Hewlett Packard and Stratasys are setting up to manufacture 3D Printers under the HP brand.  In a Stratasys press release, Stratasys Chairman and CEO Scott Crump says: "We believe the time is right for 3D printing to become mainstream."  Desktop manufacturing is one of the most promising -- and one of the most potentially disruptive -- technologies that are likely to gain a foothold during this decade. 

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More than one dozen universities in Africa and the Middle East will benefit from a joint project between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United States computer company Hewlett-Packard that seeks to provide the technology and tools needed to stem the migration of graduates and reduce the ‘brain drain' from the regions.

Paula Goldman, live from the Momentum Conference.

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In the past several decades, we have seen a tide-shift in the way we think about social change.  The growing popularity of social entrepreneurship (both as a concept and a movement) is one major part of this, but it is just part.  It is a shift towards a growing recognition of the interconnectedness of issues, a paradigm in which words like 'effectiveness' and 'results' have trumped words like 'resistance, and 'domination.' It is a shift away from seeing any one individual, group, or organization as 'the enemy,' and towards seeing every single individual, group, and organization as part of the solution-- a critical part of the solution at that. 

If there is any one person whose journey is representative of these kinds of shifts, it may well be Adam Werbach, who I had a chance to chat with today before he gave a talk in the Carbon Plenary here at the Momentum Conference.

Some of you may know his story.  At 23, he was the youngest President of the Sierra Club. As an activist, his efforts helped achieved many successes, including major legislation in California to protect the state's deserts from destruction. 

Moving Down the Road
Electric car maker Tesla Motors and the city of Palo Alto have announced today that Tesla will be moving its headquarter to a renovated building in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto (formerly used by Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies). The 369,000-square-foot facility will also be home to Tesla's new powertrain facilities.

This year the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin to honor his theory's impact upon our science and culture. Overlooked in the celebrations was Alfred Wallace, who also came up with the same theory of evolution, at approximately the same time. Weirdly, both Wallace and Darwin found the theory of natural selection after reading the same book on population growth by Thomas Malthus.  Darwin did not publish his revelation until provoked by Wallace's parallel discovery. Had Darwin died at sea on his famous voyage (a not uncommon fate at that time) prior to publication, or been killed by his many illnesses during his quite years in London, we would be celebrating the birthday of Wallace as the sole genius behind the theory. Wallace was a naturalist living in Southeast Asia, and he endured many serious tropical illnesses. Indeed he was suffering a debilitating jungle fever during the time he was reading Malthus.