|
5
|
|
|
|
Reputation:Low Impact Living: Green Prefabs
greenbuildingelements.comMarmol Radziner, a prefab company in SoCal, made a splash with some pretty showy installation videos on local media outlets. The videos do a good job of showing what elements make prefab homes unique - factory construction, rapid installation, modular components.
|
7
|
|
|
|
|
VMware's Diane Greene - the opposite of Steve Jobs?
Diane Greene, the CEO of VMware - which has quietly become the world’s fourth-most-valuable publicly traded software company - favours co-operation over competition. Will that keep Microsoft at bay? Good article and interesting personal profile.
|
7
|
|
|
|
|
VoteSpleak
This site lets people share their voice on political issues. They can read opinions about politicians and political issues, or write and share their own opinions via IM, social networks, web widgets, and other locations.
|
7
|
|
|
|
|
- Anti-pollution & Recycling
- Clean & Renewable Energy
- Sustainability
China's new great wall
The GreenPix -- Zero Energy Media Wall -- is a milestone in LED display. Not only is it one of the largest of its kind in the world -- composed of 2,292 LED light which cover a massive 24,000 square feet -- it is also one of the greenest with photovoltaic technology providing the power.
Its creators -- New York based architect Simone Giostra and British building engineers Arup -- say that it functions like an organic system, sucking in sunlight during the day and then using that same power to more >
|
6
|
|
|
|
|
Reputation:25 Years Later, Toxic Waste Torments Bhopal
Hundreds of tons of waste remain 25 years after the original incident. Dow Chemical, which bought Union Carbide in 2001 refuses to take any action.
|
10
|
|
|
|
|
Unilever uses soap ads to educate girls on self-image
Unilever - makers of Dove soap - has added a TV spot that explicity mentions its support for a $10M Self-Esteem Fund, aimed at promoting healthy self-image in girls. They added the TV spot after finding that consumers didn't always connect their long-running Dove soap ads featuring women of all shapes and sizes to the self-esteem cause.
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
Google and the privacy policy link: the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
As the songwriter Tom Waits once wrote, the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away. And so it is with company privacy policies. They all purport to protect your "personal information" (large print), but at the same time claim exemptions when required by law (small print).
And that law - the real elephant in the room in these discussions - is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Content carriers (evil or not) will in the end always give up the goods on their users, since th more >
|
6
|
|
|
|
|
Wal-Mart, Toys 'R' Us unveil new safety rules
Wal-Mart Stores and Toys "R" Us announced new mandatory safety checks Friday for its toy manufacturers following a wave of recalls that hurt the industry this past holiday season.
The separate announcements came ahead of next week's scheduled statement from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about new stricter toy safety guidelines for both toymakers and retailers.
|
8
|
|
|
|
|
Four NM utilities to build large solar plant
The proposal from El Paso Electric, Xcel Energy, PNM and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association calls for the use of parabolic trough technology to deliver as much as 375,000 megawatt-hours annually.
|
7
|
|
|
|
|
GE gives millions to support schools in the U.S. and healthcare in poor countries
Marc Gunther of Fortune explores in detail General Electric's charitable work in education here in the US, and health car in developing countries. His story is worth reading. He comes at corporate philanthropy as a skeptic - saying it is too often a feel-good exercise - but has high praise for GE's efforts.