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"Inside Job" Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Hopes to Help Send Bankers to Jail

"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»

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Landscape Architect Walter Hood Aims to Build Community-Inclusive Spaces

Walter Hood transforms run-of-the-mill public spaces—city parks, highway underpasses—into pillars of the communities they serve. His goal: to prove that every place, and every person, can benefit from good design.READ»

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Why Companies Should Make Employees Take Naps

Naps are a powerful source of competitive advantage. The recent evidence is overwhelming: naps are not just physically restorative, but also improve perceptual skills, motor skills, reaction time, and alertness.READ»

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Asian American Advertising: It's Not All About Me

Over cold spicy eggplant and tofu noodles at Hunan, a typically cacophonous downtown Chinese eatery, Sunny explained how Asian advertising is less about the individual, more about the collective.READ»

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Fashion Gets Legalistic With Opening of Fordham University's Fashion Law Institute

Diane von Furstenberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America Give Designers access to much-needed legal services.READ»

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African Baobab Deposes Acai Berry as Reigning Superfood

Health buffs beware: There may be more vitamin C over in Africa than in Central and South America. READ»

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New Scientist Brainsources Its Latest Cover, While Guy Kawasaki Crowdsources His

But which method is going to work best on the general public? READ»

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Al Hammond Shares the Latest in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Innovations

Hammond says some cutting-edge researchers afraid to "make a technology decision."READ»

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ZETA Communities Gets a Boost for Net-Zero Modular Green Homes

ZETA Communities isn't wasting any time in rolling out its "net zero energy" modular multi-family homes in California. The San Francisco-based startup, which opened a 91,000 square foot net zero housing factory  late year, is ...READ»

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America Gets Earnest With Social Change Theme at Venice Architecture Biennale

A preview of some of the projects which will be featured at the Biennale's American pavilion this summer.READ»

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The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas

The newest location of a global network of sustainable shared workspaces lives up to its tagline: "Where Change Goes to Work."READ»

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Crib Sheet: Steven Chu, Secretary of State for Energy

When you've got one of the world's biggest man-made disaster zones on your doorstep, it pays to have an Energy Secretary like Steven Chu. Possessor of an enormous brain, he excels at distilling the big picture of climate change into ...READ»

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Palm's Rocky 28-Year Path to HP (A Timeline)

Wednesday's announcement that HP would acquire Palm for $1.2 billion halts--at least for now--the dramatic rollercoaster ride that the company has been on since its birth as a gleam in Palm founder Jeff Hawkins' eye in 1982. Thank ...READ»

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Bay Area Volvo Customers Can Now Receive Monthly Newsletter

McKevitt Volvo in Berkeley is now offering customers a chance to stay informed about special prices, Volvo news and incentives taking place at the Bay Area Volvo dealer with an electronic monthly newsletter emailed once a month to customers.READ»

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Designing 4 Resilience

Today I am attending a conference at The-Hub.net workspace collective in Berkeley that addresses resilience in a shifting landscape. For further information on the timely topic of design ...READ»

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Not Ready for Solar Panels? Try shutting off the lights!

Breakthrough technology that tells you if your energy efficient efforts are wasting energy. Ken Kurtzig, CEO of iReuse breaks it down, and offers some surprises.READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, Netflix, Huayi Brothers, and Google.READ»

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MOG Announces Mobile Apps and All-You-Can-Download Service, Throws Down Gauntlet

Spotify, Rhapsody, Zune, Pandora, iTunes, and Slacker: MOG is here. And it's challenging every one of you.READ»

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Biomimicry Design: The Answer May Be Zebra

 Our last blog was about the change makers co-working space housed at the BrowerCenter.org called The-Hub.net. Per its mission, it is here I met Cameron Matthews. Cameron is currently working on a green start ...READ»

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Maya Romanoff Celebrates 40 Years of Design History with Tie Dye and Pink Socks

Maya Romanoff, the man who made tie-dye hip for non-hippies, celebrated four decades of creating drop-dead wall coverings last night at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. Resplendent in pink striped socks and a tie-dyed velvet ...READ»

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The Future of Work Is Shared

I am an entrepreneur, a consultant in trend strategy with a virtual office. For 15 years I worked fulltime in offices and corporations as a designer, I am familiar with the cube-a-day world. These last ...READ»

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San Francisco Volvo Dealer Expands Certified Used Volvo Facility

McKevitt Volvo in Berkeley expands with a Certified Pre Owned used Volvo center. The new facility will be indoors and showcase up to 30 used Volvo cars.READ»

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Obama's "Director of Game Changers" Talks Energy Breakthroughs

When the Soviet Sputnik beat American satellites into space in 1957, the U.S. tried to reclaim its technological edge by creating the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which pursued high-risk, high-payoff tech breakthroughs. ...READ»

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It's Alive! Faulders Studio's Building Proposal Grows Its Own Facade

Geotube is a proposal for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.READ»

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Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles

The City of Angels also includes the kind that invest.READ»