Thursday, December 4, 2014, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)
Frustrated with the inaction on climate change, the top innovators are taking matters into their own hand. Borrowing from the TED conference model, Goggle has started a "Solve for X" conference for innovators with big ideas, called moonshots, to pitch their ideas to investors. Like TED, Google has place these talks on the web so anyone can view them. The conference is for any big idea, but most of the talks were related to climate change. We will show these videos at our next meeting:
- A quick review of the 2014 conference
- The 2014 keynote talk by Ira Glass
- A 2013 talk by Bill Gross about cheap solar power that was referred to by Ira Glass
HERE is a link to the video about wind power innovation that was shown during the meeting.
For more information on Bill Gross's solar technology, see his 2003 TED Talk HERE.
ReplyDeleteHERE is a short article which summarizes the task for the Lima Climate Summit, COP20, which started yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIn an article "How to free speech, (Feb., 15, 2015) the Washington Post raises perhaps a good question: "These salvos against freedom of speech and the press force the question: Can the global society emerging today also be a tolerant one?" Perhaps a good future topic . . . Thanks
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