Category Archive for 'Technology'
Saturday 07 Jul 2012
The Phi hopes to do for radio what Apple I did for computing—spark innovation. by Timothy B. Lee - July 5 2012, 9:00pm EDT Published by Arstechnica In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company’s prospects looked so poor that the third co-founder relinquished his 10 percent stake in [...]
Jock Gill | Community, Culture, Economy, Empowerment, Media, Technology
Monday 13 Feb 2012
If you are interested in any of: > grass energy > cook stoves that do not pollute the air with lots of particulate matter, especially carbon black soot > Haiti > soil stabilization and restoration > biochar > reforestation Then this video is very encouraging. The cookies look delicious. Congratulations to Mike Mahowald and the [...]
Tags: Biochar, cooking, energy, environment, stoves, vetiver
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Economy, Empowerment, Technology
Wednesday 23 Nov 2011
This is a co-creation project that is both open source and open knowledge. It is based on work first done by Amanda Ravenhill & Hugh McLaughlin at CHAB Camp in 2010. In terms of the quality and quantity of biochar, and the cleanliness of the stack gases, this design is yielding the best balanced results [...]
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Biochar, Climate Change, Community, Education, Empowerment, Energy, iCan, Pyrolysis, Technology, TLUD
Friday 22 Jul 2011
Description: This is an interdisciplinary activity for grades 9 – 12, revolving around use of biochar to mitigate climate change and promote sustainable agriculture / horticulture. It involves climate science, plant science, and chemistry. Advanced students will also encounter some elementary combustion science and thermodynamics, soil science, and botany. The activity includes hands-on construction and [...]
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Biochar, Biomass, Climate Change, Education, Empowerment, Energy, Ethics, IBI, iCan, NASA, Pyrolysis, Technology, TLUD
Tuesday 08 Feb 2011
Back in the bad old days, email vendors limited your communications to the boundaries of their walled gardens. That is, if you had a Compuserve account, you could only send email to other CompuServe account holders. The same was true of AOL, Prodigy, etc. This made operating an email campaign for Clinton/Gore in 1992 a [...]
Tags: abundance, cognitive radio, imagination, market, resilience, sdr, social capital, tolerance, trust, walled garden
Jock Gill | Community, Culture, Economy, Technology
Tuesday 21 Dec 2010
Carbon negative solutions are the only way we can honestly address the integrated and hard challenges posed by the synergy of: 1] Climate disruption; 2] Ocean warming; & 3] Ocean acidification. All of these problems are driven by too high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Simply reducing the rate at which we add to [...]
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Economy, Energy, Ethics, Technology
Saturday 11 Dec 2010
Author: Karl Frogner – In his keynote address for the ‘09 Asia Pacific Region Biochar Conference, Professor Lehmann indicated that he felt that the greatest potential for global warming mitigation through the sequestration of biochar lay in the utilization of distributed feedstocks. UBI (the Ulaanbaatar Biochar Initiative) is a program dedicated to testing the concept [...]
Tags: Biochar, CCM, Cliimate Change, pyrolysis, TDF
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Empowerment, Energy, Technology
Sunday 14 Nov 2010
Basic natural draft pyrolysis and biochar with simple iCan stoves. What can I do with one can? I can make a stove I can cook a meal I can make biochar I can be carbon negative I can start to change the world That’s why I call these stoves iCans iCans for Educators [...]
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Empowerment, Energy, Technology
Saturday 16 Oct 2010
An open source stove project in progress. Here we see the Peacham Volcano , closely modeled on the Swiss Volcano stove, as it is used. The cup, from a Swiss Volcano stove unit, with the water to be boiled sits inside the iCan made from a single pineapple juice can. The iCan, in turn, [...]
Jock Gill | Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Empowerment, Energy, Technology
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