http://www.fastcompany.com/member_recent_content/142272 Member recent activity block for member profile page en http://www.fastcompany.com/comment/comment-node-ant-2537 <p>Fifty years ago, no one drilled for oil off shore, it wasn't profitable. We knew that oil was there but didn't care because it was too expensive. With the advent of OPEC (higher oil prices) and dwindling supplies, it is now profitable to go after that hard to get oil. Currently, renewable energy sources are like that hard to get oil. It is there but we don't care because of the cost. Whatever makes renewable energy profitable will make us go after it, whether it is high oil prices, dwindling supplies, subsidies, advances in technology, or unforseen future events. We are driven by commerce.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/comment/comment-node-ant-2537">read more</a></p> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:10:34 -0400 Edgar WIlson 1054166 at http://www.fastcompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/comment/comment-node-ant-2536 <p>A very interesting article on Mr. McDonough, but really!! A world without waste? I think my friend Denny Taylor proved in her fifth grade science project that it is impossible to build a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to produce work. There will be waste. Certainly waste can be minimized--if it is profitable to do so. Wow.</p> <p>--<br /> E Wilson</p> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:35:58 -0400 Edgar WIlson 1054162 at http://www.fastcompany.com