by Peter Guber: There’s both a magic and a mystery to negotiating winning deals. You’re in charge of the magic. The mystery is that sometimes you do everything right, and it still doesn’t happen. …More
The Present And Future Are Better Than You Think
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The Whole Tree And (Almost) Nothing But The Tree
22 May 2013
by Randy Woods: Green building advocates undoubtedly love nature and trees, but some may not realize just how amazing a tree really is, architecturally speaking. …More
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SolarCity, Goldman Sachs In Big Solar Finance Deal
20 May 2013
by Pete Danko: Which of Elon Musk’s cleantech ventures is hotter? Last week it was Tesla, with a big first-quarter earnings report. Today, it looks like SolarCity gets the nod. …More
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Moore’s Law Is No Joke – Pile Of Electronics From 1993 Fits In Your Palm Today
19 May 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: There’s nothing like a well-conceived picture to drive a point home. You know the point, right? Sure you do. (Hint: It’s in the title.) …More
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Tesla Model S Wows Them Over At Consumer Reports
17 May 2013
by Nino Marchetti: Tesla Motors is riding a bit of a high mark on a wave lately, recently having very favorable first quarter financial results. …More
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Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)
16 May 2013
Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. And this journey is accelerating. …More
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An Electric Car Battery That Supports An Almost 250 Mile Range?
14 May 2013
by Nino Marchetti: A new development in extending the range of electric cars on a single charge of a battery could soon mean range anxiety is more of a thing of the past. …More
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U.S. Job Market Bursting With Green Tech Opportunities
13 May 2013
by Beth Buczynski: We’ve come a long way since the painful market crashes of 2008, but it hasn’t been easy. …More
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On the exponential curve: inside Singularity University
13 May 2013
by DAVID ROWAN Editor of Wired magazine: It’s not an accredited university, and it doesn’t actually teach the singuarity, the supposed superintelligence that will result when man merges with machine, …More
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Robots Will Do Everything You Do Now Only Better – What Then?
9 May 2013
By: Jason Dorrier: The S&P 500 is near record highs, having finally regained all it lost in the 2008 financial crisis. It would be cause for celebration if it didn’t feel so out of touch with the “main street” reality of continued high unemployment. …More
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Warren Buffett is bullish … on women
7 May 2013
Why women are the key to America’s prosperity by Warren Buffit: …More
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3 May 2013
by Joan Maloof: In the past forty years the study of ecology — the relationships between organisms and their environment — has blossomed into an active and well-respected field of biology. …More
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New Material Promises To Help Cool Buildings With No Power
30 Apr 2013
by Daniel Mathews: Greenhouse gases are named after greenhouses because both of them warm the space under them by allowing sunlight to pass downward but not allowing infrared radiation to pass upward. …More
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Chevy Spark EV Nets EPA Estimated Range Of 82 Miles
29 Apr 2013
by Nino Marchetti: GM has some good news to share today around its upcoming Spark EV, wich will go on sale this summer in California and Oregon around $25,000 after tax incentives. …More
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CO2 Emissions In US Plunge To 1994 Levels As Natural Gas Booms
27 Apr 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: Proponents of natural gas, or methane in its purest form, say it is cleaner than coal and oil, lacks the PR problems and toxic waste byproducts of nuclear, and more efficiently produces electricity than sustainable sources.
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Dalai Lama Says He Would Support A Woman Successor
24 Apr 2013
by Katherine Bindley: While some religious leaders might shy away from establishing a tradition of helping women ascend to high-ranking positions, the Dalai Lama voices a more progressive view: …More
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Micro-Battery Is Super Powerful And Charges Instantly
22 Apr 2013
Wouldn’t it be awesome to plug in a dead smart phone and have it fully charged in under a second? …More
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The Magic And Mystery Of Negotiating Winning Deals
17 Apr 2013
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14 Apr 2013
by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, …More
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A Solution For Clean Energy On A 24/7 Basis
13 Apr 2013
by Climate News Network: Critics of renewables have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers of electricity and need fossil fuel plants as back-up to make them viable. …More
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“Rushing fireball” could turn carbon dioxide into biofuel
2 Apr 2013
by SHOSHANA DAVIS: The large amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere that’s created by the burning of fossil fuels is cited by scientists as a major driver of climate change. …More
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The Conscious Lifestyle: A Leader’s True Responsibility (It Doesn’t Have to Be a Burden)
28 Mar 2013
by Deepak Chopra MD: Being responsible is the mark of a mature, conscious person – no one disputes this. But success also requires risk-taking, intuitive leaps, innovation, and thinking outside the box. …More
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World’s Largest Tidal Energy Farm to Open in France in 2013
24 Mar 2013
by Lori Zimmer: An incredible tidal power project will be be completed in 2013 off the coast of France near Paimpol-Bréhat in Brittany. …More
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What Can Geothermal Energy Offer The United States?
19 Mar 2013
by OilPrice.com: The biggest weakness of renewable power advocates is the fact that the sun doesn’t always shine, nor the wind blow. …More
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Laughter is Sexy & Good For Relationships!
14 Mar 2013
by Pragito Dove: We all like a good laugh, don’t we? It releases stress, puts us in a good mood, and generally makes us feel better about life.
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Fuel-Efficient Car Built Using 3D Printing Technologies
11 Mar 2013
Targeted to hit the road in two years, URBEE 2 represents a significant milestone in the world of traditional assembly-line manufacturing. …More
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Google Glass Becoming The Definitive Tech Story Of 2013
19 May 2013
by: David J. Hill: Ahh, Google Glass. Even before the masses have had a chance to get a good look at you in the wild, tech enthusiasts are enamored …More
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How Do You Decide Who To Marry? (written by kids)
14 May 2013
A group of young kids were asked how to decide who to marry and here are the results which are pretty amusing. …More
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In Two-Way Charging, Electric Cars Begin to Earn Money From the Grid
8 May 2013
By MATTHEW L. WALD: Finally, payback for the plug-in. …More
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Giant Next Generation Thirty Meter Telescope Gets Permit From Hawaii To Build On Mauna Kea
29 Apr 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: What would Dr. Evil do with a giant laser and deformable 30-meter mirror? Hold the planet for ransom, no doubt. …More
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Enhanced Geothermal Breaks Through In Nevada
19 Apr 2013
by Pete Danko: Breaking new ground – literally – enhanced geothermal system technology is unlocking heat trapped deep beneath Earth’s surface …More
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15 Apr 2013
by Justin Guay: A war is shaping up that pits an entrenched, aging, and uncompetitive fossil fuel industry against a young, innovative and increasingly competitive set of renewable energy technologies. …More
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Picking Apart Photosynthesis: New Insights Could Lead to Better Catalysts for Water Splitting
13 Apr 2013
by Kimm Fesenmaier: Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of photosynthesis, …More
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Tesla Model S Nets World Green Car Award Winner For 2013
8 Apr 2013
by Joel Arellano: The World Car Awards started in 2004. Candidates for the four categories – Design, Performance, Green, and the overall World Car …More
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Creativity, Spirituality, and the Future
31 Mar 2013
by: Danielle Graham: In today’s progressive education circles the trend is towards devising ways to ignite, nurture and protect our children’s innate creativity – and it should be. …More
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24 Mar 2013
by Dr. KD Farris: Bahá’u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, saw peace as a dove whose right wing was the masculine and left wing was the feminine. “Without both wings,” he said, “the dove of peace cannot fly.” …More
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‘Net-Zero’ Energy Store Being Built By Walgreens
24 Mar 2013
by: David J. Hill: Could a large American retail store produce as much energy as it consumes? Walgreens is going all ‘green’ to find out. …More
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19 Mar 2013
by JUSTIN GILLIS: At a legendary but secretive laboratory in California, Lockheed Martin is working on a plan that some employees hope might transform the world’s energy system: a practicable type of nuclear fusion. …More
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13 Mar 2013
by Frances Moore LappÃ: “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” …More
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Algae Biodiesel Feels The Love In Bay Area Test
10 Mar 2013
by Pete Danko: They might have been preaching to the converted, but nonetheless Propel Fuels got a great response when it sold algae-derived biodiesel at four San Francisco Bay Area stations last last year. …More
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Nectar That Gives Bees a Buzz Lures Them Back for More
8 Mar 2013
by JAMES GORMAN: Nothing kicks the brain into gear like a jolt of caffeine. For bees, that is. And they don’t need to stand in line for a triple soy latte. …More
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Some things are more important.
24 Feb 2013
SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?” …More
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Wind Energy Records Fall in Wash., Texas, Colorado
17 Feb 2013
by Pete Danko: Exactly 16,593 megawatt-hours, that’s how much electricity flowed from three Puget Sound Energy wind farms in Eastern Washington …More
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14 Feb 2013
In an interview Margot Anand explains how to connect with tantra and channel the energy for awakening. …More
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Conscious Money & Conscious Capitalism
11 Feb 2013
by Patricia Aburdene: Two of today’s greatest megatrends, Conscious Money and Conscious Capitalism, are cut from the same financial cloth. …More
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9 Feb 2013
by Mary Ann Hitt Sierra Club: Here are two headlines from the past week that blew me away (no pun intended): …More
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True Intimacy: How to Let Someone Really See You
31 Jan 2013
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: show you how to open your heart and soul to connect on a deeper level with your partner—while loving yourself too. …More
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2.5 Million Computers Give Peta/Flops Power To Einstein@Home, Other Projects
30 Jan 2013
By: Jason Dorrier: In early 2013, a distributed computing project called Einstein@Home registered a petaFLOP/s (10^15 floating-point operations per second) of computing power for the first time. …More
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Mars One’s Bas Lansdorp Answers Questions About Proposed Martian Settlement
28 Jan 2013
by: Mike Wall: Mars One wants to land four astronauts on the Red Planet in 2023, and it’s come up with a creative way to fund this ambitious undertaking. …More
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Kamen And Coca-Cola Take On World’s Clean Water Shortage With Slingshot Purifier
26 Jan 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: Veteran filmmaker, Paul Lazarus, has long experience making mainstream television shows and documentaries. …More
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The play of sexual polarity and its effects on relationship choices
24 Jan 2013
David Deida: What does it take to create a lasting sexual attraction between a man and a woman? What is this force of attraction we call sexual polarity? …More
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Sex, Immortality, and the Future of Women
14 May 2013
An interview with Barbara Marx Hubbard by Jessica Roemischer: Is sex evolving?
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Powering the World with Artificial Photosynthesis
3 May 2013
by Thomas Faunce: Humans are learning to mimic plant processes for producing sustainable energy. …More
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Orbital Sciences Rocket Antares Successfully Test Launched
21 Apr 2013
by Brock Vergakis: Atlantic, Va. — A company contracted by NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched a rocket on Sunday in a test of its ability to send a cargo ship aloft. …More
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Dairy Finds a Way to Let Cows Power Trucks
15 Apr 2013
by Steven Yaccino: FAIR OAKS, Ind. — Here at one of the largest dairy farms in the country, electricity generated using an endless supply of manure runs the equipment to milk around 30,000 cows three times a day. …More
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A hunt for dark matter in a former gold mine
13 Apr 2013
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4 Apr 2013
by Dr. Ian Pearson: About 25 years ago, inspired by the invention of field programmable gate arrays, many engineers recognised that in principle these could be used as the basis of an evolving machine, using a biomimetic approach. …More
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NASA To Launch 13,000 Square Foot Kapton Solar Sail In 2014
29 Mar 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: Navigating space isn’t easy—there’s no air, water, or earth to push your spacecraft in another direction. …More
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Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks
24 Mar 2013
by JOHN TIERNEY: BAD NEWS SELLS. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news.Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers, …More
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The More Clean Energy Powered Apple Waves Its Eco Flag
21 Mar 2013
by Nino Marchetti: Computer and iDevice manufacturer Apple, often criticized for not being green enough despite it being one of the more environmentally focused in its space, has issued its updated 2012 environmental report. …More
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How Best To Support Renewable Energy? Predictably, Ambitiously, Fairly
12 Mar 2013
by Mat McDermott: Despite the way some energy reports sound, the energy supplies we use are not a force of nature beyond our control. …More
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ANYWHERE IT BLOWS Wind is no longer the energy source of the future. It’s ready today.
10 Mar 2013
BY LATE OCTOBER, THE GENTLY ROLLING FARMLAND of central Iowa is stripped bare, its fertile miles of cornfields shorn by harvesters and swept clean by the incessant prairie wind. …More
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Solar Power Rocked The American Energy House In 2012
2 Mar 2013
by Pete Danko: Generation of electricity from solar power systems rose dramatically in the United States last year, rocketing up from 1,818 gigawatt-hours in 2011 to 4,342 GWh in 2012, …More
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Synchronized Traffic Lights In LA Are Complete, Expected To Reduce Traffic And Carbon Emissions
21 Feb 2013
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: Listen up, LA drivers! You are about to drive 16 percent faster, with 12 percent less time in traffic — at least according to the LA Department of Transportation’s estimates. …More
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Relationship Health Benefits: 10 Reasons Why It’s Good For You To Have A Significant Other
14 Feb 2013
By Amanda L. Chan: Valentine’s Day is upon us, and what better time to reflect on the many benefits of being in love? …More
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Curiosity Killed the Cat, But It Can Save Your Marriage
14 Feb 2013
by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.: Couples trying to revive the romance they felt in the early stages of their relationships sometimes turn to big, headline strategies to demonstrate their affection for their mate. …More
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Solar Passes 100 GW, But There’s A Long Way To Go
13 Feb 2013
by Pete Danko: Solar PV cracked the 100 gigagwatt mark in installed capacity in 2012, and that’s a nice plump, juicy number, don’t you think? …More
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Keeping desire, attraction, passion, and presence in your sex life
10 Feb 2013
by Alex Allman: The challenge for so many loving and committed couples is in keeping desire, attraction, passion, and presence in their sex lives. …More
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Peter Diamandis On The Eight Technologies That Are Making The World Better
4 Feb 2013
For entrepreneur and X Prize Foundation creator Peter Diamandis, the world has never been in better shape and that it is going to get even better, …More
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Social Entrepreneur Says ‘We Don’t Need Facebook for Dogs’
30 Jan 2013
by Devin Thorpe: Nothing summarized the Intersection Event better than Kushal Chakrabarti’s comment halfway through the day. …More
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GravityLight — Using Gravity To Bring Light To The Developing World
26 Jan 2013
By: David J. Hill: Renewable energies are all the rage these days and are assumed to be a big part of meeting energy demands in the future. …More
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America High Speed Rail Seeks A Standard Bearer
25 Jan 2013
by Nino Marchetti: High speed rail development here in the United States, particularly California, continues to limp along. …More
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24 Jan 2013
Blue Planet Network is an award-winning international nonprofit headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a mission to exponentially increase the impact of safe drinking water and sanitation programs for people around the world. …More
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That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work
20 Jan 2013
by JANE E. BRODY: When people fall in love and decide to marry, the expectation is nearly always that love and marriage and the happiness they bring will last; as the vows say, till death do us part. …More
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Wind Blowing Away Coal In Ontario
16 Jan 2013
by Pete Danko: For the first time, in 2012 wind narrowly beat out coal in electricity production in Ontario. …More
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Google Puts $200M Into Texas Wind Farm
12 Jan 2013
by Pete Danko: Google might have its critics on the privacy and antitrust fronts, but it would be hard to fault the company when it comes to promoting a clean energy future. …More