Gerd Leonhard, Green Futurist and Keynote Speaker,

Stowe Boyd: Synchronizing Ads On The Second Screen: A Study

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:16:55 +0200

Stowe Boyd: Synchronizing Ads On The Second Screen: A Study:

Hill Holliday and SecondScreen Networks set up a study to find out how they might sunchronize the head shifting that goes along with the ‘swarm of devices’ style of TV use that goes on these days, given the emergence of the second screen:

Ilya Vedrashko, Smartphones Distract People Away from…

Futurist and Keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard at EcoSummit 2012 in...

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:18:17 +0200

Futurist and Keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard at EcoSummit 2012 in Berlin (http://ecosummit.net/) speaking on “the journey from Ego to Eco”, see the slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/gleonhard/from-ego-to-eco-the-future-of-energy-ecos… More on the Ego To Eco topic can be found at http://www.gerd.fm/egotoeco Original post via EcoSummit and http://youtu.be/SA6css-UfpY

The Future of Selling: Interaction before Transaction, Keynote Speaker & Futurist Gerd Leonhard (audio podcast) (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
Keynote presentation: future of media & content (Futurist… (thefuturesagency.com)
Stowe Boyd: The Social Operating System: A Reader (futureof.biz)
The Future of the Content Industries: Futurist & Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard (audio podcast) (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
Watch this: Keynote Speaker and Futurist Gerd Leonhard on Shaping the Networked Society - a quick overview (futuristgerd.com)

"Back in 1988, when Hansen was among the first and most credible scientists to sound the alarm about..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:13:43 +0200

“Back in 1988, when Hansen was among the first and most credible scientists to sound the alarm about global warming, he, Ruedy and several co-authors came up with the concept of “climate dice.” Imagine dice with two sides red (for hot), two sides blue (for cold) and two sides white (average temperatures). If you roll the dice, you’re equally likely to get any result. With continued emissions of greenhouse gas, however, the authors predicted that by the early 21st century, four of the sides would be red.”

- Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math | Ecocentric | TIME.com (via fromegotoeco)

Global Warming Is No Longer a Future Problem, It's a Now Event

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:13:56 +0200

Global Warming Is No Longer a Future Problem, It's a Now Event:

Jason Mraz, huffingtonpost.co.uk

This past February, 2012, on the day after the Superbowl, I achieved enlightenment on a flight from Ushuaia Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, headed back to The United States.
It wasn’t the first time I’d achieved such a…

Must read post on global warming , via al gore

"All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:49:46 +0200

“All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.”

- Harvey Milk (via think-progress)
Nicely said Fred

"That’s the dirty secret of cutting carbon. Oregon — and America — may be getting off coal, but if it..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:01:56 +0200

“That’s the dirty secret of cutting carbon. Oregon — and America — may be getting off coal, but if it just ends up being burned elsewhere, the climate won’t be any better off.”

- Cutting Carbon’s Dirty Secret: Relocating Pollution - TIME

Totally spot-on cartoon on climate change and the oil industry

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:29:26 +0200

Totally spot-on cartoon on climate change and the oil industry

4 ways to tackle the key “green futures” issues (by...

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:28:25 +0200

4 ways to tackle the key “green futures” issues (by Gerd Leonhard”

"According to a peer-reviewed paper Hansen has submitted to a leading scientific journal and made..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:22:02 +0200

“According to a peer-reviewed paper Hansen has submitted to a leading scientific journal and made available to Time.com prior to publication, scientists can now state “with a high degree of confidence” that some extremely high temperatures are in fact caused by global warming, simply because they occur much more frequently than they used to. (A preliminary draft of the article is available here.)”

- Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math | Ecocentric | TIME.com

Must-See CBS News: We Are ‘Living On A Planet With A Fever…....

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:21:45 +0200

Must-See CBS News: We Are ‘Living On A Planet With A Fever…. This Is Our Society’s Sink Or Swim Moment’ WATCH THIS. Take a look at my take, as well: From Ego to Eco: http://gerd.fm/M8v3lq

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy… (futuristgerd.com)

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy...

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:14:19 +0200

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy iCloud
admin, greenpeaceblogs.com

Authored by Gary Cook, Greenpeace International
This week, after hundreds of thousands of Apple customers and Greenpeace supporters asked the company to use clean energy instead of dirty coal, it announced a significant…

Guardian Environment: Australasia has hottest 60 ...

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:10:57 +0200

Guardian Environment: Australasia has hottest 60 ...:

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theatlantic: wdevoll: A wonderful mini-manifesto on...

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:19:41 +0200

theatlantic:

wdevoll:

A wonderful mini-manifesto on storytelling by filmmaker Ken Burns. Well worth 5 minutes of your day.

Reblog because he’s right.

sunfoundation: Visualization of the Week: Urban...

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:23 +0200

sunfoundation:

Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism

This week’s visualization comes from PhD candidates David Quinn and Daniel Wiesmann, who’ve built an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore the “urban metabolism” of major U.S. cities. The map includes data about cities’ and neighborhoods’ energy usage (kilowatt per hour per person) and material intensity (kilo per person) patterns. You can also view population density.

crookedindifference: Solar Sails A form of spacecraft...

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:17:34 +0200

crookedindifference:

Solar Sails

A form of spacecraft propulsion using the radiation pressure of light from a star or laser to push enormous ultra-thin mirrors to high speeds. Japan’s JAXA successfully tested IKAROS in 2010. The goal was to deploy and control the sail and for the first time determining the minute orbit perturbations caused by light pressure. Orbit determination was done by the nearby AKATSUKI probe from which IKAROS detached after both had been brought into a transfer orbit to Venus.

President Obama speaks of a “planet in peril,” but he does not...

Sat, 12 May 2012 09:26:27 +0200

President Obama speaks of a “planet in peril,” but he does not provide the leadership needed to change the world’s course. (via Must-Read: NASA’s James Hansen Slams Obama’s Lack Of Climate Leadership And Our ‘Immoral’ Inaction | ThinkProgress)

MUST READ!!

"There is only one reason to consider deploying a scheme with even a tiny chance of causing such a..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:01:42 +0200

“There is only one reason to consider deploying a scheme with even a tiny chance of causing such a catastrophe: if the risks of not deploying it were clearly higher. No one is yet prepared to make such a calculation, but tresearchers are moving in that direction.”

- Can Geoengineering Solve Global Warming? : The New Yorker

Comment: now that is clearly a scary thought !!!

"Among the greatest global population trends is the continued migration of people to cities and their..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:48:41 +0200

“Among the greatest global population trends is the continued migration of people to cities and their associated metro areas. One estimate has it that by 2050 some 90 percent of global population will live in cities or within an hour of them. Another estimate suggests that today 80 percent of U.S. residents live in cities (bear in mind these numbers often call a town of 20,000 a city) while globally some 51 percent now live in urban areas. The World Health Organization estimates that by 2050 70 percent of the world population or 6.5 billion people will live in urban areas.”

- Cities hold key to economic future :: Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra

"The best way to grow a movement has always been to aim for inclusion and lead by inspiration. Many..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:46:19 +0200

“The best way to grow a movement has always been to aim for inclusion and lead by inspiration. Many in my generation find promise in people-centered solutions to environmental problems that have gained traction in the United States under the catchall description of “green jobs.” Leaders of this movement include Van Jones, Majora Carter, Billy Parish, and many others who have made the case that being green isn’t just a way to protect the environment, it’s a way to revitalize our economy, culture, and communities.”

- Don’t call me an environmentalist | Grist

"Over the past decade, the number of Americans who support the environmental movement has declined,..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:42:36 +0200

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Over the past decade, the number of Americans who support the environmental movement has declined, with supporters increasingly split along partisan lines. On the other hand, most Americans strongly support developing clean energy, believe that global warming is an important issue, and regularly engage in behaviors that are good for the environment. At least that’s what we’ve told the researchers.

Gallup recently found that 83 percent of Americans want more government support for clean energy. Yale and George Mason University researchers found [PDF] that 72 percent of Americans believe that global warming should be a government priority. And another Gallup poll found that three out of four Americans regularly engage in environmentally friendly behaviors.

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- Don’t call me an environmentalist | Grist