Day two was a little more mellow than day one. Many of the attendees had already met and connected, and the Cisco Systems' Vineyard Conference Center started to feel a little like a college campus.
Revolution of the Nerds: WIRED's NextFest Written By: Clark Harding 2007-09-19 12:17:36 Normally composed of gadget obsessed, glasses-clad Gamers, the color of geek has suddenly gone green. This would account for the fact that this year's Wired NextFest, the Future of Technologies Fair held at the Los Angeles convention center, devoted 18 of its 165 exhibits to "CleanTech." In fact, tucked in right next to booths on Robotics and Communication, "Green" received its very own category within the convention center.
Sisyphus and the Third World Written By: Alan Geik 2008-06-05 15:28:46 Photo: litmuse, Creative Commons, Flickr
Since the first Western explorer set foot in the New Worlds, those inhabitants have had to roll the rock up an ever steeper hill. From outright military domination and expropriation of resources for the smelters and factories of the industrialized countries to decades of struggles for national liberation and the realities of dependent one-commodity nations, the losers in these relationships were never difficult to identify.
Socially Conscious Decision '08: Barack Obama Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-04-08 10:44:13 SRI stands for socially responsible investing. Whether you invest money in stocks or time and energy, your investment should make sense from both a financial and a sustainability standpoint.
