Topic: Denmark

United Nations Climate Change Conference

After 12 days of heated wrangling, world leaders should emerge from this meeting with a new treaty to combat global warming. Or maybe not: We wouldn't be shocked if U.S. negotiators, spooked by the potential effect of carbon ...READ»

World's First Active House Produces More Energy Than It Consumes

Passive homes are built to use as little energy as possible, but the future of green housing might be active homes -- houses designed to capture more energy than they use. The world's first active house, located in Lystrup, ...READ»

Is Your Education Just Business As Usual?

If so, you need a get-you-in-the-game curriculum that will help you build the tools to succeed.READ»

Would You Share a Home With 100 People?

Cohousing was supposed to be the next big residential trend, but it never took off. Now the recession is reviving interest in shared living facilities. Kitchen duty, anyone?READ»

Electric Cars in Hawaii: The Future of Transport or Just Another Monorail?

The technology of networked electric cars is right on. The business model for it is still unproven. Will a firm called Better Place change that?READ»

• The Smart Garage: Crossroads of the New Green Economy

Business School for KaosPilots

Forget Harvard and Wharton. The new curriculum for managing change is taking off in Denmark.READ»

Urban Mediaspace: The largest library in Scandinavia

The firm of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects will build what it calls "the next generation of library design" on the site of the old cargo docks in Aarhus, Denmark. Flexible-use areas will provide ample opportunity for socializing, recreation, contemplation and, yes, reading.READ»

What Countries Have the Happiest People?

Where in the world do people feel most content with their lives? According to a new report released by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) happiness levels are highest in Northern European countries. READ»

Better Place Unveils EV Battery Swap Station in Japan

Israeli electric car infrastructure company Better Place inched closer to creating an electric car revolution last night when it unveiled its first automated battery swap station in Yokohama, Japan. The $500,000 car wash-like ...READ»

Where in the World to Find a Job

The national unemployment rate may be at its worst in over a decade, but there's a world of opportunity out there beyond Wall Street. Companies from Finland to Dubai are bucking the recession and actively hiring--you just have to know where to look.READ»

• Top Jobs 2009 - Main Page
• The Top Jobs for 2009
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now?

Branding Better Place: Building an Electric Vehicle Movement

A grassroots-level campaign helps to introduce and explain a new award-winning system for charging and using electric vehicles.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies

Take The Unorthodox Path – Valley Forge Fabrics Finds Its Own Way To Success

Few people know Valley Forge Fabrics, but if you’ve ever stayed in a hotel or sat in a hotel lobby, then you have probably experienced the company’s products without even knowing it. This once small, mom-and-pop business now sells ...READ»

Best of TreeHugger: Rent-a-Goat, Freezing Dying Coral for the Future, and the Promising New Zinc-Air Battery

Construction companies and environmentally conscious individuals are turning to a strange source for lawn care and brush clearing: rent-a-goat businesses. Also, scientists hatch a plan to preserve coral reefs that are endangered by rising temperatures, and a new zinc-air battery is unveiled that's 3 times as powerful as lithium ion. READ»

Kaos-Think -- This Time, in English

A new book sharing lessons and ideas from the KaosPilots, a progressive business school in Denmark, indicates that business leaders around the world can still learn from the Scandinavian world of work.READ»

Apple's World Power in Question

Apple’s dominance in the music world has prompted this week’s heated negotiations with a number of European governments and consumer rights organizations. The negotiations have taken Apple executives to Paris, where government ...READ»

Fast Talk: The Creative Impulse

Five young professionals in the fields of fashion, design, publishing, advertising, and architecture discuss the source of their creativity and what drives it.READ»

The Neurobiology of Trust

n the past few years, we've uncovered how the human brain determines when to trust someone. Scientists now point to a simple molecule--oxytocin--as a major player. What implications does this have for organizations, and their leaders wanting to increase levels of trust?READ»

Working Hard? Hardly Working

The current issue of National Geographic Magazine features an interesting one-page piece entitled "A Work-Weary World." The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tracked the annual hours worked around the world in ...READ»

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports Now Required By Law

Should Corporate Social Responsibility be a voluntary response to customer and societal demands? Or, if it is as important as many are suggesting, should it be a legislated requirement? On December 16, 2008, the Danish parliament ...READ»

Have Web, Will Travel

Don't fire your travel agent -- yet. But surfing the web before packing your bag lets you pick the right seat on a plane, check out hotels before you check in, and arrange a great weekend in a new city.READ»

Season's Greediness

I gotta admit: I'm with Keith. If you don't know someone and haven't had previous contact with someone, it's somewhat odd to send them a holiday card. So far this year, I've received three. One came from a reader in Philadelphia, one ...READ»

The Transformation of Transportation

 I was in Chicago today at IBTTA's annual conference on the Transformation of Transportation. Robert Atkinson spoke. He is President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a policy think-tank, and author of The ...READ»

How Should We Define "Design"?

When everything from solutions for social problems to smart business plans are getting heralded as design solutions, where do we draw the line?READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

So the U.S, is Now Top of Internet Class?

European researchers last month issued a report that portrayed the U.S. Internet infrastructure in a positive light. The study was commissioned by the World Economic Forum, and conducted by Insead, a business school near Paris. It ...READ»

Fast Talk: Summer Amusements

It's family vacation time, and in an era of backseat DVD players and jaded youth, we asked the operators of five lower-key attractions how they've adapted to compete in the Spielbergian, conglomerate-driven entertainment universe.READ»