World’s First Freshwater Wind Farm, in Upstate New York? Sandy Hook?
How awesome would it be to have a windfarm off of Sandy Hook? Ambrose Lighthouse is one of the windiest places on the East Coast, but also near a major commercial shipping lane. Q: How much of a collision hazard are these at night? In his blog post Timothy Hurst writes about the proposal to add the NY lakes into the mix of the various existing open ocean proposals: These would be the world’s first freshwater windfarms. In an initiative known as the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Project, NYPA released a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) to initiate efforts to develop offshore...
read moreYes, We Plan: How Altruism and Advertising Could Change the World
Here is a very interesting idea of using crowd sourcing concepts, combined with social media tools, to engage, organize and motivate people to actually accomplish something positive and altruistic, by helping them move beyond “just talk” or “joining groups”, and by enabling and empowering them into action in a novel way. I think that if successful, any tools that in large daunting projects help break down and reduce the scope into doable chunks, would have much wider applications in our lives both at home and at work. I think we could all use help in moving...
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