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Elon Musk announcing Tesla's new battery system. «I've watched a lot of handsomely paid CEOs get on stages for keynote presentations over the past decade - says T.C. Sottek, senior news editor at The Verge - and none were as good as the one I saw Elon Musk give Thursday (April 30, 2015) night in California … Continue reading Selling a better future.
Cinque investitori da un lato, aspiranti imprenditori dall’altro. Obiettivo? Convincerli a finanziare il proprio progetto. Su Italia 1 dal 21 maggio. Ecco in arrivo "Shark Tank", il programma dove le startup sono sotto esame. In onda su Abc dal 2009, negli Stati Uniti Shark Tank è giunto alla quinta stagione, toccando una media complessiva di … Continue reading Arriva Shark Tank …
Ieri ho avuto il piacere di moderare insieme a Michaela Egebrecht il convegno al TIS "Tecnologie luminose innovative" organizzato dall'Area Sviluppo prodotto & Nuove tecnologie. Il tema della luce, nelle strutture per anziani ma non solo, è quanto mai importante per il comfort (vedi anche il Gruppo di Lavoro IEQ presso il TIS). Aggiungo che il … Continue reading Guiding light.
When impossible suddenly becomes possible. Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, (born 23 March 1929) is an English former athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute-mile. In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres, but did not win the medal he expected. The humiliation strengthened his resolve to be … Continue reading Roger Bannister.
«Biomimicry is the conscious emulation of life's genius. Innovation inspired by nature» - Janine M. Benuys, "Biomimicry", 1997 Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on … Continue reading You don’t know how? Ask Nature!
The Sustainable Innovation Management Blog compie 3 anni … Grazie a chi mi ha seguito fin qui e a chi continuerà a seguirmi ! The Sustainable Innovation Management Blog wird 3 Jahre alt ... Ich bedanke mich bei all jenen, die mir bis jetzt gefolgt sind und es weiterhin machen werden ! The Sustainable Innovation Management … Continue reading Happy anniversary ! 3 anni di post.
Home again, after three days as a "sponge" in Seattle, absorbing a fascinating mix of technical knowledge, sustainability principles and visions of the future. A Living Future, like the name of the ninth annual “unconference” organized by the International Living Future Institute. Architects, landscape architects, engineers, ecologists, manufacturers, and other professionals focused on sustainability in … Continue reading Highlights from LF15.
After one year, I'm back, this time in Seattle, at the Living Future unconference 2015. As always, eager to learn, to exchange views with the participants, to listen to the keynote speakers and best-practices, togo through the Living Building Challenge. The time for “Do less harm” has passed. It’s time for the beginning of being; … Continue reading Place and Community. The LF unConference.
Il Gruppo di Lavoro Indoor Environmental Quality - IEQ In Europa si trascorre mediamente circa il 90% della propria giornata in ambienti interni: di conseguenza la qualità di tali ambienti ha un’influenza significativa sul benessere, sulla produttività e sulla qualità della vita. Traffico, smog ed emissioni di CO2 degli edifici sono tra le cause principali … Continue reading Non è aria fritta …
While I was watching on TV the football match between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus Turin, there was a recurring commercial by Nissan claiming «Innovation that excites». The word “innovation” inside an advertising? Great. So I began wondering, how often the concept of innovation is intentionally used by companies to attract more customers? Moreover, what type of … Continue reading Innovation that …
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