Posted by: Jock Gill
A great interview on NPR with Thom Friedman. Highly recommended.
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 8, 2008
Thomas Friedman is a man bent on revolution. In his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes about the need for a green revolution — and calls upon Americans to […]

Author: Jock Gill
As Thom Friedman correctly points out, innovation powers “Change”. So if our candidates for president are serious about change, let’s ask them if they are willing to support an innovation agenda. How? And When?
A good place to start, if we are serious about change and about the energy efficiency […]

Author: Jock Gill
Spore is an interesting game because, according to the NY Times feature on it in the science section no less, you can only win with a balance of competition and cooperation! A post cold war game. Ah. “Not a simple kill or be killed affair.” Requirement to make […]

Much has been written about post-broadcast politics, networked politics, or any other number of phrases about the political process moving beyond the thirty second soundbite on the evening news. Obama’s use of the Internet has been compared to JFK’s use of television. JFK understood the new medium of television and used it to […]

Thermoelectric Advances Could Increase Car, Truck, Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Efficiency by 15%
Industrial waste heat is 7 quads in the USA. There is more waste heat from power plants and from cars. Capturing 20% of that waste heat is 1.4 quads every year. 1.4 quads is double all of the wind energy generated in […]

How do we define an “economics” that would be appropriate for spaceship earth? Is the current Chicago school of economic theory, as embraced by Senator Obama, the best we can do? It has had a long run. Has it gotten us to where we want to be? Can it get us to where […]

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KWB-micro-CHP, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.

Wood pellet powered Stirling engine micro-CHP is now a commercial product in Europe! This very strategic product is made by KWB of Austria, who currently refuse to sell into […]

Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy […]

I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently […]

On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
Cambridge, Mass.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design […]