Skip to content
Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Set to Turn Cow Pies into Electricity

Image
Photo: Skinnyde, Creative Commons, Flickr

In developing countries there are serious challenges to providing cheap and environmentally-friendly sources of electricity and clean drinking water. But Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, wants to try to overcome them. Recently he unveiled two o...

Read More >>
Cleaning Up Oil Spills with Microbes: A Really Great Idea

Cleaning Up Oil Spills with Microbes: A Really Great Idea
Photo: gari.baldi, Creative Commons, Flickr

Microbes are a class of living organisms that include bacteria, viruses and fungi....

Read More >>
The Oil in Your Backyard

The Oil in Your Backyard
Photo: SchultzLabs, Creative Commons, Flickr

Oil runs the world, fueling industrial processes that make everything from computers to plastic containers. Without it, vehicles, airplanes, trucks that bring food to grocer’s shelves, and ships that bring steel from China wouldn't run. The modern ...

Read More >>
12 Interesting Things I Learned at The Feast

12 Interesting Things I Learned at The Feast
Photo: Rachel Feierman, Creative Commons

The Feast was a day-long social innovation conference that took place on Thursday, October 16th at Scandinavia House in New York City. There were 12 presentations and summarizing each one would make for a very long article, so I'm simply going to tou...

Read More >>
What Happens to the Stock Market if Obama Becomes the CEO of America?

What Happens to the Stock Market if Obama Becomes the CEO of America?
Photo: iceman9294, Creative Commons, Flickr

It's easy and counterproductive to politicize the stock market: Democrats would say the it's plunging due to eight years of Republican leadership. Republicans would counter that the free-falling stock market is pricing in a Democrat in the White...
Read More >>
FDA Approvals and What They Mean to You
FDA Approvals and What They Mean to You
Photo: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com, Creative Commons, Flickr
I recently wrote an article on a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of patients t...

Read More >>
 
Global Bailouts Will Lead to Global Inflation: How to Play It
Global Bailouts Will Lead to Global Inflation: How to Play It
Photo: tao_zhyn, Creative Commons, Flickr
All the money used by central banks around the world to rescue the financial system is causing an increase in...

Read More >>
 
Exxon Mobil (XOM) Works On Its Eco Image
Exxon Mobil (XOM) Works On Its Eco Image
Photo: cackhanded, Creative Commons, Flickr
Even in this down economy, there are people who are still interested in environmental issues, and Exxon Mobil (...

Read More >>
Orbit Gum: Whiter Teeth Plus Gout and Heart Disease
Orbit gum, made by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (trading on the Buenos Aires market as WWY.BA - $40.90), advertises that it whitens teeth and freshens breath.


Read More >>
 
Bush’s Final Legacy: Stealth Tort Reform
Reports out of Washington indicate that the Bush administration is about to give the American people a parting, one-finger salute by rewriting a wide range of f...
Read More >>
 
Beyond Growth: The Wealth of Community
The premise of Bill McKibben's book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future is that the economic axiom "growth is good" is no longer true...
Read More >>
Vaccination Side Effects, Sponsored by Merck
Image
Photo: Meguro-jin, Creative Commons, Flickr
Some headlines are so disconcerting one is forced to wonder if they’re true, yet this one - U.S. Government...

Read More >>
 
Have the Numbers Gotten Too Big to Understand?
In 1956, a mathematician by the name of George A. Miller came up with the magical number seven. Plus or minus two digits, seven numbers are about the most human...
Read More >>
 
Why Paulson Can't Clean Up the Pollution on Wall Street
When Adam Smith wrote about the "invisible hand" in 1776, he referred to the natural forces that allow the market to correct for seemingly disastrous situation...
Read More >>

2008 Elections AAUK AFL AIG AMGN APC AXP Africa Agricultural Commodities Airlines Alternative Energy AlwaysOn Arnaud C. Enee Automobiles BAC BP BPT BRK.A BSC BTN Banks Big Oil Biotech Black Silicon Bonds Book Reviews Burning Man C CB CIK CNI COP CSIQ CSR CVX Carbon Trading Casson Rosenblatt Celebrity Celtic Tiger China Christian Investing Citizen Joe Clean Energy Climate Change Coal Commodities Company Profiles Consumer Sector Corporate Accountability Cramer Culture Currency DCX DHY DSTI Daniella Reichstetter David Neubert Deborah Evans Disney Dividends EBAY ED EFTC ENER ESLR ETFC ETFs Eben Esterhuizen Elaine Chan Electricity 2.0 Emily Davidow Ethanol-Biofuels EthanolBiofuels Event Coverage Exchange Traded Funds Executive Compensation F FCX FDI FNM FR FRE FSLR Financial Sector Futures GE GM GOOG GS GoingGreen Government Gregory Wendt HES HMC HYP Health Care Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Human Rights Humor Index Funds Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) Inflation Insurance Interest Rates Investing Investing Ideas/Stocks Ireland JPM Jack Hudson Jeanne Roberts Jim Cramer John Bonynge KFT KO LEH Labor Relations MCD MDP MER MMM MS MSD MSFT MSY Mark Bershatsky Market Horoscope Media Mergers Michelle Haimoff Miranda Marquit Money Warrior Movie Reviews Movies Mutual Funds N2Y3 NWS NYT Neubert Top Holdings History Neubert Trades Neubert's Trades Nina Smith Noah Berkowitz OXY Opinions Options PBW PDF2008 PEP PFE PG PTR Penny Stocks Personal Finance Philanthropy Politics Pop!Tech08 RNC RWR Real Estate/REITS Recession Retailers SBGI SOLF SPWR SRI STO STP Satire Shareholder Activism Sheila Killian Shorting SiOnyx Socially Responsible Investing Solar Energy Staff Recommendations Stocks T TIP TM TSCM TSL TXU Taxes Technology The Other Side The Panelist Recommends The Panelist in the Media Thomas Chenoweth Transportation USB USNZ UTX Utilities VIA VPL VTI WFR WMT Walker Lunn Wall Street Wall Street Weather XOM YHOO Zola Larsen

Powered by Joomla Tags
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Top

Members