Welcome to episode twenty of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode we had Sam Johnston Director, Cloud & IT Services at Equinix, as a guest on the show. Sam is an old friend, so we had a lot of fun discussing this week’s crop of stories. This week was relatively quiet on the technology front – whether that’s a hangover from last week’s Sapphirenow and Apple WWDC, or the World Cup, I’m not sure, but still we found plenty to talk about; especially on the health, IoT and wearables fronts.

Here are the stories that we discussed in this week’s show:

Climate

• Climate unity dealt blow as Australia and Canada put business first

Renewables

• Qatar sheds light on its solar-power future
• Imergy CEO Bill Watkins: How batteries will break up PG&E and democratize energy

Cloud

• Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing

Open

• Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing
• Tesla: All Our Patent Are Belong To You

Wearables

• Salesforce.com Wear launched for wearable app developers
• Diane von Furstenberg collaborates with Google Glass

Health

• Exclusive: Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With ‘Google Fit’
• GM mosquitoes a ‘quantum leap’ towards tackling malaria
• Vessyl smart cup can tell Coke from Pepsi

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Smart loos at Heathrow Terminal 2
• The heat is on: Honeywell is finally challenging the Nest thermostat

Apps

• As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies
• The London Taxi Challenge

I.T.

• Intel’s cable-free future will use WiTricity’s advanced wireless charging

Misc

• Formlabs’ second-gen pro 3D printer is 50 percent faster

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