Kirk Talks Cleantech and Energy Efficiency Investment at Duke
| Defence ‘needed for disaster relief.’ With climate change set to produce more natural disasters, the Australian defence organisation needs to make disaster relief part of its core business, a new study says. |
| LATimes: Saving Amazon is most cost-effective way to cut global warming pollution The L.A. Times produced a beautiful series on Brazils Amazon this week, saying what EDF has said all along: Protecting the Amazon not only preserves biodiversity — it also cuts global warming pollution faster and at lower cost than almost any other approach. The destruction of tropical forests causes nearly a fifth of all global [.] |
| Reflections on Copenhagen: The Economics of Green Last year’s disappointing climate summit in Copenhagen demonstrated if not proved two important things about “saving the earth”: 1. Sustainability is a very emotional topic for some 2. Sustainability is a financial topic for most Unfortunately, what transpired in Copenhagen is probably the rule, rather than the exception. It was disheartening to realize the events probably represent and reflect the domestic and world population’s perspective on saving the environment. Perhaps due to decades of protesting, a wide array of real or perceived injustices, unruly public demonstrations have for the most part become unproductive. Even the nightly news has lost interest in well meaning protesters being hauled away by force. I recall the first time I saw an eco activist chained to a tree in the seventies, and thinking “how cool is that.” It did not matter what the cause was, I really admired the commitment. |
Germanium Laser is the Latest Light Technology to be Unveiled The materials in lasers can be expensive and difficult to work with. A discovery at MIT may be changing all of that much sooner than we think as germanium laser technology is here and it is very real. The beauty of this latest technology is that there isnt even a large call to change [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions |
| Kirk Talks Cleantech and Energy Efficiency Investment at Duke Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact, at Duke Universitys Fuqua Business School. Keynote speakers included Chad Holliday, former CEO and current Board Chairman of DuPont; Jonathan Greenblatt, founder of Ethos Water and Dina Powell, Global Head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs.My panel, [.] |
Wind Turbine Power Goes Portable with Foldable Wind Generator Renewable energy is one of the hottest things on the market right now but until recently, solar power has been getting most of the attention. While there are plenty of techno gadgets, like solar briefcases and solar laptop chargers, that can have solar power on the run, very few if any items exist for [.]Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines |