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What is ASSETs for Life?
This site is dedicated to catalyzing emission-free cities and rural communities through least-cost-and-risk energy services over their lifecycle. ASSETs for Life is meant to trigger multiple interpretations. By definition, assets are useful or valuable qualities, persons, or things; an advantage or resource. Assets are associated with various forms of capital – human, social, civic, natural, spiritual and financial. By far the largest energy asset available to the planet is the Sun. Solar power, combined with end-use efficiency (originating from human and social capital) and wind power (a solar-derived natural asset), can deliver virtually all of humanity’s energy needs virtually emission-free. It is technically feasible to do this within several decades. It is economically attractive and financially achievable; as well as offering a competitive alternative to the existing global energy system powered by fossil and nuclear fuels.
Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledge
ASSETs for Life alludes to health, well-being and prosperous living conditions for people and the planet’s biodiversity, now and for generations to come. It is also an acronym that stands for “Apps for Spurring Solar and Efficiency Tech-knowledge.” Apps created in a self-organized manner by ad hoc assemblages of self-motivated individuals geographically dispersed around the world. Or what is often referred to as collaboration innovation networks or collective intelligence networks (COINs) focused on achieving a specific goal or mission. So, COINs into ASSETs is about catalyzing a robust cluster of individuals participating in creating, using, refining and evolving Apps that can show cities and rural communities how to secure emission-free local economies.