Showing posts with label eco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eco. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Kites can Power our Future!

I really, really, really love this idea (especially the Rosie the Riveter plan) please watch the video and read on...

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/492




makanipower.com/vision.html

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tribewanted in Fiji!



Tribewanted: Vorovoro
ON A REMOTE FIJIAN ISLAND A GLOBAL AND LOCAL COMMUNITY LIVES
Tribewanted is a unique cross-cultural community tourism project on Vorovoro Island, Fiji and a global online social network.

So what Is Tribewanted?

As well as being an adventure of a lifetime, the aim of Tribewanted is that the evolving island community becomes a model for sustainable living that positively impacts and inspires both locally in northern Fiji and globally online to improving the way we live.

Tribewanted and the local team are developing a cross-cultural community from scratch, fusing traditional Fijian customs and ways of living with international ideas for sustainability
and innovation. On-line, Tribewanted has built an award-winning social network of 10,000 members who participate with and follow the island project.

http://www.tribewanted.com/about