What NYC's Proposed Public Bike Program Needs To Thrive If all goes according to plan, New Yorkers will soon be able to abandon their subway cards and cab fare in favor of a cheaper, healthier, and more eco-friendly option: public bicycles. If it can avoid the problems that plague other city's programs, that is.
Updated Tue May 10, 2011
How VPNs Helped "Twitter Revolutionaries" Sidestep Censorship Out of 2 billion people online today, a third live in regions that censor the Internet. AnchorFree, a virtual private network that offers unlimited, private access to the web, is trying to unfetter them--and is seeing explosive growth in countries like Libya, Egypt, and China.
Updated Thu Apr 21, 2011
From Cupcakes to Comic Books: Obama's Brand is Everywhere With the 44th president of the United States being sworn into office, brands across the nation have geared up to join the celebrations, capitalize on the fervor or just underscore their patriotism. From cookies and cupcakes to comic books and coffee – here's a look at the companies rolling out to honor Barack Obama.
Posted Tue Jan 20, 2009
Where in the World to Find a Job The national unemployment rate may be at its worst in over a decade, but there's a world of opportunity out there beyond Wall Street. Companies from Finland to Dubai are bucking the recession and actively hiring--you just have to know where to look.
Posted Tue Jan 13, 2009
United States The World's Number One Innovator? The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi based non-profit organization The Confederation of Indian Industry.
The global index ranks Germany second, Sweden third, the UK fourth and Singapore fifth. Contrary to what some might expect, China comes in relatively low at number 37, while India stands at number 41.
Posted Wed Jan 7, 2009
Continental Test Flight Uses Algae as Fuel Continental Airlines became the first US carrier to power a plane using algae as fuel yesterday. The flight, which notably took off from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, was also the first in the world to use a dual-engine commercial plane rather than a four-engine aircraft to test a biofuel, according to the BBC.
Posted Tue Jan 6, 2009
Nation's First Green Gym to Run On Human-Generated Energy Shedding pounds and expending energy is no longer just good for you – it's also a way to give back to the environment.The Green Microgym, based in Portland, Oregon, is the nation's first gym that aims to use human-generated energy from clients as they work out. Adam Boesel, the gym's owner, hopes that in the future the gym will run entirely on the energy generated by clients.
Posted Tue Jan 6, 2009
Innovative Giving: A Collection of Charitable Choices ‘Tis the season to be jolly – and generous. But with tightened budgets and less spare time on your hands, doing good unto others may prove particularly difficult this year.
Posted Tue Dec 23, 2008
Holiday Shoppers Say They're Going Green -- But Are They Really? This holiday season, more people are thinking about spending more to gift green, but with the economy tanking and unemployment levels at their highest in 15 years, there's likely to be even more of a gap between consumer attitudes and actions ...
Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008
Japan's High-Tech Solution To Bike Clutter [video] Japan is known for being one step ahead, with its advanced technology, crazy vending machines and quirky fashion. So a futuristic new scheme for parking bicycles in Tokyo, although a welcome development, isn't out of the ordinary.Tokyo is home to a large population of bike riders and in recent years there' s been an increasingly urgent need to create a parking solution for the two wheelers that transcends cluttered bike racks. Enter Eco-Cyle, a multi tiered storage facility that's the product of construction solutions company Giken.
An automated kiosk accepts a rider's bike, storing it in an underground, rotating wheel until the user returns to retrieve it. The service is offered for a monthly fee of about 2600 yen or $29 dollars.Take a look at Danny Choo's video to see how it works.
Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008
Emirates Launches World's Longest Green Flight Yesterday, Emirates Airlines launched what it calls the world's longest "green" flight -- a new service from Dubai to San Francisco that saves an estimated 2,000 gallons of fuel and 30,000 pounds of carbon emissions on the 16-hour ...
Posted Tue Dec 16, 2008
Beyond Firewood: Alternative Fuel = Safer Women Turns out firewood isn't just bad for the environment. There's a straightforward, yet relatively unexplored link between collecting firewood and violence against women. In refugee camps in regions from Sudan and Sri Lanka to Ethiopia and Ecuador, women are often raped, assaulted and even murdered while collecting firewood. Cooking smoke from wood has also been linked to acute respiratory diseases.
Posted Fri Dec 12, 2008
Innovative Giving: Tyson Foods For Hunger Relief Tyson Foods donated 100 pounds of food for every comment left in response to its blog posts about hunger. The last entry to our six part series, Innovative Giving.
Posted Fri Dec 12, 2008
Innovative Giving: Play It Forward With Akoha In the fifth entry to our six part series, Innovative Giving, we feature Akoha: a social reality game where you earn points by playing real-world missions.
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2008
Innovative Giving: Gaming For Rice Free Rice is an interactive online game that allows you become a little bit smarter while also doing the world some good. It's the fourth entry in our six part series, Innovative Giving.
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2008
Innovative Giving: Leverage Your Twitter Network In the third entry to our six part series, Innovative Giving, we feature Beth Kanter: a social media consultant who used Twitter to raise over $2500 in just 90 minutes.
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2008
Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network The Open Architecture Network is the first collaborative forum to provide access to architecture plans and blueprints online. The second entry in our six-part series on innovative giving.
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2008
Innovative Giving: The Nature Conservancy and (Lil) Green Patch (Lil) Green Patch enables Facebook users to send plants to one another, and sponsors contribute money to save one square foot of rainforest in Costa Rica for every ten patches given. This is the first in a six-part series on innovative giving.
Posted Thu Dec 11, 2008
[me] & goji: Customize Your Cereal A canister arrived for me early this morning. Too large to contain Pringles or tennis balls, it could have been home to a bottle of whiskey. I opened the lid, peeled back the top, peered inside and found... cereal. Customized, hand mixed, organic, all natural, artisinal cereal – a mix of organic corn flakes, flaxed and flaked (consisting of organic corn, amaranth, flax and sesame), blueberry, choco goji and pecans. All chosen by me for me and delivered straight to my desk, ready to be munched on, courtesy of an ambitious new startup [me] & goji.
Posted Mon Dec 8, 2008
Top 3 Sustainability Trends for 2009 In the face of a weak dollar, mass layoffs, and the world's corporate giants floundering, what are the corporate sustainability efforts we can realistically expect from businesses in 2009?
Posted Fri Dec 5, 2008
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