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ConocoPhillips (COP) Jettisons Its Gas Stations

ConocoPhillips (COP) Jettisons Its Gas Stations
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ConocoPhillips (COP) has joined the ranks of Big Oil companies getting out of the retail gasoline business. The Houston Chronicle reports that COP is looking for a business model that is more sustainable:...

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The Digital Transition and a Looming Environmental Crisis

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As most people now realize, come February of 2009 many US televisions will no longer be able to deliver the majority of network programming because they are designed to accept an analog, rather than digital, signal....

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The Mindset List

The Mindset List
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Beloit College, in Wisconsin, annually publishes a list for incoming students that identifies (and perhaps corrects) the sociological and political assumptions of 18 year-olds entering their first year of post-secondary education.
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency

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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency
By Rob Hopkins
Green Books
240 pages
$24.95
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The Nearly Waterless Washing Machine: A Really Good Idea

The Nearly Waterless Washing Machine: A Really Good Idea
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With water, or the lack thereof, becoming the hottest new topic since global warming, the nearly waterless washing machine by Xeros Ltd (a private company out of Leeds, England) looks to take the appliance industry by storm....

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Google (GOOG) Gets Into Alternative Energy Investing
Google (GOOG) Gets Into Alternative Energy Investing
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There are a lot of thoughts out there about alternative energy, especially now that oil prices are going ...

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Innerspace: When Sci-Fi Becomes Just Plain Sci
Innerspace: When Sci-Fi Becomes Just Plain Sci
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Remember the 1987 sci-fi movie Innerspace (with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan), where test-pilot Quaid...
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Seven Trends to Kickstart a Major World Conflict
Seven Trends to Kickstart a Major World Conflict
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Apologies for the sensational headline. To put it more academically, following are seven issues that might s...

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Green Century Balanced Fund (GCBLX) Offers an Environmentally-Friendly Investing Opportunity
With green investing becoming more popular, many people are looking for ways to diversify into green holdings -- and even diversify within their green holdings....
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Professional Wrestling is Real and the Rest of the World is Rigged
Some years ago, an old friend of mine and I were shooting the breeze, discussing some global issues and what might be coming, when he abruptly declared "Ac...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds to the Rescue?
The equity bears will argue that we're seeing a classic bear market rally, but the bulls might soon have some new ammunition to push stocks higher. I must admit...
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Southern California Edison (EIX) Could Give Solar Industry a Big Boost
In what is likely to be the biggest expansion of renewable power, Souther California Edison (EIX) plans to put solar panels on warehouse roofs. The move is expe...
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The Rich ARE Different: It’s Called Borderline Personality Disorder

“In a game of give and get,” the PhysOrg.com reporter emphasizes: “The brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don't get i...
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Blue Jeans Part II: The True Cost of Blue
The denim for blue jeans comes from the cotton plant, a shrubby tropical plant treated as an annual in more temperate regions whose modern history, at least, i...
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Why Wall Street Should Keep an Eye on the Indian Wedding Season
There is a growing consensus that it's going to be the rest of the world that will drag the U.S. into a recession at the start of 2009. Tuesday's U.S. exports d...
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Blue Jeans Part III: The True Cost of Blue
Stonewashing a single pair of blue jeans takes 5 gallons of water and about a dollar's worth of electricity.
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The Holy Grail of Health Insurance: DENIED
The Holy Grail of Health Insurance: DENIED
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The Washington Post recently published an article, later picked up by MSNBC, on the fact that health insurance ...

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