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Top tools
Forbes profiles the 20 greatest tools of all time. Guess what? Our current favorites didn't make the cut.
da Vinci’s 7 Principles
daVinci to coolmel to Hohmann to Liebert to you:da Vinci's 7 PrinciplesCuriosit½ - An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.Dimostrazione - A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistance, and a willingness...
Godin: One life per fax
[Seth Godin]: I'm interrupting my regular stream of rants and interesting thoughts to ask you to do something before you leave work today. Send a fax to your Senators and one to your congressperson. (get the contact info here: Contacting the Congress.) It's okay if it...
Innovation budgets
Innovation is not proportional to money spent, the folks at 37 signals remind us. When has innovation ever simply been a function of money spent? Which of the big two operating system companies are most often characterized as pushing the envelope and who spends the...
Supply chain
Natural Logic's analysis of strategic supply chain partnerships has just been published in Corporate Responsibility Magazine's February/march 2006 issue. 'Uncovering hidden opportunities in your supply chain' (written by Eric Olsen, David Jaber and me), explores how...
How far will you go?
TimesOnLine could teach US papers a thing or two about covering 'green' with bunch of angles in their How to be green supplement, a carbon footprint analysis of the supplement, and my favorite - It's Nuts to Eat Berries - about the impact of food miles. To indulge my...
Green blogger audio
The audio from our Green Bloggers panel at the Commonwealth Club is now available. (RealAudio, 58:41 minutes). Check it out!
Zero waste radio
Zero Waste is the topic on the KPFA Morning Show, Tuesday 3/14 at 7:30 am, on 94.1 FM. If you can't listen live you can download it from the KPFA archives after the show.
Pigeon Bloggers
Speaking of real time regulation, Ann Marie Healy reports on Z+Blog about a pigeons+blogs sensing and reporting system: These birds are the first iteration of pigeon bloggers, set loose with GPS receivers, air pollution sensors and a basic cellphone. They have been...