With the growing consumer demand for sustainability, manufacturers and designers increasing numbers of factors to consider when creating new products from material sources and processes to packaging and distribution lines. While this is well within the capabilities of companies of any scale, it certainly adds a level of complexity to companies, particularly small businesses with [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, Environment, News on September 10th, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
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BusinessWeek makes a compelling argument for a return to the heyday of large scale scientific research funded by a combination of public and private funds as a necessary antidote for our struggling economy. This “pure” research can lead to the kind of breakthroughs and innovations that can create new industries and improve old ones, which [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
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The first forays into green energy cultivation typically happened on a smaller scale, adhering to a residential or small-community model, but nowadays the companies investing in these new technologies are increasing the size and centrality of their efforts.
Reading the New York Times got me excited because of the prospect of wind and solar farms becoming [...]
Filed under: Environment, Technology on August 28th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.