Topic: Tony Blair

Seven Ways to Cut Carbon Emissions, Courtesy of Tony Blair

Instead of taking the Dubya route of departing public life, former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair is going the way of Al Gore and championing climate change solutions. Blair's "Technology for a Low Carbon Future" report, part of his ...READ»

Slow Down, Stand Back

News this week that our hyperactive Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has received hospital treatment for a heart condition had busy CEOs here in the UK checking their pulses. Like many CEOs, the Prime Minister works at a punishing pace ...READ»

Of Comets and Carbon

What do the horseless carriage, the iPod, and global warming have in common? Once thought fads or fantasy, it turns out that all three are here to stay. It also turns out that each is more connected to the other than is apparent at ...READ»

Work and Life - Helen Wilkinson

"If feminism doesn't address what's happening to men today, it's not going to move forward."READ»

The Great Climate Race Is On

Now this is the kind of competition we at Fast Company like to see. Tony vs. Arnold. The UK vs. the U.S. The challenge: Who can be tougher on carbon emissions? As you might recall, California Governor, March FC coverboy, and Fast ...READ»

Of Comets and Carbon

By Terry Tamminen What do the horseless carriage, the iPod, and global warming have in common? Once thought fads or fantasy, it turns out that all three are here to stay. It also turns out that each is more connected to the other ...READ»

Double Features

Iconic conferences apparently come in pairs. Choose your winter agenda:READ»

UK politicians missing the digital strategy opportunity

The Internet has completely changed the world of media and communications. In the past decade we have seen a revolution in the way businesses and organisations operate, resulting from technological and social advances possible using ...READ»

Ranking the Stops on Bill Clinton's Conference Circuit

President Bill Clinton was never the retiring kind. Post-White House, he has attended many elite meetups -- and started his own. The fifth annual CGI meeting will be September 22 -- 25 in New York. We ranked it, for prestige and publicity, with three other stops on his circuit.READ»

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The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.READ»

• The Poverty Problem: Field Notes From a Global Summit in Rimini, Italy

Clean coal: how to biologically convert CO2 into fuel profitably

Any carbon diet strategy would be dependent upon clean coal. Since carbon capture and storage is logistically unfeasible, I suggest promoting 4th generation fuel production: converting CO2 mined from coal-fired power plants into fuel profitably.READ»

The Brand Called UK

If you think it's hard to move a big company into the future, try changing the course of a big country. Geoff Mulgan wants to rebuild Great Britain by "rebranding" it. His pitch: You can't reshape national realities without reinventing national identity.READ»

Michelle Obama as Post-Balance Rorschach Test

In September, I predicted, “Sarah Palin’s and Michelle Obama’s impact will be a subtle yet powerful shift away from the “balance” mindset and the “all or nothing” work life dichotomy that drew the battle lines of the ...READ»

London Lalling

My ride to work on the Tube yesterday was different. Commuters on London's Underground don't normally make eye contact, let alone speak to one another, but yesterday morning they were smiling and chatting as the front pages of their ...READ»

Rwanda Rising: A New Model of Economic Development

Fifteen years after the genocide, the small African country has embraced a new model of economic development. Its strategy: Build a global network of powerful friends to lure private investment -- and market the brand of Rwanda.READ»

• Slideshow: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years Later

The Leading Edge - Obama, Clinton '08

Obama, Clinton ‘08 with Bill as Secretary of State Since I am not running for office, I respectfully exercise my right to change my mind or as I prefer to view it, have my opinion evolve. In a prior blog, “Why I switched to ...READ»

The Art of Work

What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be "flow," and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it.READ»

(Al Jazeera 1.0) A Decade of Discord

Take a look at the history of the Arabic news channel.READ»

What Would It Take to End Homelessness?

Rosanne Haggerty's Common Ground dares to ask a radical social question -- and then to create innovative economic solutions.READ»

Al Jazeera's (Global) Mission

Can an English-language news network with radioactive DNA actually be good for Brand America? U.S. business better hope so.READ»

I DO CARE.

Two days ago I received a FWD to my inbox that I'd received once before, but deleted it after reading only the first two lines. This time I read it in full. YIKES! A feeling of disgust that I'd deleted the FWD the first ...READ»

Only the Pronoid Survive

Forget Andy Grove's famous saying about the power of paranoia. Neo-Darwinist Helena Cronin says that competition today favors the generous.READ»

What Is Courage?

William Ian Miller wrote the book on courage -- literally -- and even he calls it a mystery.READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»