Apple, Blackberry, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Motorola, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and other consumer electronics companies can be less unsustainable than their competitors and less unsustainable tomorrow than they are today. However, given: The state of the art in manufacturing, Electronics are made with designs that are supplanted before they wear out, and Recycling consumer electronics is [...]
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Farshad Manjoo, “10 Lessons from the Coolest Company, Anywhere,” in Fast Company, offers some interesting history and observations on Apple. He writes: The one-time underdog from Cupertino is the biggest music company in the world and soon may rule the market for e-books as well. What’s next? Farming? Toothbrushes? Fixing the airline industry? As much [...]
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These speak for themselves, for the most part. But it might be worth noting that none we’ve noticed have electric assist, either by hybrid electric or solar electric, which are both, we believe, in limited use around the world. From FrogMob, the mob-sourced section of the FrogDesign Blog1, Work Bikes: From the Cool Tools section [...]
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This post will be updated as we gather more resources, and and attempt to make it more comprehensive and practical. – JS There are, roughly, speaking, five types of solar cooking devices: Panels Boxes Parabolic Cookers (convex) Kettles Hybrids Practical plans Instructables.com – another reminder of the brilliance of the Instructables concept and execution, searching [...]
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Moreover, Mr. Read’s understatement – the entire post is three short grafs and two images – makes his post more affecting, rather than less. Here’s a NASA image of the affected area as of August 14, 2009 (Mr. Read, without saying so, anticipates speculation that this caused by seasonal variation): h One year and one [...]
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The Zero Race, a competition between automobiles powered by sustainable energy sources, begins today in Switzerland. There are, we regret to report, only four teams, none from the United States. The ZeroTracer is the Swiss entry; the Power Plaza Team is from South Korea; Team Trev is from Adelaide, Australia and the Vectrix Team is [...]
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Matthew Wald of The New York Times, assisted by Liz Robbins, adds some details to current knowledge of the Alaska plane crash of August 9th. From Communication Problems May Have Delayed Search Following Alaska Plane Crash: The search for the plane that crashed on an Alaska hillside Monday night, killing former senator Ted Stevens and [...]
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Open Jason lists sites which read the Web, with various emphases (with respect to sourcing), and let you know. 13 Alerting Sites | OpenJason. The brilliant David Stephenson has, as some readers may know, done some serious thinking and writing about new media/social media and disaster response. (Put “Stephenson” in our search box and you’ll [...]
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The Pakistan Red Crescent Society reports as follows on the current floods in Pakistan: Period covered by this update: 21st July to 10th August, 2010 PRCS along with its Movement Partners (IFRC and ICRC) and Partner National Societies (PNSs) is jointly responding to the Monsoon Floods 2010. CHF 250,000 (USD 239,406 or EUR 183,589) has [...]
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Unlike Warren Buffett, Jeremy Grantham, chairman of Grantham Mayo van Otterloo, GMO.com, is not a “celebrity investor.” And also unlike Buffett, Grantham is an environmentalist. Jeremy and his wife, Hannelore, established the Grantham Foundation for the protection of the environment, and The Grantham Research on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of [...]
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At Deutsch Bank, one of the world’s largest banks, there are some very bright people who understand that climate change is problem. An Internet search on “Deutsche Bank Climate Change” brings up links to Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors, which features a carbon counter, showing the tons of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 3.6659 trillion [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.