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TEDTalk: William McDonough - Cradle to Cradle
October 8th, 2007
I finally had a few minuted to breath and think today and what a timely arrival was the latest email from TEDTalks in my inbox. I have heard a great number of mentions on “cradle to cradle” design over the past couple of years. Most of this in a negative or absurd light as what some people consider a knee jerk reaction and unrealistic for a real manufacturing society. As I am almost never dissapointed by TED, I listened to the embedded talk below. (Click Here if your corporation blocks embedded video)
For those of you that may not be familiar with William McDonough here is an introduction from the TEDTalk site that might give you a little insight.
“Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “All children, all species, for all time.” A tireless proponent of absolute sustainability (with a deadpan sense of humor), he explains his philosophy of “cradle to cradle” design, which bridge the needs of ecology and economics. He also shares some of his most inspiring work, including the world’s largest green roof (at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan), and the entire sustainable cities he’s designing in China.”
Here is a link to the website for his book “Cradle to Cradle“.
For those of you interested in design, lifecycle, and how to couple the two, you are in luck. Check out the TEDTalk topic of “Design Like You Give a Damn“.
SlideShare
August 13th, 2007
I have visited slideshare quite a few times in the past, but really didn’t capture it’s full potential until today. I was originally linked into this presentation on “Death by Powepoint” by Alexi Kapterev.
I then looked at the associated links ala youtube style. It was interesting to see the wealth of presentations when you search for innovation. This is really a way you can cross-pollinate and get outside what you are used to without leaving you computer. For those of you on LinkedIN check out “leveraging Social Networks for Results below”
- Word of Mouth Marketing, WOMM
- Outside Innovation
- Leveraging Social Networks for Results (Interesting)
- CX Innovation Summit 2007, Miami
- Speeding Up Innovation
- BusinessSummaries.com summary of the book Seeds of Innovation
- Finding Innovation in the 500lb Gorilla
- The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki
- 10 Lessons of Innovation - Idris Mootee Keynote
Do you ever wonder what sucessful people read?
August 5th, 2007
As a pretty prolific reader, I always wonder what other people read? I usually ask my friends what they read and this guides me to expand my horizons. Another question that always comes to me when trying to find my next read is “What do really sucessful people read?” What is it that people who’s billable hour wage is a lot higher than mine read?
The answer to this popped up when I was following a random link from one of my blogs I normally read. I can’t remember which tangent I was off on, but I sent the link to myself so I would make sure to put it up here on the blog.
US News and World Report has a Special Report on The Best Business Books. The articles lists the books that the likes of people like Chris Anderson, Carly Fiorina, Mark Cuban, Hector Ruiz, Thomas Donaldson, etc. ( I guess if you have your own wikipedia.org page you have made it)
By the way Chris Anderson has a great book I just finished entitled “The Long Tail” that I highly recommend.
Various Materials Links
July 30th, 2007
I was looking through some older emails today and I came to the conclusion that I have a bad habit of emailing myself links to interesting articles or newsitems I find, but not getting them out on here. So here’s and effor to catch up.
- This was one of the earlier links I sent to myself pertaining to enzyme based fuel cells.
- An article on Superpaper made from clay platelets. The article claims that is it will revolutionize the composites industry as it can replace high strength carbon fiber or even sheets of nanotubes. Here is the original press release for you to decide what you make of it. Considering the final material is succeptible to water it will take this plus another advancement to make it revolutionary. Here is another link from NetComposites.
- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have developed a process for making polymer surfaces covered with carbon nanotube hairs, imitating the thousands of microscopic hairs on a gecko’s footpad.
- Other researchershave new data from studying the compressive fatigue properties of carbon nanotubes and report that they are surprisingly resiliant.
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