Problem: Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blindspot (http://www.blindspotdoc.com/) shows how the most basic assumptions about our future are wrong. How wrong? It is as if modern civilisation has got stuck in reverse gear, with economics that systematically, relentlessly messes things up.  Millions of...

Action: 1.  Notice the blindspot.  Notice that we've been trying to solve global problems with the same thinking that caused them. Do problems really become more manageable when tackled separately, here and there, a bit at a time? Don't get so distracted fiddling with pieces of the puzzle that the big picture is ignored.  For example our struggles to recycle a bit more have masked the ease with which all resources could be rescued to help our economy and planet. When we grieve about the latest armed ...

Problem: The problem as the majority of people think now, is the climate change. I for my part say that it is a question of a climate mixing. I mean that the climate zones of the Earth, the tropic, sub-tropic, temperate, sub-arctic and arctic, are mixing at an accelerating pace. The most important point is not if the average temperature of the global climate is rising or falling or keeping as such, but the key point is the melting of the continental glaciers that will not happen peacefully. The warm a...

Action: Electric Brick - El-Brick, My Free Invention   The El-Brick is an electric generating brick that gives a certain direct current and voltage when it is heated on one side, and kept cool on the other side. The El-Brick takes advantage of a phenomenon called heat electricity, not the photo voltaic one. When bricks like this are connected in a parallel, as well as in a series, greater currents, voltages and powers can be gained. Even entire brick walls could be built from them to absorb the elect...

Problem: The most common method used to generate electricity is by burning fossil fuels. This method not only creates a large amount of pollutants, but is also unsustainable. Current solar technology, although sustainable, is expensive and requires large amounts of electricity and silicon to manufacture due to the purity of silicon needed.   To make matters worse, silicon cells need to have a close to optimum conditions to work. That means - no shadows are being cast on the cells, it has to be a relat...

Action: Dyesol is leading the industrialisation of dye solar cell (DSC) technology, the most advanced 3rd generation solar technology. DSC has been described as the most promising advancement of solar technology since the invention of the silicon cell.   DSC has been described as 'artificial photosynthesis'. Instead of using chlorophyll, DSC uses a very thin layer of special dyes, on a very thin layer of light absorbing material to collect the energy from sunlight. This energy is transformed into ele...

Problem: No Nepal, aqueles que não têm acesso eletricidade geralmente fazem uso de lâmpadas base de querosene (cerca de 2,4 milhôes de famílias). Este tipo de iluminação nem é eficaz em termos de custos, nem é "ambientalmente sustenátvel". No âmbito macro, uma vez que o querosene precisa ser importado, o governo tem que gastar suas limitadas reservas de moeda estrangeira (e a taxa internacional de petórleo vem aumentando diariamente). No âmbito micro, a emissão deste tipo de fumaça afeta olhos e pulmô...

Action: Orientação comuniátria sobre tecnologias novas e renováveis. Distribuição/venda do Solar Tuki com plano de parcelamento do pagamento: embora o custo por conjunto do Solar Tukis seja de apenas US$50 (1 conjunto = 1 painel solar e 2 unidades de lâmpadas), famílias pobres não têm dinheiro para pagá-los de uma só vez. Assim, o pagamento facilitado pelo parcelamento. Eles pagam o investimento em parcelas, utilizando o dinheiro que, de outro modo, usariam para comprar querosene. Solar Tuki uma l...

Problem: The current transportation system - particularly in mega-cities (such as Mexico City) - is already starting to become obsolete, un-efficient, as well as a significant source of air pollution; it is a problem with many social & ecological consequences. Visit www.ecosite.ws/nuestroporque or www.climatecrisis.net to get a deeper description about this issue.

Action: EcoSITE - Soluciones Integrales de Transporte Ecológico (Integral Solutions of Ecological Transportation) - is a movement (originated in 2003) that joins talented engineers, industrial designers, urbanists, ecologists, researchers, volunteers, among other experts, specialists and professionals in different areas (specially from the main colleges and universities, starting in Mexico). The main objective is to design prototypes, distribute and offer leasing services through individual ecologica...

Problem: How can we help to kick-start the future energy efficiency development of the 3rd World and in the same manner approach helping US owners of foreclosed houses become self-sufficient and profitable small local green businesses?

Action: http://www.wiserearth.org/uploads/file/bfc2d4ddf476eddca901b6dab2b18b98/Beyond%202%20copy.pdf       New Ways out of the Housing Crisis                                 Ways out of the Mortgage crisis (Beyond a Citizen's suggestion)   What does it take to Change the World? Nothing! The World is always changing! What does it take to move the World toward where most would like it to be, ...

Problem: OUR CURRENT POWER GENERATION SYSTEM USES AN UNSUSTAINABLE MODEL, THAT HAS LED MANKIND INTO THE WRONG PATH     The world needs more electricity in the next 30 years. The US will grow its capacity, but China and India who are currently under supplied, are carrying a very rapid aggressive expansion policy to generate more than they currently produce. Current supply models are centralized, generate electricity using very large plants from multiple sources of energy, both non-renewable and renewab...

Action:  A DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM WOULD CORRECT THE PATH OF MANKIND AND ESTABLISH A MORE EQUITABLE WORLD ORDER   Having a stand alone, small electrical power generators based on Solar energy for the home, business, and light weigh industry would provide everyone, all over the world, the possibility of having modern living comforts and power tools to produce goods and services, that create well being. The small stand alone power generator would allow people in Asia, Africa, Latin America ...

Problem: Until recently, small wind technologies and devices were not available for small rural and homestead electricity-generating applications.

Action: SWEEP --- Small Wind Environmental Energy Project We are gathering founding members and crew for this small wind renewable energy development project on five rural acres of the Mendocino coast. This project is in early-stage development of visioning, prototyping and organizing those wishing to explore small wind renewable energy, rural wind farming techniques and flying wind turbines.

Problem: The Produktif SunSpaces ( Implemented at the Montreal Productive House condo project) is a prototype innovation for applying passive solar design to balconies and patios, allowing these spaces to become become 3- to 4- season winter gardens.To seize the essence of this feature, think of the housing envelope as the skin that reacts to outdoor weather, sun, temperature and humidity, or a house that expands or shrinks according to the seasons and the needs to either conserve heat (shrink) or exp...

Action: New Product Development Process:In order to develop the SunSpaces, a dedicated team was set-up to deal with this challenge as a standalone project. The object was to build a prototype specifically for the Montreal Productive House, with design principles and application methods that can be replicated and scaled for other projects.The solution was designed to rely on already existing materials. Several precedents exist from the vernacular architecture, ranging from verandas found in hot climat...