Here's a well-done clip trying to drive home the rapid and pervasive rise of "social media" done by Socialnomics. The question we really have is "What can people in Hawaii do with this new connectivity?"

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These scientists in London are working on essentially creating artificial leaves for solar power, mimicking how leaves naturally convert sunlight and water into oxygen and energy they can use.

This is certainly not ready for prime time, but it's a much more interesting line of research for us to pursue.

Tech Review just had an article about "Crowdsourcing closer government scrutiny" in which they talk about some of the recent efforts within the whole gov2.0 push to use web-based media to drive more information (not just data) to the public in the hopes of informing and galvanizing useful public pressure. Much of the article talks about the well-known Sunlight Lab… Continue

An interesting talk by Louise Fresco, an expert on food production and sustainability addressing the realities of feeding our future 9 billion cousins.

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Here’s an excerpt of an interview with Thomas Friedman on CNN framing Energy Technology as the next great global industry:

BLITZER: Because they want to -- people want to see results.

FRIEDMAN: Yes.

BLITZER: And the most tangible result will be jobs.

FRIEDMAN: Right.

BLITZER: And, right now, the job situation is not good.

FRIEDMAN: The numbers -- we have gone through the first phase, which was defaults in home mortgages from people who shouldn't have been getting mortgages.

Now we're gett… Continue