The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris « Curious Eggs Curious Eggs

  Simply beautiful…
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  All the images shown below were taken using Autochrome Lumière technology. It’s an early color photography process, patented in 1903 and invented by the famous French Auguste and Louis Lumière, populary known as Lumière Brothers. They were the earliest filmmakers in history.
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  tags: paris photography 1900s

• Government investment needed in new economies – latimes.com

  Good article, a variant on “you didn’t build that,” but with an explanation of why government investment seeds the way, and how private investment can’t do it.
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  At every stage, the innovation economy depends on sources of funding decoupled from concern for economic return. As economists have long recognized, such funding will not be delivered by competitive markets. Only an active state in pursuit of politically legitimate missions — national development, national security, conquering disease — can play the required role.
  Thus, from the Erie Canal to the Internet by way of the transcontinental railroads and the Interstate Highway System, the American state has played a strategic role in the deployment of the transformational technologies that have created a succession of “new economies.” In disregard of this history, forces have been at work for a generation to delegitimize the state as an economic actor — even as the next new economy can already be defined in broad strokes.
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  Government cannot play the role either of entrepreneur or venture capitalist in creating the low-carbon economy. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists cannot build this new economy by themselves.
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  tags: climate_change innovation economy government_support latimes william_janeway investment

• For business, food waste a ripe opportunity for savings | SmartPlanet

  Great article.
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  “If you are not in this conversation in the next two or three years, you are going to be increasingly less relevant to the buying public. Because it’s a mega-movement, not a trend, that is moving up the food chain and the age chain. The younger you are and the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to understand it. All types of corporations are going to figure it out or be left in the dust.”
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  tags: recycling food_waste composting smartplanet

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