Comments on: The Facebook IPO’s Connection to Solar Energy

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:39:00 +0000

Nice.

By: TomSparc

TomSparc — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000

Good comment.

“Solar energy is the energy of the people. To use this energy does not require big investments of only a few big corporations. It requires billions of investments by billions of people. They have the opportunity to switch from being a part of the problem to becoming a part of the global solution.” http://www.rightlivelihood.org/scheer_speech.html

By: Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Here is another connection between Facebook and sustainability: They published their designs for a super-efficient data center as a gift to the world. Their techniques do not give them a competitive advantage, so they decided to share them.

By: Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:39:00 +0000

http://opencompute.org/

By: Drew Sowersby

Drew Sowersby — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:50:00 +0000

I love this coupling. I will add DIYbio, trailer park restaurants, (modularity), increasing entropy, work plurality, and other social networks like G + as support for the comparison. On a mathematical note, the fractalization pattern is spiraling ever quicker toward emergence. This thing will self assemble as some point into a novel, yet unpredictable force. Could get ugly

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:14:00 +0000

“Decentralization, and diversification will be the keywords of the 21st century.”

I agree.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Spot on for me. I’ve been thinking along the same lines lately. Decentralization, and diversification will be the keywords of the 21st century.

Decentralized finance (kickstarter, et al), decentralized manufacturing (3D printing companies), decentralized power (community and individual solar).

If the debacle of the Euro has proved anything, it’s that homogenization is a recipe for disaster.