Posts Tagged ‘Energy and environment’

So today is Earth Day (in Japan). The fact that there is only one day for the earth, and not even a holiday, reminds me just how serious our situation is. There are a number events that last at least weeks, and yet earth only gets a day. It seems easy to agree that our environment is getting worse and worse, yet so few people seem to care.

However, I think (I hope) we might be on the brink of a change. As gas prices are raising and other natural resources are becoming more scarce, things like electric cars (which I will be writing another article on shortly), solar panels, and water purifiers are becoming more and more prosperous. And as everyone has proven so far, it takes money to drive us to action.

On my two and a half hour round trip on the Tokyo subway each day, I have a lot of time to listen to audio books and podcasts. After watching an amazing presentation by Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen), I was turned on to TED. It now fills up a lot of my time on the train.

Today I watched an interesting presentation by Jenine Benyus titled Sustainable Design. It is all about how to use the materials and technology that organisms have developed over billions of years. Using this idea, we can create better products that don’t destroy the environment. See the video below.

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