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16 Sep 09

SSRN-Do Green Products Make Us Better People? by Nina Mazar, Chen-Bo Zhong

  • In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, people act more altruistically after mere exposure to green than conventional products.
  • However, people act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products.
20 Aug 09

A new generation of wind turbines helps battle rising energy costs | Technology | The Guardian

  • Wind turbines came back on Gregg's agenda when he realised that hot-water tank heater elements don't mind variable voltages or frequencies. "That's why we can make it cheaply and why it performs well because we are not handcuffed by the necessity to deliver 240V 50Hz," he says.
23 Jul 09

Segway inventor talks about the future of technology – and why videogames aren't the answer | Technology | The Guardian

  • According to Kamen: "Today's children are the first generation in which it is highly probable that their average quality of life, and education level, will be less than it was for their parents."
  • "For the few billion people that are sick and dying on a daily basis, the idea that we're going to build them a municipal water infrastructure in the next year, or even the next decade, is profoundly naive. So we set out to develop technologies that can solve the problem of giving people clean water without needing to transform their environment."
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13 Jul 09

Twenty ideas that could save the world | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  • a plan to increase the whiteness of clouds using a fleet of remote-control sailing ships spraying a fine mist of seawater into the air. But anyone tempted to dismiss his plan as the product of a crank who has spent too much time in the shed would do well to note that Salter was the man behind the Edinburgh Duck, a pioneering 1970s design for harnessing wave energy.
  • Another variation on the marine theme came from former management consultant Tim Kruger who proposed tipping large amounts of lime into the ocean. This, he claimed, would increase the sea's ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as well as reduce the dangerous acidity which has also been a byproduct of decades of emissions.
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03 Jul 09

Interactions interview « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird

  • The legal scholar Eben Moglen has identified three elements of privacy: anonymity, secrecy and most importantly autonomy.
  • ambient situational awareness to lower decision costs – that is, to lower the information costs associated with arriving at a choice presented to you, and at the same time mitigate the opportunity costs of having committed yourself to a course of action. When given some kind of real-time overview of all of the options available to you in a given time, place and context – and especially if that comes wrapped up in some kind of visualization that makes anomaly detection a matter of instantaneous gestalt, to be grasped in a single glance – your personal autonomy is tremendously enhanced.
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