Matt’s Cuppa

I spent a ton of time today watching video clips of the presidential candidates talking about global warming and energy policy. After watching this video of Hilary Clinton, an idea began to dawn on me. Maybe this whole climate change thing is the biggest opportunity that the human race has ever had. Could we possibly have a better excuse to turn our minds toward innovation than global warming?

Today, when we hear the word ‘innovation’ we think of big companies and people running around in white lab coats. While that sort of innovation is going to necessary, if we just let the big companies to all the innovating,
we’re letting them down. We’re not doing our part.

Listening to The World: Technology report today turned me on to the website Afrigadget.com, a site devoted to “solving everyday problems with African ingenuity.”
The site highlights ways in which regular people are innovating to solve their everyday problems. This is what I mean by doing our part. It’s identifying an everyday problem and solving it with the earth in mind. And then telling the world about it.

Now THAT’S innovation!

This article was originally posted on my blog at Greenopolis.com.

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