We are entering a period of unprecedented change. Your Energy Identity is a description of the total amount of the world’s resources you consume. This is increasingly being converted into numbers (e.g. your carbon footprint), and these numbers are increasing in accuracy as more of the world is measured. These numbers have a substantial value. They help you understand your impact, they enable different types of competition, they stimulate change and they are tradable on financial markets. All of this applies to you, to every business, every government and country in the world. With Obama instigating Federal Cap&Trade this year, I’d like to bring some ideas to discuss what this might mean in the USA, and what impact that might have on the rest of the world. I’d also like to be present via a virtual link-up, rather than flying to the USA, in line with my own desire to actively reduce my footprint.
More from BIL 2009
- "Material Social Change" How a fabric company is transforming lives in local communities globally — Eve Blossom
- 10 Lessons I Learned from Starting Companies in a Downturn — Francine Hardaway
- 15 minutes with an evil genius — Whurley
- A Garage-Level Biomedical Research Effort is Taking on Death — John Schloendorn
More on Environment & Food
- (Underwater) Citizen Science — Kachina Gosselin ▶ video
- 10 Simple Ways for Better Coffee (aka. you are probably brewing coffee all wrong...) — Troy Gardner ▶ video
- Biohacked Wine : Kill Your Hangover — Todd White ▶ video
- Changing the World One Bite at a Time — Ilan Wright