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Thinking Tools – The Work of Edward de Bono

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Most of us probably take thinking for granted as a reflexive, automatic process, like breathing. Thoughts pass in and out of our consciousness in an endless, effortless stream. Edward de Bono looks at thinking differently. He sees thinking as a set of tools that we can employ in a deliberate manner to gain insights, create [...]

Trouble in the Third Pole

Monday, June 28th, 2010

With respects to the amount of ice it contains, the Earth has a third pole – the Tibetan plateau. With 46,000 glaciers at an average height of 13,000 ft above sea level, it is the Earth’s third largest ice mass. This “Third Pole” is less well-known than the Arctic and Antarctic, but like them, is [...]

Erzsébet Szekeres

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Erzsébet Szekeres is an extraordinary woman. She has developed a program to address three of the most difficult problems that disabled adults face in Hungary – a lack of job training, few employment opportunities, and a housing shortage. By addressing these issues, she is helping the disabled to be as independent as possible and is [...]

Ford and In-car Cloud Computing

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

While most American car makers have struggled in the bearish economy, including Toyota, Ford has made a remarkable turnaround, and in April announced strong quarterly profits. According to MarketWatch, Ford swung to a profit of $2.1 billion, or 50 cents a share, from a loss of $1.4 billion, or 60 cents a share, in the [...]

Can We Really Multitask?

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Recently, many states have begun passing laws about not texting and driving at the same. The rise in traffic fatalities due to the distraction caused by attempting to text and drive at the same time has been cited as the rationale. Scientific evidence is growing to support the notion that whatever we might think otherwise, [...]

Here Come the Tablet PCs

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

The PC tablet wars were officially kicked off April 3rd with Apple’s US launch of the iPad. (The international launch has been delayed and is now scheduled for sometime in May.) To great fanfare, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple. The technology media gushed over the fact the iPad launched with a surprising number of [...]

The Great Train Race

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I have always loved trains – they have always occupied a sweet spot in travel for me between the intimate contact with the land that car travel offers and the fast, but depersonalized and remote sense you get from air travel. I had resigned myself to the fact that passenger trains might one day disappear [...]

Veronica Khosa – Bringing Compassion and New Thinking to the Battle Against AIDS in South Africa

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

In the face of what is one of the modern world’s most devastating epidemics, Veronica Khosa is championing compassion. Much has already been written regarding the rising toll that HIV/AIDS-related illnesses and deaths have had on the African continent, but little of the social entrepreneurs who are facing the daily challenges head on. Khosa, a [...]

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 [...]