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Archive for November, 2011

The future of Big will be Small

Posted on November 30th, 2011 in Uncategorized

In this article, McKibben envisions a decentralized future where multinational corporate solutions are replaced by small-scale, locally-serving producers of food, energy and healthcare. The difference between the cottage industries of the past and the farms, renewable energy generators and local clinics of the future? They will all be connected by grids of ideas and energy. […]

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Oil, you are a dinosaur. I’m ready for the next revolution.

Posted on November 02nd, 2011 in Behavioral Change, Energy, Green Design, Read

Welcome to the Third Industrial Revolution! It may or may not be televised (on YouTube), but watch for it over the next 50 years. In the meantime, get your public, market and social capital ready to start participating in the new grid of micro energy production and distribution. While the particulars of how and if […]

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