Sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship
Pop Culture, Sustainability & Innovation
Proposal inviting artists, scientists, and academics to explore the relation between pop culture, sustainability & innovation.
The proposal focuses on four areas:
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Introducción a Enviu - Innovators in Sustainability [ES]
Enviu - Innovators in Sustainability es una organización especializada en la generación de soluciones de negocio sostenibles. A éstas soluciones las llamamos Wow! Ideas, y entre otras se encuentran: …
If someone knows about innovation in Spain, that would be Alfons Cornella. His prolific career includes the founding of Infonomia, the largest innovation network of the country with over 30.000 members, organization of events, creation of original content (over 1000 articles! and video), consulting, and a large number of publications on the shelf.
Now, after more than 15 years having “an idea every day”, Alfons releases a magnificent book presenting 50 innovation concepts and their applicability in organizations. Visionomics; 50 Ideas and Illustrations on the New Dynamics of Organizations, combines graphics and text in such a manner that reading it is a real pleasure.
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Core 77 reports that the European Commission launched yesterday an ambitious initiative that aims to use public sector intervention to help the private sector flourish and make Europe more competitive in a global economy.
“The Innovation Union will focus Europe’s efforts - and co-operation with third countries - on challenges like climate change, energy and food security, health and an ageing population. It will use public sector intervention to stimulate the private sector and to remove bottlenecks which stop ideas reaching the market. These include lack of finance, fragmented research systems and markets, under-use of public procurement for innovation and slow standard setting. The Innovation Union is a “flagship” in the Europe 2020 Strategy.”
The initiative reads interesting and promising, however, one may think that the website hosting of the program is not very innovative. Ah! but there’s social media involved, that’s innovation! Facebook Page, & Twitter.
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.
Via TechCrunch
Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - IAAC - is a well-know institution on the field of experimental and innovative architecture. Amongst other projects, they are responsible for the award-winning FabLab House, or the Self-Sufficient City competition series.
IAAC’s latest project is the upcoming Green FabLab, located at a historical site renamed Q Valldaura. There, the Green FabLab will generate knowledge of nature through experience.
Projects to be held at the Green FabLab include:
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