America’s primary global advantage is entrepreneurial innovation. I believe that if you were to rank all nations for the output volume of quality innovative ideas and systems, Denmark would join the USA in the top 5 exporters of creativity worldwide. Then I check our twitter account for the Cleantech Open, a new client with an extraordinary [...]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (October 28, 2009) — The Cleantech Open announced William Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google, will present the keynote address during the “Academy Awards of Cleantech” Awards Gala at The Masonic Center in San Francisco on November 17, 2009. As the Green Energy Czar at Google, Weihl leads efforts in energy efficiency and [...]
Denis Du Bois: “Excitement…fear. Opportunity…risk. Urgency… indifference.” Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open Co-chair Byron McCann opened last night’s regional awards ceremony with a dramatized series of opposites. It fit, because the theme of the evening was contrast and anachronism. The region’s hottest new technologies were showcased in Seattle’s second-oldest theater. Our governor headlined the ceremony [...]
With less than 2 weeks before the big event, Gavin Newsom sat down with West Coast Green Founder and President Christi Graham last week to chat. His excitement was apparent about the fast-approaching event and its importance to San Francisco and beyond. Watch to learn why he values West Coast Green so deeply and why [...]
Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, she became acutely aware of the need for greater sustainability in the urban environment. The result was Urban Re:Vision, a year-long, six-part international design competition to stimulate innovative thinking [...]
The culmination of the world’s largest clean technology business competition is the Clean Tech Open‘s annual Awards Gala – designed to showcase the boldest cleantech ideas, the most ambitious entrepreneurs and the brightest, most engaged investors, venture capitalists and prospective technology customers. Join us at the Masonic Center in San Francisco for a Clean Technology [...]
Our friends at TEDxAsheville dropped in a report on this weekend’s event. Apparently they were turning crowds away at the door. Congratulations, all! Have a visit: link.
“It is good for me to experience hardship, for I shall be less inclined toward it as an adult.” – Adora Svitak On Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer called Adora Svitak a ‘Tiny literary giant.” The title seems astute when you measure her diminutive stature against her accomplishments. Adora Svitak is an 11-year old child prodigy [...]
From Treehugger: Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will deliver the keynote address at WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), in Mérida, Yucatán, on the November 6, 2009. In addition to opening the conference, Dr. Goodall, will lead a workshop on Roots & Shoots, The Jane Goodall Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian youth program that has involved 150,000 youth from [...]
The Open Architecture Challenge is an international design competition that’s hosted every two years. This year, Architecture for Humanity and Orient Global hosted the competition to bring the architecture, design, and engineering community together with students and teachers to envision the classroom of the future. After receiving over a thousand designs, each submission was rated [...]
Sensible City’s affiliate in Bulgaria recently posted this perspective on the rising influence of weblogs (over traditional media) and gives hints to the role of social media in public relations there. With Bulgaria witnessing increasing numbers of young professionals and nearly 2.5 million internet citizens in its ranks, bloggers are now a powerful voice in social [...]
Until a few years ago, public relations [in Pakistan] was still in its infancy and, beyond the securing of an article in the mainstream press, the understanding of PR’s capabilities was extremely limited. This lack of understanding, coupled with the handful of media channels – with whom PR practitioners could engage – one TV station, a few major newspapers and an advertisers’ monopoly – meant that the whole communications arena was fairly primitive.
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