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Possible To Reduce Emissions By 30 Percent By 2025, Model Shows
[...] and 80 percent by 2050 and possibly exceed those numbers if a combination of strategies are implemented, including reducing fuel consumption, increasing fuel efficiencies and fuel c...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080722072030.htm
WorldChanging: Al Gore, Clean Energy and A Better Nation
Existence is the ultimate proof of the possible.
2008, article, dense, effective, entrepreneurial, financial, fiscal, gore, green, infrastructural, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008249.html
New Interest in Vertical Farms for Urban Areas - NYTimes.com
Despite its potential problems, the idea of bringing food closer to the city is gaining traction among pragmatists and dreamers alike.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15farm.html
WorldChanging: Californians are Climate Trendsetters
It makes you wonder what actions the rest of the country would get behind if Cali-style forward-thinking was coming as loud and as clear from more leaders on the national stage.
2008, altruistic, article, bright, californian, innovative, modern, optimistic, prosperous, stable, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008155.html
What is a Business Model? - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
Increased competition and rapid copying of successful business models forces all players to continuously innovate and adapt their business model to gain and/or sustain a competitive edge.
2008, adaptive, article, competitve, corporate, futurelab, innovative, profitable, strategic saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.futurelab.net/2008/07/what_is_a_business_model.html
Creative Capitalism: The missing middle
The low-profit, limited liability corporation, or an L3C, seeks to combine the features of a limited liability company, or LLC, with the socially beneficial aspects of a non-profit.
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http://www.creativecapitalismblog.com/creative_capitalism/2008/07/by-loretta-mich.html
What George Carlin Taught Innovators—The Virtues of Vuja De
We all know déjà vu [, but] what’s valuable to innovation is vuja dé—looking at a familiar situation with fresh eyes, as if you’ve never seen it before, and with those fresh eyes...
2008, article, attentive, creative, fresh, innovative, original saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.mavericksatwork.com/?p=135
California: Business's Green Crystal Ball - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
In a sense, the state has become America’s R&D arm on environmental issues. It is where new concepts – whether they are policy or product – are incubated and road-tested. Those that...
2008, article, californian, entrepreneurial, environmental, experimental, fiscal, harvardbusiness, innovative, risk-tolerant, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/07/california-businesss-green-cry-1.html
Evidence Soup: Obama campaign challenges conventional wisdom, presents evidence to combat rumors.
Here in the U.S., the Barack Obama presidential campaign is doing something different: Instead of attempting to ignore harmful online rumors, they are identifying misinformation explicitl...
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http://www.evidencesoup.com/canopener/2008/06/obama-campaign.html
LivingHomes
We work with leading architects to create lines of homes that feature modern form and functionality and an unprecedented level of healthy/sustainability materials and energy systems.
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http://www.livinghomes.net/primer.html
Electric vehicles | Charge! | Economist.com
In recent months Renault-Nissan has teamed up with Project Better Place, a Silicon Valley start-up, to introduce all-electric vehicles and a network of charging points in Israel and Denma...
2008, article, automotive, bold, committed, corporate, danish, electric, financial, ghosn, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11332425
Nordhaus & Shellenberger • The price of carbon
All of the revenues raised from new carbon taxes or auctioning pollution allowances should be dedicated to the research, development and deployment of new technologies that the private en...
2008, article, canadian, clean, energy, entrepreneurial, fiscal, green, innovative, nordhaus, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=67e2b881-1c7c-4655-8f8a-a8f6e...
The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » How to fix the developing world for sixty million dollars
People living in an ancient, stable ecological niche (”organic farmer”) are being teleported into a new world by the spread of information and communications technologies.
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http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/how-to-fix-the-developing-world-for-sixty-million...
Orange Hues
Manu Sharma, New Delhi, India. Orange Hues blog is where my current occupation in renewable energy, my former occupation in user experience design, my longtime interest in business innova...
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http://orangehues.com/blog
WorldChanging: Imagine What Comes After Green
Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it's going to demand we remake much of ...
2008, article, close, compact, creative, enjoyable, frantic, green, gregarious, hectic, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html
Al Gore lays down green challenge to America
Gore acknowledged that there are barriers to reaching his goal. The nation's electric grid is still not sufficiently developed to move solar power from sunny states out West or wind power...
2008, achievable, affordable, article, clean, doable, entrepreneurial, gore, green, innovative, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/18/MN2711QRVL.DTL
WorldChanging: Bike, Meet the City. City, This is the Bike.
As citizens around the world raise the demand for human-powered transportation infrastructure, major cities are starting to re-imagine their car-centric transportation models.
2008, article, bikable, bike-friendly, car-centric, convenient, cultural, dangerous, facilitative, hostile, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008234.html
Unboxed - If You’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow - NYTimes.com
People with a growth mind-set tend to demonstrate the kind of perseverance and resilience required to convert life’s setbacks into future successes.
2008, article, creative, dweck, fearful, innate, innovative, nytimes, passionate, psychological, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06unbox.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=12...
Christina Aguilera Perfume Plastic Bottle with Polycarbonate
Korea Fire Fighting Corporation is the Inventor of "Nude Fire Extinguisher" with Polycarbonate Platic(Never in metals, like you or any other makers of fire extinguishers in this world, no...
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http://www.thisnext.com/item/BF0BE81E/429A8A2A/Christina-Aguilera-Perfume
By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age
What's critical is an easy-to-use development platform that enables programmers to create a wide range of software quickly and easily, so that they can give consumers the content and the ...
2008, article, competitive, innovative, iphone, mobile, nokia, symbian, wired saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2008/06/mobile_apps
Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality - GigaOM
The mobile industry’s old guard is experiencing the business equivalent of heartburn as players like Apple prove that software platforms, and the innovation they foster, are the only wa...
2008, apple, article, competitive, gigaom, innovative, iphone, mobile, nokia, open, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/24/symbian-iphone-the-new-mobile-reality
Where Do We Start Being Green? - Harvard Business Online's Leading Green
To take advantage of people’s new found desires to be more sustainable, businesses need to create new offerings that connect with people -- be they employees, customers, or other stakeh...
2008, article, behavioral, corporate, creative, green, harvardbusiness, influential, innovative, local, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/07/where-do-we-start-being-green.html
UTS: NanoTechnology
The NanoHouse has proven a successful method of explaining what nanotechnologies are and how they work; for example, how the latest technology windows clean themselves, how tiles might re...
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http://www.nano.uts.edu.au/about/australia.html
Amazon.com: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win: William C. Taylor, Polly G. Labarre: Books
Fast Company cofounder William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, a longtime editor at the magazine, give you an inside look at the "most original minds in business" wherever they find them: fr...
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http://www.amazon.com/Mavericks-Work-Original-Minds-Business/dp/0060779616
Crossroads » Blog Archive » The man outside the box
Reinder van Tijen is surely no ordinary character. Perhaps there are people who smirk at him for being a dreamer, an odd eccentric. However, he has created tools and technologies that are...
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http://crossroads.journalismcentre.com/2008/demotech
Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online
Using genetically modified bugs for fermentation is essentially the same as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol, although the energy-intensive final process of distillation is virtu...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece?
When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission - New York Times
A new style of “hybrid” technology organization is emerging that is trying to define a path between the nonprofit world and traditional for-profit ventures.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/technology/13stream.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Cooling on warming | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We should tackle climate change through research and adaptation instead of trying to transform human behaviour.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/02/coolingonwarming
Models of Peer-to-Peer Philanthropy | Uplift Academy
This is a list of some innovative models of giving that involve peer to peer connections between "Helpers" and "Doers".
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http://upliftacademy.org/node/116
GHG Education Stretches Beyond Traditional Universities
Universities and colleges are not the only place to learn – the greenhouse gas management and mitigation industry is growing so rapidly that other educational venues are essential for a...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/ghg-education-stretches-beyond-003201.php
Breakthrough: Why Sky Trust Won't Fly
If we want to protect the atmosphere for generations to come, revenue recycling is a giant step backwards, squandering funds that could be better used to drive down the price of clean ene...
2008, article, barnes, clean, economical, energy, facilitative, fiscal, framing, future-minded, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/06/why_sky_trust_wont_fly.shtml
WorldChanging: Tokyo's Climate Change Leadership
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is tackling global warming with new initiatives. These innovative and comprehensive initiatives seem to say, "Municipalities lead Japan!"
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008007.html
On Carbon, Tax and Don’t Spend - New York Times
if we want to reduce carbon emissions, then we should follow Denmark’s example: tax the industrial emission of carbon and return the revenue to industry through subsidies for research a...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25prasad.html
What are we waiting for? We need to be Bigger, Stronger, Louder, and NOW! « It’s Getting Hot In Here
We need to change what’s politically possible, we need to make the demand for our clean and just energy future so loud and so clear that we change the game entirely.
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http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/05/29/what-are-we-waiting-for-we-need-to-be-bigger-stong...
Changing the World from the Edge
Tackling difficult social problems like environmental pollution, inadequate health care, and sustainable development will be much more successful if the energy and creativity of engaged s...
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2008/id20080530_606257.htm
Environmental Defense Fund: New Report on Innovative Green Business Solutions : Sustainablog
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http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/22/environmental-defense-fund-new-report-on-innovative-green...
IBM Invents Super Cheap Solar Technology
The scientists say they create five times more energy by concentrating the sun's power through a lens. One square centimeter of solar cell produces as much as 230 watts of energy, the mos...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/ibm-invents-super-cheap-solar--003146.php
European Startups
EuropeanStartups, founded on September 25th, 2007, is a weblog dedicated to spread a word about European Web 2.0 and 3.0 startups.
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http://europeanstartups.com