Real estate prices may have plummeted, but that doesn’t mean all of us can snatch up the home (or getaway cottage) of our dreams. Here’s a budget option for the other 99%: Convert an old grain bin into a house. (Check out some ...READ»
The coffee company made admirable promises to reduce its paper waste by encouraging people to bring their own cups, but are the way individual Starbucks are run ruining that effort?READ»
The future may seem far away and out of reach, but we're already experiencing many of the benefits of technological advances that will make our cities liveable and sustainable homes. You just have to know where to look. READ»
The prosecution lost because they acted like product managers, PowerPoint logic in tow. The product manager says, "Buy our widget for all these rational reasons." But the defense understood that the case rested on the strength and believability of the Casey Anthony brand.READ»
While we in the West are focused on innovative thinking, China is focused on innovative doing: they know that if they can make one, they can make a million; and in the energy field, this is increasingly becoming their edge.READ»
Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what's wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?READ»
Living in a world of limited resources, Afghanistan is forced to conserve in ways we would never imagine in America. Maybe our two countries can work together?READ»
We spend billions on advertising. A program that takes ad dollars and invests them into local renewable energy projects would mean major change if it was implemented widely. READ»
Boy, do I remember my first car.
Like the vast majority of Americans, it was used and it was crap. Reliable it was not; in fact, I can assure you that my first car was made out of metal, plastic, and betrayal.
I was reminded ...READ»
Yesterday Aaron O’Connell stunned TED audiences with his
description of an experiment three years in the making that for the first time
showed quantum delocalization taking place at the level of a ...READ»
How do you satisfy a bike snob, a sustainable urbanite, and a slightly lazy normal person at the same time? The Grace Pro E-motorbike, that's how. It's an ultralight commuter bicycle with a handmade aluminum frame and a lithium-ion ...READ»
Suddenly, a change in a corporate logo becomes
headline news. Last week,Starbucks' decision to drop the words "coffee"
from its brand identity - announced with great caffeinated fanfare by Howard
Schultz - ...READ»
Three billion people burn wood for fuel every day. Trees fall in the Amazon for cattle ranching and in Indonesia for palm oil plantations. The death of forests is the second leading cause of global warming and an ecological ...READ»
Maybe the insightful
Freaknomics boys can explain this to me, because I don't
get it.
The Dodd-Frank bill (also known, felicitously,
as the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009)
is eliminating a ...READ»
One of the world's top management gurus is spending a lot of time these days thinking about trash. I spoke with author of The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge, because of his work with Starbucks on their pledge to provide recycling ...READ»
Starbucks made headlines around the world last week for telling baristas to slow down. Now they aren't to make more than two drinks at a time, and they're to steam pitchers of milk and grind batches of coffee as needed instead of all at once.READ»
From organic farming to fair trade Ben & Jerry's and drought-resistant crops across Asia and Africa, the global world of food science, agriculture, sustainable farming, and related initiatives reveal a sexy array of innovations ...READ»
I think I'm the only person who moderated panels last week at both the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City and Opportunity Green, a green business conference in Los Angeles. While it may seem unfair to compare a gathering of ...READ»
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