BUSINESS: Going Green Helps Defeat the Competition

Posted on | October 2, 2008 | No Comments

The sizzle-word of sustainability conferences for the last year has been ‘greenwashing;’ that is, the practice of making a business, product or service seem sustainable or eco-friendly through smart marketing, packaging or vague copy, but without actually walking the walk when it comes to being green.

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LIST: Replacing Everything with an iPhone (part 1)

Posted on | September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

This is the first of a two-part series on how to simplify your life by reducing the number of gadgets you own and the amount of paper you use everyday through smart use of an iPhone.

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Invest in Tele-Everything

Posted on | September 24, 2008 | No Comments

There are as many ideas about how to reduce carbon emissions as there are people discussing it. Some favor passing laws that require no more gas-burning cars to be produced after a certain date (usually somewhere around 2020-2030), others say that we should bulk up the efficiency and funding of mass transportation, while still others claim that our salvation lay in ultra-localization, where people would purchase necessities like food from local sources, saving all the energy used during the shipping process.

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A Beam of Light From the Heavens

Posted on | September 24, 2008 | No Comments

A recent article on CNN entitled ‘How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space!’ gives some simple facts about one outside-the-box (and atmosphere) idea that has been picking up steam for the past couple of years: launch a series of satellites covered in solar panels to collect energy from the sun and beam it back down to Earth via electromagnetic beams.

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