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19th October GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show

Ok, I moved the Energy and Sustainability away from Ustream a couple of weeks back to try out LiveStream as I had had a couple of complaints about the quality. Today I tried out a new microphone and judging by the comments it seems to have been a good idea!

Here is the chatstream from today’s GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show:

03:31 Tom Raftery: Audio & video check?
03:31 Tom Raftery: Anyone seeing and/or hearing me?
03:32 PTreacy: Got you now… Info
03:33 peter: Seeing and hearing you clearly, Tom.
03:35 Tom Raftery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzDZA1KCF0
03:37 Tom Raftery: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18000-we-will-be-billions-of-dollars-poorer-when-coral-dies.html
03:40 Tom Raftery: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10377561-54.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GreenTech
03:42 Tom Raftery: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1543798/US-funds-terror-groups-to-sow-chaos-in-Iran.html
03:44 Tom Raftery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/oct/19/maldives-government-underwater-cabinet-meeting
03:46 Tom Raftery: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11
03:47 Tom Raftery: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4980
03:48 monkchips: hello all!
03:49 Tom Raftery: http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/mine
03:50 Tom Raftery: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2379
03:51 monkchips: you look very pale tom. but then i suppose, what else is new?
03:52 monkchips: pale and interesting, at least
03:52 marilynpratt: Sun in Vienna?
03:52 Tom Raftery: http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/15/the-biggest-loser-chamber-of-commerce/#more-12721
03:53 Patrick Treacy: I’ve lost you Tom – is it me or you?
03:53 Patrick Treacy: Back again…
03:53 monkchips: you’re good
03:53 monkchips: its the chamber of commerce thats been disconnected… from reality
03:54 Tom Raftery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman
03:55 Tom Raftery: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/superfreakonomics-on-climate-part-1/
03:55 monkchips: found freakonomics VERY boring uninsightful myself
03:56 monkchips: most drug dealers dont make a lot of money. GENIUS INSIGHT! give me a ******* break. go to any major city, its pretty bloody obvious
03:58 monkchips: why the crap would we listen to economists on this? they are plonkers. they all said the world economy was in stable shape just three years ago
03:59 Tom Raftery: http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/18/error-riddled-superfreakonomics-stephen-dubner-says-romm-has-done-a-great-job-amazon-search/
03:59 monkchips: superficialnomics
04:00 Tom Raftery: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/19/climate-talks-india-appears-to-soften-stance-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
04:02 Tom Raftery: http://blogs.msdn.com/see/archive/2009/10/07/seattle-city-light-begins-offering-its-customers-consumption-data-for-use-with-microsoft-hohm.aspx
04:03 Tom Raftery: http://blogs.msdn.com/see/archive/2009/10/14/microsoft-launches-software-architecture-for-smart-grid-development.aspx
04:03 Tom Raftery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0ivmRoZeI
04:03 marilynpratt: very interesting
04:04 Tom Raftery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5I8_mn1cbI
04:04 cgarvey: Cheers Tom!
04:05 Tom Raftery: Any comments etc?
04:05 Patrick Treacy: Great show thanks – I lost you a couple of times, but pretty sure it was me.
04:05 marilynpratt: daughter in law working with virus to kill coral fungus
04:05 Rich: Great show Tom
04:05 marilynpratt: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmi.edu%2Fcollege_newsletter%2FJK2009%2FX-1-Sep2009.pdf&rct=j&q=ilil+atad+marshall+isl
04:05 cgarvey: all was fine from here
04:05 Rich: Fine with me
04:05 marilynpratt: great show Tom
04:06 marilynpratt: excellent connection
04:06 marilynpratt: Yah
04:06 Patrick Treacy: Yes, think it was my end. Sound is very good this week – I did notice
04:06 monkchips: much better
04:07 marilynpratt: worth it then – cool
04:07 Ren: blimey, that was a big one
04:07 monkchips: that was your vibrator? what does the mic look like?
04:07 marilynpratt: bad
04:07 Patrick Treacy: you definitely need a lock for that door so…
04:08 Tom Raftery: And we’re out, thanks everyone for the attention and interest

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Today’s Energy & Sustainability show had a Water theme

Today’s GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability Shaw had 41 live viewers and plenty of interaction with the viewers.

The show is every Monday 4:30pm CET, 3:30pm GMT – if you haven’t participated in the live show, please do – you can help make it better and drive the direction!

Here is the chat stream from today’s show (including a quick chat at the end about an idea I have to move the show to a virtual word to increase the ability for people to interact):

04:32 TomRaftery : Can you hear me now?
04:32 mikeTheBee : reloading
04:33 mikeTheBee : still ‘Off Air’
04:33 TomRaftery : Anyone hear me?
04:33 watching-4232 : not me
04:33 Suki_Fuller : No
04:33 ustreamer-85861 : “Off air”
04:33 TomRaftery : Ok, I’ll log out & back in – two secs
04:33 mikeTheBee : I see that chat
04:33 watching-4232 : BTW, I got my iPhone app running, how can I join this stream?
04:34 mikeTheBee : Give it a go
04:34 TomRaftery : Logging back in
04:34 mikeTheBee : Now says found
04:34 TomRaftery : Apologies about this
04:34 mikeTheBee : On Air
04:34 mikeTheBee : no pic yet
04:34 mikeTheBee : Off Air
04:35 mikeTheBee : On Air ….. Off AIr
04:35 mikeTheBee : 11 in Chat
04:35 TomRaftery : Anyone hear me now
04:35 mikeTheBee : Voila
04:35 verowhite : Hi everyone
04:35 mikeTheBee : pic no sound
04:35 mikeTheBee : Sound
04:36 Suki_Fuller : I see you
04:36 Suki_Fuller : Sound
04:36 Suki_Fuller : Hey Tom
04:36 mikeTheBee : I have sound and vision
04:36 ustreamer-85861 : pic + sound here, just fine
04:36 verowhite : Hear you and see you Tom
04:36 mikeTheBee : 15 viewers
04:36 TomRaftery : http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/flashindex.html
04:38 monkchips : talking about water today huh?
04:38 Suki_Fuller : yeapper
04:39 verowhite : The sound is a little bit low, Tom
04:39 TomRaftery : video working?
04:39 verowhite : Image perfect, though
04:39 mikeTheBee : No sound or v.low volume
04:39 monkchips : video working great
04:39 monkchips : but i seem to be having sound problems too
04:39 verowhite : I think we’re hearing the output of your headphones
04:39 ustreamer-85861 : video working (sound is probably only coming via your headset mic?)
04:41 TomRaftery : http://www.physorg.com/news156506896.html
04:41 mikeTheBee : 14 viewers
04:41 Suki_Fuller : holy cow
04:41 Suki_Fuller : 2000x
04:41 verowhite : I heard about a campaign going on against bottledwater
04:42 verowhite : Didn’t know the numbers were that crazy, though
04:43 TomRaftery : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html
04:43 mikeTheBee : 16 viewers
04:44 TomRaftery : http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26922.wss
04:44 mikeTheBee : It forms an ‘Island’ I believe
04:47 cgarvey : same audio problem
04:47 monkchips : LOVING the way the show is evolving though.
04:47 cgarvey : (hearing your PC speakers via your mic, i think)
04:48 verowhite : yup, cgarvey, I would say he has to change the output from his mic to the osx playback
04:48 TomRaftery : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/20/tech/main4880629.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4880629
04:49 verowhite : Hey! I’m from Asturias 🙂
04:49 verowhite : Gijon is in Asturias!
04:50 verowhite : Didn’t expect Asturias to be any sci-fish (no pun intended) 😉
04:50 TomRaftery : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1163125/Schools-robofish-sniff-pollution-Thames.html
04:51 verowhite : Is an amazing place, if you have the change to visiti, BTW
04:51 cgarvey : excellent pun
04:52 cgarvey : excellent video, surreal!
04:52 mikeTheBee : 17 Viewers
04:52 verowhite : omg
04:52 monkchips : my bloody windows machine isn’t playing flash audio for some reason
04:53 monkchips : 🙁
04:53 TomRaftery : http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26921.wss
04:54 verowhite : I used to live in Aviles, near Gijon. My city was REALLY polluted. I can see why they’re investigating there
04:54 Suki_Fuller : Oh my that robotic fish video is wicked cool
04:55 mikeTheBee : 16 Viewers
04:55 mikeTheBee : 18 viewers
04:59 mikeTheBee : 17 Viewers
04:59 TomRaftery : http://greenmonk.net/roll-your-own-green-job/
05:00 cgarvey : one quick Q
05:01 cgarvey : SmartBay data .. is it online somewhere, or just research still
05:01 cgarvey : ok, that’s good enough for me, cheers!
05:02 TomRaftery : [email protected]
05:02 cgarvey : cheers Tom .. love the format of this, by the way
05:02 mikeTheBee : Cheers Tom. cheers all.
05:02 verowhite : Nice show, Tom. Thanks
05:02 Suki_Fuller : Thank you – I love the format and I as always learned new things
05:02 TomRaftery : Thanks a million everyone for joining in
05:02 TomRaftery : and making it a great show
05:03 Suki_Fuller : Now going to make all my friends drink tap water
05:03 TomRaftery : Superb
05:03 TomRaftery : btw, thinking of running the show out of Second Life
05:03 TomRaftery : That would allow for more interactivity
05:03 mikeTheBee : SL or ReactionGrid?
05:03 TomRaftery : Could also pipe back into Ustream
05:04 TomRaftery : for those with no SL client
05:04 mikeTheBee : I’m not on SL but am on homcamp
05:04 TomRaftery : I’m agnostic about SL or ReactionGrid tbh Mike
05:04 mikeTheBee : I’m using Hippo
05:04 verowhite : I tried SL on my mac in the past
05:04 verowhite : not a big fan
05:04 TomRaftery : It depends on which is easier to pipe back to Ustream
05:05 mikeTheBee : homecamp.org.uk
05:05 verowhite : but if you are still streming it here, may work, who know 🙂
05:05 TomRaftery : Yup, I’m on the HoeCamp one as well
05:05 mikeTheBee : Intersted in the idea, yes, details l8r
05:05 TomRaftery : oops!
05:05 Suki_Fuller : I’d rather here but whatever you decide
05:05 TomRaftery : HomeCamp that was supposed to be!
05:05 Suki_Fuller : I hope so.
05:05 cgarvey : lol, that was an impressive typo
05:06 TomRaftery : LOL
05:06 verowhite : lol
05:06 mikeTheBee : Its still Green 🙂
05:06 TomRaftery : Yup – I’m interested in getting people more involved
05:06 Suki_Fuller : That roll your own video very nice and short
05:06 mikeTheBee : Cheers Ctach you l8r
05:06 TomRaftery : If you can come to a venue in SL
05:06 TomRaftery : And participate that way, it may feel more real
05:07 TomRaftery : more like you are participating
05:07 verowhite : bye Mike, thanks for helping me earlier
05:07 cgarvey : I’m off to read about SmartBay .. cheers for the show Tom