Is it at all possible for simplicity to emerge from the twisted
processes of the corporate mind? I asked
myself this question (again) after reading last week about Cisco’s purchase of
Pure Digital, the company behind ...READ»
At long last
Tata Motors has started selling its vaunted Nano. [For more on the launch, read "Tata Nano: Meet the World's Cheapest Car."] Market research suggests that the Nano may bring safer, four-wheeled ...READ»
Brittni Furrow is one of 55 graduate students and 181 undergrads studying sustainability at ASU. Furrow hopes to create a labeling system that would make it easy to see how sustainable a product is.READ»
The South by Southwest festival in Austin hosted the world premiere of Objectified, a film by Gary Hustwit, the celebrated director of Helvetica, the fascinating and unlikely story behind a font you see absolutely ...READ»
By next Easter, your Creme Eggs may be a little less of a guilty pleasure. Cadbury just completed a deal to source fair-trade cocoa from Ghana by the end of summer 2009. The cocoa will come from a cooperative with the delightful ...READ»
I sat down yesterday with J. Wayne Leonard, the New Orleans-based CEO of Entergy and the latest utility executive to get on the climate-change train. Leonard, native to my state, ravaged both by Katrina and by the petroleum ...READ»
Imagine you could go to Home Depot and for a few hundred dollars purchase an appliance that plugs in like a blender and generates a chunk of the energy your home needs, renewable and emissions-free. This dream may be just 12-to-18 ...READ»
Finally, a silver lining--the downturn means a faster route to the turnoff. A 29% decrease in snarlups in 2008 was largely attributed to the slowdown in the economy, according to a new list of the top 20 most congested ...READ»
"Of the big four IT companies -- Apple, Dell, HP, IBM -- Apple has
disclosed the least information and is the only one that has not made a
major commitment to carbon footprint reduction." That's the conclusion of ...READ»
Good news! Softer, flufflier, whiter, stronger, fully recycled tissue and toilet paper may already be possible! The sensitive American consumer no longer has to compromise. And the all-natural technology requires less ...READ»
Almost 2500 people were planning to risk arrest last week outside the Capitol Power Plant, the heavily symbolic coal-burning plant that provides juice to Congress. Only...soon it won't be burning coal anymore. Awkward!
Speaker ...READ»
Walking into yesterday’s Green Products Expo was akin to watching an episode of “Lost”: You know everything’s supposed to serve a higher purpose, but when you’re initially exposed, a lot of it just seems…awesomely weird. ...READ»
Greenpeace recently released a tissue-buying guide for consumers to highlight the use of post-consumer recycled content and environmentally friendly bleach. Green Forest came in first, with Whole Foods' store brand, 365, ...READ»
Credit card companies are canceling your account. Student loans, home mortgages, and auto loans are all getting harder to obtain, and the big bank where I have an account is insolvent; how about yours?
Starting today, ...READ»
This infographic visualizes the gallons of fuel it takes to travel 350 miles by various means. Surprisingly, in terms of energy efficiency as well as time, a full motor coach is by far the best option, second only to bicycling. ...READ»
You would think it was 1997 again, a year without smart phones or the social Web. Despite all the endless chatter about Twitter this and Flickr that and YouTube, iTunes, and Kindle 2.0, the good old boob tube is capturing ...READ»
The blogosphere is buzzing about a changing of the guards at Google's philanthropic arm. Larry Brilliant is stepping down from Google.org to become chief philanthropic evangelist at Google.com; Megan Smith, the company's VP of ...READ»
Now that Dubai has collapsed, Canada's looking like the next best place to weather the economic storm. "When the tidal wave comes, the question is can you still feel the ground under your feet? And we can." That's the ...READ»
In the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, NASA attempted to launch an experimental mission to save the earth with the smallest rocket it currently has in use. The initial launch failed when the module did not separate from the ...READ»
Transit ridership is soaring amid concerns about gas prices, an aging population, and greater preference for city living. But public investments just haven't kept pace, and with state and local budgets hurting from the recession, ...READ»
If you missed the Compostmodern sustainable design conference in San Francisco last week, you can get an excellent taste here of one of the top presentations. Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the Design Strategy MBA ...READ»
In Britain, small mom-and-pop shops are thriving by selling filtered used cooking oil as biodiesel for cars. They can sell the fuel at a discount to regular diesel because they get the grease free from fish-and-chips shops and other ...READ»
The IT sector sucks up about as much energy as the aviation industry. This is largely due to the ugly guts of the Internet--the data centers with their racks of servers that must be constantly hooked up to power and cooled with ...READ»
Commenters like Tom Friedman and James Fallows have suggested that China's command-and-control government and history of dramatic social change (Great Leap Forward, anyone?) actually offers a better approach, compared to the ...READ»
Finish your vegetables, and there won’t be so many children starving in China. That’s the gist of a remarkable new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. It just issued a seven-point plan that targets reducing ...READ»
