Posts tagged cleanweb
Progress Report: The Sharing Economy is coming of age
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Founder/CEO at Collaborative FundIn San Francisco, you can find the “Airbnb-of-everything.” Just as Airbnb capitalized on the fact that many of us have a spare bed, bedroom, or even apartment from which we’d gladly make some money, many other industries have…
The most ambitious component is a pair of opt-in energy-saving programs that kick in when demand for energy is at its highest. When these periods roll around, Nest owners can rack up extra savings by letting the thermostat intelligently decrease their household’s energy needs. And it’s not just the homeowner who benefits: Nest’s new features are also intended to serve another class of customers entirely: the utility companies.
On Friday night mingling in the recently opened collaborative space for start-ups AlleyNYC were people from different walks of life, each with an interest in the area or an idea. There was a psychiatrist who wanted to create crowd-funded solar projects, and someone who works in an IT department of a consumer magazine who’s interested in developing apps that would help increase the fuel economy of cars. Over the weekend, some 200 people participated in the hackathon.
By Sunday, judges picked three winners: Green Building Banner, a Google Chrome plug-in that brings energy data to consumers; Lean Green Stormwater, an online tool, which allows facility owners to calculate stormwater charges and savings under various stormwater mitigation investments; and Parkifi, a mobile app that helps users find a New York park with a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Every City Should Do This
Imagine the potential of a nationwide version of this map: http://nycsolarmap.com/
Cleantech: What’s In a Word?
How cleantech has been defined & maligned -and a capital efficient version…by @dkirk855 http://t.co/ty6X6fBi
Open Source software and crowdsourcing for energy analysis | Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Nice paper on how opensource, crowdsourcing will drive global energy analysis - @OpenEnergyInfo via @MLiebreich
Executive Summary
Informed energy decision making requires effective software, high-quality input data, and a suitably trained user community. Developing these resources can be expensive and time consuming. Even when data and tools are intended for public re-use they often come with technical, legal, economic and social barriers that make them difficult to adopt, adapt and combine for use in new contexts.
We focus on the promise of open, publically accessible software and data as well as crowdsourcing techniques to develop robust energy analysis tools that can deliver crucial, policy-relevant insight, particularly in developing countries, where planning resources are highly constrained – and the need to adapt these resources and methods to the local context is high. We survey existing research, which argues that these techniques can produce high-quality results, and also explore the potential role that linked, open data can play in both supporting the modelling process and in enhancing public engagement with energy issues.
Why Cleanweb Beats Cleantech by Sunil Paul and Nick Allen (by Nick Allen) - listen to the talk that Sunil Paul gave on cleanweb at this year’s SXSW.
Cleanweb leverages information technology for energy and resource gains. “It’s cleantech at web speed.”
Introducing Scoot Networks, the Zipcar for electric scooters — GigaOM
A startup called Scoot Networks is officially coming out of stealth on Wednesday at the Launch Festival in San Francisco and is announcing its Zipcar-style sharing network for electric scooters. The company has been incubated out of the accelerator program Greenstart, which launched last year and more recently revamped its focus on incubating startups in the intersection of green and IT.
Amazing Judging Panel for NYC Cleanweb Hackathon
Nick Allen laid it out. No need to restate the obvious awesomeness of this line up.
