Thanksgiving Video Assignment

For the class assignment for Wednesday November 26, 2014 watch at least one of the videos below and bring a 1 to 2 page analysis of the video to the next class meeting December 3, 2014

Amory Lovins: Reinventing Fire

Thomas Friedman at Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy

JB Straubel CTO Tesla on Battery Technology

Stefan Heck on Resource Revolution

Natural capitalism reading:

Read chapter 1. The chapter is available online as a pdf file.  Chap 1


There was an interesting presentation at the Verge conference talking about the future of energy

Future of Energy

Reading Assignment

Here is your reading assignment for this week:

Natural Capitalism Chapter 1

Upcoming Commonwealth Club Presentations

Below are some of the Commonwealth Club of California presentations with a green subject matter scheduled over the next couple of months. Most are very inexpensive for students and are often free if you become a member. None of these are required, they are merely listed as a resource for anyone that might be interested

Sun Spots on the Solar Industry in California: January 30, 2012

Cruising 55 on the new fuel economy standards: February 13, 2012

Water World on the growing stress or freshwater supplies: March 29, 2012

Lighting Up Lives on Solar projects in the developing world: April 2, 2012

Fall 2011 Term Project

The project for the semester is to develop a plan for a new green business or a plan to green an existing business.

Questions you should answer in the project are:

What is the product or service you are going to offer?

What is it about this product that makes it green?

Who will your customers be?

What advantages will your product have in the marketplace?

Who is your competition?

What problems will you have to overcome in the marketplace?


You can choose any aspect of green and sustainable business that interests you.

Some ideas include:

Recycling
Alternative energy
Organic Foods
Sustainable Farming
Socially Responsible Business
Zero Emissions

The project is due by Dec 14th. The last night of class.

Transportation viewing

Here is Amory Lovins Ted presentation on winning the oild endgame

Oil Endgame

Here is the link to the book web site if you're interested. Read the executive summary but read as much as you're interested in

Oil Endgame Book


Interesting presentation by Bill Ford on gridlock

Bill Ford


This is nearly the identical presentation Amory Lovins made at the Commonwealth Club done for the Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Lovins

Some Things to Watch

Most of you probably found the natural capitalism web site on your own but here it is if you need it

Natural Capitalism

Vindod Khosla's talk at Earth Day 2009 at Google. It's a long presentation and not required but worthwhile to watch if you are interested. He discusses many of the topics I spoke about in the news tonight.

Vinod Khosla