Nesmith's Notes

Entries for October, 2008

General session audience

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General session audience, originally uploaded by Alex Dunne.

The inaugural Cloud Summit held in Mtn. View, CA, was well attended with attendees representing many of the California technology companies and their suppliers of money and advice.

The Encyclopedia of Life

David Pogue interviews E.O. Wilson, founder / father of the Encyclopedia of Life and learns about mushrooms and ants. Predicting we have identified less than 12% and maybe as little as 1% of the species on the planet there are big hopes for this collaborative experienment.

Generation-WE

This video is worth a few minutes of your time.

The Generation WE movement is the largest generation in history, they are independant – politically, socially, and philosophically – and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Check it out.

Replace the White Picket Fence with a White Roof

Is a white roof in your future? Reflective Roofing may in fact be most cost effective geo-engineering option for fighting Global Climate Change. Roof and pavement surfaces with a higher albedo, or ability to reflect the Sun’s energy back into space, may prove to be a critical factor in buying us enough time to lower [...]