Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy.
Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is the bane of the environmental community--nobody really knows if it works on a large scale, but the technology is critical (PDF file) if we want to reach emissions reduction goals. Now GE Oil ...READ»
A sneak peek at GE's New York storefront envisioning the future of health care, as designed by Local Projects, Thinc Design, Urban A&O and Hyperquake.READ»
Obama is hoping for some big climate handshakes in separate talks with China and India next month--including the announcement of India's first cap-and-trade scheme. While the big talking point will be setting CO2 limits at levels ...READ»
C.K. Prahalad, author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, chronicles the evolution of corporate social responsibility, or CSR, from hands-off projects which were primarily for publicity to innovative experiments that lead to ...READ»
Will the cast of 30 Rock soon be making fun of a new corporate overlord? M&A bankers for General Electric may have reached a deal Tuesday to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, reports TheWrap. Both companies have denied any ...READ»
GE first showed off its smart grid-aware oven ranges, hot water heaters, and dryers this past May. The appliance manufacturer is about to face some major competition from Whirlpool, which just announced plans to put 1 million Smart ...READ»
If you should need any evidence that Dev Patnaik, the CEO and founder of Jump Associates, is marching to the beat of a different drummer, consider this: He teaches a popular Stanford University course called Needfinding.READ»
“Metrics,
metrics and more metrics. In many ways metrics drive the success of
business. Multiple variables can be condensed to the common denominator
of dollars and cents, pounds and pence. Many business failures could
have been ...READ»
Smart meters are great for keeping track of energy use, sure, but smart appliances and tools are also necessary for homes to truly become energy-efficient. GE wants to be the conduit that allows homes of the future to produce "net ...READ»
Military bases are often in isolated or disaster-ridden locations, which makes them ideal candidates for microgrids, or self-contained power grids. GE is capitalizing on the military's need for reliable power in all circumstances with ...READ»
Global warming, meet hybrid heating. General Electric, working with Oak Ridge National Laboratories, has developed an electric household water heater that runs on half the electricity of standard water heaters sold today. The ...READ»
General Electric has devised a way to generate energy from a unique kind of waste: the excess heat from its own gas turbines. An innovative system based on a process understood for decades but previously too expensive to implement ...READ»
I believe that success requires constant evolution and like all successful innovators, Global Medical Imaging (GMI) is ready to change again. Two years after successfully shifting its business model from only offering medical ...READ»
The buzz about GE's Smart Appliances--microwaves, oven ranges, hot water heaters and dryers equipped with smart grid communication technology--has been building for months. Some of the appliances go into a low power mode when ...READ»
Yesterday I attended an
outreach event, organized by AccountAbility
and GE, to bring together NGO stakeholders to provide input on GE's
continually developing sustainability initiatives. I was one of a couple
of other ...READ»
GE is making a move into the sodium-based battery business with a $100 million battery manufacturing plant in upstate New York. The company has previously invested heavily in lithium ion batteries--the batteries of choice for ...READ»
In what is purportedly the world's largest smart meter roll-out , the U.K announced a plan today to put a smart meter in every home by 2020. It won't be cheap. The replacement scheme is estimated to cost over $10 billion, and ...READ»
It's nice to know that Jeff Immelt, GE's CEO, and I think alike. Just as I was writing this piece, I happened to read his comments on the business culture in this country: "I believe that a popular, 30-year notion that ...READ»
Instead of waiting (and paying) for giant solar farms and mega-scale transmission lines to be built, what if you could start generating your own clean energy tomorrow, for 60 percent below retail prices?READ»
The smart grid has been getting lots of press lately, with companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Google getting involved in energy monitoring at the same time that utilities across the U.S. are installing smart meters in customers' ...READ»
Malaria kills one million people a year, most of them children in Africa's so-called Malaria Belt (the sub-Saharan region). In partnership with the Gates Foundation, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is preparing an ambitious ...READ»
Brains! That must be the secret to Hulu rocketing up to being the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, right? That's what Alec Baldwin told us in this creative Super Bowl ad, which may also have had something to do ...READ»
