Inspirational Leadership and Sustainable Values
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Tom Friedman and Dov Seidman at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
This a wonderful discussion on core aspects of change and preparation for
the next century.
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
There is an “I” in Vision
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010ash maurya
Practice Trumps Theory: Lean Startup + Customer Development + Bootstrap
There is an “I” in Vision
May 3, 2010
The press loves to celebrate stories of visionaries that saw the future and charted a course to intersect it with a “revolutionary” new product offering. In a visionary product launch there is no place for being too early or too late:
While these make for great stories, behind every visionary story usually lies years of hard work, experimentation, and learning. Even the unveiling of the visionary computer in Steve Job’s words were years in the making – The “revolutionary” iPad is built on at least 3 generations of software and 5 generations of hardware.
The story actually played out is never quite as simple:
First, there is never a single customer adoption curve but a whole family of them – with each customer segment adopting solutions at different rates. You launch based on your best understanding of who you thin
Bill Gates: Innovating to Zero
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 Finally, rational talk about energy and climate.
What are the options. What are the pros and cons…
Do yourself a favor and clear up any confusion that
you may have as a result of media PR campaigns and
sound bites.
Here is it: Innovating to Zero
More from Ed Mazria
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009I guess you can tell I’m a fan….
For the Greener Good “A Green World is a Safer One” from National Building Museum on Vimeo.
A Hog in a Tuxedo is Still a Hog
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009The NAIOP Disinformation Study
By Edward Mazria
I was wondering when it would happen, a Building Sector disinformation campaign launched by vested interests. Well, it’s happened. The campaign hit The New York Times on Saturday…
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Economic Policy, Economic Stimulus, Emerging Tech for Energy, Green Architecture, Sustainable Economy
The Science of Industrial Symbiosis
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Tue, Jan 20, 2009
What we are about to present is called industrial symbiosis. It’s an application of the broad emerging field of industrial ecology, a hybrid of technological, Earth, economical and social sciences aimed at sustainable development and efficiency. At its core lies the biological analogy according to which facilities related to industry are regarded as inherent or embedded in the ecosystem.
The essential idea is this: The more an industrial complex resembles a biological system (from the material and energy flow point of view), the better and more effective it is.
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Industrial Ecology