Sustainable Dance Club, the award wining sustainable business idea from Enviu, has released a video envisioning an extra-large Sustainable Dance Floor.
“One of Sustainable Dance Club’s goals for the future is having the floor featured in a big international event. Could there be a better way to open the Olympics or World Cup with the energy of dancing people? That’s why we asked our friends from Waanzee to make an animation of this idea. A new movie shows the Sustainable Dance Floor in stadium size! This movie visualises how the energy of one dancer is shared with a large group of dancers and how this sharing of energy can lead to a fantastic energetic climax.”
The first edition of GE’s Ecoimagination Challenge has a winner. After 3.800-plus applications, and 74.000 votes, Solar Roadways has been announced as winner of the $50.000 award.
Solar Roadways, has the audacious plan to replace America’s asphalt roads with textured, glass solar panels that could collect energy, distribute it and simultaneously serve up LED-powered signs. According to Solar Roadways’ founder Scott Brusaw, the idea is to install a massive solar panel network laid out end-to-end from California to New York that would dramatically change the energy landscape and the country’s literal landscape.
GE’s Ecoimagination Challenge aims to come with innovative solutions for the related to sustainable energy systems, divided in three categories: Create - renewable energy, Connect - grid efficiency, Use - buildings.
On 15 and 16 June, Barcelona will host the International Herald Tribune Global Clean Energy Forum. For two days the future of renewable energies will be discussed with amongst more than 300 politicians, top business figures and world industry leaders from 30 countries.
The competitiveness and funding of renewable energies, future innovations and an assessment of expectations for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP 17, scheduled to take place on 9 December in Durban, are some of the issues up for discussion at the event, whose slogan is “Is the world ready for renewables?”.
