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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Should You Switch to Energy-efficient Lightbulbs?
Compact Fluorescent Lights, otherwise known as CFLs, have come a long way since they entered the lightbulb market a few years ago. Along with their light-emitting diode cohort (aka LEDs), they’ve become standard fare at home furnishing stores and can now be dimmed, diffused and clustered for maximum impact.
Perfecting the (Green) Picnic
As soon as the frost fades, I itch to dine alfresco, preferably in the grass, preferably with bare toes.
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News from the Finland Station
Being in a country where everything happens as planned, where trains and buses run to the minute and where good design is second nature is immensely reassuring.
OSC: Barking up the wrong tree?
This weekend, an interesting business ethics story hit the papers in Canada. It is about the fairly unprecedented measure of the Ontario Securities and Exchange Commission (OSC), on Friday last week, to not only suspend the trade of Sino-Forest (TSX listing: TRE) but to also to demand five of their top executives to step down.
Fukushima gives renewable energy a chance
After decades of not bothering to switch off the lights in unoccupied rooms in their Tokyo home, Masayoshi Sakurai and his children now meticulously make sure they do.
Why Do So Many People Believe in the Fantasy of Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet?
How do you feel about the economy these days? How about the environment? Do you think we’re sitting in a better spot than we were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago?
Monsanto’s cotton strategy wears thin
From the toes of our socks to the hem of our necklines, Americans alone consume 25% of the world’s cotton, mostly in the form of clothing and home furnishings. People are often surprised to learn that the world’s largest purveyors of cotton seeds ( 80-90% of market share in some cotton-producing countries), is a company generally assumed to be focused on food stock.
Structure and Organization
I confused these two terms in my last article. Here’s the right description. Both refer to properties of systems, especially living systems.
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