Green Technology and Environmental Science News: Solar Paint Technology May Revolutionize the Renewable Energy Industry
View all the featured contributing content by this source Lowering your carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gasses may become as simple as painting your home or office, thanks to breakthrough research from the University of Notre Dame. The researchers, led by Professor Prashant Kamat, have created a new sol...
New Reports Touts Asia Smart Grid Strength
New Reports Touts Asia Smart Grid Strength Monday, 14 May 2012 13:58 0 Comments Recent research indicates Asia is quickly emerging as the center of...
Drinking coffee linked to lower deaths: research - Telegraph
Coffee drinkers may live longer as research has found they were less likely to die during the 14-year study period than non-coffee drinkers.
Has Goldman Sachs's Succession Plan Changed After Greg Smith Scrutiny?
The op-ed heard round the world—Greg Smith’s scathing New York Times attack on Goldman Sachs, his employer of nearly 12 years—dealt another blow to the firm’s reeling reputation. Now the questions are louder than ever: Will C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein have to go? Who might succeed him? And does it matter? CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES. I t was the op-ed heard round the world. “When the history books are written ...
Big businesses risk losing out to social enterprises unless they adapt
A summit hosted by Sir Richard Branson and Jamie Oliver calls for a radical rethink of traditional business models
Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history | Video on TED.com
TED Talks What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness ...
The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one. What happens when all the things we based our icons on don...
What's Killing the Electric Car? The Price of Batteries - Business - GOOD
At last week's Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, a consortium of automakers from the United States and Europe unveiled a speedy new standardized charger for electric vehicles. Under the old system, a full charge would take tw...
The Countries That Eat The Most And Least Meat
Of all the countries in the world, which consumes the most meat per person? The answer might surprise you.
The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
Welcome to our annual celebration of business innovators who dare to think differently. They're the ones taking risks and discovering surprising new solutions to old problems. This year, they tell you exactly how they do what they do. Click on their names in the list below to...
SPRING Singapore to startup: Stop misusing our logo and name
SPRING Singapore, a government organization dedicated to growing the country’s economy, issued...
What's Really Scary
Update : Aha, Romm credits Michael Tobis at the bottom of the post. I don't write very often about climate change, basically because I doubt that we can get action until the immediate economic crisis is resolved. But I may be part of the problem, because this issue is all too likely to trump, well, everything - yet those who know this have been reluctant to say it for fear of seeming, well, shrill. I don't write very often about climate change, basically becaus...
Is your whole life controlled by the weather? - Barking up the wrong tree
Barking Up The Wrong Tree is proud to be listed on blogrolls at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal . My Wired Magazine columns are here . Free updates via email here: Join 7800+ Twitter followers here. Join 5800+ RSS followers here. Join 2700+ Facebook fans here. Do you believe in helping sites you enjoy? If you want to help the blog plea...
Found: The Oldest Maya Calendar (and No, the World's Still Not Ending)
A painted wall of a Mayan site that dates to the 9th century in Xultun, Guatemala Here's what's not going to happen this year: the earth won't end on Dec. 12; it won't be swallowed by a black hole, consumed by the sun or get taken out by a collision with the imaginary planet Nibiru. Here's what will happen: as of today, more people than ever will believe that those calamities will occur on precisely the d...
Do Toms Shoes Really Help People?
The "buy one, give one" model sounds like a great idea, but does it really alleviate poverty? It depends.
Singapore Is On Its Way To Becoming An Iconic Smart City
This past week I had the pleasure of being invited to Singapore to present my research on smart, innovative cities. Tropical greenspaces throughout the city are juxtaposed with remnants of its past through an authentic China Town, Little India and others--all of which mixes with a modern, robust, waterside financial district, as well as upscale, North-American-style malls and entertainment districts. That’s...
5 New Uses For Vodka
Vodka can do more than just make a happy hour, well, happier. It has lots of "off-label" uses that go beyond the bar.
An ocean of troubles
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. By Callum Roberts. Viking; 390 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25.
Apocalypse Prep: How to Preserve Food Without a Fridge | Wired Design | Wired.com
When you bring food home from a grocery store, chances are you toss it in the fridge. Ever stop to wonder if that's your best move? People managed to store perishables before the era of refrigeration, and if you're imagining a root cellar full of cans and preserves, you're only partially right.
HP print cartridges through the ages, a slow-motion ripoff
A little work with a handsaw reveals that over the years, the amount of ink in a new, official HP refill cartridge has been in decline. Prices, of course, have not been in decline. I then removed the top of the cartridge with a handsa...
Why organisations must respond to those making the case for change
Businesses and institutions must nurture and assist those young changemakers who want to lead us into a better world, says Rob Wilson
70% of Singaporeans say businesses fall short in supporting social issues
Companies better start caring about social causes as 84% of Singaporeans say they would buy the company's products if they do so. Singaporeans say businesses fall short when it comes to supporting social issues and causes, according to the 2012 Edelman goodpurpose Study - the first study of its kind in Singapore to measure consumer attitudes around social purpose. Singaporeans say businesses f...
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The leaders of the national scientific academies identified the measurement and verification of greenhouse gas emissions as a key issue deserving international attention. The question of the "measurement, reporting and verification" (MRV) of emissions was a key sticking point holding up agreement at the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009, and has been a major source of tension since. Some governments – such as China – have been adamant that MRV is an issue of national...
INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION 2012 FOR INSTITUTES OF HIGHER LEARNING
The Building Construction Authority of Singapore is organizing the Internati...
What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City?
To kick off The Atlantic's new special report on the past and future of the world's global capitals, we ask: What city rules them all?