The speaker, Akhandadhi Das, compares the modus operandi of the charcoal merchant, the garlandmaker and the honeybee. In conclusion he says:
"President Obama's initiatives [to address climate change] are at least trying to move from charcoal merchant to garlandmaker. But who will lead us to living as honeybees?"
The development of transparent solar cells is no doubt another step in the right direction.
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| Vladimir Bulovic (left) and Miles Barr
(right), co-founders of Ubiquitous Energy, are making transparent solar
cells that could eventually be placed on everyday objects such as phones
and windows so these surfaces could produce energy. Photograph by Justin Knight |
