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How to Fix... Wind Energy

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100

If you want to see which way the wind is blowing in alternative energy these days, check out Europe. More specifically, look five miles off the Irish coast, in the Saint Georges Channel between Ireland and England. That's where a ...READ»

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Feed the Models: A Manifesto

BY Kathryn Tuggle
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For the past 20 years, emaciated models have fueled the fashion industry as the standard for sex appeal and style. It all started with Twiggy in the 1960's, a skinny little pixie of an icon whose cute nonexistant thighs inspired my ...READ»

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A Customer Centric Organization – Hype or Innovation?

BY Jeff Thull
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Many companies talk about being customer focused and selling on value, but where’s the evidence? Too often customer value is expressed, as in a value proposition, but lost in execution when it doesn’t set us apart, connect us to ...READ»

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Red Herring 100 Europe Awards

BY Pierre van Eck
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trivago wins Red Herring 100 Europe Award The European travel website trivago is one of Europe’s most promising young internet companies according to Red Herring. With the cost-free internet service travelers always find ...READ»

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Ideas like Kiva

BY Jeff Mowatt
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Kiva set the concept of P2P finance in motion, without doubt.   C4 world is another I've come across in my virtual travels, an org from Europe:  http://www.myc4.com/Portal/Default.aspx Then there's ...READ»

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Customer Centric Organizations – Hype or Innovation?

BY Fast Company Staff
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Many companies talk about being customer focused and selling on value, but where’s the evidence? Too often customer value is expressed, as in value propositions, but lost in execution they become value cliches that don’t set us ...READ»

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Customer Centric Organizations – Hype or Innovation?

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 100

Many companies talk about being customer focused and selling on value, but where’s the evidence? Too often customer value is expressed, as in value propositions, but lost in execution they become value cliches that don’t set us ...READ»

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For the the Greenest Office, Shop Vintage. Buy Thrift. Recycle.

BY Cliff Kuang
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With all the hubbub about green products, the point that everyone seems to miss is that the greenest move of all is to buy used stuff. Variously called "vintage," "thrift," or "second hand," its updated name might simply be ...READ»

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Europe Moves to Open the Borders for Digital Music

BY Kit Eaton
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The complex European rules that prevent iTunes from opening its doors everywhere--French members buying music from the German iTunes, for example--may be getting overhauled. That's if Europe's Competition Commissioner gets her ...READ»

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Reflections on My Spring European Innovation Trip

BY James Todhunter
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It was a whirlwind trip, covering six countries over eleven days. During the trip, I had the chance to sit with fourteen companies, twelve of which are Global 2000 players. I also squeezed in an interview with the senior editor of a French PLM publication. All in all, it was a fascinating and exhilarating two weeks.READ»

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It's Official: World's Largest Solar Pipeline Gets European Backers

BY Ariel Schwartz
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T. Boone Pickens scrapped his massive wind power plan, but that doesn't mean hope is lost for other large-scale renewable energy projects. Enter Desertec, a solar pipeline spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe. The ...READ»

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3G.co.uk reports on 3G Mobile Broadband

BY Lydia Howard
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Europe : Newly released 3G+ and Long Term Evolution (LTE) forecasts by technology and media specialist Coda Research Consultancy show that portable laptop and netbook users accessing the internet via mobile broadband will number 418m worldwide by 2017...READ»

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

BY Ikechukwu Odoemelam
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DEVELOPMENT GINGERED BY RESEARCHREAD»

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Copenhagen Update: European Countries Agree to Construct Offshore Wind Supergrid

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Whether a binding climate change agreement will be reached at this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is still up in the air, but at least some progress has been made in the realm of renewable energy. Nine European ...READ»

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Top 50 Blog Posts On Outsourcing on BPOVoice in 2009

BY Ricky Roy
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In our effort to bring you the “Best of content” published across BPOVoice, we are producing a list of Top 50 blog posts on outsourcing published on BPOVoice.com We are grateful to our featured bloggers including occasional contribution from others who guided the community by their thought leadership through their high experience and deep industry knowledge. The list assembled will refresh your memories of all the good, bad and the interesting stories from the outsourcing industry that happened in the midst of turbulent times of 2009!READ»

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Tanning Product-Melanotan 2

BY Lonnie Smith
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Melanotan 2 tanning product is the no. 1 tanning product in Europe. This prooduct is a synthetic analog that naturally stimulates cells which produces melanin that will give the skin a perfect skin tan without the need to exposed ...READ»

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Teens in Tech Conference

BY Fast Company Calendar
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Any parent seeking to make a kid feel inadequate need only point to 17-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky. The Californian is founder and CEO of Teens in Tech Networks (for young media producers), a TechCrunch writer, and a ...READ»

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Swirl Turns Washing Clothes Into a Game

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Remember the energy-generating SOccket soccer ball we wrote about last week? Turns out other designers have similar ideas kicking around in their heads. The "Swirl", a concept washing machine from Germany's designaffairs Studio, is ...READ»

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LEARNING MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWING

BY Arnold Beekes
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 If there is one thing that everyone agrees on than it is the fact that changes are the norm and they are becoming more and more unpredictable as well. This means that what worked in the (recent) past might not work in the ...READ»

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Getting the Ideal Overseas Careers

BY sarah james
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Overseas career current market has witnessed overwhelming growth over the last two decades. A major share of national revenue for a number of growing places is a direct contribution of international jobs especially highest paying ...READ»

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A New Era of Climate Change Consciousness

BY Andy Hoffman
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Smart companies are starting to make climate change part of their business strategies. I spoke with David Hone, Shell's Climate-Change Advisor on their approach. READ»

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This Building Is Invisible to Radar, and Blinding to Everyone Else

BY William Bostwick
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Coop Himmelb(l)au design an energy-producing tower that treads lightly on planet Earth, and invisibly on radar screens.READ»

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3-D Printed Pottery Would Have Given Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore Brutal Paper Cuts

BY William Bostwick
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The Belgian studio Unfold pioneers 3-D printed ceramics.READ»

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Would You Live in an Abandoned Mental Hospital?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Timed perfectly with the release of Shutter Island, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture plans to turn one of Sweden's old, ugly mental hospitals into a sustainable apartment complex.READ»

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Work/Life: Security Blanket

BY Michael Valkevich
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With all of the publicity that ramped-up security has gotten in wake of the underwear bomber, I assumed that I would experience a level of security intrusiveness to which I was unaccustomed on my recent flights to and from Europe. ...READ»

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