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Hooray! Vermont Senate Will Not Extend VT Yankee's License

Not extending the license is indeed a people's victory. Closing, once and for all, this dangerous plant that should have been shuttered decades ago is long overdue. And President Obama would do well to reconsider his ill-advised push for nukes.READ»

Your Invitation to join the Green and Ethical Marketing page on Facebook

I started this Facebook page last month, and was noticing today that I've posted more than 20 great links already.I've been posting links almost every day, and all of them are open to your comments, reactions, and feedback. Just visit ...READ»

Social Media as Time Transporter

Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We shared that apartment for several months, until he, too, moved on, and another friend moved ...READ»

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

When Social Media Trashes You...How Should You Respond?

I just read a very interesting article called "How to Weather a Twitterstorm"--and one of the most interesting parts was the comments, which included a whole lot of people who basically said that Twitter, Facebook and other ...READ»

When Does Paying Referral Commissions Raise Ethics Questions?

At LinkedIn, a great discussion on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=54066&discussionID=2031924&commentID=2462364#commentID_2462364">when it is or isn't OK to pay ...READ»

The myth of the environment and recession...

...is that the environment and sustainability can only be addressed when there is plenty of money about.Let's be blunt - the current economic situation is good for the environment - we are driving less, insulating our houses more, ...READ»

Madoff Scam May Be Worse Than Enron: Two Things You Can Do

Some experts say the Madoff meltdown will be worse than Enron.Are you as sick and tired of this as I am? Enron fell apart in 2001. Michael Milken was indicted in 1989--that's almost 20 years ago! And now we find out that Bernard ...READ»

BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE CONTINUES TO GROW WITH SEIU, LIUNA Alliance Expands Labor-Environmental Partnership for Good Jobs, Clean En

MINNEAPOLIS (December 11, 2008) As the economic crisis grows, and as leaders from around the world gather in Poland to address climate change, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers’ International ...READ»

What the Election Taught Us About Leadership and Marketing

Barack Obama's historic landslide victory provides many lessons about leadership--and about successful marketing. To name some of them: A transformative, emotion-based, positive campaign will trump a narrow,negative, ...READ»

Sustainability is NOT optional

There is much talk in the news about how when the economy tanks, sustainability and its consumer-focused cousin, the Green movement, are moved aside. A recent article in Sustainable Life Media reported on a study by Cone Marketing ...READ»

Innovation that Mimics Nature Can Lead to Amaaing Things

It's a big challenge to the Darwinian notion of "survival of the fittest": research shows that the species who thrive in nature are not the most competitive but the most able to take advantage of--and sometimes adapt ...READ»

Ignore the Last Post--It's Not Done Yet

Frist it wiped out what I'd written, and then it posted when I added a title. I will write the post in Word and paste it in shortly.READ»

AMEX $2.5mil Members Project

I just learnt about this initiative this year and have submitted a project called Backyard Tree Nurseries. I'm waiting to hear whether our project made it to Top 25 projects, which will qualify it for Round 2 and possible winning of ...READ»

Who and Why both Heaven and Hell were Created

The Creation of Heaven and Hell  Chronologically speaking the concept of that place known as Heaven was created before that other place known as Hell. But where and when did these places come to be, at least in the minds of most ...READ»

Green MBA Trend: Are Tehse Students Ready to Make A Difference?

Thanks to the How Online blog, I found these two articles--and their juxtaposition is quite telling: To start, an inspiring (and long-overdue) article on MarketWatch about how people are seeking MBAs not just to acquire ...READ»

Social Responsibility in Guatemala

The reason I took several weeks off from my weekly Fast Company blog was that I was traveling in Guatemala If you'll allow me the hubris of sharing an outsider's perspective after spending just a few weeks there, I'd like to make ...READ»

Buckminster Fuller Still Relevant in Today's Energy Crisis--Nukes are Not

Yeah, here we go again: gas gets expensive, and people who should know better start talking about nuclear. If ever there was a really dumb idea, splitting atoms to generate electircity is it. This is something I know about: ...READ»

Head Firmly in the Sand: Carbon Belch Day

Need an example of head-in-the-sand behavior!  June 12, I found out on the radio tonight, was Carbon Belch Day: Proud of their antisocial tendencies, these yo-yos wanted to be as environmentally destructive as possible that ...READ»