Topic: University of California-Davis

UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy

Professor Andrew Hargadon believes energy efficiency can be sexy -- and he's winning fans at Chevron, Samsung, and Wal-Mart, and in Silicon Valley.READ»

• Infographic: Energy Stars

Pitching Ideas

More important than having a great idea is figuring out how to sell it to the boss -- especially in a culture that's not too keen to accept your idea. How to do it? A couple of academics from Stanford and the University of ...READ»

When Science and Faith Meet: A Marketing Miracle

There are a lot of arguments for eating organically. Some of them are connected to environmental and sustainability issues. Others are based on the absence of a negative: pesticides. But much of the momentum for the explosive ...READ»

Google, Yahoo Seed Funders Look to Energy-Saving Companies

In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia ...READ»

• UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy

Is Your Company a Meritocracy?

Is your high tech company a true "meritocracy"? A meritocracy is defined as a system where ability and achievement is the basis for advancement, rather than connections, status, or power. Most high-tech companies pride themselves on ...READ»

GM's Going Hydro

Everyone is being invited to test drive GM's Chevrolet Sequel, the automaker's hydrogen-fuel-cell concept car, except me. John Voelcker at IEEE Spectrum recently wrote about his test drive, as did Joel Makower over at ...READ»

The Six Best Things on the Web this Week

In case you spent your week "working," here's what you missed online: card-counting iPhones, Mac Mini spy-shots, Depression predictions, and two refreshing arguments against Malcolm Gladwell and intelligent design. Oh, and a sleep-walking dog, to keep things highbrow.READ»

Innovation Conversation

The editors of the Association for Computing Machinery's online journal Ubiquity recently interviewed Andrew Hargadon, an associate professor at the University of California-Davis' graduate school of management. In the lively ...READ»

Education: Making the Classroom Hot

"School" and "cool" rhyme, but, sadly, you probably won't find the two together in any sentence uttered by today's students. With growing adoptions of the latest technology in the classroom, however, educators are trying hard to ...READ»

The Importance of Role Models by Caroline Simard

Close your eyes. Imagine the CEO or CTO of a high tech company. Who do you see? For most people, the answer is "white" and "male", because there is such a lack of diversity of role models at that level. Ask a ...READ»

A Taste of the Honey Business

The bees of America have been working hard all summer: To make a pound of honey, they have to fly the equivalent of eight roundtrips between New York and Paris. Now it's time to enjoy the fructose of their labor. Have a taste of the facts and figures on honey.READ»

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• Hobnob: Clinton Global Initiative

26. Paging Captain Kirk

Previous | Next Rob Shostak founded Vocera out of his own frustration trying to reach people who didn't work in one place, and created a wearable badge that serves as pager, phone, and walkie-talkie. "Think Star Trek ...READ»

26. Paging Captain Kirk

Previous | Next Rob Shostak founded Vocera out of his own frustration trying to reach people who didn't work in one place, and created a wearable badge that serves as pager, phone, and walkie-talkie. "Think Star Trek here," he ...READ»

Giving thanks builds relationships

Life is hectic. We’re all busy. It’s difficult to complete daily tasks and when we routinely forward them to the next day’s ‘to do’ list, it can be discouraging. I recently read an article on the power of saying ‘thank ...READ»

We're Not In Palo Alto Anymore...

You're a new tech grad looking for work. Check out Mysore.READ»

How The Fashion Industry Is Greening Its Operation

While being eco-friendly has been in style the last few years, it’s questionable whether green will still be fashionable next season.READ»

• Green Fashion Goes Mainstream
• 9 Daring Ideas That Blend Fashion and Sustainability

Can We Switch to 100% Renewable Energy by 2030?

Ambitious clean energy goals abound--the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, for example, proposes the switch to 42% renewable energy in the U.S by 2030--but are we selling ourselves short? Stanford civil and environmental ...READ»

The Future of Farming is in Nitrogen Efficiency

A California biotech firm claims a gene that makes plants use nitrogen more efficiently can transform agriculture, make lots of money -- and slash greenhouse-gas emissions.READ»

Do Porcupines Practice Safe Sex?

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

AD Kids - The commercial modeling industry

AD Kids - The commercial modeling industry, David Laurino, Susan HenrichsREAD»

The Hype of Hybrids

With rising gas prices and more concern for a greener environment, the number of consumers putting hybrid vehicles on the road has increased to roughly half a million. READ»

Feedback

Changes Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one ...READ»

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Social Entrepreneur - Don Harris

Talk about the power of leverage. Don Harris is a savvy lawyer and a creative deal maker whose nonprofit organization has figured out how to help moderate-income people make a down payment on the American dream -- literally.READ»

Vintage Values

It's a popular dream, almost a cliché : Hard-charging businesspeople buy a Napa Valley vineyard and live the good life. But for Garen and Shari Staglin, proprietors of the Staglin Family Vineyard, it is neither a dream nor a cliché -- and it's as demanding as it is glamorous.READ»

Who's Teaching Whom?

It's getting harder to tell the students from the teachers.READ»