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Global Solar - Entrepreneurs Take the Lead on Low Cost Alternative Energy

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

All too often, when it comes to discussing clean, renewable methods for sating our global energy hunger, solar energy is omitted from the conversation. A shame when one considers that solar power may be our most abundant source of potential energy, and one that lies mostly untapped despite years of advancements in the necessary technology. [...]

The World Cafe - Principles for Purposeful Conversations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As much as technology has improved our ability to communicate with like-minded individuals around the world, there are still some difficulties that can only be solved by person-to-person discussion. The World Café is a new approach to harnessing the power of a group to take aim at the myriad of concerns that exist in any [...]

Plug-in Hybrids Go for a Spin in 2010

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Well, they shouldn’t be faulted for their enthusiasm. 2010 is here - slated to be the Year of the Electric Car - and automakers are still working out the glitches before the long-promised, much-hyped vehicles hit the production lines. To be fair, the year is still young - and with the Nissan Leaf expected to [...]

Tiffin - Meals for Millions in Mumbai

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

It is a low-tech, high-volume service that has Western business management experts flocking to the crowded, dusty streets of Mumbai. Each weekday, the Tiffin delivery network provides hot, home-cooked meals to a growing population of office workers in India’s financial capital. From the city’s outer suburbs to the bustling downtown core, the small, aluminum boxes [...]

Rockefeller Foundation - Creating the Mold for Big Philanthropy

Friday, December 11th, 2009

‘Gain all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.’
- John Wesley
It is a fitting maxim for America’s first billionaire and the founder of one of the country’s oldest major philanthropic organizations, the Rockefeller Foundation. Industrialist, robber baron, monopolist or mankind’s greatest benefactor - history has not yet passed its verdict [...]

Searhcing for Wind Power via Land, Sea and Air

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Before oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric and nuclear power - there was wind. It advanced the spread of civilization - by powering the sailing vessels of the earliest explorers and once settled, enabling them to efficiently irrigate their fields and mill their harvests. To our ancestors, wind must have appeared to be a coy mistress - [...]

Railroads - The Once and Future Hot Investment

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is buying into the future, by investing in the past - but don’t confuse his latest acquisition for an eccentric billionaire’s bid on nostalgia. There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, isn’t an eccentric - having proven his near-uncanny [...]

Peak Phosphorous - A Looming Crisis

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Consider it an unforeseen consequence of our rapidly advancing ability to control the elements of our natural world - phosphorus, a key building block for life, is facing a shortage. Used as a key component in the production of fertilizer, it may not have the star power of other prized elements (such as gold, silver, [...]

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Thomas Staley’s Look into the Millionaire Mind

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

What does real wealth look like? Is it a vacation home in Tahiti? An always-reserved table at the city’s finest restaurant? Or maybe it’s a ‘trophy spouse’ and extravagant weekends in Vegas? Well, author Thomas J. Stanley doesn’t think so - and he’s one to know. Having studied the affluent for over 30 years, Stanley [...]

The Socially Responsible MBA

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

It’s been over two decades since Gordon Gekko (played to eerie realism by Michael Douglas) uttered the now famous phrase ‘Greed is good’ in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street. The idiom has since become a cultural tag - one that personifies the material excesses, dog-eat-dog business tactics and wealth mentality of 1980’s America. As [...]