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Three Easy Pieces

Today's recommended reading, from various sources: $3 a Gallon? Not at Fuel Banks: A central Minnesota retailer cracks the code on high fuel prices, organizing a futures market-like fuel co-op in which members prepay for fuel, ...READ»

This Advice Sounds Fishy

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The Right Keyphrase for the Right Legal Marketing Strategy

Your law firm marketing strategy depends on choosing the right words.READ»

Monorail Mania

Each month in Fast Company, we include a Jetsons Moment item in Next, taking a look at a technical or scientific development that brings the future just a little closer. In the October issue, Lucas Conley focused on conductive ...READ»

Book Club Hopping

We've added a new element to the Fast Company Book Club. If you participate in a discussion group and send us a report on the discussion, we'll consider it for inclusion in our new online collection of book reports. In mid-December, ...READ»

Cities On The Verge

These great urban centers almost made our list of the most innovative cities.READ»

Rest in Peace

Harry Heltzer, an innovator who began work at 3M as a laborer and rose to serve as its CEO died last week. The inventor of a new way to make reflective signs and highway markings, Heltzer's innovation story is worth considering for a ...READ»

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Creative Water Solutions: Cleaning Your Pool Naturally, With Moss

Few people enjoy the eye-stinging sensation of a pool cleaned with chlorine. And really, it doesn't feel too good knowing that you're swimming in a giant chemical-filled tub, anyway. Enter Creative Water Solutions, a start-up that has ...READ»

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Get Your Hands Dirty

A ceramics show at the Walker Art Center got Joe Duffy thinking about the importance of working with his hands.READ»

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Fast Talk: Medic!

Lois Quam says our balky health-care system presents a "classic redesign challenge."READ»

Grand Forks and East Grand Forks: After the Flood (Literally)

Tales of courage and recovery after a devastating flood.READ»

Health Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : June 26 2009

The "bumps in the road" to health care reform were quite visible this past week.READ»

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Fast Talk: Marathon Man

Medtronic's Stephen Oesterle gets patients to run 26 miles with him--to prove the power of optimism.READ»

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Community Wind Gets a Boost on Maine's Fox Islands

As utilities scramble to reach emissions targets with massive renewable energy projects and smart meter rollouts, it's important to remember that community-owned renewable energy is a viable--and sometimes better--alternative. And ...READ»

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Energy Sprawl: Will Solar and Wind Farms Become Ghost Malls of Tomorrow?

Have you noticed the rapid proliferation of clean energy projects in the past few years? All those projects take up land. Now a paper from the Nature Conservancy predicts that the Waxman-Markey climate change bill could have the ...READ»

Fast Talk: Testing the Edge

Public Radio International's Alisa Miller on the quest for weirdness.READ»

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Special summer-travel edition.READ»

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How Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Are Empowering Patients

Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel Medical Director, Global Products and Services Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota   David Cerino General Manager Health Solutions Group Microsoft Redmond, ...READ»

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Design in Dubai: Future Shock on the Gulf

If you enjoy the smog of LA, the traffic of Washington DC’s Beltway at rush hour, the blistering heat of Orlando in August, the retail pizzazz of the Mall of America, the cultural attractions of Midland, Texas, and the sensitive ...READ»

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Bad Habits of a Gen Y-er: Not Playing the Politics Game

So last fall, the world expected to see Gen-Y change the nation by showing up to vote. I even made sure to have filed for my Minnesota drivers license a couple days beforehand just to be sure. Apparently, Gen-Yers are all about the ...READ»

Two from the Heartland

Craig and Patricia Neal have a goal: Create companies where people can bring their whole selves to work, where they can integrate their work into their lives.READ»

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An Out Of The Sandbox Advertising Idea

It’s October! And, that means that those of us in the Midwest, are preparing for hibernation. It’s truly a bittersweet time of year. Yeah, the fall colors are nice. Yeah, we’ve got Brett Favre in Minnesota and we’re all ...READ»

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Watercooler

States with jobs, cool podcasts, and job venting in this month's buzz roundup.READ»

Wireless City, Redux

Last January I wrote about San Diego's move to become the most wireless city in the USA -- based on the city's history of playing host to a number of telecommunications pioneers, and on the unique and creative applications for ...READ»

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