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Monthly Archives: May 2009

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Electric vehicle nirvana

A new video by @joesimpson and I: Electric Vehicle Nirvana explained over at Brits On Green. Really quite good, and we’re fans of the format. Next one will be shorter of course, in a Pascalian sense :-)

Weapons grade cheese

General Electric’s smart grid homepage. I’m generally moderately well disposed to smart grids, but couldn’t they have put on some reindeer tracks and a little sleigh in the sky or something just to really get the point across? Pleeze?

iPhone applications for disaster relief (or at least awareness)

Feel that earthquake today, SoCal? In California, we know how to roll — and how to shake and rattle, too. We’ve got five iPhone applications to help you get the details when your nerves are shaken by a quake — or to check in with that nutty West Coast relative as you sit safely tucked [...]

Monetizing the ecosystem services of a forest

The forest could not rely on donor funding to survive, so it had to look elsewhere for finance. The centre’s first job was to identify the forest’s assets and to exploit them. It seems to have perfected its art. Today the centre makes money in areas such as ecotourism, timber-extraction, forest-products such as honey and [...]