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Hey NASA, we’re going to call it the Vancouver-levator. (or how Vancouver’s...
Space Elevator illustration by Kenn Brown and Chris Wren from Mondolithic (Vancouver’s own brilliant illustrators with a global fan base!) I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steven Jones, the...
View ArticleBorder wars: Plumbers union fights green building because the waterless...
I’m intrigued by stories such as this one in the ABC News about the plumbers union in Philadelphia who claim that no-flush green urinals are a health threat. I wonder if the union sees them more as a...
View ArticleWhy is $10/gallon gas a great thing? And what does it have to do with...
I think I have found the magic number. Every fifth article from Mark Morford is so brilliant, insightful, and articulate that I need to post most, if not all, of it here for my readers. Today is the...
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Hybrid Mini Cooper does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, has top speed of 150mpg, and can...
This car rocks. I’m a big fan of this type of vehicle design where the drivetrain, rather than using one engine that transfers power to the four wheels, simply uses one power source at the core that...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Summit 2006 – Day 2 / A Conversation with Jeff Bezos from Amazon.com
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Jeff Bezos, Amazon S3 and EC2 are storage and processing. They should not...
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Web 2.0 Summit 2006 – Day 2 / “It’s all about the infrastructure” by Debra...
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “It’s all about the infrastructure” by Debra Chrapaty, Corporate Vice President of Windows...
View ArticleAbout this site
This site contains my general blogging, published articles, and information on speaking dates where I discuss how business, technology, and finance can be used to create an open, healthy, and...
View ArticleCloud Definitions, Benefits, Issues and Opportunities
(This post is being cross-posted here but the original post is at http://www.undertheradar.com/blog) This April 24, 2009, I’m fortunate to be working with Dealmaker Media who will be hosting the 13th...
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Cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, Web Services call for companies closes...
Under the Radar Round 2 Calls! As many of you know, I am extremely fortunate to be assisting the Dealmaker Media team as co-chair of the upcoming Under the Radar event on April 24, 2009 in San...
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A Range Rover that gets 60mpg? Sign me up.
Check out the concept Range Rover that is aiming for 60mpg courtesy of this article over at Fast Company by Ariel Schwartz. Wow. This thing can get 60mpg??? I’ll believe it when I see it. But I have to...
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Tesla S announced: $50K USD car that seats 7, goes 300 miles between charges...
Okay, since I’m on the techno lust track today, here is the new Tesla S coupe that has been announced. Hmmm, toss up between this and the Range Rover. Is it just me or is there a significant overlap...
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How come Raser Tech and FEV can build a 100mpg Hummer and GM can’t?
Have you seen this new 100mpg Hummer H3? Holy crap. It accelerates 0-60 faster than its gas counterpart and gets 4-5x the mileage. Rasertech and FEV, an established auto design and manufacturing...
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Rinspeed Urban Commuter – perfect for Yaletown! (except you can’t buy one yet)
Cool looking little commuter concept car from Rinspeed. Cute! It’s like a pug. Imagine owning a pug dog and a Rinspeed? They’d be the perfect Yaletown accoutrements. Rinspeed UC: Want to Get More Miles...
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City of Berkeley launches their Climate Action Plan using Vancouver-based...
Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders...
View Article(EDITED) Thomas L. Friedman asks for a 50 page summary report in plain...
(EDIT: I said Milton Friedman who is of course, no longer with us, may he rest in peace. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.) Thomas L. Friedman wrote an excellent post over here at...
View ArticleInteresting reading: food that kills, augmented reality, death by board...
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality...
View ArticleThe last 14 billion years of technology and the next 50 years
Watch these in this order. They’re like peanut butter and jam. Perfect. Kevin Kelly tells the epic story of technology from the birth of the universe until now. Then Bill Gates asks for his one big...
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Two curves: My view on the BC cleantech sector at the beginning of 2010
I was asked recently what I had learned from my informal survey of the local BC cleantech sector. This was my response and I was encouraged to share it more widely. I’d love your own thoughts on the...
View Article2010 Q2 cleantech finance notes: cleantech deal volume up, banks finally...
This year started off with a bang with Deloitte heralding 1Q10 as a “record quarter” in terms of deals done (180 vs the previous high of 165 in 4Q09). But only $35M of the $1.9B raised was by Canadian...
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I’m in the June/July/August issue of Backbone Magazine talking about...
Does this mean I'm now a cover model? 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...
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