(To view these videos you will need a broadband connection, audio capability and Windows Media Player. You can download the free software from here. And if you have a good connection and a large monitor, I suggest you use your right mouse click and go to the Full Screen presentation.)

And oh yes, that cup of coffee? Well in the two cases where you spot it below, the intended message is that you have a good twenty minutes ahead of you so I suggest you make yourself comfortable, put up your feet and take your time. It will be my job to make sure that it is not wasted.
 

Contested Streets: Trailer for film

Contested Streets: Breaking NYC Gridlock is the result of a creative partnership initiated by the New York based activists Transportation Alternatives and the film-makers Cicala Filmworks, who have collaborated to produce a full length documentary film that explores the rich diversity of New York City street life before the introduction of automobiles -- and then goes on to show how New York can follow the example of other modern cities that have reclaimed their streets as vibrant public spaces. I worked with them to help bring in some of the leading international innovating figures and projects, primarly here in Europe. If you check out this trailer you can see abouit 45 seconds of me opining on how we are handling these challenges here in Paris. (Very well, by the way!). Contested Streets: Trailer here. Back to top   From the 2004 World Energy Technology Summit The first World Energy Technologies Summit was convened in Paris from 10-11 February 2004. In addition to my responsibilities with the Panel on Financing Issues and Dilemmas (see below), I was asked to join the final session and to provide for the meeting an off the cuff closing summary of findings and recommendations for the final Reflections Panel, which brought together a highly distinguished international team which included: Robert Ayres, Professor of Management & the Environment and Director, Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources, INSEAD Geoffrey Ballard, Chair, General Hydrogen Corporation Marianne Haug, Director-Energy Efficiency, Technology and R&D, International Energy Agency (IEA) Nick Parker, Chairman, Clean Tech Venture Network Summit summary and conclusions presentation here. Back to top 2004 WTN Energy Conference - Presentation 2 I was asked to help organize and chair an Interactive Panel on Financing Issues & Dilemmas, to open up a public discussion of the dilemmas in financing off-grid projects while offering some ideas on how to transcend these in principle and practice. The panel brought together the following distinguished member -- to whom I asked at the last minute Tom Casten, Chairman of the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) and President and Chairman of Primary Energy to join us to provide an independent commentary as part of the panel's closure. (Tom's comments open the following video.) Dr. Jan-Olaf Willums, Board Member, Renewable Energy Corporation. Chairman Foundation for Business and Society, and InSpire, a social venture capital initiative investing in health and renewable energy. Kerri-Lynn Hauck, Manager, Financial Advisory team at Climate Change Capital, London, U.K. Eric Usher, Project Officer, Renewable energy project development, UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Paris, France Final summary presentation available here. Back to top Video presentation of GS-Automation by CEO This is not as you will immediately see a product of DreamWorks Studios -- but for anyone who does not know me and may wish to get some kind of handle on the way I present an idea or an argument, you have here a three minute clip taken from a CD ROM that we prepared for GS-Automation in Geneva last summer. Click here to go to GS-A video. Back to top Beyond print: Working with audio 1. CBC Metro Morning - September 22/04. Andy Barrie speaks with Eric Britton who started the CFD campaign. Listen to interview here. (Runs 6:43) http://toronto.cbc.ca/newram/20040922CARSEP22.ram 2. A one minute presentation from 1998 which tells a bit about how we were then starting to introduce audio into our communications toolkit in The Commons. Click for audio file (Warning: ca. 1 Mo. wav file ) Back to top Sustainable Transportation's Dirty Secret (1996 perspectives) I made this PowerPoint presentation in October 1996 to a working group of the OECD's Environmentally Sustainable Transportation's program (est!) with which I had and continue to have a collegial if occasionally bumpy long term advisory role since its inception more than a decade ago. At the time I saw this as a much needed call to a more thoughtful, more layered, and more technology-assisted approach to the challenges of sustainability in a frankly non-sustainable world -- a world of people, habits and political arrangements that to all appearances has no real intention to make the fundamental changes that are needed for the planet and in our daily lives. The call for more and smarter IT, and without undue delay, came at a time at which most of the government representatives on our task force and indeed elsewhere were not yet using email nor really the internet. And this a full decade and a half after this valuable tool set first came into use (including by us in our daily work). It was my point that if we are not making full use of our tools, then we are part of the problem. Do you agree? This was hard for me to accept as a sort of bland status quo, as you will see in the presentation that follows. I regarded it then as our duty to use the best available technologies in order to improve our chances of winning this war. And I still do today. The full presentation is available here in our Library as a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation is not short and will take the better part of a half hour to get through. And even today it still looks pretty good (though the presentation is a bit dated with all those early bells and whistles, but after all it was a quickly done one-man show and that from someone less than an expert.) My hope is that the ideas and overall quality of perspective merit this expenditure of time on your part. But let me leave it to you to decide that for yourself. (Note the PowerPoint version for direct viewing here is a very large file of ca. 9 Mo., while the zipped file is ca. 3 Mo. It requires a sound card.) PowerPoint Version of presentation (Warning: Very large, ca. 9 Mo. ) Zipped version (Large file, ca. 3 Mo.) More on OECD est! program     Home   About Translate   The Commons   Always On   Contact   Top Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara 75006 Paris, France, Europe. T: +331 4326 1323 Copyright © 1994-2006 The Commons ® All rights reserved. Last updated on 15 April 2006