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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: Green
A small school’s BIG cost
Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 in-house email services can be staggering as budgets are slashed. Many schools have embraced [...]
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My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
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Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, Green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Today Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America is available.
The 1.0 release was a very interesting read (my review here) and I’m looking forward to the update.
Check out Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 online in PDF format.
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My latest read – Hot, Flat and Crowded
Over the long holiday I finally finished Tom Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. The book is a mixed blessing. Friedman has written one of the best books to understand the emergency need for a global environmental revolution.
Friedman provides detailed examples of how the [...]
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Tagged china, coal, environment, first solar, gasoline, germany, global economy, Green, green energy, india, pollution, population, poverty, revolution, solar, the world is flat, toledo, tom friedman, vending machine
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Tom Friedman’s book will be one of the hot reads this fall.
Order yours today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
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