The world's biggest solar photovoltaic project won't be in a conventionally sunny spot like Nevada or Arizona. It will be four miles north of Cle Elum, Washington, if the Teanaway Solar Reserve project goes as planned. Currently, ...READ»
Flipswap has come up with a compelling sweetener to convince people to recycle old cell phones and iPods -- free coffee. The company, which already gives consumers cash for old devices, has partnered up with Tully's Coffee Corporation ...READ»
If you read my posting about the “Ongoing Vacation Quandary,” then you know that I tried again this year to make a conscious decision not to work during my summer vacation. I often come back to the subject of vacation around ...READ»
Interpersonal competence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to become interpersonally competent, you need to do three things. First, get to know ...READ»
When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like IBM have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today's meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.READ»
I remember learning about the most comprehensive book of rules you can imagine in one of my marketing classes many years ago. I’m talking about the brand identity dos and don’ts as spelled out in a corporate binder that truly ...READ»
I remember learning about the most comprehensive book of rules you can imagine in one of my marketing classes many years ago. I’m talking about the brand identity dos and don’ts as spelled out in a corporate binder that truly ...READ»
Next week, 10,000 students and youth will converge on the Capitol for a massive lobby day to demand action on climate change and green jobs.
On March 2, thousands of people have pledged to commit nonviolent civil disobedience at ...READ»
Not everybody was depressed in the Great Depression. There will be victors and thrivers from our own rough economic times. What are you doing to make sure you are one of them?
Are you waiting to be bailed out of your life, your ...READ»
If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»
Google [GOOG] has launched a new website in cooperation with a pair of nonprofit organizations. It does two things: it analyzes your network connection, and it makes companies like Comcast [CMCSA] and TimeWarner [TWX] wish that Google ...READ»
One of Thomas Friedman’s messages in his latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” is that the green economy is not having a real impact yet on the huge problems like climate change that we face. In his chapter “205 Easy Ways ...READ»
On Sunday, the UK's Times reported that performing two Google [GOOG] searches uses about as much energy as a kettle takes to boil. But Google says that estimate is inflated. Alex Wissner-Gross, the Harvard scientist quoted in the ...READ»
Cradle to Cradle
Our November 2008 story about green architect William McDonough ("The Mortal Messiah") hit a nerve. "Why pick on him?" one irate reader wrote. "He deserves our thanks, not our scrutiny." Many other emails and ...READ»
Jon Bergstrom, a cotton and hay farmer in Sweetwater, Texas (population 10,472), looks outside his window every day and feels grateful. The giant white towers spinning on the near horizon have everything to do with it. Sweetwater is ...READ»
From a high-level perspective, partnerships become more sustainable for corporations when the very nature of collaboration is mutually beneficial. No one company has to re-invent the wheel and can also leverage dollars across multiple ...READ»
It's inauguration day, and as well as expecting excitement and crowds, if you're in Washington you can certainly expect some cellphone network issues. And that's information coming directly from the carriers themselves.
It's simply ...READ»
By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN
AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»
