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Just Bragging . . .

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This morning I was surprised by two delightful tweets from fellow green and social media guru, Max Gladwell, and visual green thinker Franke James: What’s the fuss about? A mention in the UK Guardian, from Do The Green Thing startup co-founders Andy Hobsbawm and Naresh Ramshandani: Which tech businesses or web thinkers are the ones [...]

10 Reasons to Start Up With a Wiki

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It’s been several months already, since I started working on a new green tech project. And I want to share my excitement about our most favorite tool, our team wiki. Short and sweet, here are ten reasons why we could not do without our wiki: It’s free. Not all wikis are, but we found one [...]

What Are You Doing to Manage Your Water Needs?

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Not a day goes by, without yet another report on the growing risks posed by the increasing scarcity of water. Today’s report is from the Pacific Institute: Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors and CERES. Taking agriculture/food, the sector of interest to me, the applicable risks fall as follow: Physical [...]

Green Window Into the Future

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It started with a tweet: Twitter is great that way. I know of no better forum for validating one’s seemingly universal thoughts and feelings. Yesterday, I got seized with a severe case of eco² panic. Eco like green. Eco like economic. Images of CO2 going nuts, and us still not getting our act together, despite [...]

“6 Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work” or Just One?

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Today, McKinsey just released the results of a survey amongst executives on Web 2.0 adoption. Here are some excerpts: 1. The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top. Web 2.0 projects often are seen as grassroots experiments, and leaders sometimes believe the technologies will be adopted without management intervention—a “build it and [...]

Learning From the Blogging Divas: 8 Tricks to Being a Successful Woman Blogger

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About to start writing copy for my new blog, Grocery Chick, I figured what better way  to learn than from the masters, in this case the top fifteen women bloggers – according to Technorati authority rankings: The Huffington Post, of course! Arianna Huffington is my heroin, and not a day goes by without me paying [...]

The Big Risk of Insanely Small Nanoparticles in Our Food

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The more I learn about what’s in our food, the more concerned, and outraged I get. I spent this morning immersed in Friends of the Earth‘s report on ‘Out of the Laboratory and onto our Plates: Nanotechnology in Food & Agriculture’. Scary stuff! Consider this: Friends of the Earth’s new report finds that untested nanotechnology [...]

Google Earth is Becoming Google Water!

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Google Earth’s gotten even cooler now, and “just got an upgrade to include oceans. Previously, the space between Earth’s recognizable landmasses had flat blue and, well, not all that educational.” That’s all good for marine life enthusiasts. Being more of a land girl, I wish Google Earth did not stop there. How about adding yet [...]

Green Lining Under Depressed Economy

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I am usually fairly casual about my finances. Barely a glance at my Mastercard statement. I pay, no questions asked. Until today, when I noticed a monthly charge of dollarsignr50.32, from New York Times Sales. That struck me as a lot of money, all of a sudden. The representative at the end of the line [...]

One Big Environmental Mess

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Today, four stories displayed next to each other, in the National section of the New York Times: Boise Region Grapples With Smog, a Growing Threat After years of growth and suburban development, the region that includes Boise and its suburbs, known as the Treasure Valley, is on the brink of violating federal clean air standards, [...]