Successful Oversight – The Plan January 29, 2009
Posted by sunlightmyfire in Uncategorized.Tags: American accounting, Canadian Golden Age, canadians, oversight, success, teamwork, toronto
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What’s the solution to distributing stimulus money and making sure people put it to good use? Transparent oversight so that people who are interested in seeing where their tax dollars are going can check (Michael Moore, I’m talking to you). Piece A- the Internet.
Piece B- Pull some Canadians from the Toronto banking community. Let the new Canadian Golden Age be born. Their economy hasn’t tanked (yet) because they haven’t gotten embroiled in American Bushy BS. They stayed neutral.
Pick a few Canadian team leaders (appease the GOP, bring them in from Alberta if you’d like), let them bring their top teammates, and then employ all the desperate Obama-philes who toiled away through the campaign. Obama organizers created the mental change in America that will allow growth to be possible again. They could use Liveblog, internet, twitter, reality tv, get paid $48,000 for a one year contract and we’d be off to recovery. I believe with the right organizers in place, America can get out of this in One Year. We have the backbone, the organizing efficiency, and the worker potential to just do it. But bring in the smart, savvy, honest Canadians. They’ll stand on guard.
Canada and Better Place January 19, 2009
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, development, economics, green living, renewable energy.Tags: Better Place, canada, network, ontario, Palo Alto, shai agassi, toronto
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Imagine my surprise when I drove through paradise to arrive at the doorstep of Better Place. Marie told me it was my enthusiasm that made me think that rolling hills covered in grass, nibbled by herds of horses lit by glowing sunshine seemed like paradise; I think it was the horses.
That very day I walked in, Shai Agassi and his team were in Toronto celebrating Ontario’s commitment to join the Better Place network. Shucks, I was just in Toronto.
Congratulations Canada, you’re another name to add to the list of countries looking at the big idea. Way to go! But I’m going to not freeze here in California, thank you very much. I’ll try for an interview at Better Place sometime in the future, when everyone is back in paradise.
New Year New Green Money Making Idea January 5, 2009
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, cars, development, economics, education, green living, public transporation, renewable energy, solar energy.Tags: Austin, ben gulak, Bihar, carbon dioxide, carbon negative, cement, charles ransler, Darden School of Business, Husk Power, Manoj Sinha, MIT, Pandey, solar powered green car, toronto, toyota, traffic, TTC, UNO
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Toronto, giant city larger than Chicago by a few million people, moves everyone around on a subway system which reminds me of the Loop. But easier, convenient, fast, super clean and efficient. Yes, I said clean, we’re talking about civil Canada here. However, the traffic in TO reminds me of Los Angeles except the out the window visuals- it’s really cold, there’s snow and icey patches that lead to accidents… The difference is in the walkers, clad in professional pea coats (DC style), they stand in bar lines on Saturday nights concerned about freezing fingers, toes and noses… (Nothing compared to Montreal…) Toronto has it all, positive banker mentality, operations vs. finance, American banks are in crap, job interviews, expensive condos, Canadian political discussions (coalition government? must put it to a vote), savvy, a slightly slumping housing market (buy now, property is usually really expensive) and way too many signs telling people what not to do. But it’s the most amazing, diverse, dynamic city. You should go and I’ll hold my tongue and not bash it Montreal style (just like Michigan bashes Ohio, it’s our job).
Here are some fantastic money making green business ideas to start your 2009:
Carbon dioxide eating cement: Supposedly cement manufacturing produces 5% of overall global carbon emissions . This new cement idea is carbon negative, actually helping to reduce the overall carbon dioxide levels in the air by eating it. Delicious, thank you British engineers!
MIT freshman Ben Gulak, from Toronto interestingly enough, invented the UNO at MIT. Kind of a motorcycle but electric and uses two wheels side by side instead of front and back. Very very cool Ben.
Toyota and a solar powered green car. Enough $aid. And finally, news for the province of Bihar in India (think, poor, rural communities, family farming, many Biharis leave for Nepal and other provinces to work as help… but the Buddha hung out there so it’s an interesting place to visit). Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler teamed up with another Bihari named Gyanesh Pandey (Ganesh- elephant headed God of luck, money and travelers) and together they’ve developed a method that uses agricultrual waste to produce electricity. 300-500 houses get power for 8 to 10 hours a day based on their portable looking system. Good one guys!!
The Husk Power System, currently incubated in the Uof Texas business development center in Austin (Darden School of Business), creates small-scale power systems, developed for certain segments of society, but will help us all. Find out more, invest, help bring us into the future.
Happy New Year everyone!
I’m going going back back to Cali Cali… – BIG
