All Discussions Tagged 'Adaptive' - InnovatingSMART2024-03-29T14:23:34Zhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Adaptive&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCool City Challenge - Taking the "Low Carbon Diet" to Scaletag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-09-10:5294332:Topic:422962013-09-10T00:15:42.306ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>The purpose of the Cool City Challenge is to bring to scale proven behavior change and community engagement methodologies to help households achieve deep carbon reduction, create disaster resilient neighborhoods, and catalyze demand driven green economic development.<br></br> <br></br></p>
<p><em>David Gershon</em><br></br> <em>Managing Director, Cool City Challenge…</em><br></br></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>The purpose of the Cool City Challenge is to bring to scale proven behavior change and community engagement methodologies to help households achieve deep carbon reduction, create disaster resilient neighborhoods, and catalyze demand driven green economic development.<br/> <br/>
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<p><em>David Gershon</em><br/> <em>Managing Director, Cool City Challenge</em><br/>
<em><a href="http://www.empowermentinstitute.net" target="_blank">Empowerment Institute</a></em><br/>
<em><a href="http://www.coolcitychallenge.org">www.coolcitychallenge.org</a></em><br/>
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With:</em><br/>
<em>Northern California Mayors, City Managers, City Commissioners,<br/>
research specialists and Low Carbon Diet participants. </em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Watch the video ...</span></strong><br/> <iframe width="500" height="281" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/202436615"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><br/> Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>"Can humanity free itself from climate change paralysis?" ... The change that's going to be necessary is going to happen in cities, and it's not going to happen anyplace else.</p>
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<li><p>Right now [cities with Climate Action Plans]... are cities that want to do something... but now we don't have resources, we don't have models to engage our cities especially in the residential sector. With the Cool City Challenge we'll be able to do that.</p>
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<li><p>The world's cities are responsibile for up to 70% of GhG emissions.</p>
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<li><p>[The CCC is based on proven programs, practiced in] 300 cities in 8 countries... The households averaged greater than 5000 lbs reduction. But we had gone a mile wide and an inch deep. We knew we had to actually now pull in the reins and ... go deep in a few communities.... We will be working with 3 cities over 3 years.....household by household, neighborhood by neighborhood.</p>
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<li>David is a visionary. He has learned what works and doesn't work. He has taken motivation and turned [it] into a science.</li>
<li><p>[We set out to answer] three questions. Can we change behavior? Can we sustain it over time? Can we take it to scale?... We used a structured program, recipe-style actions, peer groups of neighbors, and replicated it over hundreds and hundreds of blocks.</p>
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<li><p>We are tapping intrinsic motivators... Amazing conversation and amazing action was happening in our one group. What gets me really excited is imagining that happening... in all kinds of different homes.... rippling out over the whole community... It is incredibly powerful, and very simple at the same time.</p>
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<li><p>The opportunity of the Cool City Challenge, without the need for policy, is the best government I can think of.</p>
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<li><p>If we can scale this beyond a few communities.. it looks like a different future for California, for the country, for the world.</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746605?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="150" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746605?profile=RESIZE_180x180"/></a></em><em><br/> "What we do in the next few years to address climate change will determine our future. This is the defining moment."</em><br/>
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- Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</p>
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<p>To help the Cool City Challenge succeed, contact<br/> David Gershon at <a href="mailto:dgershon@empowermentinstitute.net">dgershon@empowermentinstitute.net</a>.</p> Engineering Ideas at the Zootag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-07-16:5294332:Topic:377592013-07-16T19:45:31.640ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Biomimicry-inspired incubation models have emerged in recent years, all aiming to nurture technologies originating in Nature’s laboratories. Today’s SMART innovation story, the last in a series of innovation stories from <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco</a>, represents a new one to watch…</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Biomimicry-inspired incubation models have emerged in recent years, all aiming to nurture technologies originating in Nature’s laboratories. Today’s SMART innovation story, the last in a series of innovation stories from <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco</a>, represents a new one to watch closely. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311747002?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="550" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311747002?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"/></a><br/> Our Conversation...<br/></span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/the-center-for-bioinspiration-at-the-san-diego-zoo" target="_blank">The San Diego Zoo Centre for BioInspiration</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">THE INNOVATION:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Biologists match animal and plant species’ natural adaptations to the functional requirements of specific industrial challenges. Once the biologists have gathered the options, then the engineers and designers get to work.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"The CFO at the zoo, Paula Brock, over five years ago realized the vast amount of information that is sitting in the zoo in the animal and plant collections and the people taking care of them… and how that applied to this new field of biomimicry, which we refer to as bioinspiration. We are absolutely a natural to contribute to that." </em></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746242?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="330" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746242?profile=RESIZE_480x480"/></a>For past <em>InnovatingSMART</em> conversations in this series:</p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=31772f034a&e=5e7f0fed99" target="_blank">Mo'Data! Mo'Data! Mo'Data!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=a4b21d7f49&e=7d5240b9d1" target="_blank">Creating with Constraints</a></p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=54e96f91bc&e=c7a18c805e" target="_blank">From Consumers to Citizens</a></p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=0f50a01524&e=7d5240b9d1" target="_blank">The Transportation Revolution</a></p>
<p>More on GreenBiz people and events:</p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=dc816cf837&e=5e7f0fed99" target="_blank">Risk, Resilience and Love: Lessons from Woodstock</a></p>
<p><a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=9eaad1d18c&e=7d5240b9d1" target="_blank">On the VERGE of a SMARTer World</a></p>
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<p>Check out GreenBiz' own coverage of the 2013 Forum at their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/microsite/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">microsite</a>, or sign up for their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/enewsletter/signup" target="_blank">newsletters</a>.</p>
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<p> </p> The Centre for BioInspiration - at the San Diego Zootag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-07-16:5294332:Topic:380342013-07-16T19:21:52.134ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>In this new biomimicry-inspired incubation model, biologists match animal and plant species’ natural adaptations to the functional requirements of specific industrial challenges. Once the biologists have gathered the options, then the engineers and designers get to work.</p>
<p><em>Centre for BioInspiration<br></br></em><em><a href="http://www.sandiegozoo.org/">www.sandiegozoo.org…</a><br></br></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>In this new biomimicry-inspired incubation model, biologists match animal and plant species’ natural adaptations to the functional requirements of specific industrial challenges. Once the biologists have gathered the options, then the engineers and designers get to work.</p>
<p><em>Centre for BioInspiration<br/></em><em><a href="http://www.sandiegozoo.org/">www.sandiegozoo.org</a><br/> <a href="http://www.sandiegozoo.org/bioinspiration" target="_blank">www.sandiegozoo.org/bioinspiration</a><br/> </em></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Mission</strong><br/></span> We advance the creation and development of nature-inspired products, services, and processes that benefit humanity, wildlife, and habitats. Our aim is to transfer ideas into working models, novel technologies, and breakthrough designs. The Centre protects intellectual property and attracts capital funding to foster true innovation and development opportunities. We connect academic, public, and industrial sectors to accelerate commercial and community solutions.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">BioInspiration Adaptation Examples<br/> </span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/RIUjoIHsa2U?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><br/> What We Do</strong><br/></span></p>
<p align="left">1. Corporate Projects: We work with companies to connect nature’s adaptations to specific design and industrial challenges. Our process typically comprises three phases: (1) challenge scoping and definition, (2) ideation workshop(s) and (3) development workshop(s).</p>
<p align="left">2. Centre Development Projects:Our team applies San Diego Zoo Global’s collective knowledge and expertise to advance internally-developed technologies, processes, and ideas. We offer out-licensing and partnership opportunities to select companies and organizations.</p>
<p align="left">3. Education and Outreach: The Centre promotes our interdisciplinary approach to problem solving through speaking engagements, corporate services, and collaborations. San Diego Zoo Global education programs encourage students of all ages to observe, create, and design alongside plants and animals.</p>
<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Conversation with the Managing Director -- Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p> [We are trying to] formalize technology transfer of Nature’s ideas. It’s 4 billion years of evolution. Nature’s thrown away all those mistakes.. kept a lot of adaptations that are fascinating, and we’re starting to learn that they may address many of the challenges we face in industry. </p>
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<li><p>The CFO at the zoo, Paula Brock, over five years ago realized the vast amount of information that is sitting in the zoo in the animal and plant collections and the people taking care of them… and how that applied to this new field of biomimicry, which we refer to as bioinspiration…. We are absolutely a natural to contribute to that.</p>
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<li><p>We are building a model…that can be used by botanical gardens, aquaria, natural history museums, and others who are sitting on a wealth of information.</p>
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<li><p>A number of the top corporations in the U.S. and Europe have contacted us and said “We have an industrial challenge…” and we started taking them on. </p>
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<li><p>We broke it down into functions that we could link to nature’s adaptations…. That alone creates a lot of innovation... Next we developed it into a working model to come up with new materials and new ways…</p>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311747002?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311747002?profile=RESIZE_320x320"/></a></strong></span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746640?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746640?profile=RESIZE_320x320"/></a></p>
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</div> Material Transformationtag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-04-10:5294332:Topic:296082013-04-10T00:56:58.295ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Our very relationship with materials is due for a transformation. New changes -- in design approaches, in civic policy expectation, and in global event practices -- can help to inspire this transformation. Check out these innovation stories from the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco</a>.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Our very relationship with materials is due for a transformation. New changes -- in design approaches, in civic policy expectation, and in global event practices -- can help to inspire this transformation. Check out these innovation stories from the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco</a>.</p>
<p> <br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746431?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="320" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746431?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="320"/></a><em><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><br/> Some Background...</span></strong></em><br/> <br/> Expectations in the climate community are focused on transportation and the built environment. Meanwhile, lifecycle materials management is being revealed as able to outperform those sectors in terms of impact – not because transportation and the built environment are not big emissions contributors, but because the impact of materials is so great. <i>This I learned at a webinar on <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/ECOCOMM.NSF/Climate+Change/consumption_webinar_040913" target="_blank">climate action planning</a> this morning, part of a <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/ecocomm.nsf/climate+change/sustainableconsumptionwebinars" target="_blank">dynamite series</a> on the under-explored topic of materials management by the EPA's <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/ECOCOMM.NSF/climate+change/wccmmf" target="_blank">West Coast Forum on Climate and Materials.</a></i></p>
<p>While the climate impacts of materials have remained largely out of the conversation, that needs to change -- and now. It is time that we VALUE materials, and begin seeing them both as the carbon-emitters and reusable earthly treasures that they are. Today's innovation stories, from the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco</a>, describe just that.</p>
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<p><em><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><br/> <br/> Our Conversations...<br/></span></strong></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/sustainable-america-s-cup-a-smooth-partnership-with-the-city" target="_blank">Jill Savery - Sustainable America's Cup: A Smooth Partnership</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: The 34<sup>th</sup> America’s Cup partners with the most sustainable city in North America.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/looptworks-upcycled-from-excess" target="_blank">Scott Hamlin - Looptworks: Upcycled from Excess</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Designing sportswear and more from exclusively pre-consumer waste.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/trashamps-reuse-it-for-music" target="_blank">Adam Wegener - TrashAmps: Reuse it for Music(R)</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Designing a take-everywhere fun product that utilizes everyday trash.</p>
<p><i><br/></i> In the coming months, watch for more InnovatingSMART conversations with folks we met at the Forum who are facilitating deep changes. From consumerism itself (that 20th century-invented economic lifeblood) to our infrastructure-usage models to a return to nature for our physical and social engineering ideas -- business as usual is changing. <a href="http://ning.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=6c14a6dca8" target="_blank">Stay tuned for more.</a></p>
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<p>For past <em>InnovatingSMART</em> conversations in this series:<br/> <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=31772f034a&e=5e7f0fed99" target="_blank">Mo'Data! Mo'Data! Mo'Data!</a><br/> <br/> More from <em>InnovatingSMART</em> on GreenBiz people and events:<br/> <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=dc816cf837&e=5e7f0fed99" target="_blank">Risk, Resilience and Love: Lessons from Woodstock</a><br/> <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=9eaad1d18c&e=7d5240b9d1" target="_blank">On the VERGE of a SMARTer World</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="170" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="170"/></a>Watch as GreenBiz' own coverage of the 2013 Forum unfolds. Check out their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/microsite/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">microsite</a>, or sign up for their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/enewsletter/signup" target="_blank">newsletters</a>.</p>
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<p> </p> TrashAmps - "Reuse it for Music"tag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-04-10:5294332:Topic:295262013-04-10T00:35:38.228ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Inspiring kids to upcycle by designing a take-everywhere fun product that utilizes everyday trash items as its changeable packaging or “skin”.</p>
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<p><em>Adam Wegener</em><br></br> <em>Rockstar (aka Co-Founder and Designer)</em><br></br> <em>TrashAmps</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.trashamps.com">www.trashamps.com</a></em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Inspiring kids to upcycle by designing a take-everywhere fun product that utilizes everyday trash items as its changeable packaging or “skin”.</p>
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<p><em>Adam Wegener</em><br/> <em>Rockstar (aka Co-Founder and Designer)</em><br/> <em>TrashAmps</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.trashamps.com">www.trashamps.com</a></em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Introduction...<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vY9q5VJq484?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>What we’re doing is taking everyday objects that you might throw away and finding a new use for them… in this case making a portable speaker inside of a soda can. [“What will they think of next?"] That’s right! The thing that’s innovative about it is, upcycling is an age-old idea… this product says it in a way that is really accessible – and cool.</p>
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<li>[When kids are introduced to upcycling] one of two things happens, neither of which is very useful… Either it's: "Let’s take a milk-carton and fill it up with sand, and now we have a doorstop." That doesn’t inspire anyone to change the world. Or some green companies are recycling car tires into shoe soles. That’s cool, but kids don’t see the connection [because they can no longer see the tires].</li>
<li>We are bringing together two things that are easily recognizable – music and soda cans. Two things everyone recognizes. Two things that no one has ever considered to pair. It’s not very complicated to see that all we did is cut the top off. So it's easy to understand.</li>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Demo!<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cYh00rlJ6f0?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>[“There should be one of these in every backpack.”] Yeah! It fits anywhere you can fit a water bottle – on your bike, in your car. The uses are really limitless. [“All these people have already accommodated this package, so why not use that accommodation for something new?”] That’s right.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">On Amps and Cans<br/> <br/></span></strong> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oS9RgzJnWbQ?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>In college my roommate had an assignment to make a [speaker] and put it into an Altoids tin. It didn’t sound very good, so he then put it into a soda can. We’re both musicians and played together a lot, and I said, maybe we could turn this into a product.</p>
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<li><p>The first prototypes were labor intensive, we [needed to be able to] make enough for people to latch onto.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Brand Partnerships<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Cbez1KNg7I8?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>You are allowed to sell the [reused] can as long as there is nothing in it. If the customer doesn’t like Coke, they can cut the top off another can and change the skin.</p>
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<li><p>Brand partnership potential is at three levels – “We’re adding value to your product, so you should pay us a licensing fee”… or "It doesn’t have to be your brand, but it could be, and it could really elevate your brand… so why shouldn’t you be paying <em>us</em>." The space in between is we are both benefiting… kind of a break-even scenario.</p>
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<li><p>What I hope to release later this year is a kit… that easily allows them to take their own trash objects [to make a new skin]…. It may be their first experience in upcycling they’ve ever had, and it could be a powerful one.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Many Ways to Reuse Packaging<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4zCDblr4iG4?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>The vision of TrashAmps is you could put a speaker in anything, the only limit is your imagination and if you can make it work…[It could be] a Chinese take-out box, a mason jar, a Starbucks coffee cup.</p>
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<li><p>Kids really understand the value of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle. [This can help them] grow up with a framework of upcycling… [”The value is beyond what TrashAmps is itself, but what it represents and what it inspires for the future”.] Yeah, I’m really inspired about that aspect in particular. I know there’s a lot of things I’ve been inspired by that [led to] creating this. [I like] creating that platform… for others to be creative and to experiment -- getting people thinking about it.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Creating with Constraints<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dboDwLsNQtY?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<li>A lot of my design efforts have gone into saying – how are [all these parts] going to fit in this little package that already exists, and the dimensions are fixed?… [“You use the packaging that you’re given as your creative constraint.”] Upcycling is more complicated than products where you design something and have it made. But I think it results in products that are cooler, more inspirational, and more meaningful.</li>
<li>Always try new things…Even if it doesn’t turn into a huge success.. It could be that seed that you plant in someone else that could lead to more success.</li>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/bio/adam-wegener" target="_blank">See Adam's bio at GreenBiz.com</a></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"> </p> Looptworks - Upcycled from Excesstag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-04-10:5294332:Topic:295242013-04-10T00:28:08.767ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Using exclusively pre-consumer waste –- amassed at 70x the rate of post-consumer waste in the apparel industry -- to create a full range of cool original sportswear, ipod covers, laptop sleeves, and carrying bags.</p>
<p><em><br></br>Scott Hamlin</em> <em><br></br> Co-Founder</em> <em><br></br> LOOPTWORKS</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.looptworks.com">www.looptworks.com</a></em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Using exclusively pre-consumer waste –- amassed at 70x the rate of post-consumer waste in the apparel industry -- to create a full range of cool original sportswear, ipod covers, laptop sleeves, and carrying bags.</p>
<p><em><br/>Scott Hamlin</em> <em><br/> Co-Founder</em> <em><br/> LOOPTWORKS</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.looptworks.com">www.looptworks.com</a></em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Introduction...<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4vFHl7kyjAM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Excerpts:</span></strong></div>
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<li><p>We take pre-consumer excess materials that are leftover from the manufacturing process, and upcycle them into items of higher environmental value, typically clothing, accessories, cases, bags, laptops sleeves, etc.</p>
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<li><p>There is an estimated about 70x more pre-consumer excess on the planet than there is post-, which means the stuff that comes out of manufacturing out-numbers the stuff that we’re recycling as consumers</p>
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<li><p>At the manufacturing level, that’s where things are going awry. We [wanted to] lift the curtain on pre-consumer excess...since consumers don’t see this everyday.</p>
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<li><p>The materials are brand new, they may have come off the cutting room floor or as bulk rolls or something like that, but if you apply design to that you can make a product that is just as desirable as a first-run product.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Design and More...<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fh6Uh3iCUpo?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<li><p>This flips design on its head… It’s no longer a designer saying “Oh, I can make this..and we’ll use these materials and these materials." No- [instead] <em>these</em> are the materials you have... [“You’re really embracing the creative constraints of ‘What-is “ in terms of excess material availability".] Yes, that’s correct.</p>
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<li><p>["How do you get those materials as part of your supply chain?”] That would take hours to explain. There’s a little bit of secret sauce…. Myself and my partner have an extensive network; there’s a bit of a process there, not something you can do real quick…. We built our own infrastructure for that.</p>
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<li><p>["Where can we find your products?"] At Looptworks.com. Also nationally at Patagonia stores, some products nationally at Container Store, and at about 60 college bookstores across the country.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Personal Journey...<br/> <br/></span></strong> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TtdlZAa7tXM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<li><p>I was in the industry before. I worked for an outdoor apparel company, and I was part of the problem. I would see the waste, but also contribute to creating the waste. No one was asking where any of this stuff goes, it was just a cost of doing business. I realized this had to change, and I decided I needed to be part of the solution instead of the problem. </p>
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<li><p>Most innovation comes from people who are within the system, and they look at it and say "This doesn’t make any sense, why can’t we do this a different way?" </p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Words of Wisdom...<br/></span></strong> <br/> <iframe width="320" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oFMpArRLrmU?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<li><p>Once you’ve come up with the idea and what’s different, I would encourage people to try to execute that inside the system that already exists, ... if there is an ability and a willingness to change... From our perspective, we didn’t have that…. They were focused... and couldn’t take the time for that distraction. In our system, it was up to us to maybe create a model for being able to do those things. ["So you spun out."] Yes, that's what we did.</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/video/2013/03/07/upcycling" target="_blank">See Scott’s presentation at the GreenBiz Forum</a></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/bio/scott-hamlin" target="_blank">See Scott's bio at GreenBiz.com</a></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><br/> <em> “Did you know that it requires more than 400 gallons of water</em> <br/> <em>to make 1 organic cotton t-shirt? Upcycle.” </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"> </p> Baking Sustainability into Businesstag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2013-03-12:5294332:Topic:278012013-03-12T19:24:03.326ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Sustainability is, at last, being deeply embedded into business decision-making and practice. This was among the clear messages at the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum</a>, hosted by <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/joel-makower-and-the-state-of-green-business" target="_blank">Joel Makower</a> and the folks at…</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></p>
<p>Sustainability is, at last, being deeply embedded into business decision-making and practice. This was among the clear messages at the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum</a>, hosted by <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/joel-makower-and-the-state-of-green-business" target="_blank">Joel Makower</a> and the folks at GreenBiz Group. As a reflection of that, <a href="http://trucost.com" target="_blank">TruCost's</a> performance indicators have become a central part of GreenBiz' <em>State of Green Business</em> narrative. See the <a href="http://info.greenbiz.com/rs/greenbizgroup/images/state-green-business-2013.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonv6TAZKXonjHpfsX56OwuWa%2B3lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMZrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSLHEMa5qw7gMXRQ%3D" target="_blank">2013 State of Green Business</a> report, now optimized for mobile devices.</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746242?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="296" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746242?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="296"/></a></em><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746242?profile=original" target="_self"></a>At InnovatingSMART, we participated in the <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz-forum/2013/02/san-francisco" target="_blank">2013 GreenBiz Forum SF</a> conference, eager to learn about the emerging changes happening at the very heart of business. While <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/conversations-on-the-verge" target="_blank">VERGE</a> focuses on deep changes in physical infrastructure, this year's <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/microsite/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">Forum</a> spotlighted deep changes occurring within financial and business operations infrastructures. Check out our one-on-one conversations with some fascinating folks, below.</p>
<p>In the coming months, watch for more InnovatingSMART conversations with folks we met at the Forum who are facilitating even more deep changes within even more infrastructures. From consumerism itself (that 20th century-invented economic lifeblood) to the management of materials (the stuff we make stuff from), and from our infrastructure-usage models to a return to nature for our physical and social engineering ideas -- business as usual is changing. <a href="http://ning.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=eef87f3b2ef642e6833d35b71&id=6c14a6dca8" target="_blank">Stay tuned for more.</a><br/> <br/> <em> </em></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Our Conversations...</span></strong></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/trucost-putting-a-price-on-natural-capital" target="_blank">Libby Bernick - Trucost:</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Putting a price on natural capital.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/sasb-informing-the-investment-community" target="_blank">Marisa Mackey - SASB:</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Fully informing the investment community.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/tsc-the-sustainability-consortium" target="_blank">Jon Johnson - The Sustainability Consortium:</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Scientific environmental reporting for consumer goods.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/lca-holistic-decision-support" target="_blank">Tom Gloria -- Industrial Ecology Consultants:</a><br/> THE INNOVATION: Bringing LCA to a much broader audience. <i><br/> <br/></i> <i><br/> PLUS: from GreenBiz.com:</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/02/12/microsofts-carbon-pricing-scheme-progress-report?page=full" target="_blank">"One Great Idea": Implementing an internal carbon fee at Microsoft</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="120" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="120"/></a>Watch as GreenBiz' own coverage of the 2013 Forum unfolds. Check out their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/microsite/greenbiz-forum" target="_blank">microsite</a>, or sign up for their <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/enewsletter/signup" target="_blank">newsletters</a>.</p>
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<p> </p> Conversations on the VERGEtag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2012-12-04:5294332:Topic:265382012-12-04T07:00:56.805ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong><br></br> <img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746387?profile=original" width="84"></img> <img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311753378?profile=original" width="84"></img> "VERGE" is an initiative of the GreenBiz Group, creating a forum for and accelerating the movement of the emerging convergence among -- power grids, buildings, cities, transportation and beyond. VERGE acknowledges and celebrates the deep interconnection between these critical systems -- and invites and supports its evolution. Bring it on!</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong><br/> <img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746387?profile=original" width="84"/><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311753378?profile=original" width="84"/>"VERGE" is an initiative of the GreenBiz Group, creating a forum for and accelerating the movement of the emerging convergence among -- power grids, buildings, cities, transportation and beyond. VERGE acknowledges and celebrates the deep interconnection between these critical systems -- and invites and supports its evolution. Bring it on!</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/bio/derek-top" target="_blank">Derek Top</a><br/> VERGE Program Director</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/bio/joel-makower" target="_blank">Joel Makower</a><br/> Chairman and Executive Editor</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.GreenBiz.com">www.GreenBiz.com</a><br/></em> <br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311754454?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="320" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311754454?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="320"/></a>At <em>InnovatingSMART</em>, we participated in the 2012 VERGE SF conference with an eye and ear to learning more about SMART Information-Technology-infused infrastructures – smart cities, buildings, utilities, assets, materials; the Big Data that informs them; and the apps-building Hackathons that play with the possible. To this end, we spoke one-on-one with these fascinating folks. </p>
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<p>Listen to their stories, and understand our real power to impact the world. <em>Business as Usual</em> is changing, and this is what that change looks like...</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">The Conversations...</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/hacking-solutions-at-the-verge-hackathon" target="_blank">Hacking Solutions at the VERGE Hackathon</a> – Krys Freeman, GreenBiz Group<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/emc-seeing-the-un-seeable-through-big-data" target="_blank">Seeing the Un-seeable through Big Data</a> – Kathrin Winkler, EMC<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/smart-cities-council-accelerating-smart-cities" target="_blank">Accelerating SMART Cities</a> – Jesse Berst, Smart Cities Council<br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311754608?profile=original" target="_self"></a><a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/toward-high-performance-green-buildings" target="_blank">SMART High-Performance Buildings</a> – Melissa O’Mara, Schneider Electric<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/virtual-power-plants-with-viridity-energy" target="_blank">SMART Utilities: Virtual Power Plants</a> - Laura Manz, Veridity Energy<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/resilient-net-zero-energy-data-centers-at-ebay" target="_blank">SMART Utilities: Net-Zero-Energy Data Centers</a> - Dean Nelson, Ebay<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/smart-supply-chain-stopping-the-value-leaks" target="_blank">SMART Supply Chain: Stopping the Value Leak</a> - Gil Friend, Natural Logic<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/serving-up-integrated-data-with-osisoft" target="_blank">SMART Assets: Serving Up Integrated Data</a>- David Ziglenski, OSIsoft</p>
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<p>Plus…<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/green-building-efficiencies-at-scale" target="_blank">Green Building Efficiencies at Scale</a> - Pete Scarpelli, CBRE<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/toward-a-smart-city-inviting-innovation" target="_blank">Toward a Smart City: Inviting Innovation</a>- Melanie Nutter, City of SF</p>
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<p>And More…<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/the-urban-farming-revolution" target="_blank">The Urban Food Revolution</a>- Peter Ladner, Author<br/> <a href="http://www.innovatingsmart.org/group/theinnovations/forum/topics/saving-forests-through-carbon-offsets" target="_blank">Saving Forests through Carbon Offsets</a> - Jeff Waldon, Forest Carbon Offsets </p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311746513?profile=original" width="238"/></a>Reflections from GreenBiz...</span></strong></p>
<p>GreenBiz has summarized the Two-Day conference here:<br/> <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2012/11/13/verge-sf-captures-new-visions-change-systems-platforms" target="_blank">Day 1 Highlights</a> - by Joel Makower<br/> <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2012/11/14/verge-day-2-city-as-startup-platform-organism" target="_blank">Day 2 Hightlights</a>- by Kristine Wong</p>
<p>Also, check out:<br/> A <a href="http://vergecon.tumblr.com/">quick visual roundup</a> from VERGE<br/> A <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/slideshow/2012/11/27/verge-sf-2012-overview">slideshow</a><br/> that includes links to all the VERGE stories on the GreenBiz site<br/> <br/> </p>
<p>Other compelling observations on the excitement ahead:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/11/27/cleantech-death-exaggerated" target="_blank">from Rachel Barge, reporting on VERGE: Accelerate:</a><br/> <em>Perhaps the stickiest quote of the conversation came from Mitch Lowe: 'Cleantech’s dead in the same way the Internet was dead in 2000.' … Just as Internet and computing companies of the mid and late 1990’s laid the foundation for the booming web industry today, cleantech of the mid-2000’s laid the infrastructural groundwork for the emerging <strong>digital cleantech industry</strong> to expand. We are right on the cusp of an incredibly exciting time....</em><br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/11/27/cleantech-death-exaggerated?page=0%2C1" target="_blank">And on the indirect emergence of "clean" outcomes:</a><br/> <em>Innovation in digital transportation, financial services, or collaborative consumption – are all cases where the “clean” outcome is a second-order consequence of the business. These are models where positive environmental impacts are a happy outcome of adoption, but not the primary value proposition of why customers bought the product or used the service.</em><br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/12/03/ge-industrial-internet-and-radical-efficiency?utm_source=E-News+from+GreenBiz&utm_campaign=7e3ce45e26-GreenBuzz-2012-12-03&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Core concepts of VERGE were affirmed in a subsequent announcement</a> by GE and reported by Joel: <em>In many ways, GE’s new Industrial Internet push — articulated in a report issued last week and at a high-profile San Francisco event — meshes with (and validates) our global series of VERGE events, which cover similar ground: the convergence of systems and technologies around buildings and transportation, and how data and IT create new platforms that enable radical efficiencies, breakthrough business models, and innovative products and services.</em></p>
<p> </p> Sustainability Base - NASA's Space Station on Earthtag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2012-05-02:5294332:Topic:246532012-05-02T02:39:48.043ZSue Lebeckhttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/SueLebeck
<p><strong><span><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></span></strong></p>
<p><span>What really makes this facility a “smart” building is the innovative application of NASA technologies. One such application is the building’s embedded advanced intelligent control technology, which was derived from software originally developed for NASA’s Aviation Safety Program. <span>Other repurposed technologies include an Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) and Hybrid Diagnostic…</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></span></strong></p>
<p><span>What really makes this facility a “smart” building is the innovative application of NASA technologies. One such application is the building’s embedded advanced intelligent control technology, which was derived from software originally developed for NASA’s Aviation Safety Program. <span>Other repurposed technologies include an Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) and Hybrid Diagnostic Engine (HyDE), both originally developed at Ames.</span></span></p>
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<p>NASA Ames Research Center<br/> <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/features/2012/sustainability_base_feature.html">www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/</a></p>
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<li>Leadership is described as being taken to someplace you would have never gotten to on your own. NASA's leadership in space is the kind of leadership we need on earth.</li>
<li>The current designs are destructive to the earth and its systems and we need designs that are positive to the earth and its systems.</li>
<li>This closed loop thinking that NASA has to do.... is something we try to employ on earth. And so it's a wonderful wedding of technologies and architecture and design and sustainability.</li>
<li>It fits with the ideas of the self-sufficiency goals of a lunar base.</li>
<li>By linking the choices of an individual, to the performance of a building, to the energy consumption of a city, to the carbon footprint of a region, we can better understand and manage climate change.</li>
<li>The Sustainability Base will serve as an icon to NASA's commitment to solving the sustainability challenges we face on earth.</li>
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<div><p><font color="#008000"><b><br/> <strong><strong><span>In the News:</span></strong></strong></b></font></p>
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<li>Get the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/features/2012/sustainability_base_feature.html" target="_blank">full story</a> from NASA</li>
<li>More from <a href="http://katerva.org/nominees/nasa-first-space-station-on-earth/" target="_blank">Katerva</a> on NASA's Sustainability Base.</li>
<li>More from <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/greenspace/" target="_blank">NASA</a> on their GreenSpace Programs.</li>
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<p><strong><span><strong><span style="color: #008000;">Behind-the-Scenes Tour given to the Association of Facilities Engineers (AFE):</span></strong></span></strong><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ISu9TtHy5Ww?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p>March 2012</p>
<p> </p> Rick Drain, Founder of Longsplice Investmentstag:www.innovatingsmart.org,2012-03-06:5294332:Topic:239402012-03-06T03:33:30.738ZAlyson Greenleehttp://www.innovatingsmart.org/profile/AlysonGreenlee
<p><strong><span><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></span></strong></p>
<p>A former computer chip design engineer turns his math skills toward managing a socially-responsible mutual fund. Longsplice Investments is a mutual fund company that explicitly emphasizes selection of portfolio companies that are good corporate citizens.</p>
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<p>Rick Drain, Founder<br></br> Longsplice Investments.…<br></br></p>
<p><strong><span><strong><span style="color: #008000;">THE INNOVATION:</span></strong></span></strong></p>
<p>A former computer chip design engineer turns his math skills toward managing a socially-responsible mutual fund. Longsplice Investments is a mutual fund company that explicitly emphasizes selection of portfolio companies that are good corporate citizens.</p>
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<p>Rick Drain, Founder<br/> Longsplice Investments.<br/> <a href="http://www.longspliceinvestments.com">www.longspliceinvestments.com</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Watch a video of our conversation...</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Excerpts:</strong></span></p>
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<li>" Socially-responsible means something different to absolutely every person on earth"</li>
<li>According to Longsplice's definition: “Good Corporate Citizens practice Respect:</li>
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<li>for the environment</li>
<li>for human and workers' rights</li>
<li>for shareholders</li>
<li>for the less fortunate"</li>
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<li>"I've found an aspect of finance that's very modeling and simulation - oriented, just like what I did as a chip designer, so in a whole new field I was right at home using skills I seemed to be pretty good at"</li>
<li>Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs? "Go for it" and "Have savings before you commit to supporting yourself"</li>
<li>"By the time I retire-- again-- I want 'socially-responsible mutual fund' to be redundant. I want all investing to be socially responsible."</li>
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