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The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn’t normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big…
There are a number of environemntal, political and financial problems in the world that its most resourceful, patient and intelligent people should address. Luckily, many of these people are on the case, as was evident at the 2008 Pop!Tech conference.
There were a number of suggestions the speakers at the 2008 Pop!Tech Conference gave the audience about leading a more socially- and environmentally-conscious life. Here are six particularly surprising ones:
If you give American kids a tough math problem to solve and tell them they have fifteen minutes to solve it, they will give up on it after two, Chinese kids will still be working on it after the 15 minutes have passed. –Malcolm Gladwell
Pop!Tech was a little like the Sundance Film Festival and a little like three days of business school.
News from Green Options Media via the blogspot EcoWorldly suggests that coffee addicts in Western nations may soon face shortages.
On Monday, energy stocks got a bit of a boost as speculations over an OPEC production cut sent oil prices a little bit higher, and as bargain hunters began looking for what quality could be had for bargain prices.
Sometimes the best scientific discoveries are made by accident. "We were doing research on the chemical reactions on metal surfaces and, on a hunch, I said let’s look at semiconductors, without a clear plan," said Eric Mazur, a physicist at Harvard University, about an experiment done in 1998. A decade later, it looks like his…
Photo: Skinnyde, Creative Commons, Flickr In developing countries there are serious challenges to providing cheap and environmentally-friendly sources of electricity and clean drinking water. But Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, wants to try to overcome them. Recently he unveiled two of his latest projects at the Lux Executive Summit: an electricity generator that…
In an effort to control one alien invader, the Brits now want to import another.
Photo: gari.baldi, Creative Commons, Flickr Microbes are a class of living organisms that include bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Photo: SchultzLabs, Creative Commons, Flickr Oil runs the world, fueling industrial processes that make everything from computers to plastic containers. Without it, vehicles, airplanes, trucks that bring food to grocers shelves, and ships that bring steel from China wouldn’t run. The modern world would grind to a halt.
Right now, as the stock market rally eases a bit in terms of the financial sector, the energy sector is holding gains. A measure of confidence is returning, thanks to remarks from Ben Bernanke regarding his dedication to stimulate the economy. Also helping the energy sector is the expectation that OPEC will soon be cutting…
Photo: Rachel Feierman, Creative Commons The Feast was a day-long social innovation conference that took place on Thursday, October 16th at Scandinavia House in New York City. There were 12 presentations and summarizing each one would make for a very long article, so I’m simply going to touch on twelve interesting things that I learned:
As the world warms and oceans rise, coastal forests of mangrove, beach grasses, tupelo and bald cypress help protect coastlines from the ravages of hurricanes and typhoons.
Photo: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com, Creative Commons, Flickr I recently wrote an article on a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of patients to sue over defective medical devices if the item has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Photo: iceman9294, Creative Commons, Flickr It’s easy and counterproductive to politicize the stock market: Democrats would say the it’s plunging due to eight years of Republican leadership. Republicans would counter that the free-falling stock market is pricing in a Democrat in the White House. Research based on the past 80 years shows that American stock…
Photo: tao_zhyn, Creative Commons, Flickr All the money used by central banks around the world to rescue the financial system is causing an increase in government liabilities. In other words, they are printing money.
Photo: cackhanded, Creative Commons, Flickr Even in this down economy, there are people who are still interested in environmental issues, and Exxon Mobil (XOM) is not about to be left off the bandwagon. The company is releasing ads that highlight its focus on environmental protection and alternative energy. The question, though, is whether this is…
Reports out of Washington indicate that the Bush administration is about to give the American people a parting, one-finger salute by rewriting a wide range of federal rules in an effort to block product-safety lawsuits.
Photo: Scott Ingram, Creative Commons, Flickr One of the more interesting state battles — from an oil industry standpoint — is happening in Colorado this election season.
In 1956, a mathematician by the name of George A. Miller came up with the magical number seven. Plus or minus two digits, seven numbers are about the most humans are capable of processing. Perhaps this is why phone numbers are seven digits long.
When Adam Smith wrote about the “invisible hand” in 1776, he referred to the natural forces that allow the market to correct for seemingly disastrous situations with no intervention on the part of government. Unfortunately, the natural forces of the market are no longer relevant. Wall Street’s ecosystem has been polluted by a flawed broker-dealer…
I’d like to paraphrase Edward Albee and ask who’s afraid of David Icke, but the truth is Icke is not so much a victim of his childhood as of a British medium (Betty Shine) and a Brazilian rainforest hallucinogenic called Ayahuasca.
The premise of Bill McKibben’s book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future is that the economic axiom “growth is good” is no longer true.