Fernando Santos's Videos (Urgent Evoke) - Urgent Evoke

The ANIMALS save the PLANET

2010-03-09T21:54:52.227Z

11 ECO clips from ANIMAL PLANET.

200 years that changed the world (with Hans Rosling)

2010-03-06T17:15:40.321Z

For the first time, Gapminder can now visualize change in life expectancy and income per person over the last two centuries. In this Gapminder video, Hans Ro...

Solar bra gives eco-friendly charge

2010-03-06T16:59:21.293Z

Solar bra brings conservation closer to the heart

TOKYO (Reuters) - Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.

Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan Ltd unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green colored, "Solar Power Bra" on Wednesday in Tokyo which features a solar panel worn around the stomach.

The panel requires light to generate electricity and the concept bra will not be in stores anytime soon, said Triumph spokeswoman Yoshiko Masuda, as "people usually can not go outside without wearing clothes over it."

But it does send the message of how lingerie could possibly save the planet, Masuda said, adding that the bra should not be washed or sunned on a rainy day to avoid damaging it.

Being eco-friendly is now fashionable in Japan, and the "Solar Energy Bra" follows the company's other green-themed undergarments that include a bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag and one that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks.

An Evoke from Leonardo Di Caprio

2010-03-05T12:53:00.078Z

The 11th Hour is a documentary from Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. Can we see this as an Evoke?

Elinor Ostrom 2009 Nobel in Economic Science

2010-03-05T01:42:44.962Z

Ms. Ostrom’s work focuses on the commons, such as how pools of users manage natural resources as common property. The traditional view is that common ownership results in excessive exploitation of resources — the so-called tragedy of the commons that occurs when fishermen overfish a common pond, for example. The proposed solution is usually to make users bear the external costs of their utilization by privatizing the resource or imposing government regulations such as taxes or quotas. And she is the first woman to win the prize in this category of Economic Sciences. Inspiring, indeed!