The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
An app to model life’s big decisions By David Worthington SmartPlanet | December 5, 2012, If you’re faced with a big decision, you no longer need to go with your intuition – there’s an app for that. The app, called iMODELER, is an offshoot of a European Union research project into decision support systems. It visualizes personal decisions or …
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In Melbourne, meet the New Joneses By Lieu Thi Pham | November 28, 2012 MELBOURNE — Last month, two Australians moved into a pre-fabricated, architecturally designed, sustainably built apartment craned onto Melbourne’s Federation Square, dressed in nothing but their underwear and bathrobes. Meet the New Joneses — a social experiment in new consumption. For five …
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Mobile phones lifting the world’s economies: report By Joe McKendrick | November 27, 2012 The proliferation and adoption of mobile phones is having a tangible and measurable impact on the growth of many of the world’s national and regional economies. These devices are the lever that is lifting the world. A new study estimates that …
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Solar group to World Bank: Give us gas and oil’s $12B, and we’ll cool planet Siemens: 880m euros’ worth of wind power orders since July Phi Beta Iota: The current approach to solar and wind is mis-directed toward the traditional centralized capture and downstream distribution. Those costs are waste. Micro-girds, neighborhoods combining solar, wind, biogas, …
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BAD WASTE: $282 million of turkey trashed during U.S. Thanksgiving GOOD WASTE: Microsoft’s experimental waste-to-energy data center
Scientific American’s list of 10 ideas about to change the world 6. A single sustainability index for products How do you compare the environmental impact of, say, a bottle of laundry detergent versus an LCD screen? The Sustainability Consortium, a group of 10 universities, non-profits and 80 international companies including Walmart and Coca-Cola, are creating …
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Clayton Christensen: why America’s innovation engine is sputtering By Joe McKendrick | November 7, 2012, 2:17 PM PST Truly disruptive innovation — the kind that creates new markets, opens up new ways of looking at problems, and greatly expands wealth — is in short supply, and that is what is dragging the current economy. There …
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