Here’s a great quote that came to me from a GLG newsletter:

In less than 5,000 days, the Web has gone from the linking of a few computers in a lab to satellite images of the earth at our fingertips. Today, the Web has 100 billion clicks and 55 trillion links and carries 2 million e-mails per second. There are 1 billion PC chips in use, 65 billion phone calls made per year, and 600 billion RFID tags being used. Every second, we move the equivalent of half the Library of Congress across the Web. All that in less than 5,000 days.

So what will the next 5,000 days bring?

In the same inbox I just received an invitation by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco Nov 5-7th. So what’s next indeed..!? Hopefully I’ll find out at the Summit and share it with you.

Bruce

My brother, a friend and I started a bamboo t-shirt company recently as a hobby. The premise is simple - each t-shirt comes with “a month of guilt free (carbon-free!) living” in the form of carbon off-sets (Carbon Karma!) financed through the profits of the t-shirt. The site is still in its infancy. The store is live, but the brand and education website around the sea-saw of reduction and offset is in the works and launching soon.

“Sea-saw reduction/offset” - by this I mean if you work on both reducing your carbon footprint AND off-setting the stuff you can’t or don’t want to reduce by paying/building/planting something that removes carbon from the atomosphere, you’re actually accelerating environmental success. Cause let’s just be honest… no one is going to give up all carbon-generating aspects of life just ’cause the world is dying. So the point of Mad Monkey bamboo t-shirts is to make it easy to be cool and be green.

This is a for-profit company. I endorse the theory that environmental causes are accelerated if they have commercial viability. If there is a profit centre in it, investment money will flow. If investment money flows, innovation and consumer adoption will accelerate. You want to speed up the formula? Focus on innovative for-profit investment-backed start-ups.

mymadmonkey.com

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