As the holiday season approaches, think about how you can use your holiday spending to support sustainability goals. It's not that hard. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
Shop local--and that doesn't mean the local branch of ...READ»
「勝って兜の緒を締めよ」(katte kabuto no o wo shime yo)
When you win, it's time to tighten your helmet straps. So goes a proverb from the samurai. It relates to the practice of 残心 (zanshin), lingering awareness. ...READ»
Not surprisingly, amazing things happen when groups of inventive people congregate. Edison was able to accomplish so many great things, through trial and error and with the help of other inventors in his lab. While modern-day labs ...READ»
Usually a blog is one person’s perspective on a topic such as society – this blog will be a reverse blog: society’s view on what the “new blog of the next 10 years should be”.
A few hundred leaders gathered today in ...READ»
We were actually going to boycott it," a rep from Forbo told me. He and I were standing amid a sea of thousands of booths at Greenbuild 2008, each hawking a building product with an eco-spin. The "it" their rep was referring to was boycotting the Greenbuild conference itself.READ»
When you slice up the pie of greenhouse gas emissions, there are some obvious opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint and others that are less obvious. We all associate airplanes, cars and trucks with greenhouse gas emissions; ...READ»
"Green collar" evangelist Van Jones spoke last week at Greenbuild of Obama's election victory, to the thousands of architects, designers and engineers, "It's not that we now have a president who's black. It's that for the first time we have a president who's actually green."READ»
Good or bad, the past eight years have marked an explosion of interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from all sectors of society except from the US government. Even the UN, which has been often considered slow to act, has ...READ»
Last week in the New York Times, Steve Lohr wrote an article, In Tough Times, Build Fewer Data Centers. He makes a compelling case that “The smartest, greenest, most efficient data center is the one that a company decides it ...READ»
Innovation & Implementation is where the rubber hits the road. This is where your desire, commitment, accountability and discipline are put to the test. Innovation & Implementation is all about getting others to become ...READ»
An interview with Robert Efird, the President of Suntech America about the prospects for solar in the U.S. and the opportunities for solar entrepreneurs.READ»
I have just returned from a meeting for the World Resources Institute Green Power Market Development Group that BT hosted at our headquarters in El Segundo, CA.
The group, of which BT is a member, is a collaboration of leading ...READ»
The Opportunity Green 2008 conference held at UCLA November 8-9 lived up to its name. The green leaders there had many backgrounds and perspectives, but one message they shared in common was that going green is more than just a ...READ»
I highly recommend that you read Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators. Written by Umair Haque, it is a truly astute look at the organizational excellence of the Obama team. Haque identifies seven areas of performance where ...READ»
the day after President-Elect Obama's historic election, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussing "What's next for the green economy?" hosted by the Eco Investment Club.READ»
While the green building movement is making great progress most buildings still waste a great deal of energy, often through the roof. When the sun beats down on a roof it can heat up the rest of the building as well, making air ...READ»
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»
Given the historic U.S. Presidential election that is now only hours away, I thought it appropriate to take a cursory look at how Senators John McCain and Barack Obama view invention, entrepreneurship, and specifically innovations ...READ»
We have all heard the stats about the dire state of the climate, the depletion of natural resources, the increase in social problems… even my family which is located in a small farming village in Bosnia & Herzegovina were ...READ»
Green IT is suffering from a disconnect. Although people say they are pro-environment and will look for this in their products, in reality their spending behavior paints a different picture.READ»
This
is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been
looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of
being addicted .
I am suggesting this phenomenon is ...READ»
It’s hard to believe, but after a long hard campaign the election is almost here finally, just a few days away. What will the results of the election mean for the green economy? Both Barack Obama and John McCain have said they ...READ»
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»
Using the sun as a free, reliable and inexhaustible source of energy remains a great solution for a broad range of products, and a powerful opportunity for many different businesREAD»
One of the really astounding things about this election is that no matter how hard they dug, neither the Clinton campaign nor the McCain campaign could come up with any meaningful "dirt" on Obama.
Is it possible that in ...READ»
