyond sustainability, then you should spend 20 minutes of your time watching this interesting talk. Read more.. Sphere: Related Content
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If I should name the one person that has influenced me the most in my life among those I have actually never met, then probably it would be the late Dr. Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996). Carl Sagan was an astronomer, author and educator, especially famous for the television series Cosmos. And Cosmos was indeed where I first came across his work. Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentEcologist Richard Heinberg is the head of the Post Carbon Institute and the author of he Party’s Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. In this interview he talks about the future of the human species with a lesser and lesser supply of fossil fuels. He also points out that the human species is no different from other species when it comes to what happens if the resources needed to support the current number of human organisms on this planet become inadequate. He even dares say that population growth constitutes a problem. In other words, he dares to say what in the eyes of many people is a taboo even to think. You can hardly open a newspaper or visit a news web site this week without being bombarded with news about Michael Jackson’s death. Superstars, celebrities in music, film and sports, people that become rich beyond most people’s wildest fantasies by entertaining us, have been with us for a couple of generations now. Long enough for people to think that they have always been there. Looking at the economic climate in which they emerged it is obvious that they are products of an industrialized society. Hence, they are really one of the results of us burning large amounts of fossil fuel. Sphere: Related Content |
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Green Life Innovators’ chairman Vidar Kristiansen and deputy chairman Espen Tverback recently spent 3 weeks in the Philippines. This trip marks the start of GLI’s activities in this country. In this article Vidar shares the experiences from the trip with our readers.
Finally, the Green Life Innovators Philippines Tour 2009 is ready to begin. The tickets have been bought and I am ready to go. The tour will take place between September 13th and October 2nd. I will be meeting up with GLI co-founder and deputy chairman, Espen, who came to the Philippines in June and will stay there for one year. Though he has to leave for work occasionally during this one year period. 
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