Not the TV show, but the journey that takes you on a path. If you look
at today’s market-place it is in turmoil, according to your neighbors and according to the media. My friend Bruce Karasik pointed out that there are really other things to be thankful for. http://www.goodnewsfriday.com/ . When did you realize things are bad related to the general world economy? By now you might see that in the Eco or Green world a revelation is occurring. More for the ‘productization’ towards economic solutions and rehabilitation of innovation and technical ideas that are of a greater economical supplanting of opportunity than that of just Green-washed – Green marketing habits by large corporations seeking your dollar.
What a huge and broad sweep. However, this particular blog is addressing what we should have been doing all these years and are just realizing now (read Thomas Friedman; Hot Flat and Crowded). Consumption is the root of the consumer’s assumption that if some one tells me it is good then buy it then need more then buy more. DON”T continue down the path of purchasing because it must be good. Know why you purchase and look to the smaller guy that has through innovation and passion brought the answer to you. i.e. local farmers markets that the community is part of keep those dollars in the community and brings the freshest of produce to you neighborhood. American innovation and collaboration is what built big business. Big business is what at many times crushed small American innovation and competition.
Think of the first Oil Barron families that made powered vehicles a
possibility. Where did we begin to rely on others or have the big
American company crush the spirit of the small innovator to bring a
powerful solution to a leading innovative country?
Green ads for energy companies say that they promote clean energy, hardware stores encourage you to buy green and large auto makers say if you buy our new hybrids it’s all good. STOP. Ask yourself as the consumer why you are getting so mad at the generally economy, the politicians and big businesses that say buy green now, you spend more and you pay later.
We are actually, spending now, paying for it later in a negative sense and not realizing that what our parents and teachers told us was right.
TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN THE ROOM. Just a big hint as to how to save at home or in your office.
A 50 million dollar plane and a 1 million dollar office remodel, the
abduction of monies from charitable Jewish causes and the big oil companies that some how were able to make gas cheaper because some storm just did not happen all says STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. Be innovative and look for the solution – it is in front of you, In front of me. I found one (www.adgecolp.com )
This blog is not a shout out, nor a shame-on big companies. It is a
simple request for all of us to take a look at how we operate. If you own a large factory, would you not want to find the way to reduce your energy bill while not compromising your demand levels? The power company will not help you get there like a small business will. (
http://sba.gov/) That Small business is more in tune with saving dollars than large companies. The bottom line though process is more significant to the survival of the American Family that the large company that employs the masses. I challenge you to find a solution and tell me, tell a friend. A small business that seeks to come up with the resolve is the solution.
Our energy crisis is on the verge of ending if the masses that make the decisions are ready to once again listen to the small guy. Are you one of them or are you LOST?
I’ll end this blog with a series of names, Hewlett/ Packard, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Nikola Tesla, (http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm)
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Schneiderman, Verne Harnish, Thomas Friedman; Hot Flat and Crowded.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Garage-Inventors-and-Propelling-Innovation-in-the-United-States&id=443969
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/inventors_1900_to_1999.htm
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Inventors 1900 to 1999
Inventors and their inventions from 1900 to 1999 have come to dominate our lives. Here are a few of the major inventions and their inventors from the Twentieth Century.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Orville was at the controls of the world’s first powered flight while
Wilbur observed (1903).
John Ambrose Fleming
Invented the diode – a vital part of radios and televisions (1904)
Christian Hulsmeyer
The first radar system used in shipping (1904)
Leo Baekeland
Inventor of plastic
(1905)
Reginald Fessenden
Invented radio broadcasting (1906)
Mary Phelps Jacob
Invented the bra (1913)
Gidoen Sundback
Invented the zip (1913)
John Thompson
Invented the sub-machine gun (1920)
Frederick Banting / Charles Best
Isolated insulin (1921)
Karel Capek
Invented the first robot (1921)
Clarence Birdseye
Started the idea of frozen food (1924)
John Logie Baird
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Invented the television – its first public demonstration was at
Selfridges in London (1925)
Robert Goddard
Invented liquid fuel rocket (1926)
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin and paved the way for antibiotics
(1928)
Frank Whittle
The jet engine (1930)
Percy Shaw
Inventor of the cats eyes – a major factor in improved road safety
(1934)
Laszlo Jose Biro
Invented the ball point pen (1938)
Igor Sikorsky
Inventor of the modern helicopter (1939)
Enrico Fermi
Built the first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago (1942)
Willem Kolff
Invented the kidney dialysis machine (1944)
Percy LeBaron Spencer
Invented the microwave oven (1946)
George deMestral
Invented velcro (1948)
Carl Djerassi
Developed the contraceptive pill (1951)
Sir Christopher Cockerell
Invented the hovercraft (1955)
Jonas Salk
Made the vaccine for polio (1955)
Jack Kilby
Made the first microchip – the start of miniaturisation of technology
(1958)
Wilson Greatbatch
Invented the first heart pacemaker (1960)
Douglas Engelbart
Invented the computer mouse (1964)
Stephanie Kwolek
Invented kevlar (1966)
Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James von Tassel
The portable calculator (1967)
George Gray
Invented the LCD and LED (1970)
Herbert Boyer
Pioneer of genetic engineering (1973)
Akio Morita
Inventor of the personal stereo (1979)
Tim Berners-Lee
Creator of the World Wide Web (1989)
Ian Wilmut
Headed team that produced the first cloned sheep – Dolly (1997)
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