If you wouldn't eat your bath and body products, you're using the wrong stuff, says Teporah Bilezikian, owner of the makeup company Monavé: "Cosmetics are like fresh batches of pudding -- they shouldn't last six months."READ»
On Deadline
November is National Novel Writing Month. Writers across the country suppress writer's block and bond together to write a 175-page, or 50,000-word, novel in 30 days. Participants logged 2,427,190,537 words in ...READ»
Nike's Playbook
With someone like Mark Parker at the helm, it is no mistake that Nike is head and shoulders above the competition ("Artist. Athlete. CEO"). He embodies all of the great qualities necessary to distance yourself from ...READ»
Jeff Morgan took an unlikely route from Silicon Valley to Haiti and Cambodia--but he brought his startup expertise and venture capitalist training with him. READ»
Kelly Giard's startup Clean Air Lawn Care uses solar-powered machines -- and like his lawns, it needed careful planning, constant care and cultivation to grow into the thriving business it is today. Here’s what Giard has to say about his green thumb.READ»
The Hoop Fund, a new kind of online marketplace founded by a former Coke executive, lets consumers make loans to fair trade businesses worldwide, in $25 increments -- and also buy the products from the companies they're supporting.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»
When is the last time you walked into Target, Walmart, Kmart or (insert name of any major retailer here) to find they completely overhauled the footprint of their store? We're not talking one or two departments or switching out grills ...READ»
T. Boone Pickens' grand green energy plans have been shaken up once again--this time with a new name (Next Autoworks) and a new CEO (Kathleen Ligocki) for V-Vehicle, Pickens' Google and Kleiner Perkins-backed vehicle startup. READ»
I often receive questions about whether or not a company is a mass customizer and why the whole world isn't moving to mass customization. This posting will make the differences a bit clearer about the differences and offer thoughts about what really matters.READ»
Rosetta Stone is on a proven path, the same one that most of the highly disruptive companies of the past twenty years--Dell, RIM, Google--have trodden.READ»
Want to cut your carbon footprint and get a buzz at the same time? Grab a bottle from the Sonoma Wine Company in Graton, California. The winery is the pilot project for Cogenra Solar, a startup backed by top VC Vinod Khosla.READ»
The retail giant last year unveiled an ambitious sustainability index for its suppliers, and now the company has announced that it plans to double the sales of fresh produce sourced from local farms in U.S. locations by the end of 2015.READ»
Young people express themselves through identification with brands, according to a new survey by the world's largest PR firm. Should you take it with a pinch of salt?READ»
The British design agency Cxpartners has a nice little infographic showing the phylogeny of video game controllers since those prehistoric days of Odyssey and Atari.
The diagram maps key design transformations, from wireless ...READ»
A new online project aims to bring American and Qatari teenagers together through crowdsourced translation exercises that could have ramifications for public diplomacy.READ»
