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Social Innovation through resource management.
In a world where natural resources are getting more and more sparse, mankind needs to learn to maximize its use of natural resources. According to Ethan Zuckerman's "Innovating from constraint" he writes " Innovation (often) comes from constraint". Unfortunately this is has not been the case for mankind in a very long time. If we do not have the resource needed we often go into a different part of the world and either buy it ( export/import) or we take it, either through war or big corporations essentially raping the country of its natural resources. The latter MUST stop as soon as possible! We cannot continue the vicious cycle of using critical resources, such as Oil and various metals, to acquire these very same resources.
Now what does this mean to western society? Well we are in dire need to innovate our technology to either stop using resources we do not have or reduce the amount that we use of said resource. This is where innovation from constraint comes into play. We have finite amount of resources but infinite amount of "want". Therefore we must figure out a way to use the resources we have in a efficient and responsible manner.
Since I am a Political Science student I will give my political solution to this problem. I believe that if the government of Canada ( and the provincial governments) were to provide Canadian scientists and engineers the money that they need to come up with new and improved ways to create and build the technologies that we need, we can therefore not only keep jobs from being exported but we can also use the resources we have readily available in a responsible manner.
This begins and ends with the willingness of governments to use its power to influence the corporations to be more social weary and possibly be willing to pay to help the transition from a consumer based society to one based on social and environmental awareness. It wont be easy but we must be able to do it for our future generations!
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Comment by Walker Salmon on April 19, 2010 at 4:14am
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I think a lot of the technologies already are out there waiting to be used but aren't for political or business reasons. Or it just doesn't help the bottom line of those who wield great influence.
Watch TED.com, "who killed the electric car", We have the ability to do so much more then we are free to do...
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Comment by Mathew on April 19, 2010 at 4:23am
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Yes i have seen that doc**entary and found it to be very insightful. I do think we need governments around the world to come together for the betterment of our future. We also need companies that have the technologies necessary to make them readily available and most importantly make them affordable.
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