"Our core mission is to bring innovative energy solutions to people around the world. We began this quest working with rural Himalayan families to help find a solution to meet their energy needs. Five years and thirteen prototypes later, we’ve created a product that people love and significantly improves their quality of life. Right now, many families rely on SolSource for their daily cooking needs. SolSource saves them time and money, reduces their exposure to harmful stove pollution, and preserves the environment."
11 June 2013
SolSource ~ MIT Alumco Solar Cooker Kickstarts!
Our MIT Development Ventures alumco SolSource is Kickstarting!
Shale Potential ~ Global Map of Frackable Fuels...
Kevin Bullis in TR spots global shale potential... 
"The EIA report concludes that Russia has even more technically recoverable shale oil than the United States. Three countries have more shale gas—China, Argentina, and Algeria. Geologists have long known that some shale deposits contain large amounts of oil and gas, but it’s only recently that hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technology have made it feasible to extract."
10 June 2013
Sandbox Summit 2013 ~ Cities & Ventures!
Excellent to see the Sandbox Summit happening tomorrow Tues 11 June 2013. Great speakers including Robin Chase, Desh Deshpande, Clara Brenner, and more! And the overall theme is about Re-Imagining Cities Through Entrepreneurship, a topic near-and-dear to my heart.
09 June 2013
Global City Startups ~ Mapping Venture Geos...
Thanks to Brad Feld for spotting Richard Florida's piece in the Atlantic on The New Global Start-Up Cities and embedded maps by Martin Prosperity Institute's Zara Matheson... 
"The world [...] is spiky, with its most intensive economic activity concentrated in a relative handful of places. Global tech is no exception -- and it is taking a decidedly urban turn."
08 June 2013
Defend US Constitution ~ Rep Massie on DNA...
MIT alum and now US Representative Tom Massie excoriates recent and insidious violations of the US Constitution... P.S. Here's more Rep Massie courtesy Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie!
Stealing Africa ~ Why Poverty? on What's Right...
Why Poverty? shares Stealing Africa documentary...
"Zambia’s copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia’s copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years, they’ve extracted copper worth $29 billion but Zambia is still ranked one of the twenty poorest countries in the world. So why hasn’t copper wealth reduced poverty in Zambia? Once again it comes down to the issue of tax, or in Zambia’s case, tax avoidance and the use of tax havens. Tax avoidance by corporations costs poor countries and estimated $160 billion a year, almost double what they receive in international aid. That’s enough to save the lives of 350,000 children aged five or under every year. For every $1 given in aid to a poor country, $10 drains out. Vital money that could help a poor country pay for healthcare, schools, pensions and infrastructure. Money that would make them less reliant on aid."
For the Love of Physics ~ MIT's Walter Lewin!
You can never get too much of MIT's Walter Lewin! Alas, MIT has decided to persecute Professor Emeritus Lewin for his stupid personal outreach to some students which they claim is "harassment" or worse. MIT -- meaning the ankle-biters currently leading the Institute -- has decided via an extra-judicial process to not only banish Walter from his historical tenure-rights, but eliminate most of his videos. I consider this appalling and egregious overreach and anti-freedom, but I'm not one of the assholes in charge either, and they crap on me too for my outspokenness and willingness to call them on their infinite bullshit...
06 June 2013
Bedmap2 ~ NASA & BAS Visualize Antarctica...
io9 spots NASA IceBridge mission and British Antarctic Survey's Bedmap2 of Antarctica sans ice!
GrassRootsMobile ~ Pay-Per-Use Electricity...
MIT Media Lab's Pragun Goyal is in Nairobi, Kenya prototyping his GrassRootsMobile powerstrip that turns electricity on (or off) with the messaging of M-Pesa currency on pay-per-use basis...
05 June 2013
Mobile Eats World ~ Benedict Evans Slideshare...
Thanks to Fred Wilson for spotting Benedict Evans slideshare on Mobile Is Eating The World...
02 June 2013
Fertile Continent ~ Detailed Soil Atlas of Africa...
Thanks to Emeka Okafor at Africa Unchained for spotting the new Soil Atlas of Africa... 
"Using state-of-the-art computer mapping techniques, the Soil Atlas of Africa shows the changing nature of soil across the continent. It explains the origin and functions of soil, describes the different soil types that can be found in Africa and their relevance to both local and global issues. The atlas also discusses the principal threats to soil and the steps being taken to protect soil resources. [...] It presents a new and comprehensive interpretation of an often neglected natural resource."
01 June 2013
Big Cities ~ Global Map of Urban Agglomerations...
World Bank study on Cities & Flooding maps agglomerations... 
Jordan Swamped ~ Refugee Influx Overwhelms...
PBS reports on how Jordan Struggles with Next Door's Chaos and Influx of Syrian Refugees...
"More refugees continue to pour into the Hashemite kingdom every day, and this has put an enormous strain on Jordan. It's a relatively poor country that already hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Iraq war and more than two million Palestinian refugees who have come in various waves over the past 65 years. Last week, the country took out a $150 million dollars World Bank loan to deal with the refugee crisis, and King Abdullah made a plea for help at a World Economic Forum."
Life Begins at Rewirement ~ Uploaded Elderly?
io9 spots Life Begins at Rewirement short film on uploading the elderly as alternative way of future nursing care... See also Behind the Scenes...
Pangea Politica ~ Modern Borders Mashup Map!
io9 spots Pangea Politica, the supercontinent from 300 million years ago mapped with today's geopolitical borders... 
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