by Gil Friend | Jan 5, 2005 | Sustainability
[Reuters]: Coastal ‘Green Belts’ Seen as Tsunami Life Savers Barriers such as coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs saved lives by deflecting Asia’s tsunami and governments should protect such natural bulwarks against the wrath of the sea, a...
by Gil Friend | Jan 2, 2005 | Sustainability
Engadget picks up a BBC report that workers producing LCD and plasma monitors and TVs face risk of serious lung diseases, though there’s reportedly no consumer hazard (other than the usual brain damage from too much teevee). So, great news if you can afford to...
by Gil Friend | Dec 30, 2004 | Sustainability
[Enviroline]: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) and Ceramatec, Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah have demonstrated the feasibility of using nuclear energy to efficiently produce hydrogen from water....
by Gil Friend | Dec 30, 2004 | Sustainability
Japlonik (an Audi-sponsored… guy? site? simulacrum?) offers ‘More on the MDI Air-Powered car’: The company is moving forward on its plans to offer an air-electric powered vehicle for sale in 2005, and even created prototypes of several models,...
by Gil Friend | Dec 23, 2004 | Sustainability
[William Baue/SocialFunds.com]: Stuart Hart’s Capitalism at the Crossroads perfectly complements University of Michigan Business Professor C. K. Prahalad’s The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, perhaps even surpassing it in significance. ‘Unlike...
by Gil Friend | Dec 21, 2004 | Sustainability
Joel Makower’s blog report on the WRI conference in San Francsico last week — Eradicating Poverty Through Profit — generated substantial discussion on Liberal Street Fighter. ‘Bottom of the Pyramid,’ a powerful meme promulgated by...
