By Jo Borras •
September 15, 2009
Bugatti’s latest concept car points the way forward for the brand most associated with excess: excessive wealth, excessive power, excessive luxury, and excessive performance… but the new Galibier signifies something more, as well, and it is nothing less than a turning of the tide in the way the world’s automakers see their flagship luxury cars.
More on Bugatti’s million-dollar flex-fuel Galibier — including video! — after the jump.
By James Hanusa •
December 9, 2008
Review of Opportunity Green Conference and an exploration of the emerging movement that encompasses cleantech, social business, sustainability and social media towards a new culture.
Arthur Shopenhauer said “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Above you see three cars, the Tesla Roadster, Wrightspeed X1 and the Tango… the Tesla in particular because of the company’s comparitively deep pockets, which would be in the Violently Opposed Stage (by the majors [...]
Product Categories for our Topics (next post) follow:
- Essentials – air, water and food… products and processes for human survival.
- Clothing — what to wear!
- Shelter — spaces and places for living and working.
- Energy — a power-full life.
- Health — healing and feeling good.
- Conversion — waste not, want not, have more… from composting to upcycling.
- Materials — elemental building blocks: biological and technical.
- Tools — making things easier.
- Movement — getting there.
- Connection — we are not alone: direct and indirect communication; knowledge; governance.
- Play — having fun along the
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Image Source: Graphic / MIT School of Architecture and Planning
You’ve probably never considered crowds to be a renewable source of energy. Lucky for us, two smarty-pants grad students at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning are trying to figure it out.
James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk envision harvesting the mechanical energy from human movement – like commuters in a train station or fans at a rock concert – for electricity.
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