>:( GTA: GO Scam, yourself!

The Metrolinx / GO decision to electrify the corridor is wrong.

I will publicly debate my assertion with any expert, in any forum, at any time, from any country, but there is a catch, all questions must be answered using science based arguments, not bullshit, politics or opinions.

I am using math and the total energy method. Just so you know: "Gas-Bags" save your breath, I will not engage with non-scientists.

I find that the Metrolinx is another example of finding the “best-most-expensive but poor-performance-and-cost-decision” possible.

When they call this Green, then I swing into action! This is so far from green, but, we can all learn more about green. This project has the correct intent: help the environment.

So, lets do that and show Metrolinx that their report has a big carbon footprint as well: what a waste of time! Can I back-charge these clowns for my time? Nah! I am a volunteer! ;)

Why deliver quality solutions to the taxpayer when you can hide the "greenwash under some green icing on the happy-green-tax-cake"?

For those that bought into this huge “green” decision: you were screwed, please excuse my candour.

The decision to spend ~$10 Billion dollars to put a third electrified rail on the corridor represents a “well oiled tax wasting" process: slick. An apathetic public sold another "old and well used tax Trojan”.

What has changed? Well, this is 2011! Lets innovate and create jobs! $10 Billion in debt? No thanks!

If you think I am not qualified to issue such an assertion, lets just say I personally know one of the designers that worked with electrified rail systems for a big train company: Amtrak. Years ago we had this same discussion. His opinion was the same as mine, but, that did not stop him from working on the “big fat budgeted tax gravy train”. He said “I am smart, not stupid, you want a third rail? What color (he is an American) and when?”.

This entire process of converting the existing infrastructure is a construction company wet dream! Also, the lawyers have something to look forward to. I wonder how many new yachts will appear in the Toronto marinas this spring? Will one of the Yachts have "Amtrak" on the back? I jest.

It is interesting to look at this study and how it was performed. Why is it flawed from the start? The best way to choose the “one you want” is to not include the better solution on the list of choices. Simple.

This is "planning for profits 101" for any massive capital intensive project. Everyone lines up at the trough and the taxpayer gets the shaft.

Put some green lipstick on this pig and presto: lets stimulate the economy! Maybe it can be a new, ethical model and/or CPC platform: screw the taxpayer and call it environmentally friendly. I digressed fully.

I have a better solution: innovation. It is cheaper in cost ( both monetary and environmental costs ). It saves more energy both in transition/conversion plus operation cost and the maintenance costs. It also has less security risks (national security and operational security). It requires very little modification to existing infrastructure. But, most importantly: it reduces emissions not increases them, as the Metrolinx decision does.

This open talk must be "horrible discussion" for the Metrolinx group.

I hope the Ontario Minister of Transportation will act accordingly and decline this project and choose a solution that models my solution.

All the folks waving their “Dirty Diesel” signs is noble, but, if they saw the energy math, they will question this Metrolinx decision process. Good! Their solution is not Green, in fact, it creates more emissions and is more energy expensive. That is math folks.

The decision of Metrolinx represents the old system: “legalized tax theft”?

Being an active citizen, I must respond to this for many reasons, I will share three. My premise for these reasons: the energy rules have changed (the free market solutions for the environment do not work).

No longer can we choose "old ideas" that use more energy. Period.

Here are my "top 3" reasons:

1.) This project is trying to provide greener results and it fails that test, on paper, using math. This project is greenwash, and I can prove it.

2.) Second, this project will cost-overrun. You can take that to the bank now, before we even start. Just a feeling I have about private industry cost overruns.

3.) The construction related time delays, alone are huge! Plus, the non-value added work will cost billions (not to mention the tax subsidized energy required to execute the plan). Did I mentioning GO passengers wasted time? Did I even start talking about all the trucks hauling equipment and stuff. A full math analysis would find this plan guilty of energy incompetence.

I can go on, but, lets keep this one short, for now.

Enjoy!

P.S. - Sorry if I seem emotional, but, this is not green and I like to expose Greenwash. My green dream is to provide Toronto Jobs and an exportable technology revenue product for Canada. Oh ya, it will cost less in taxes. Win - Win - Win - Win ( the first win is the environment ;)





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(: Math & Geek & Blog & Cloud :)

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:) Carbon Dating Markets

Radiocarbon Dating Markets: Carbon Copy Criminals Driving Ms. Daisey?

It is funny to see the Wall St. Crowd trying to catch a wave on the "green industry": Carbon Trading. The next big thing. The Y2K of earth: carbon. Sell it! Harder!

I am not buying into this carbon market. Either do you.

The entertaining thing about all this: I have a solution, not an opinion. I am action. Check my first blog, or read on.

Trading is an important asset to human behaviour, it "helps" both sides? Way back when, was trading the inspiration for currency? I am not sure. The thing I am sure about is the validity of markets: “kinda weaselly”

Look at our free market system: manipulated. The system is not regulated, thus, inefficient and uncompetitive globally. Will all the business people wait for carbon markets?

And, I have seen issues with some of these "adventures in market making". One example I will bring to this story is the rights of the indigenous people to harvest, naturally, their traditional lands.

Some of these people use nature to suppliment their incomes. Yes, some are over harvesting, but, access to nature should not be restricted: is that a human right? Access to water, shelter and food. I have seen a few documentaries on this and I think that everyone needs a wake up call.

People can manipulate the carbon market system. People can disseminate information illegally for market advantage. People can misrepresent assets. People can lie, cheat and steal: and they do. White collar crime is the place to be for any weasel looking for a dishonest buck.

And here we have some carbon credit theft: next to RFID theft, these are the two growing markets I see. Talk about free markets providing security of investment: what a joke. George is such a negative dude? Or is he using reverse psychology? Who cares! Lets move forward.

Some see alternative energy and protecting our planet as a business opportunity, and it is. But, the opportunity is only “real” if there is a net benefit to our ecosystem ( Return on Environment). Greenwash scams and government programs that do not add this “net benefit” are a waste of tax dollars.

The limits of our planet are tangible, unlike the human symbol : money.

It is funny, I have had my green investment chart at the top of this page for a long time. Maybe that image can explain what you already know: we need honest capitalism. Laugh now?.

Nice Pierre: "What is your suggestion". Yes. What is the Canadian solution for energy independence? I have an idea.

The Carbon market is the evolution of these two concepts “connecting”: “Money & Reality”. Do you trust traders and business people enough to save our planet? I do not, not with the current security controls on markets.

And what exactly are we going to get delivered? If there is a crisis, what is the risk with this "Carbon Market". These are all big questions. Watch the price of gas start to rise. The Wizard of Oz knows. How sensitive will Carbon Trading be?

How many overpaid executives need to make my easy decisions? None. Shak mat.

Lots of "business scum" "polishing up the next Vega"?

The "Carbon Market" future? The dream of the free markets: "people getting what they need". We can all see the issues.

I get into this discussion quite often: the effectiveness of markets. I think they are history, myself. Free markets will not be controlled. Did the middleman just get the shaft ? (***WARNING*** Advertising that I do not endorse, just find funny)

I will be submitting my “Eco-idea” to General Electric. Then you will see what I am talking about. I “donate this simple concept” to them to first show I have ideas and secondly, there is $100 million up for grabs. I came up with this concept in 1996, so it is 15 years now. Ahead of its time: of course.

This "shark" is too big for a CBC sitcom, sorry Kevin.

I do not need governments or markets for capitalism: I have the Internet. I am tired of the middlemen. I am tired of their heartless crimes against citizens and investors. Taking their money. It is not fair. And I am talking about the bad ones, I know there are many great investors out there. You can usually tell a good investor by : results.

It would be interesting to see the batting averages of some executives when it comes to actual job performance, but, even that is changing in the USA. I do not defend free markets: they are not free.

That is why I will design this system. I am sick of the greed with no results. I am tired of this behaviour. Businesses taking peoples futures and no returns. Taking their money then telling everyone to be careful in what they invest in: “meanwhile back at the offshore banks....”

Making a market is power. Market Makers make the market. They create the “dream” and the lemmings start running towards the dream. So, can I create a dream, an idea? Can I create my power? My power to empower? Sounds hot. I think it is.

Yes, I can. I am going to. I saw a tweet, and here I am with my next design experiment with actual tangible results. What is the worst that can happen? GE is a friendly company? Maybe they will send me an Email.

Some people may be thinking I am silly to let this easy design out of the bag, but, it is too big for a small fish like me. I can only do so much. GE can invest billions, and that would take forever, for me :)

I have seen many “green” companies over the past 15 years steal investors money: selling the dream.

Companies like Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL): executive pay packages that exceed revenues for years on end. Diluting share value with the annual yank of the “toilet paper roll of blank cheques”. Getting option packages that require on thing: breathing.

I pick on FCEL, because it is simple. Being a product designer I did a “my deep analysis” on the product and the market. Poor business case, but, because they are “green” people keep throwing money at them, and the execs keep buying those big cottages on Marthas Vineyard (you know who you are). What a gig! A hard days work.

As an aside, I predicted that most US manufactured alternative energy technology would be made in China: no US jobs for the taxes used to invest in the technology. This trend has already started. Of course all product designers understand that "we can trust the Chinese government with our Intellectual property".

Is IP obsolete as well? I am not sure. I guess it depends on your “bucket of lawyers”. (Colbert Vs. Wikipedia : Classic! )

If you look at some of the qualifications of the these "Board Members", of some of these "new energy upstarts", you will see a common theme : big degrees, pretty faces and no results.

I am not saying do not trust all companies, just be wise and do your homework. When it comes to stocks, I have read company reports since I was teen. I thought it was cool that you could buy a stock and make money by “doing nothing”.

I have watched mutual fund companies buy into "the FCEL's of the world" and get fleeced. A common trend. Green funds? Check please. And just like ABCP, everyone love a great story!

I have some great investment stories! But, for the common investor, if you cannot time the market, sometimes all those gains go poof! Makes me sad for all those people that invest parts of their retirement on some mutual funds and some stocks. Does the ordinary person have options?

Does the ordinary person have money to invest? Looks like Canada followed the “credit lifestyle” as seen on TV.

Carbon Markets: the next dream. Sizzley! Especially when we are "cooking the planet" and "blowing it up". How many wars are going on? What is the carbon footprint of the military corporations? I digress.

Carbon Markets : Obsolete? : That is all I am saying.

Unscrupulous CEO and Company Officers using the free market to basically steal money for the “dream”: an honest investor ( or mutual fund ) buying shares for future growth can get screwed. Not always, but, the risk is the Global Market.

With well timed wars, one can get extra-rich fast! I refused to invest in military stocks after 9/11. My hand picked up my phone and I was ready to buy my splash of stocks "I could depend on performance". No names, but, I am sure you can find them on Google.

I told a friend of mine to invest $10K in the Google IPO, I wonder how they are doing?

Can we trust "Free Markets" with the even more important task of creating a greener planet? No, I do not think that is efficent. Just my opinion. Sorry Charlie (stop eating tuna)

The idea is simple: invest in green energy correct? Incorrect!

The Wall St. gang of thugs is a well oiled process of taking your money and delivering nothing. Much like the Insurance industry and the Justice System: no access for the poor or needy. No access.

Governments are telling me that a private investment model is more efficient and costs less? This is incorrect: especially when government fails to innovate itself, and the “private system” "swoop in to save the day". I will explain this in my next blog. Lets progress.

Do you believe this? Well, I have a galaxy for sale: Cheap! Get in early! Think of all the energy you will own in stars! Buy now and get black hole insurance: operators are waiting for you "big happy" call!

The difference between symbols and tangible assets is a "material matter evidence factor thing". It is about holding that investment tool in your hands. The “economic wizards” in the USA think that gold is security. Gold is not security.

Energy is: “Energy is the new gold.” - me

Markets have been the "symbol" of "free trading" of "commodities" ever since the first farmers market. Society has held this trading and barter method ever since “I wanted that and they wanted this”. With communication comes opportunity.

Trading is the way to have what "you made" and some of what "they made". It is called market diversity. With no money or surcharges for service: It is called community.

Well, that is how "it" started. Now we can see how the markets work: you typically get ripped off: unless you are special in the eyes of the bankruptcy judge.

So, lets wrap this one up. Markets were developed to create a market. This is pretty basic. I do not need this. Why should I have to pay to go through anyone to get my booty? ( Explicit Lyrics )

Carbon markets: "#DGD : thumbs down".

Enjoy!

P.S. - I am a "GE Capitalist"?: “Captain of Industry”? No, just a simple designer. Will the idea I share make me a "General of Free Market Capitalism"?. Cool! #hohohojollygreengeneral ;)





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:) My Green Dreams!

Wow!

I can quantify the subjective and objective positive feedback and support I am getting now! It is called this amazing feeling I have right now!

I started "this" on November 2nd, 2010.

68 days later, I have over 1000 followers on twitter!

I have been deleting many folks from my followers list. I am proud of my list! I have screened out bots ( to the best of my ability ), fake green greenwash stuff ( like the DIY solar panels trash etc. ), and pure marketing stuff.

I "collect": People, Organizations, Science Resources, Professionals and Experts that I feel "add green value to my environment" : Earth.

The coolest was hitting that 1000 mark today! 1000 green twitter followers!

#1000? Well, I would like to thank:

The Corps Network @TheCorpsNetwork : The Corps Network is the voice of the nation's 143 Service and Conservation Corps. Currently operating in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
The Corps Network is the voice of the nation's 143 Service and Conservation Corps. Currently operating in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

You are my part of my green dream! I sure hope you stay on for the green-haul!

I like the quality and breadth of my followers!

I am not scared to blog about any green issues, greenwash, green this and green that!

The "body of my blogs" gives you an idea of why so many different people follow me.

One thing is for certain : my followers have something in common: concerns for our environment.

Some are just beginning their "green journey" others are professionals, experts and educators in the fields of : economics, genetics, education, evolution, music, environmental law, politics, psychology, math, engineering, human rights, poets, writers, leaders, philanthropy, physics, nutrition, architecture, health & medicine, design and some real freaky geeks I do not have time to label!

Why do all these people follow some "#iearth1st guy" in Toronto?

Because I have something in common with everything you own: A product designer somewhere designed it. A sketch, an idea or perhaps free intellectual property designs such as the fork.

I have evolved my green too! If I can design something to "50 Micron Repeatability in a high volume serial manufacturing, 6 sigma environment, I can design a fork as well."

Being a designer is a curse! Don't ever try it! Just kidding. But seriously, it is a curse! Everything that I am "forced to buy" ( i have no other choices in these "free markets" ) is typically crap. "If it is not Scottish its crap" - Mike Myers.

He was joking, Scottish people have no clue on how to design things. But seriously, I share with you my simple green approach to understanding green.

If you think that replacing your current products with green ones is green, you need serious green therapy, please start at the beginning of my blogs.

If you think that an "Eco Label" makes something green, you need serious green therapy, please start at the beginning of my blogs.

If you are crazy about the future of your planet, you are the only resource you have to making "green" green. That is a fact! Use yourself today!

George Carlin has a funny bit about guys like me and he is right! How can people take care of the planet when they cannot take care of themselves and their neighbors and their neighbors neighbors.

As much as people wish to assert their individuality and their me-ness, we are all basically the same. We come from the same tiny twig on the same tree of life.

Some folks see consumerism as a means of self expression. It is!

Are humans stupid? Yes! I never claimed that humans are smart.

Thanks for a very boosting 68 Days!

Enjoy!

P.S. - Tomorrow is my 69th day on twitter! Look mom, no "69" jokes!



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>:( Water Eh?

Canadian Water: Eh!

With the free trade agreements come “the good, the bad and the ugly”: Canadian Water Sovereignty?

So, what is Canadas future "happiness" with privatized water going to be?

I have been following "the water story in Canada" for a few years (~15). Just the occasional blurb here and there, more of an interest. I did notice that water stories are very low on the news "totem pole".

I watched the civil unrest in Bolivia and the "failed privatization schemes" with water. I watched how corporations operate: profits first, shareholders second and there is no third. It is also interesting to note that shareholders are getting screwed too these days.

I wonder if the Bolivian government still suggests that its citizens just steal the water? They will not prosecute violations of water theft, so, this leaves me to assert: is such chaos in a privatized model delivering the best quality service? Of course, no.

Insurance companies have clout with governments, but what about water companies? Will they have more clout? I assert yes. Quality is not required on captive markets. This is business 101 for the big boys: Refute at will, on your own time please.

Canadian "trade talks" politics is a joke? Here is the one of most resource rich countries in the world and we trade those resources away with little foresight to our own future or for what we get in return. I mean we, the Canadians. Not the new "tax funded legal adventure into the EU". Looks like Harper has no worries about "softwood 2.0" and how free trade benfits courts and corporations, not citizens. I think we have all that we need in Canada.

I took a "big shot" negotiations training course for the company I worked for. They offered any training I wanted and I took every opportunity they gave me. I loved that course. It was a very expensive: for "automotive executives and vice president types". I was the youngest in the class while most others were top* executives at GM, Ford and Chrysler and also their suppliers.

My Company made big things, some of our products were in the 500 million dollar range, negotiations were complex. Good thing I was not involved in that stuff. I just took the course for my "sprouting green company on the side". But, it did help me in dealing with all of my suppliers at the company. I guess we both benefited.

I took this course very seriously, seems like most took it to “get out of the office for a week and free lunches at the Dearborn Inn.” WWHFHFL :( What would Henry Ford have for lunch )?

I always scored very high in my negotiations "challenges". When others “inked a deal” for a fictitious $100,000, I would close it for $400,000. BOOYA! I scored the highest in most exercises. Why? Because I was stupid.

Although my deals were "worth" the most, they were also the most unrealistic: my customer would have gone out of business, but, man, my bonuses would have rocked!

I lacked experience, but, it was fun to put the “big numbers on the board" and get the feedback from the instructors wondering: who is this canuck anyways? Fun and I got paid to do it. It was also entertaining to see the look on the face of the dudes that shook my hand earlier, after the numbers were put up. Beating "the best" was fun, but, immature. I even skipped 3 lunches to work on strategy.

I learned a lot: mostly that “a pathetic executive that is looking forward to lunch” was my "easy breakfast snack".

Negotiations are a tough game. “Honest” negotiations are harder. When both sides benefit, that is the perfect “balance”. A strong customer benefits your business! It is called sharing? Yes. The more each side shares, the better and stronger the relationship. This is what experience has taught me, when inking contracts in the real world. You just have to make sure your product will make money: That is my captialism 101.

I have always tried to establish strong relationships with all my customers: not many left in Ontario. That is a fact. Most companies failed to innovate: too expensive "they" said, so they outsourced. Some would blame a McGuinty government, but, ownership and responsibility was directly in the hands of the business owners: they failed to invest and innovate.

What was more sad was visiting places that you knew would be out of business in short order. Such "smart" business models these people had. At least they had that fresh young look, so they could all get jobs at their next MBA-abomination. You know who you are. I wonder if they went to lunch at that new local food menu joint afterwards. I assert yes, because we did.

Sorry Kevin O'Leary, "your free markets crew" was too stupid to comprehend the future value of "being in business to make profits".

Innovation is money: Europe is innovation savvy, Canada is innovation impaired. Sorry Canada: that is a fact. Canadian executives and their cookie cutter mentality: look at the environment they were raised in: razed on. That is evolution folks. Funny how most good Canadian products are used elsewhere other than Canada. Why is that? Have any clues?

My "Canadian Dream" is a "healthy green Canada" not Kevins' "heartless profiteering". So, what is the risk in not investing in water Kevin, or, are you just reporting like "Cramer" and his Mad money? Maybe Kevins "little soldiers" do not have "to kill"?

As an aside, Kevin invested in some poor green energy "concept ideas". I was laughing at Kevin: Kevin is one stupid investor, but, a great marketer. Must give credit, just wish he changed fields. I guess our R&D tax credits make it all okay, Kevin gets "cash to investigate".

We should open Canada for Free Trade with the EU? What are the conditions. Will we ever know?

North American Free Trade is debatable, yes, seems more of a "law based economy of government protectionism" but these folks are our direct neighbors. I like local! But, does free trade help in a local sense?

Would Kevin be out of business in a Global Free Trade Market? Yes, he would be. That is a fact. I am sure Bay Street misses those Ontario companies that floated billion dollar cash flows and bloated bay street culture. I wonder if "they" will outsource "management of remaining pensions" to country "X", sure, and "they" will pocket the difference.

So, Canada, what do we get for "lots of oil", water and other "golden natural resources"?

The things that are destroying our planet! See, Canada is unique in that we will enable the “next level of consumerism”: the global resources to make the crap we do not need most of the time.

Maybe George was right? Regardless, I will stay on my green tact: that is a fact jack.

Must give Kevin O'Leary the warm and fuzzies to know that he might be able to invest in Toronto water? Oh wait ... no, all the "expert companies" are in Europe. Canadian companies will not have a chance. I am unaware of any in existence. I guess Kevin can always invest in the company that will screw him. That is what free markets operate on. I jest?

These water deals “they” do not tell “us” about. There is big** money and power behind water right now. Don't believe me? That is your choice.

I do know that filling your swimming pool will cost you a lot of money. And of course, the big companies will pay less than the taxpayers. That is economic innovation: taxpayer funded "welfare for corporations".

The reality is that cities, like Toronto, have ageing water systems. See, politicians have not invested in the water infrastructure. They kind of “forgot about that”, but, they are busy updating our garbage cans from "reliable stainless steel designs" to “ breakable-plastic, ever-so-cool-fashionista-designs” and the other “more important issues than drinking water”.

Did you know that the City of Toronto cannot afford to update its own water system? Why? They failed to invest in "important infrastructure", but, the 407 was pure business genius. So, this leads me to ask: did Toronto willingly let the water infrastructure "slowly fail"? I do not know. All I see is a huge “opportunity” for companies looking for "private water salvation" targets.

Perhaps Harper should have invested in water, instead of upgrading roads with more "oil products and GHG dirty concrete". Now you can see the difference between stimulus for corporations and stimulus for citizens?

All levels of government wants public water to fail? Do they have a choice? Has Rob Ford studied this issue extensively or is he secretly working on "highschool football" plays?

People are always saying that governments are unable to operate such entities: leave it to the private sector. I am sure Kevin O'Leary would agree. What I am concerned with is the realities and results of private water. Poor and disadvantaged Canadians already swimming in debt having to pay reconnection charges for water. Will this put some over "Niagara Falls"?

The reconnection charges in Bolivia were several months wages. Poor people suffered without water.

Do our government officials have "the balls to negotiate smart", or are they looking at the lunch menu?

Enjoy!

* the same “experts” that ruined GM, Ford and Chrysler.

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:) Google & Open Office, Etc.!

Google: Open Office!

I started blogging for “fun” and my “green purposes”. I intend for my blogs try to make you think critically about “green” ( an undefined marketing term ) and my “green perspectives” on “government inaction on the good green stuff”. Some of it is controversial. I feel that certain environmental issues need to be acted upon, not advertised.

I feel it is important to innovate and profit while providing solid revenue streams for investments. The Green Economy is growing quickly and I feel our governments need to rethink the term investment.

Green Energy is the new gold? I assert yes. It is a tangible asset, unlike gold that was linked to currency in days gone by. Green energy investments should accomplish two things: reduce operating costs and provide a long term revenue stream. If a tax incentive exists now, what is holding progress back?

These “green” innovations can also represent a direct cost savings or a “leaner cleaner” company for honest marketing ( if there is such a thing? ).

Myself, as an independent designer find this is a tough business. On top of doing the work, marketing is always a challenge. Networking is the challenge... never enough time and it is expensive.

Of course my marketing is controversial, but, it illustrates my “ability as a designer to deconstruct a complex issue and identify solutions that add direct green value to all products”.

My value is Green Innovations: Strategies, Designs, Intellectual Property and Green Cost Reduction.

I always think it is important to thank those that help my small business.

I would like to thank Google and Open Office! Oh, free "stuff"! You simply rock!

All the tools I use for marketing are free! I use Open Office for my documents, design spreadsheets and presentation stuff.

Thanks Open Office :)

Google provides the platform for my blog. It is seamless with my iGoogle homepage. There I have my Gmail account, Google Chrome Browser. Chrome is fast and has a clean configurable interface. Snazzy!

Just when I thought I was in “free land bliss”: I got Google Analytics. This is a powerful and simple tool. I use it to measure my blog traffic. These are powerful tools for a small company. I can track the numbers and visitors and reports are easy to make. The “cut and paste approach” has finally caught up with my philosophy : “Cut and Paste your way to success!”

It is a simple tool for me. Gives me some cool reports on my blog stuff. I collect numbers of visits and use Google Analytics to see where this traffic is coming from. I installed it for fun, but, I am keeping it!

I track traffic locations: where in the world is my visitors are from, how many blogs they read in a row. I now have an alert for anyone that reads more than 8 blogs in a row, 6 is the current record! Thanks to who ever that was! Hope you learned at least one nugget of knowledge.

I have learned many important facts about my blog using this tool. The drag and drop rule sets are excellent compared to other marketing software I have seen. Nice job. Thanks Google!

So, thanks all you freebies out there! You understand that a great lost leader benefits everyone!

Oh, I also added the free newspaper below this blog. It does have some advertising, but, for the content it has, I thought it was fun thing. Just do not look at the advertising ;)

Regards,

Graham :)

Enjoy!



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>:( Smart Car?

“Smart Car” or is it “Sm-rt Car”, you decide!

"Over the past 100 years, there has been a steady progression of innovations that enhance the driving experience, in particular the continuing trend toward automating more driving tasks. "Human Factors for Limited–Ability Autonomous Driving Systems," an Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program project, aims to investigate driver engagement through the development of limited–ability autonomous driving systems. Part of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) long–term strategy in understanding autonomous systems, the 3–year study is being conducted by General Motors Corporation and Delphi Corporation (Delphi Electronics and Safety and Delphi Steering)."

It is interesting to see the new technologies that car companies are using to improve their products. Being a product designer, seeing "the new products" gives me “clues as to what car companies are using to market themselves” and distinguish their products from their competition.

Two such innovations are the new “Green Car" technology and “Smart Car” electronics. I will not discuss “green car” technology here.

Having “voluntarily bailed” from the auto industry over seven years ago, I like to think I demonstrated some business foresight. I knew that the products "they" were building and how they "did it" just would not “cut it”, so I left Michigan and returned to Ontario to focus on "green design".

I honestly thought that GM was going to go out of business. Ford, on the other hand, I felt had a better chance. Thanks to “free markets” GM is still alive, but, not well. I blamed all this on the “forward thinking” business types that were more interested in bonuses than their products. Most of my assertions came true. Smart? I assert yes. I wonder if the USA is "too big to fail".

Another aside, in 2003: I thought that GM would get scooped by Toyota in 2013. Interesting how fast things changed for the worse after George W. Bush was in office. Even I could not predict that. Karl Rove certainly raised the bar on lowering morality. I have since recalibrated my “Nostradamus Algorithms” in my brain. Good thing, when the banks crashed in the USA we all found out that the banks can blackmail President, for cash, with threats of “the whole system” crashing "over the weekend". Those republicans sure can get their way and their loot bags! I digress.

Lately, I “see” more “Smart” innovation: collision detection and prevention systems for cars. I think that the premise is sincere: help drivers avoid crashing. Many in the auto industry have dreamed of the “autonomous highways” where the driver can “switch off” and enjoy the ride. Well, we are still far from that ideal, but, is “switching off” a "healthy thing" whilst in a moving vehicle? The pure scientist would tell you it is possible. Still waiting to see the tax bill for “retooling” the highways, roads and cars in Canada and the USA. Would it be a “Smart investment”?

For the interim, we have Smart Car technology “beginnings”: various collision detection systems and “automatic emergency braking”. Many scientific papers have been written about the “human factors engineering” and the act of driving.

In my opinion, the “harder it is to operate” something, the “more the human brain is engaged” in that activity. As soon as these "complex functions" are replaced with a technology, does our brain become less active with the activity? I assert yes.

At first “blush”, I see the benefit of such systems: safer cars and more protection for drivers. This is what is being used to market the “safety package options” for these cars. Of course, some people go “Wow!” and buy the car, thinking they are “smart” too? Not sure, I do not know.

These safety systems differ from the “autonomous autodrive driver technologies”. A few companies have already tried the “fully automatic driverless systems” ( for example: long haul trucking or highway driving in Caravan-style ). The current systems are added features for the driver, not, fully automatic systems.

What they did find, with “fully automatic systems” is that there is a high percentage of “disengaged drivers” (falling asleep at the wheel, not paying enough attention to the road). This is not a new finding, pilots have the same challenges with “fly by wire” technology: a non-alert pilot. Lazy brains = poor performance results?

So, if we look at the demographics of drivers, I am concerned that "certain demographics" will consciously or sub-consciously become "less aware of what is on the road". Think of this as a “lazy brain” tool. Some may feel that the “Smart Car” will allow them to be less focused on the road. We have seen the effects of distracted drivers: cellphones and the laws now being written to "keep drivers mentally engaged on the road". Of course, some still think they are "smarter than the professional psychologists that know how brains work".

It is also interesting that the Canadian Government does not study these technologies, independantly, before they let the car companies introduce their products. Governments have given product control to the companies, because they are the “experts”, just like the "free markets" are #1 too.

Is this safe thinking? Are the insurance companies ready for the lawsuits? I wonder if insurance companies prefer poor drivers or good drivers? As long as customers pay, I think the insurance companies have no preference. Is disaster capitalism a great model for the insurance companies? I am not sure.

I could turn this into a ten page blog, easy. But, I want to wrap this up, to do some real "green design work". I enjoy designing green stuff, so, its not really work :)

Lets look at one “extreme” example: auto-braking technology. Looks and sounds cool! But, what about the car behind you, on the road, if they cannot stop “as fast”, will you be rear-ended? I assert yes. This car also has a "Pedestrian Collision System"? Do we need more technology to "not hit people". At least someone might be spared from the "lipstick-tweeking and cellphone-engaged shopping monsters". Sound overboard? I have seen it recently. Too engaged in "social systems" while the focus should be on the "mechanical system" of not "hurt others". Wake up, please.

I would also like to point out that adding all these electronic systems, that will be thrown away in the 8 year lifecycle of a car, is a waste and is toxic. Planned obsolesence will add much more e-waste to our environment. Radars, cameras, sensors, computers all added for "safety" while hurting our planet. Yes. Blood minerals? Perhaps.

My definition of a “Smart Car”: An "emissions-free", "green material constructed" and highly energy efficient car, modestly sized, with the ability to be easily maintained, by the owner, that would last more than 8 years. Its a start.

Is polluting our environment “Smart”? I am looking forward to the day that the old business practices are replaced by the “free markets” of consumers wanting a "healthy planet first".

Maybe we need “auto-braking technology” for our “incapable and immoral governments and corporations” that are ignoring my planets' "challenges".

Enjoy!

P.S. - Did you notice in the Volvo video that the driver is drinking a coffee. Mmmm Coffee.

P.S.S. - What will they think of next: Brain



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:) Green 2011!

Green 2011

“2010 Science” blew me away! Many of “my product ideas of the past 15 years” are finally coming into “reality”. A few: advanced research in the biology and genetics of bacteria/microbes and “other little thingies”, Brain “neurocognition adaptation”, Organic computing and heck even Twitter. It was also interesting to see Richard Dawkins bring attention to the “quality of science” in America.

My blogs are supposed to be fun.... dealing with “some very hard truths” about all our challenges ahead. I even wrote a metalanguage program that would be a “WikiScience” repository and forum for natural sciences. MIT opened another “green program” in the Economics of Sustainable Materials. Smart!

As much as I criticize “the system” for not being “green enough”, I see many new technologies that will deliver a green economy and prosperous green future. Seems the only roadblocks are: “the justice systems” impeding aggressive “green adoption”, the corporations that are “put at risk” by a “global green evolution”.

I am a green product designer and green advisor. In product design, our field looks forward. How we construct the next “great gadget” is “life or death” for companies. Apple is a great example. Google is another. Wikipedia is another great product (open source).

I had a “free course” a few years ago in “touch screen stuff”. Having watched 20 years of touch screen technology knowledge ( out of pure interest in computers etc and human factors engineering ), I sat down to watch the “pitchmen” for this technology. It enabled Apple to provide its system today. In summary, I see what is coming “down the pipe” as far as products. I like to share this in a “green way”.

Now, being a “green designer”, I typically will not engage in electronics design. I have rules. Rule #1. Do not design things that will pollute my planet. I have worked on systems that can spit out a V-10 truck engine block and cylinder head every 12 seconds. I still feel guilty. At least I did some work on the Clean Diesel Engines for the “big boy” trucks.

The one innovation I have not seen, so far, in electronics or auto is rethinking planned obsolescence.

I want to work on, or share my insight, with green projects. I have written some harsh blogs on many topics, since November 2, 2010. My write them for “green awareness”: people need to focus on the realities of our planets future. I am not saving endangered species or a plant, just the planet, for now. I see a lot of greenwash out there too. I will be starting to focus on this more in 2011, in my blogs.

I like to explore the technology “they use”, plan to use and how they use it. Introducing new technology is a tricky game indeed. This is why I feel that we are starting “green” in the wrong context. With all that debate climate science ( the “good parts” and the exploited “ugly parts”: funded by corporations ) all I am saying is we are still polluting our planet. Lets think about this.

John Baird, Canadian Environment Minister, has been “stalling” Canadas leadership in “green”. Now, he has irresponsibly thrown out a “target”. He asserts that a 2 Celsius increase in temperature is a “danger point”. Of course, anyone versed in complex mathematics would tell you this is the “wrong thinking” to start with. Nice job John, now you will make the debate based on your “2 Degree” obfuscation? Our planet is getting more and more polluted each day. Start with that John: Would “Grandfather Claus” be mad at how dirty this place is?

But, aside from the challenges ahead of societies “reprogramming” in consumerism psychology, science just keeps innovating. All the work being done now is breath taking!

In 2011, I look forward to more innovation in science! Keep it coming!

Enjoy!



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>:( Tarsand

Tar + Sand = Tarsand = Pollution

It is interesting to see the "political games" politicians play before elections. Promises and “innovation talk” fabricated to provide glossy new "political platforms" to “preach from”.

The “new kid on the block”, John Baird, has a tough challenge to provide the CPC with a “credible image” with regards to the environment and the tarsands. By using “big words” and “big promises”, we see another “promise”. The promise to monitor pollution by the companies extracting oil and to monitor water. Do we need to “check” these “knowns”, again?

Alberta has a long history of oil industry and other industrial pollution. The natural gas and refining industries have long been given carte blanche. Many people have long been exposed to the pollution, the results of poor government regulation of this industry and the influence the corporations have on our government offices. I see a history of inaction.

With water becoming a political "hot potato", is John just delivering the next "white wash"?

Poor air quality and toxic emissions have long been ignored, not just in Alberta. “Grandfather” clauses protecting some industries legal right to pollute. Industry using the “fear of economic losses and competition” to stall environmental responsibility.

Now I see John Baird making “bold new" "decisions".

Scientists and naturalists have long known that the tarsands creates pollution. Mr. Baird is providing a “fresh look” at an old problem? No, just more inaction. Just like the inaction on climate change and bill C-311 on climate science.

Is “looking at a problem” a solution? No. Monitoring pollution will not help the environment. It is simply a stall tactic to delay the industry from actually doing anything about the pollution created in the past and the future pollution waiting to happen.

Creating a "new spin" is what the CPC provides Canada. Much like bill C-311, no action, no innovation. John Baird chose the “classic” “well lets see what the others do”. The tarsands is now a “lets see what the pollution is” issue? John, perhaps a drink of that water will give you the answer. No? Have another glass, please.

Both C-311 ( climate change science ) and the tarsands are examples of government inaction enabling corporate inaction. Both solutions provide "no solution", just more “talk”. In the case of the tarsands, monitoring.

Alberta has long suffered the health effects of the oil industry. Old greedy practises, “Tobacco Industry”-style lawyers: fighting each "penny spent" to protect the environment and the people "downwind of their activity". Same with the coal industry, etc. No innovation, just talk and court time, to avoid investing in a healthier environment for all living things: Court cases settled “out of the spot light” to reduce “corporate image challenges”.

This is classic political dishonesty: appear to provide an honest and progressive plan to “gain support” and give people the illusion that the government is protecting Canada and its citizens.

John Baird is reading out of his “Karl Rove 101” handbook again? Personally, I think Karl Rove is a war criminal, but, that is my opinion. Carl is a genius at politics: the politics of deception and inactivity to let companies get away with “it”.

How long have scientists known about all the environmental issues with all industry? Well, Mr. Baird, thank you for reinventing the wheel again. Just what we need the wheel, again and again.

We need action to be taken with hard environmental standards that industry must target, regardless of “economic times”, “competitiveness” and corporate “responsibility”. Maybe Canada can eliminate oil subsidy and invest in environmental subsidy? I am not sure.

Inaction is damaging Canadians' health and our global environment. Your inaction, Mr. Baird, is classic politics. We need less politics and more action. The only “smaller government” I would like is the one that can eliminate political stalling on known issues and let the scientists start cleaning up Alberta, and Canada.

How many times must the Canadian taxpayer pay for the “wheel to be invented” by each new environment minister. It is time to act morally and eliminate political games that are slowly killing Canadian citizens and destroying our natural ecosystems. Those are facts. Just look at the aboriginal people and how long they have been concerned with most industrial practises. They had no “science laboratory” or “special monitoring systems”. You do not have to be an expert to see the negative effects of toxic pollution and irresponsible business practises, you just have to look “outside”.

John is only giving us “a shiny new pamphlet” and hoping we forget just long enough to get the CPC reelected. That is want politicians do.

If the political system does not work, the science and technology really never mattered in the first place. Mr. Baird, you will repeat this again.

Enjoy!



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>:( Green Fur Campaign?

Green Fur.

I recently saw a billboard. “Fur is Green”

I have long thought about this. Here is an “all natural resource”, used for over ~150,000 years to keep us warm and snuggly. Evolution gave us skills.

Then we have some clothing that is made of “toxic chemicals” and also natural fibres like bamboo or cotton.

What the heck is green here?

Green is the process of bringing sustainable materials to customers at the lowest risk-based cost. This means from the start, of each different material and process, to the finish. Add up the processes and presto, you can investigate the “green”! Naturally, the least number of “steps” the greener. I picked up a grasshopper and had it for a snack, that would be green? Only if it was an organic grasshopper.

Currently, most fur industry “processes” are unregulated and dirty. Processing hides requires chemicals? Transportation costs, manufacturing, marketing of luxury, etc.

An Ogibway kid told me, many years ago now, his mom uses moose brains to treat hides. All natural. I am sure there are some other steps too, but, this kid had some cool knowledge, for me. I think I also remember him telling me the "Ogibway word" for “dirty” is “Gagoosh”? I hope I am not saying “white guy”.

So, why does this industry not “innovate its processes” to “bioengineered naturally safe enzymes”? I am sure some is working on this. This process may take a little longer, when you take into consideration the typical “MBA philosophy” with regards to our environment. Would a few “extras”, here and there, to benefit our environment help? Yes.

Off topic, MIT just started its newest program for green materials. Am I ahead of my time? No, it makes economic sense to go green. It reduces costs and “minimizes risk” to our environment. It also, by nature, saves money. Smart? Yes. This is how I like to design my stuff too!

Canada is behind in "green". That is why I blog so much! I see this as "lost money for all". Green Products are superior in environmental and economic terms. Period. Its math.

What does nature already have at its disposal to innovate this “green fur”? Until we know, fur is dirty. The people that hunt and prepare their hides are green ( as long as they do not use an ATV ). Will I ever stop? No.

This fur site goes on to say that its process is natural and looks at the ways they have innovated "green". I like "green" innovation! But, is this a “regulated and periodically” inspected system? Is it 100% accountable, or is it like the Meat Industry in Ontario. I do not know. That is not the focus of this discussion.

I do take exception to the animals they are "farming for fur": Beavers, Minks, Foxes, etc.

Some take exception to:

Italy, France, Denmark, Greece, Belgium and Australia ban the import of cat and dog fur but the sale is still legal

I think we need to “step back and look at our human activity” and decide what animal products are “green”.

If we think of the food industry, we can get “free” resources (hides) from animals. Leathers and skins from: cows, sheep, salmon, chickens, ostrich, eel, crocodile and alligator, etc. If these operations are humane and green, we should use them. If we can make the “processes” greener, I think we need to rethink the industry and streamline it for Green.

Lets take care of our wild animals and their homes and not create “bubble populations” for “human fur luxury”.

Enjoy!

P.S. - did you know that salmon, chicken, ostrich, eel, crocodile and alligator leathers are considered “luxury”?




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>:( Hudak Attacks!

Hudak Attacks!

Another example of irresponsible behaviour: Governments that want to “scrap” progressive “work”.

Instead of innovating and improving, is the intent to just “discredit the other political parties” (politics 101)?

Does Mr. Hudak, of the Ontario CPC, feel that electronics are healthy for our environment? Does he trust corporations with the health of Ontario residents? Does he understand that electronics are poisonous and that recycling them is a potential revenue stream that helps corporations and citizen health?

Talk about wasting taxes, Mr. Hudak. Are you incapable of generating new business opportunity?

What is the total taxpayer cost: administration + “government time” + studies and the private costs associated with passing legislation then initiating them, just to “scrap it”. What is your “return on government”? Are you obsolete?

In my business, we “scrap” nothing. Everything is “tweaked”, with science, to optimize profits. If it is a viable business opportunity, seems like all sides of government need to make it work. Improve it. Make it more “profitable for companies” and “cost less”, in taxes. Something our current government is incapable of? If “it” is not built for innovation, is “it” just “managing the “least of progress” without jeopardizing re-election” at any cost? The cost of your “integrity and wisdom”, Mr Hudak?

Sounds like the only “stimulus on this” is another “jolt” for the “legal industry” in Toronto? All the “expensive lawyers”, salivating at any “big or small change made by government”. Taxes consumed by “circular paperwork”. Much like the "big plastic swirl in my oceans": not helping my environment.

Mr. Hudak, science has done the homework for you, already.

Sorry, you cannot reinvent “this wheel”, I call science and math. If you feel up to it, try. Please sit down Mr. Hudak. You are incapable, now.

Disaster capitalism is a “no brainer”: Make “them” “make it”, then “you” “break it”. I wonder if the same lawyers could “work both sides of this street”? Well, actually, they are working all 3 sides of the street, because taxpayers pay for it all. What a “competitive market”?

Maybe Naomi Klein should have called it “Disaster Democracy”? Seems like governments better evolve quickly to the same technologies and communications, that business uses, to remain viable.

Is Hudak not smart enough to “make improvements” AND make it “lower in tax cost” for us? You have admitted failure by proposed cuts to the “e-tax”. I guess you are incapable of progress and reducing government costs? Wait, progress and reducing taxes are “your song”. Oh yes, this is politics, not science.

Tim Hudak will scrap the “Eco Tax on Electronics”? This program was designed to collect tax dollars on electronics devices, that people buy, to lessen the impact of electronics consumption on our environment. Tim thinks people will not be able to afford a TV if it is another $26.25? Is Dalton operating this system to the best it can be? Probably not. Politics does not use "math to determine method".

If that is “the deal breaker”, on a TV, I guess Tim is asserting that “low savings customers” should be using credit cards. Are rates going up? I am not sure, I guess yes!

Am I stupid? Perhaps, but, “the only rule I use for my analysis” is that “corporations force Canadian politicians to keep product prices cheap”, regardless of “total environmental cost”, so more people can buy them.

I know, this is bold thinking, I would rather be designing a 1 GW Geothermal Plant, a couple blocks from my house, next week. Can I buy the parts and services, and have them delivered? I wonder if I could do the whole project from home? Probably not. I do not want to be the “President of the Universe”*.

Politicians that can help corporations to exploit new revenue streams are “positive leaders”?

Politicians that “scramble to shore the sinking Canadian tax revenues” ( Tony Clement: iPod tax vs. Internet tax ) by resorting to exploiting “captive monopolies” are “butt puppets of corporations”?

Politicians that innovate to resolve real issues, make corporations work “for their keep”. But, as we all know, corporations are defined as “antisocial-psychopathic”. This is simple social science?

Politicians that provide the space to innovate, reap downstream tax revenues and “healthy companies” ( Blackberry ). These innovations can then be leveraged for foreign trade ( Blackberry ). These innovations also help Canadian business ( Blackberry ). Maybe even help politicians with their jobs ( Blackberry ). I wonder if this idea of innovating Canadian science on climate change could do the same? I assert yes.

But, the corporate model does not include the “entire lifecycle of any process”, well except for “monitary gains” and the lifecycles of Canadian citizens: currently maximized “actual cost of living” with “winky promises of lowered taxes”. Well, except military spending, it seems lately.

The medical system seems to exploit peoples life savings, when they need "the most help from their governments". Keeping some "alive to ensure maximum profits for a profit modelled healthcare system"? Sounds "sick" to me.

Look at our population demographics, I am sure a “first year economics student” would see the potential in a “large uncompetitive captive market”. But, would that student find it moral? If they have no conscious, I guess that market is simply a “no brainer” opportunity.

So, Mr. Hudak, what are the potential downstream revenues are you “throwing away”? Did you calculate them and find them unviable? Can I see your calculations, please?

I have an idea for you to innovate! I call it“#LIEDAR”, science has the technologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system . It is much like photo radar, but, it is a camera installed in all levels of public government. Everytime a politician lies, or acts or refutes, without viable proof, they pay a fine of $1500 from their pension. A lie tax for government.

This would stimulate our economy quickly: add a "new tax revenue stream" for all levels of government, and “zap useless politicians” that negatively impact "high downstream tax costs for Canada".

Would you be the first “guinea pig”?

Enjoy!

P.S. - I sure hope “you guys” are paperless by now. Most companies are. Are you? Do you care?



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