Understanding is the Essence of Intelligence

Jean Vincent 
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Huge Electric Semi Would Transform Trucking : Gas 2.0

Just about every type of vehicle now has an electric or at least hybrid version. The clean electric drive revolution has now reached the point of no return.

This means that we can now picture a not-so-distant future where our cities will be free or air-born pollutions that kill 400,000 people every year. The electric vehicle is about saving real lives long before being about energy independence or slowing down global warming.

That said we still need plenty of innovations, especially in energy storage, in order to make these vehicles more affordable and and get away from hybrids which is an expensive and not so efficient transition technology.

There is also a need to continue innovations towards automatic driving machines to both improve security and enable new usage models.

The next 20 years will therefore provide plenty of fun and jobs for those who love technology.

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Filed under  //   Electric Vehicules   Pollution   Sustainable Development  

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Neighborhood cars - Schwarzenegger tries Chrysler Peapod

Neighborhood electric cars provide many benefits starting with an affordable cost because these only need small battery packs.

As most families own two to three cars there is a market for one of these to be a neighborhood vehicle..

The Peapod is made a 95% recycled and recyclable materials. Coming out in October.

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Filed under  //   Electric Cars   Sustainable Development  

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Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy

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Filed under  //   Sustainable Development   Wind Power  

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Greenbird smashes the world record - 126 MPH (203 km/h) - Video

Ten years in the making.

There is no reason why commercial ships couldn't use wind power for a very large portion of their propulsion.

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Filed under  //   Sustainable Development   Wind Power  

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Fastest Wind Powered Car in the World Hits 126 MPH (203 Km/h)

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Sweden unveils 'ambitious' clean energy strategy

The government said it now aims by 2020 for renewable energy to comprise 50 percent of all energy produced, for the Swedish car fleet to be independent of fossil fuels 10 years later and for the country to be carbon neutral by 2050.

If Sweden, a northern European country, can do this, why can't the rest of Europe, and the USA do it?

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Filed under  //   Climate Change   Energy Policy   Sustainable Development  

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Economically-Sound Reforestation

There is good news for the rain-forest. Willie Smits tells us at TED.com how integrated reforestation in Borneo has created 3000 sustainable jobs while restoring bio-diversity, increased local air humidity by 10% while decreasing local temperatures (as compared to areas around the project), over a period of less than 5 years, in a 5000 acres area previously devastated by fires following deforestation.



The sustainable development model applied at Samboja Lestari (People, Profit, Planet++) can be applied everywhere around the world and requires to involve local people, a science-based approach, clear legal status, transparency, professional management, measurable results, scalability, controlled growth, ...

This is the real answer to save the rain-forest and bio-diversity, not with subsidies, but with science and honesty.

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Filed under  //   Biodiversity   Climate Change   Rain-Forest   Sustainable Development  

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Repower America with 100% renewable energies

Within 10 years, Repower America with 100% renewable energies while creating new stable, local, American jobs:


And for those who think this is impossible, check out this article of an American town producing more electricity than it consumes today:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/home-residential-wind-power-rock-port-missouri.php

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Filed under  //   Renewable Energy   Repower America   Sustainable Development  

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Liberating the data to better understand development

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Filed under  //   Data Portability   Sustainable Development  

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The Girl Effect

A few words worth a thousand pictures, or when art meets sustainability:


When helping educating a girl in the developing world, each dollar spent yields the highest return in the long term: she will marry later, will have fewer children but with higher education. Women reinvest 90% of their income in their families compared to less than 50% for men.

For more information, visit the Girl Effect Website or their You Tube Channel.

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Filed under  //   Girl Effect   Sustainable Development   Understanding   Women  

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