On Thursday morning, GE will host a day-long event where it plans to announce the latest winners of its $200 million smart grid challenge that are specifically focused on energy use in the home. Read More »
Cleantech
If you want to change something, first you have to measure it, and when it comes to energy consumption and generation we don’t have the tools yet to do either. But as Saul Griffith said at Green:Net, we’re still in the dark ages for energy literacy. Read More »
We’re all going to need to become a lot more energy literate if we’re going to fight climate change. Now the DOE has started working on a collaborative Energy Literacy document that will help guide energy education in schools, as well as federal policy and funding. Read More »
The future of work is distributed, made up of employees scattered across the globe connected via broadband networks. My company calls this phenomenon “the human cloud,” but to me, the human cloud is another example of how broadband can make our systems more energy efficient. Read More »
Saul Griffith, inventor and multiple entrepreneur, is knee-deep in a new electric bicycle project: Onya Cycles! For this week’s episode of Green Overdrive we hung out with Griffith and took the bikes for a ride. Who needs a car when you have pedals and batteries? Read More »
While it seemed like you couldn’t get away from speaking appearances and press mentions of inventor Saul Griffith in 2009, he’s been largely off the radar so far in 2010. So what has the MacArthur “genius grant” winner been up to?: Other Lab. Read More »
There are two types of ideas out there. The baby-shaking-iPhone-game type (bad). And the add-cherry-syrup-to-Coca-Cola kind (good). Here’s a really good idea that Google can use that could make a serious dent in climate change: add carbon emissions data to Google Maps, so users looking… Read More »
Saul Griffith, the president and chief scientist of Makani Power and founder of WattzOn, gave a fantastic presentation at our Green:Net conference. We also sat down with him at the show to chat more about his projects: What has he learned from… Read More »
We’ve had a lot of requests for the videos and presentations of our speakers at Green:Net, the first green conference for the Internet industry. So here you go, guys; these are the first available video clips of mininotes from Saul Griffith, founder of Makani Power and… Read More »
In addition to the new Aptera specs and the debut of the new Mission One electric motorcycle, the 2009 TED Conference has had plenty of cleantech entrepreneurs up on stage this week. Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place, spoke yesterday, throwing out the… Read More »
A visual representation of your life’s energy consumption will probably make you feel pretty guilty — or, at least cognizant enough to make some changes in your behavior. That’s the idea behind Wattzon.com, a web site launched today by Saul Griffith, the co-founder of high… Read More »
