Thanks to all CleanTechnica readers, writers, and friends that entered the 5th annual Masdar Blogging Contest. Masdar received a record number of entries this year, with 130 entries from more than 40 nations across 6 continents discussing the most critical solutions to mitigate climate change risks over the next decade.
A selected entry from the Masdar blogging content for 2017: perhaps the most important action young people are ready to take is to choose public transit over private transportation
A selected entry from the Masdar blogging content for 2017: Installing distributed energy systems like solar photovoltaic panels empowers people to shift from being a passive consumer of electricity to a Prosumer who sells power to the utility.
To create lighter footprints for millions of people — necessary for life-supporting air, water, and climate balance — more and better transit is critical.
My idea for an answer for the Masdar 2017 Engage Global Social Media Competition came to mind quite quickly after I saw the prompt, which is, “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that will have the greatest impact in reducing climate change risks?”
Climate change is a challenge unlike any other ever faced by humanity. It is the slow creep of change starting as a result of actions taken by humanity, building industries that helped hoist us out of thousands of years of toil into decades of technology-enabled prosperity.
The day after Christmas, in a cafe, I was sitting on a bench with my laptop on a table and I noticed my battery was running low, so I looked for a plug, which I did not see. A stranger must have seen me looking, because he said, “There’s one under the bench you’re sitting on.”
If someone were to ask you what one innovation in the next decade would make the biggest impact in saving the world from anthropogenic climate change and global ecosystem collapse, what do you think it would be?
Q. What will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that will have the greatest impact in reducing climate change risks? A. RE<
The most important technological innovation or development of the next 10 years in the cleantech sector? The answer to that question, in my mind, is the convergence of various technological and political factors relating to transportation. To be more clear, the convergence of governmentally imposed zero-emissions zones, self-driving vehicle technologies, electric vehicle technologies, and software solutions allowing for effective on-demand taxi service.
