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Sustainable Strategy for Long-Term Success: The Future is Green
Plenty of sordid stigmas have torpedoed their way through corporate boardrooms and the media at large. MIT reported in a 2011 study of 3,000 corporate leaders that 70 percent of them integrate sustainability practices in their permanent management docket. Although it can be an ugly tug-of-war between the dreaded threat of profit loss vs. the [...]
In Focus: Futuristic Green Energies
The Time Lists has released its ‘Top 20 Green Tech Ideas’, and what a list it is. At Decipher CM, we’ve picked our Top 5 favourite futuristic green energies to share with the new breed of technological hippies out there. 1. Biofuels One of the ‘green industries’ best kept secrets is biofuels. This includes products [...]
In Focus: Honda’s Smart Home
American Honda is building a house that demonstrates zero carbon living using some of its technologies, such as solar-charging for its Fit electric car and Honda’s home energy management system. The first ”Honda Smart Home” was built in Japan last year and this one will be on the campus of University of California, Davis. “This showcase for environmental innovation and renewable energy-enabling [...]
Michael Jantzen’s Eco-Seed Sowing Machines
The Eco-Seed Sowing Machines are solar powered structures that contain a large amount of flower seeds. Whenever evidence of environmental degradation is observed, a signal is sent to the various structures, and a small amount of flower seeds are automatically released onto the earth below. Eco-Seed Sowing Machines are a symbolic public art response to [...]
In Focus: Farmscrapers
A French architecture firm has designed six high-rise towers that embody the concept of green living, aptly dubbed “Farmscrapers”. The project was planned specifically for the Chinese city of Shenzhen, which is increasing in population density and urban development, leading to many of the environmental and social problems associated with population growth. Design Details The [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Sensors Embedded in Roads
In many countries there are regulations in place to prevent trailer owners from overloading their vehicles. This leads to the need for periodic inspections. To weigh a large vehicle one obviously needs to stop it. After the inspection, when a vehicle accelerates to normal speed, it wastes a lot of fuel for no good reason. [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Energy in 2065
While many people expect the world to move largely to solar power in the next 50 years, most experts are doubtful of this possibility. While solar power will be an important component of the energy sector in the future, the future will be much more complex than most imagine. Today, with the help of the [...]
In Focus: Green Homes of the Future
The world of building has placed an onus on green solutions for building like never before and the advent of the green home is upon us at last. Future homes will offer a range of innovations that will mean they are significantly more energy efficient and vastly greener than the homes we currently reside in. [...]
Will Nanocrystals Power Electric Cars?
It is well known that one of the main problems with modern electric cars is the problem of energy storage. New better batteries are required to increase the range of electric cars and make them more attractive commercially. A new nanomaterial for lithium ion batteries developed in the labs of chemists at ETH Zurich and [...]