Archive for May, 2010
LEDs Poised to Outshine All Others in $4.4B Lighting Market | Buildings | GreenBiz.com A new study from Pike Research forecasts that LEDs will account for almost half of a $4.4 billion market for lamps in the commercial, industrial and outdoor stationary sectors by 2020. Almost 18 percent of global electricity use goes toward lighting, [...]
EDF Climate Corps 2010: The Drive for Energy Efficiency Grows | Climate | GreenBiz.com But there’s one solution to the climate crisis that we don’t need to wait for — energy efficiency. The opportunity is enormous: A 2009 McKinsey report estimates that by 2020, the United States could reduce its annual energy consumption by 23 [...]
I think that the Sea to Sky Highway is going to become known as one of the most amazing road-bike rides in the world. The Whistler Granfondo is going to be a blast. Great training ride day today. 16k warmup and then 3 16k sprints. Click the map to follow along!
Backbone Magazine has just published a great overview of the cleantech sector in Canada that contains quotes from a number of notable people in the space including Kirk Washington (Yaletown Venture Partners), Victoria Smith (BC Hydro), Rick Whittaker (Sustainable Development Technology Canada), Raul Pacheco-Vega (UBC), Helen Goodland (Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre) and me. Thanks to [...]
5 stages of xobni's growth and 5 pivots along the way (tags: leanstartup pivot casestudy)
World's Greenest Homes: Hong Kong Space Saver COOL video of a 330 square foot Hong Kong apartment. (tags: apartment architecture awesome cool design green home smallhome smallhouse)
U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study Says | Buildings | GreenBiz.com In recent studies, Lux Research predicted that the green buildings market will grow from a current $144 billion to $277 billion in 2020, and the Continental Automated Buildings Association forecast significant growth in the systems market, pegged at $20 billion in [...]
Friedrich August von Hayek – Prize Lecture The Pretence of Knowledge The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to face today, have made the choice of its topic almost inevitable. On the one hand the still recent establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science marks [...]
