Transition Towns Calgary
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A fun little 3 minute clip describing what people in Calgary are doing to build the world they want to see.
The many faces of transition
When people act from the heart, rather than habit, they discover what community is capable of.
And it’s no small thing.
Locally led initiatives, teach us what is immediately possible with the resources around us.
It is so simple – yet it can be an epiphany for people. A light turns on. People realise they can be resilient, they can change the future.
It is my great pleasure to speak for the future and help facilitate change in organisations and communities in New Zealand, and around the world.
Learn about what I do – then connect with me.
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Copenhagen - A motorised wheel for your bike - iPhone linked and Social Networked
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Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need a bit of a boost. It also maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time.
Controlled through your smart phone, the Copenhagen Wheel becomes a natural extension of your everyday life. You can use your phone to unlock and lock your bike, change gears and select how much the motor assists you. As you cycle, the wheels sensing unit is also capturing your effort level and information about your surroundings, including road conditions, carbon monoxide, NOx, noise, ambient temperature and relative humidity. Access this data through your phone or the web and use it to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve your exercise goals or to meet up with friends on the go. You can also share your data with friends, or with your city - anonymously if you wish thereby contributing to a fine-grained database of environmental information from which we can all benefit.
The Copenhagen Wheel will be unveiled on December 15 at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference. The project was conceived and developed by the SENSEable City Lab for the Kobenhavns Kommune. The prototype bikes were realized with the help of our technical partner Ducati Energia and funding from the Ministry for the Environment. Progical Solutions LLC provided technical support for the iphone control of the bikes. The components of the project are an electric bicycle wheel that can be easily retrofitted into any regular bicycle and location and environmental sensors which are powered by the bike wheel and in turn provide data for a variety of applications. The Copenhagen Wheel project demonstrates that small intelligent implementations can lead to major changes. This work will be displayed at the 2009 Cop 15 UN Climate Summit where the next version of the Kyoto Protocol will be signed.
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Do you know what it takes to power a shower?
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A BBC event: Bang Goes the Theory, showing how much electricity we use without even thinking about it. This massive experiment attempts to power a house for an entire day solely through human pedal power - while the unsuspecting family inside go about their normal Sunday routine. Will they drive the Human Power Station to meltdown?
When Kim first saw this, she was surprised by how much energy it takes, and found this so helpful in visualising what energy means.
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An incredible view of air traffic world wide
An incredible view of air traffic world wide. World air traffic 0-24 Hrs.... as viewed from satellite.
The yellow dots are airplanes in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on its axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and travelling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning. Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to North America in daylight. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes. From space we look like a beehive of activity. You could tell it was summer time in the north by the sun's foot print over the planet. You could see that it didn't quite set in theextreme north and it didn't quite rise in the extreme south. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter and have had to imagine just what is going on. With this 24 hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern move as well.
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e-Rockit bike
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3 wheel bicycle
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14 months cycling from Moscow to Beijing
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