By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | February 16, 2010 It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago. But for the owner, the Danish [...]
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Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch
By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010 The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money? Stan Gale is exultant. [...]
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A Seattle chef proves that traditional sushi and healthy oceans go hand-in-chopstick
by DARBY MINOW SMITH | grist | January 31, 2010 Growing up in small-town Montana, two things just made no sense: vegetarians and sushi. Why eat tofu, or raw fish, when you could just as easily have a big juicy steak? Coming from generations of cattle rancher stock, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ringing defense [...]
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The Great American Slowdown
We’re less mobile and more place-bound, and it’s not just the recession that’s slowing restless America’s nomadic habits. This is good news for Seattle, the environment, and mossbacks. by Knute Berger | Crosscut | January 20, 2010 Developers love predicting that growth isunstoppable and inevitable, but the Great Recession is showing how untrue this really is. [...]
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Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010 Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor [...]
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‘Selfish’ Giving: Does It Count If You Get In Return?
by TOVIA SMITH | NPR | December 22, 2009 It’s been taught to generations that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” But how blessed is it when you give in order to receive? This time of year, charity is everywhere: Starbucks is helping to fight AIDS in Africa. Macy’s is giving to [...]
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Cleaners ‘worth more to society’ than bankers – study
By Martin Shankleman | Employment correspondent, BBC News | December 14, 2009 Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests. The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create £10 of value for every £1 they are paid. It claims bankers are a drain on [...]
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Will Big Business Save the Earth?
The New York Times | by By JARED DIAMOND | December 5, 2009 THERE is a widespread view, particularly among environmentalists and liberals, that big businesses are environmentally destructive, greedy, evil and driven by short-term profits. I know — because I used to share that view. But today I have more nuanced feelings. Over the [...]