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Extra! Extra! China's back-and-forth on golf, still gonna ban dog meat and totally in favor of you criticizing the gover... - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
golf2.jpg Photo from Ryan Pyle/Par for China Apparently, China's in the midst of a "golf boom," despite the percentage of our population who plays the game being negligible - and the fact that course construction has been officially banned since 2004, according to a story written by Shanghaiist founding ...
VeriSign Internet Trust Index Released - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:09:00 GMT
Semi-Annual Report Monitors Online Trust Across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- March 4, 2010 -- RSA Conference, Booth #1212 -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today released its inaugural VeriSign Internet Trust Index Report, ...
Alliant Energy seeks 13.8 percent rate increase - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:50:00 GMT
Alliant Energy&##x92;s Iowa customers will be seeing higher bills this month to pay for the utility&##x92;s investments in green energy. The utility plans to ask state regulators for a 13.8 percent, $163 million annual rate increase today to pay for a new $468 million wind ...
How "Green" Initiatives Cost Jobs - Mar 10,2010 - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:03:00 GMT
The numbers are coming in from California. Under the sure-fire leadership of Arnold Schwartzenegger (yeah, right), and being one of our most "progressive" states, California went balls-to-the wall on this whole green thing before most of us even heard the term "compact flourescent." The projection ...
7 Startups Building Green Car Tech for a Pre-Electric World - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:46:00 GMT
Quiet Khosla Ventures-backed startup Transonic Combustion has garnered attention over the last few days after revealing the geeky details of its scheme for a more efficient fuel-injection system. The company, which presented at the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Summit last week, represents only one ...
Don't buy Obama's greenwashing of nuclear power | Erich Pica - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:10:00 GMT
Last month, inspectors found dangerous chemicals in the groundwater near the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor. The situation demonstrates that from the mining of uranium ore to the storage of radioactive waste, nuclear reactors remain as dirty, risky, and as costly as they ever were. If President Obama's ...
Mellody Helps You Turn Old Gold into Green - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:31:00 GMT
Gold prices are at a 10-year high, so some people look to make extra cash by selling their unwanted gold jewelry. Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and "Good Morning America's" personal finance contributor, visited the show to discuss the do's and don'ts of turning gold into cash. ...
Turn Your Old Gold into Green - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:42:00 GMT
Gold prices are at a 10-year high, so some people want to make extra cash by selling their unwanted gold jewelry. Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and "Good Morning America's" personal finance contributor, visited the show to discuss the dos and don'ts of turning gold into cash. ...
WSJ Green Eco-nomics; What a Difference a Year Makes - Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
I am returning from the Wall Street Journal's annual environmental conference in Santa Barbara. The tone of the event changed profoundly this year. The heretofore simple orthodoxy that companies can “do well by doing good” with regards to environmental performance is evolving, if not experiencing complete ...
Welcome to the Future - Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:36:00 GMT
I, Robot The Mauldin Test Who Stole My Nanotech? Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink The Promise of Biotech DIY-Bio Random Takeaways Home Again, Cambridge, and Cincinnati We are in an era of accelerating change, moving toward a future that will be profoundly different from the past we grew ...
Lessons Learned From a Bad Haircut - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:32:00 GMT
The education of Mark Zuckerberg. The Wall Street Journal has a must-read profile of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has kept a firm hold on his company, even as he's raised hundreds of millions of dollars and plotted an eventual initial public offering. The Journal reveals that Zuckerberg ...
Thailand tightens environmental regulation. - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT
A Thai court has sided with the country's growing green movement and has suspended $12 billion in investments on Thailand's industrial eastern seaboard until their environmental impact can be properly assessed.
NicetoKnow 6. marts 2010 - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:00 GMT
China's investments in U.S. up sharply Los Angeles Times har den dybt skræmmende historie om, hvordan Kinas kommunistiske regime i stigende grad kontrollere amerikansk infastruktur og industri gennem målrettede opkøb. Læs og bliv skræmt! Global Climate Governance Emerges as Test Case for EU ...
VCs see investments rising in 2010 - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:39:00 GMT
The venture capital industry is optimistic about renewed investments this year, with focus shifting primarily to the green technology sector, a survey by global consultancy KPMG LLP said.
VCs optimistic about rise in investments in 2010: KPMG - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:08:00 GMT
The venture capital industry is optimistic about renewed investments this year, with focus shifting primarily to the green technology sector, a survey by global consultancy KPMG LLP said.
Lessons Learned From a Bad Haircut - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
The education of Mark Zuckerberg. The Wall Street Journal has a must-read profile of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has kept a firm hold on his company, even as he's raised hundreds of millions of dollars and plotted an eventual initial public offering. The Journal reveals that Zuckerberg ...
Lessons Learned From a Bad Haircut - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
The education of Mark Zuckerberg. The Wall Street Journal has a must-read profile of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has kept a firm hold on his company, even as he's raised hundreds of millions of dollars and plotted an eventual initial public offering. The Journal reveals that Zuckerberg ...
Venture Capital Market Warming Up in Canada - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:08:00 GMT
The venture capital business hasn’t exactly been setting the house on fire in Canada in recent years. The number of successful exits has been tiny, and some funds have all but dried up or stopped making new investments. According to a recent survey released by the Canadian Venture Capital & ...
The LIFE Programme - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:55:00 GMT
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Green-Jobs Fantasy -- By: Iain Murray - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is adapted from the March 8, 2010 issue of National Review . A fter declaring energy cap-and-trade “dead” in the Senate, the Left’s new favorite Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has been working hard to resurrect it under another name. Working with Senators Kerry ...