technology Archive

  • frog

    New and old



    Treehugger has a great article comparing some of the latest technology that we hope can contribute to the campaign to save the climate and compares it with some old and often forgotten ideas that could do much the same with out all the technological mucking about.  Technology is a great thing and I’m the first [...] read more
    November 12, 2008 8:15 am - 22 Comments
  • frog

    What politicians dare not say. (Except the Greens)



    In the usual sequence of events, what was once Green heresy is now at least being openly discussed in the mainstream media. This month´s New Scientist has a series of articles about the limits to growth and our politician´s and economist´s obsession with growth – and how it is killing us and the planet that [...] read more
    October 25, 2008 5:05 pm - 136 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    Making IT happen – Greens IT policy



    I released our IT policy on Tuesday just before introducing Richard Stallman at his Dunedin talk “Copyright vs Community?. Richard found my reference to “quote intellectual property unquote” somewhat difficult – you can read it here. It didn’t make front page news because we didn’t make ridiculous promises. Our policy is focused around [...] read more
    August 21, 2008 11:41 am - 26 Comments
  • frog

    Super cheap solar



    Nanosolar, a new solar energy company started with money from Google’s founders, has finally delivered on its promise to produce solar energy for less than $1 per watt. Technology announced several years ago, that avoids using expensive silicon and instead prints a semiconductor ink onto a thin film, has just started rolling off the production [...] read more
    December 21, 2007 10:18 am - 74 Comments