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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 to watch?
“For [...]

Date Published: Jul 29, 2009 - 11:33 am
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 that [...]

Date Published: Mar 16, 2009 - 6:38 pm
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 Risks Reputational [...]

Date Published: Mar 05, 2009 - 5:38 pm
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 almost [...]

Date Published: Feb 23, 2009 - 12:43 am
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 they [...]

Date Published: Feb 18, 2009 - 11:13 pm
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 a [...]

Date Published: Feb 09, 2009 - 11:00 pm
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 is [...]

Date Published: Feb 04, 2009 - 4:58 pm
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 another [...]

Date Published: Feb 02, 2009 - 7:03 pm
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 $50.32, 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 [...]

Date Published: Jan 28, 2009 - 11:13 am
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, and experts [...]

Date Published: Jan 23, 2009 - 11:43 pm
