DQ's New Look, New Tools, New Opportunities...

Mike Schmidt — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:08:47 +0100

Welcome to the new and improved DaVinci Quest Web-site to support the Innovation Contest goals and objectives of DaVinici Quest, its supporting organizations, staff members, advisors, advocates, volunteers, and the many community collaborators and activists who want to create new solutions to solve many of today's problems... And now they have a new set of tools and collaborative communications solutions to support their efforts.

Welcome to DQ 2.0 !

INNOVATION AND SMALL BUSINESS

Karl Dakin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:25:54 +0100

There is a direct relationship between the health of the small business community and the level of innovation. There is also a direct relationship between the health of the small business community and the number of new jobs created. Small businesses create between 60% and 80% of all new jobs in any given year. ...

REALLY TOUGH PROBLEMS

Karl Dakin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:09:08 +0100

There are a lot of really tough problems out there. In recent years, there has been more discussion about why these problems continue to exist and whether these problems can be solved. In my readings and my own analysis, I have concluded that really tough problems can be solved with the right combination of money and innovation...

FREE COMMERCIAL BUILDING UPGRADE MANUAL

Karl Dakin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:41:50 +0100

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put together a guide for renovation of a commercial building to make it more energy efficient: Energy Star Building Upgrade Manual. The Manual is free and can be downloaded from their website at: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_upgrade_manual Like most government ...

EPA COMMERCIAL BUILDING RENOVATION CONTEST

Karl Dakin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:39:01 +0100

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is hosting an energy saving competition for commercial buildings: The National Building Competition – Working off the Waste with Energy Star. Download more information at www.energystar.gov/BuildingContest.

Selected applicants will benchmark ...

GREEN BUILDING RENOVATION MEETUP

Karl Dakin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:23:41 +0100

DaVinci Quest has established a new MeetUp group on Green Building Renovation. The group will be homebased in Longmont, Colorado - the site of our Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest. This group will have two areas of focus:

1. The Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest - an innovation competition to renovate 5...

INNOVATION COMPETITIONS AS A COMMERCIALIZATION STRATEGY

Karl Dakin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:37:51 +0100

I will be speaking at the Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group tonight on the subject of innovation competitions.

If you would like to attend, go to the MeetUp page: http://www.meetup.com/ColoSpgsBiz/.

HIGH RISE GREEN BUILDING CONTEST

Karl Dakin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:11:36 +0100

Zerofootprint Software, a for profit provider of carbon footprint measurements, and the Zerofootprint Foundation, a climate change nonprofit, have combined to offer the ZEROprize™ ...

GREEN HABITAT

Karl Dakin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:22:47 +0100

In gathering information about current best practices in renovating buildings to make them green, I came across a number of articles about ne...

GREEN BUILDING RENOVATION FINANCING DECISION

Karl Dakin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:09:13 +0100

As we have begun signing Contest Agreements with Homeowners in the Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest, the biggest issue rasised by Homeowners is t...

COMPUTER ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Karl Dakin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:42:20 +0100

An article in yesterday’s Financial Post (Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/energy/story.html?id=2421140#ixzz0c8TituRh) described how Google, throug...

EU CERTIFICATE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY

System Administrator — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:41:35 +0100

The member states of the European Parliament adopted a Directive requiring all public and private buildings to obtain and post a Certificate of Energy Efficiency. The Directive, Directive 2002/91/EC, i...

GREEN BUILDING RENOVATION RESOURCES

System Administrator — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:38:12 +0100

We are beginning to compile information on green building renovation.

Our first goal is to create what we call the 'Library of Alexandria' on all innovation that ...

A PRAYER FOR DIVERSIFICATION

System Administrator — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:06:44 +0100

I refer to myself as a 'parallel entrepreneur' to reflect my usual concurrent involvement in multiple new businesses and distinguish myself ...

RENOVATE OR BUILD NEW?

System Administrator — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:40:13 +0100

The focus of the Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest is on renovation of existing single family residences with the goal of making them more environmentally friendly, more inte...

GREEN BUILDING MUST BE AFFORDABLE

System Administrator — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:10:48 +0100

To be widely adopted, green building must be affordable and not just in the low-income use of the term - it should be affordable to anyone making less than $100,000 a year.

A recent article in the B...

ECONOMIC NEUTRALITY OF HOME POWER GENERATION

System Administrator — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:49:18 +0100

An ‘energy neutral’ home is not enough.

The price of neutrality has to be affordable. Affordable is a relative term – richer people can afford more and poorer people c...

HOW IMPORTANT IS ENERGY CONSERVATION?

System Administrator — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:22:04 +0100

Even though we originally intended to include power generation in the criteria for winning the Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest, I have t...

BREAKTHROUGH IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FOR GREEN BUILDINGS

System Administrator — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:10:05 +0100

Yesterday I had the opportunity to see a confidential demonstration of a new type of power generator. As a 30 year veteran of technology commercialization, I was not bothered by the prototype’s...

Building a Green Building Team

System Administrator — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:24:01 +0100

As we are launching the Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest, we are inviting everyone to to field a Team and compete for the $500,000 ...

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