The European Union’s original carbon targets are history. The new EU climate-change scheme was revealed today, power companies and other emitters will have to ratchet up their use of renewable energy. Country by country these targets will be sorted into directives, industry will have to pay for the right to pollute. Carbon trading schemes (cap-and-trade) [...]
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EU Carbon Targets
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, HEH, POLITICS on January 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Orange Shop Window
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, MUSIC, TELECOM on January 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Orange have come up with a clever attention getter for their shop windows, watch the video: Orange’s interactive window was developed by The Alternative. The window uses gesture-based technology to allow users to wave a hand and a projected image inside the store responds to the movement. With no interface such as a glove, mouse [...]
Mark Mothersbaugh Interview
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS, POLITICS on January 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Enjoyed reading this Andreas Trolf interview with Mark Mothersbaugh. Trolf begins: We got to the Scion Installation gallery late in the afternoon after getting seriously lost in the maze of Southern California industrial backwaters. The gallery sits inconspicuously on a residential street in Culver City, itself another in the list of inconspicuous Los Angeles sub-divisions, [...]
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, TELECOM on January 3, 2008 | Comments Off
Heh. The noise in the room re Twitter is pretty high at the moment. Everyone seems to have an opinion whether Twitter has an exit or how Obvious will monetise their business, it’s all somewhat amusing. Anyway, I just got around to viewing Ev’s talk at Le Web 3 2007, here’s the vid if you’re [...]
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