The Ocean Invention Network is trying to invent our way out of planetary catastrophe. Climate change, as British economist Sir Nicholas Stern says, is perhaps the largest market failure in human history. "The benefits of strong, early action on
change outweigh the costs," says the Stern report (PDF), but progress on new international
investments has stalled. Countries have failed to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol
agreement which expired in 2012
with few international options in sight. Yet a handful of maverick inventors are banding together under the banner of the Ocean Invention Network to help invent our way out of
change. Leading the effort is Shawn Frayne, head of Hong-Kong based Haddock Invention, whose outfit has put together a tiny coalition of engineers and inventors
with a simple philosophy: 1) simpler is better 2) frugal engineering that costs cents, not dollars and 3) solve big problems by connecting inventors, designers, and engineers anywhere in the world.Read Full Story