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Are tech companies earth friendly?
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Tech Goes Strong – StumbleUpon. This article explores some of the questions and challenges that becoming earth friendly cause. He nicely explains and gives examples and there is certainly some truth to what he says. I responded to it with a comment and said:
There is some truth that companies “Greenwash” their products and things that they fought against in the past. It is also true that it takes time to work the mindset of recycling into people. I am fairly young and sometimes I forget to recycle. It isn’t that people don’t care about the world they pass onto their children or relatives, it is just that being a mature adult is sometimes boring and people hate that.
If people were rewarded immediately, directly for recycling in a concrete way then everyone would do it. I am lucky enough to live at a place that pay people for their bottles that they recycle. If more places had that, people would recycle. But to the average person getting a store to pay them 5 cents to recycle a bottle isn’t worth it. Nor is the time/administrative expense to change the current way of doing business.
It is difficult to get people to see that saving money is as important as making it. I work as a consultant and explain how they can save money if they switch technologies and invest and the hard numbers to prove they will make the investment back in a few months. Do you know what most people do? “Oh well, let me think about it.” People are afraid of the unknown and we can’t push people to change. People change at their own pace.
There are so many great technologies that just haven’t been given support due to the same kind of thinking that causes other problems. “Good enough” isn’t good enough when it poisons the present and future. Take for instance this talk from TED.
How many people do you think are doing this when it would not only increase their health and energy but others as well? If that isn’t enlightened self-interest I don’t know what is.
Gravity doesn’t always apply-Superfluids
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Dailymotion – Superfluid – a Tech. This is an amazing video that breaks some laws as we know them like the law of Gravity. Isn’t science cool? You can watch a video of Corn Starch here and Magnetic fluid here.
National Geographic taking video of a dust storm
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satelliteEmbedPlayer.swf?videoRef=08740_00 from nationalgeographic.com – StumbleUpon. They always have such great photos and video. It is nice that there is an organization that is dedicated to preserving the worlds beauty.
Space Men on Moon
AP16_10.jpg from usgs.gov – StumbleUpon. Large Wide-photograph on the moon. It is incredibly dark isn’t it?
2 billion alien earths in our Galaxy?
Before Its News – StumbleUpon. This certainly would change the show Sliders. I wonder how many have intelligent life?
The Geek Zodiac
The Geek Zodiac. Interesting. A better Time Traveler would have been Dr. Who than Doc Brown. If you recognize all of these characters you are dedicated!
Book Review: The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth 9780765311146: William E. Burrows: Books
Amazon.com: The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth 9780765311146: William E. Burrows: Books. I didn’t like this book. The first part was depressing and not entirely honest in its description of current challenges that we face on earth. While using the moon as a backup seems like a good idea, it also seems like a way to avoid taking responsibility for earth. If we can’t solve the issues then hopefully the next species will be smarter and better than us.
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