Angela B's Blog (7)

This is an innovation that combines exitisting technologies to use thermo-dynamics to reliably drive a wind turbine.

http://www.renewablepowernews.com/archives/728

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/1101/the-rise-of-the-solar-tower.html

From Wikipedia:

"The solar updraft tower is a proposed type of…

I've contacted a local community garden to see if there's a place available for my grandfather to join. He used to be an avid and innovative gardener and mourns the loss of that part of his life now that he's in a tiny unit.

If there's a place available, I'll pay for his membership. If not, I'll need to look at establishing another garden. After all, if there's sufficient demand to create a waiting list, there must be sufficient demand to sustain another garden!

I lock up my little art gallery for the night and stroll home, mentally finessing my latest house design. At this time of the evening the heat subsides to a pleasant, blanketing warmth, which I'm hardwired to enjoy. The sky is clear and bright above the darkening land.

I've had a rabbit in the solar cooker all afternoon, stewing with some of the ma**** of tomatoes the garden has produced this year. It smells delicious; I can barely even remember the taste of the beef that used to be a…

I've chosen Jeremy Heimans, a co-founder of Australia's GetUp! online political activism movement. GetUp! came along at a time when I felt despondent about the direction our country was heading and powerless to influence things. It provided the opportunity to engage in a directed, coordinated and highly professional way in influencing our politicians on key topics as they happen, giving me and many thousands of others a voice to influence policy during the course of a political term, not…

I live in a first world country and have access to an abundance of food. I thought that here, envisaging a potential local food shortage would require a bigger picture (and longer term) context:

• Climate change spreading the range of crop & livestock diseases, compounding ongoing drought, increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events;
• Massive migration influx absorbing food resources - again, these could be climate change refugees;
• Some…

We know it in the world of IT...doesn't matter how good the solution is if the users don't adopt it.

It's tricky though because to innovate you have to be creative...and creativity requires an open mind, radical/crazy ideas; if you eliminate new ideas at the outset in fear of lack of user acceptance then you stifle the creative process and may kill off a really winning innovation. There is also a role for 'educating the market' - commercial companies do this when they have a…