ecoINSITE

  • Search

Windowfarms: Social, crowdsourced hydroponics bring fresh food home

November 29, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Got a window? Then you can grow your own food. A group of driven, DIY-types from around the world are helping to bring hydroponic systems home. In her TED talk “A Garden in My Apartment” (below), Britta Riley of Windowfarms — vertical food gardens, if you will — shows how a socially-driven community of 24,000 hydroponics buffs […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured Tagged With: community, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, DIY, hydroponic, Kickstarter, open source, social media, TED, Windowfarms

Johanna Blakley’s TED talk bodes well for your ecoSocial efforts

March 21, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Don’t let the title of Johanna Blakley’s TED talk, “Social media and the end of gender,” fool you. Sure, social media and gender are at the heart of it, but there are other factors that are rewriting the rules of engaging with communities and consumers. Watch the video for some fascinating, research-backed insights that could […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial Tagged With: social media, social networking, sustainability, TED

Inspiration: William Kamkwamba

October 4, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

In covering green IT, or technology in general, I don’t have to look far for people that exhibit ingenuity and passion. (And make a buck, who are we kidding.) William Kamkwamba of Malawi stands apart, and not because he…

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: DIY, TED, William Kamkwamba, wind power

Recently…

  • Climate change highlights from Bill Gates’ 7th Reddit AMA
  • When solar sours the home buying experience
  • Watch: Nova’s Rise of the Superstorms
  • Microsoft’s green underwater datacenter project reaches phase 2
  • Earth Day 2018: Apple’s new robot recycler, Jane Goodall Google Doodle

Categories

  • Business
  • Cleantech & Renewable Energy
  • Cloud Computing
  • Company Profiles
  • Data Center
  • E-Waste & Recycling
  • ecoSocial
  • Environment
  • EVs & Green Transportation
  • Featured
  • Gadgets & Mobile
  • Green IT
  • Industry Voices
  • Living
  • Servers
  • Smart Grid
  • Stats & Figures
  • Storage
  • Uncategorized
  • Virtualization

Keeping good company

1E Blogs
TreeHugger
GreenBiz.com
NYT Environment
Inhabitat
Data Center Knowledge
Triple Pundit
SmartPlanet

About ecoINSITE

Visit the ecoINSITE.com About Page

This work by Pedro Hernandez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Creative Commons License

ecoINSITE RSS Feed RSS Feed
Site Map

Alltop. Bribes work.

Nuts n’ Bolts

Powered by Wordpress
Supercharged by Genesis
Hosting by Linode

Social

Visit ecoINSITE’s Facebook Page
Follow us on Twitter @ecoINSITE
ecoINSITE on Google+

© 2025 · ecoINSITE