Dutch courage

Yesterday, Robert-Jan Sips performed the opening lecture for the first highschool education developed in the Poseidon Project. The education will run at the Montessori Schools in Amsterdam and Almere. During the next weeks, students will experiment with computer-guided drip irrigation in an effort to create the healthiest mustard plant with the least amount of water. The cookbook on how to do this at schools near you will soon be provided through Poseidonproject.org and IBM Developerworks.
Many thanks to all of our volunteers, especially Manfred Overmeen, Robert Iepsma and Maurits van Bellen; who made this course possible!

Poseidon Project at ICT in de Wolken. A contest for efficient, computer guided, drip irrigation for high-school students.
www.poseidonproject.org

Great discussion at Delft University of Technology (world leading in water management) yesterday; trying to find methods to go from the current micro measurements to the scale needed to observe whole fields. We had some pretty cool ideas; stay tuned! News is coming soon!

Meanwhile in California.... Staggering that in todays world of zelf driving cars we still overuse water and throw away the food grown at the expense of the planet...

See How California Is Using Its Diminishing Water Resources Farmers, business owners and residents gird for unprecedented cuts

Great news! Team expanded with 10 volunteers from IBM Groningen and we're moving quickly towards the next release of the Poseidon sensors. Updates here will follow soon!

Just learned Poseidon will be nominated for the IBM Chairman Environmental Award! Seems we're on the right track!

Poseidon is now available in Russian language!

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Just learned that IBM has selected the Poseidon app in the top 10 of Bluemix apps! Great news in our joint charge for water conservation!

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-a-year-of-bluemix-top-10-app/index.html

In March, Robert-Jan will speak on the Dutch ICT.OPEN conference on the Poseidon Project and our aims! Fingers crossed new parties will join our cause for a better world!

www.ictopen2015.nl Robert-Jan Sips is leading IBM’s collaborative academic research programs in the Netherlands at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS). Next to that he is Chairman of the Dutch Courage foundation and a visiting researcher in the Web&Media group at VU University Amsterdam. He is actively involved…

Dutch Article on the IBM Smarter Planet Blog, giving more background on our mission and the progress of Project Poseidon!

Op klimaatexpeditie voor een groene economie | Smarter Planet (Nederland) Op 1 september 2014 vertrokken Robert-Jan Sips en Gert Jan Keizer vanuit Amsterdam om een samenwerking op te zetten met Russische en Centraal Aziatische

Entered Turkmenistan safely! Diesel prices have plummeted to around $0.20 per liter, a relief to fill up again after uzbekistan!

inReach Message from Robert-Jan Sips Two-way text messaging anywhere in the world with the inReach satellite communicator.

This is the result of our failure to preserve the important ecosystems we depend upon.

Once the Aral Sea, now a ship graveyard

A few hours later, nearly there! Time for Plov & Chai!

inReach Message from Robert-Jan Sips Two-way text messaging anywhere in the world with the inReach satellite communicator.