This made me brainswoon. Enjoy.
http://www.vimeo.com/6045312by Esteban Diácono. Via the ever-wonderful SwissMiss
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Why don’t we think more like this?
Money quote:
The study indicates that using existing products and practices, such as weatherizing homes or installing combined heat and power systems, could result in significant savings by 2020, however, there are number of barriers, including the up-front cost, a fragmented array of products covering hundreds of thousands of buildings and billions of devices, and a lack of awareness that efficiency exists as a “fuel source” itself, McKinsey consultants said during a press conference, reports CNET news.
Emphasis added, by me, b/c I’m into emphasizing.
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Haven’t posted in quite a long time, partly because of business, partly because of a lack of gusto or joie de vivre in my life of late.
Then I saw this. It’s a mixed media opinion piece in the NYT.
Read the whole thing, but the money quote is:
Everything is invented.
Language. Childhood. Careers.
Relationships. Religion.
Philosophy. The future.
They are not there for the plucking.
They don’t exist in some
natural state.
They must be invented by people.
And that, of course, is a great thing.
Don’t mope in your room.
Go invent something.
That is the American Message.
Electricity. Flight. The telephone.
Television. Computers. Walking on
the moon. It never stops.
It captures all the things I think are right with humanity. It made me smile so wide my face almost broke. It made me excited.
There’s way more Ben Franklin where that came from. (via metacool)
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