Efficiency is the way to go
Check out this article posted on Salon by Joseph Romm “Why we never need to build another polluting power plant”. It details how we could use efficiency to reduce our greenhouse gases without having to build more power plants.
A couple of highlights from the article:
- While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California.
- …In the 1990s, the Energy Department began forming partnerships with energy-intensive industries to develop clean technologies. We worked with scientists and engineers to identify areas of joint research into technologies that would simultaneously save energy, reduce pollution and increase productivity. The Bush administration slashed funding for this program by 50 percent — and keeps trying to shut it down entirely.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
Open Source Science
Check out this great article from the New York Times by Cornelia Dean. I think this is a great idea. Scientific problem.. maybe more brains could help me figure out the answer… Cooperation at its finest.
I have a book somewhere about this general concept of cooperative problem solving. I will update when I find it.
—MoGo
Plug-In 2008
Check out what San Jose is hosting this week: Plug-In 2008, a convention about plug-in hybrid cars, which runs Monday through Thursday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The event isn’t open to the public but does include a public session Tuesday night.
While I am totally excited SJ is hosting this I think it is stupid that this isn’t open for at least a full day to the public. There is tremendous support here in Silicon Valley for green energy and green cars and the public should be allowed to participate! Well, at least they are having a convention. I hope they figure stuff out soon!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
P.S. I would like to be on the go in my very own plug-in hybrid so hurry up design folks!
New GREEN section added
With links to GREEN stuff I found interesting. Click on the picture of the rotating skyscraper for more info!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
Divergent Thinker Design posted on MoGoLounge.com
Finally got my Divergent Thinker design up on MoGoLounge.com. Click on the picture below to check it out. For those of you who don’t know if you are a divergent thinker I have included a bit about it. I got it from the encyclopedia of psychology online. I am very interested in the concept of creativity and how we use it, develop it, why some people have a ton of it and others almost none so this appealed to me.
The concept of divergent thinking was developed in the 1950s by psychologist J.P. Guilford, who saw it as a major component of creativity and associated it with four main characteristics. The characteristics were fluency (the ability to rapidly produce a large number of ideas or solutions to a problem); flexibility (the capacity to consider a variety of approaches to a problem simultaneously); originality (the tendency to produce ideas different from those of most other people); and elaboration (the ability to think through the details of an idea and carry it out).
And once I ran across the concept I knew I wanted to be one…
And if that doesn’t do it for you, just think of the other definition: differing from a standard. I think we can all relate to that one. So enjoy!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
