Topic: New Zealand

Haute Fruiture

New Zealand reinvented its fuzzy national fruit and rebuilt a franchise.READ»

Somnus-Neu: Grier Govorko's Multimedia Bed

The Somnus-Neu makes you want to do everything but sleep.READ»

• Carbon-Eating Plastics

Paris Fashion Week

The French capital's prêt-à-porter week may be a magnet for snooty designers and buyers with wallets the size of Vuitton trunks. But cities with less history as hubs of couture have tried lately to grab some glamour by staging ...READ»

Pay Haiku

Edwina Pio, a management professor at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, has researched the use of haiku in business. Based on her work with various organizations and leaders, she suggests that the form of Japanese ...READ»

Fast Talk: Kiwi Fashion

Designer Karen Walker on what it takes to start a global brand on the far side of the moon.READ»

Online Learning Reckons With the Digital Divide

Yes, ultimately. But not without a great deal of work and more than a little vision.READ»

World Architecture Festival

Cars and airplanes may get tarred with a reputation as energy hogs, but the biggest culprits are buildings. Keeping our offices and homes lit, heated, and cooled accounts for a staggering 72% of electricity consumption and 38% of all ...READ»

Uganda, the Entrepreneur's Paradise

Want to start or run a new business? You'll be surprised which countries are the most entrepreneurial.READ»

Work/Life: Good News-We Don't Work Like Dogs

Which is to say we don’t work the same as dogs. As in we operate differently.  Meaning there are things a dog can do that we can’t (and vice-versa, of course).  One of the things canines can do is hear certain frequencies we ...READ»

Outsourcing: What's Next? III

Previously, Shasha commented on the outsourcing of prayers and soldiering. This morning's New York Times takes a look at another instance: the outsourcing of summer camp counselors. Andy Newman considers the growing trend of ...READ»

Diamonds Are A Cereal Marketer's Best Friend

 When C.W. Post started a small business in 1895 with his first batch of "Postum" (breakfast cereal) he probably did not foresee his company getting into the diamond business. The cereal company has ...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»

Weekend Utopia: 8 Designer Beach Houses

These sweet summery beach days contain some of the happiest hours of the year. We wish we always lived like this: The outdoor showers, the bare feet, the calm. In a similar way, beach homes burrowed in the dunes reflect ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Is Owning a Dog Worse Than Owning a Hummer?

Two architects and a scientist do the math, and conclude that Fido has a massive carbon paw-print. Seriously?READ»

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»

Did HBO's 'True Blood' Campaign Achieve Immortality or Just Plain Suck?

Sunday night played host to an anxiously-awaited television event on our newly all-digital TV signals (and we're not talking about the Lakers' victory). It was the premiere of the second season of True Blood, the vampiric HBO show ...READ»

Corporate Magician for Microsoft Sharepoint Conference - Jon Petz

corporate magician - Microsoft SharePoint Conference - corporate magician When asked to be the Corporate Magician in Las Vegas for the Microsoft SharePoint conference - I said.....Let me think about it....YES!The client was ...READ»

Aloha in Antarctica

When the National Science Foundation began a search for a firm to build a new research station in Antarctica, it passed over a handful of Alaska-based companies, turning instead to an architect in a more unorthodox locale. The NSF ...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»

7 Offbeat Eco Trips

You’ve slept in a yurt in Big Sur, cruised the Galapagos and roared with the grizzlies in Denali. Ready for some new eco-travel ideas? Here, seven unexpected trips worth a look.READ»

• The Green Traveler: Seven Offbeat Eco Trips
• Voluntourism: 14 Vacations for the Socially Conscious

Wired? Number 8 Wired!

It's a shame that this column about New Zealand's culture of adaptability and creativity is no longer available online. Considering such efforts as the Weta Workshop's work on the Lord of the Rings movies -- and the country's ...READ»

Auckland Escort Emily Hudson

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Feeding the Beast

Sustainability is about more than eco-friendly burger boxes.READ»

Work Town, Life Town

Last week, Heath compared two magazines' lists of best towns for doing business in America. Another city list that's just as valuable, perhaps, is Mercer Human Resource Consulting's world-wide quality of life survey, also released ...READ»