Save the Environment...Buy a Rolex? - Saul Griffith

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Saul_Griffith_Climate_Change_Recalculated

Inventor Saul Griffith explains why, in terms of energy consumption, it is better to buy a single high-quality product once than many cheaper, inferior versions over a lifetime.

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Engineer, environmentalist, and entrepreneur Saul Griffith examines the numerical reality of the fight against climate change.

Drawing from a personal assessment of his own energy needs, Griffith argues that we not only need to switch to alternative energies, we also need to drastically reduce their consumption in order to prevent a global catastrophe.

Griffith connects personal actions and global climate change by analyzing his own carbon consumption.

Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including: Low Cost Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, "HowToons" and Makani Power. Saul has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor's award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize. A large focus of Griffith's research efforts are in minimum and constrained energy surfaces for novel manufacturing techniques and other applications. Griffith holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics, nanotechnology, and energy production. Griffith co-authors children's comic books called "HowToons" about building your own science and engineering gadgets with Nick Dragotta and Joost Bonsen. Griffith is a technical advisor to Make magazine and Popular Mechanics. Saul is a columnist and contributor to Make and Craft magazines.

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[malkemusatube]

How many pens have you lost in a lifetime?

How many people are willing to kill you for a rolex?

[yeahdude7]

@malkemusatube I've lost tons of pens in my lifetime.

[WoodruffJamie]

Couldn't agree more. Check out OIL SPILL ELIMINATOR on You Tube

[hideawaycottage]

I have a Rolex, one watch, forever, I have a Waterman pen, one, for life ...... you buy cheap and you buy twice, quality is the way forward ......

[ejswe]

Production is not bad per se, in fact id say its a good thing. The bad thing is when you get pollution as a biproduct, but is that really necessary? Power could be renewably generated, harmful chemicals could be circulated in closed loops or avoided altogether.

People could and should be made responsible for making sure their litter is taken care of properly.

We cant stop producing things, we need advancement of technology.

[watzupdawg]

How many people wear a watch and write ?

[VivekRajcoomar]

it's bc tech is advancing so rapidly.

[bansheep000000]

I think its a new idea and could be a valuable one if we dont write it off so early

[phippsed]

Most people I know abandon their cell phones long before they stop working. Most of the time they just want one of the newer phone because the have cooler features and supposedly work better. I think this reduces the inventive to make for companies to make phones really durable.

[truthadvocate]

If people used the same phone all their life, half the country would still be using a rotary dial, spending 10 times longer dialing, waiting 100 times longer to speak to somebody just to get transferred to the right department. What would that do to our economy? How much less productive would we be, and as a result how many fewer jobs would there be? Global warming activists always ordering businesses around. Invent a phone that lasts a lifetime? We already have one... a tin can with string!