Paper Profits on the Death of a Dream Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-02-13 16:35:57 As early as 1975, experts were promising us that the personal-computer, or PC revolution, would create a paperless society.
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 touch on twelve interesting things that I learned:
3M and Minnesota: The End of the Affair Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-01-14 23:33:19 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, or 3M (MMM - $78.50), is a Minnesota institution on the order of Milwaukee and beer. Founded in 1902 by a lawyer, a butcher and a locomotive engineer, the company set out to make sandpaper and, 23 years later, came up with a packaging revolution known as masking tape. Along the way, it also spawned an indigenous economy that employed thousands and represented a cultural paradigm of corporate-sponsored creativity which produced such nonpareils as Scotch tape and Post-it® Notes.
A Bad Way to Save Paper and Energy Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-04-29 10:50:34 Xerox - (XRX-$14.04) in conjunction with its subsidiary, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), is working on a way to make paper truly recyclable.
A Not-So-Good Way to Curb Global Warming Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-02-15 12:33:02 I hate to rain on everyone's curb-global-warming parade, as it's both a critical and largely unresolved issue.
