Attending the Opportunity Green conference in Los Angeles yesterday gave me the opportunity to meet some terrific people and get aquainted with some incredible business concepts. Check out IndoTeak, a company that turns out wonderful, attractive, super high-quality products made …
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If you’re willing to take part in a very brief survey, I think you’ll find this one particularly interesting. Here, in our continuing quest to understand why the world (especially the U.S.) is moving so slowly in the direction of …
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I try to keep my “networking” hat on, attending seminars and meetings, and generally getting to know as many people in the industry as possible. The concept is certainly not lost on the folks at Opportunity Green, who recognize that …
It’s good to see MoveToAmend.Org gaining steam. On Tuesday, an overwhelming 75 percent of voters in Missoula, Montana said that corporations aren’t people, and shouldn’t receive the same legal treatment as people. The referendum’s sponsor, Councilwoman Cynthia Wolken, is apparently pretty …
Last night’s talk at Catalyst for Thought was on the subject of validating one’s market, which happens to be the core of the business I ran for almost 30 years. Thus I heard a great number of my own words …
Geothermal (Ground-Source) Heat Pumps (GHPs) make use of a completely different set of principles than the kind of geothermal we commonly discuss. Where the latter relies on the transfer of thermal energy from one fluid to another, like an egg …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy6jkF0z5w]Here’s a recent interview I did with a writer for “Environmental Science and Engineering Magazine” for support of an article he’s writing on clean energy. He’s a young guy, straight out of college, but I thought he did a …
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It’s the birthday of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose murder in 1940 I believe to be one of the most significant events in recent human history. Where Stalin was a vicious thug, Trotsky was an intellectual. Who knows what …
Only a few people, a dozen or so at most, have English language adjectives derived from their names them that are in common parlance: Jeffersonian (often modifying “democracy”), Keynsian (economics), Dickensian (England), etc. While I haven’t done a study on …
A reader wrote in with a question about his plans to get in the ethanol business, using a certain feedstock in which he’s an expert. Indeed, one of the most interesting things about biofuels is the enormous diversity of feedstocks. …
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