Month: August 2008

  • When is a Vote not a Vote?

    I love campaign season. I especially love campaign commercials that talk about voting records, and outrage generated over votes that wouldn’t change the outcome of a bill, amendment, motion, or resolution (all different kinds of votes). Why do I mean? Some bodies are simple. The FCC has five members. One member has a tremendous amount…

  • The Hidden Human Cost of Government Going Green

    In the necessary push toward a greener nation, we are leaving some of our most valuable citizens behind. While I am all for “œgoing green” and the overall “œgreen technology” movement, I can’t help but notice that the way the government has chosen to go about doing it is disenfranchising huge segments of the population.…

  • Understanding our Future by Understanding our Past

    Generational history is cyclical. That’s where we get the phrase, “œHistory repeats itself”. In understanding our history, we can understand our future. In generational theory, four main generational archetypes exist, and history indicates that the impact on society and culture by each generation lasts for approximately twenty years. The four generational types are known in…

  • Ford EcoBoost Cuts CO2 Emissions by 15%, Improves Gas Mileage

    Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend the day at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, MI checking out the new technologies, green and otherwise, for their new 2009 model year. One of the key green technologies that was on display was the EcoBoost engine. By Ford claims, the EcoBoost engine reduces CO2 emissions by 15% while…

  • 5 Things Small Businesses Can Do To "Be Green"

    The last few years have really seen a push toward making everything “green”. Generally this means supporting efforts and organizations that help the individual offset their “carbon footprint” or the environmental impact they have on planet earth. On the business side, large companies in the past did things like installing systems to make their buildings…

  • You Don't have to be an Environmentalist to Have Green Habits

    You don’t have to believe to be green Here’s some interesting facts you won’t read in your local newspaper: the world has stopped warming. Data from all four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) released in February this year show that the world cooled between 0.65-0.75C in 2007. The trend isn’t…

  • Telecommuting, anyone?

    April may be the cruelest month, but not for news in Washington. That distinction is reserved for August. Congress recessed today (I’m writing this August 1) for a 5 week vacation. Bo-ring. No news, right? Well, maybe. A group of 50 House Republicans took  the floor after the House recessed and continued debate. But it…

  • 3 Things You Can Do to Green your Data Center

    Data Centers pose a problem when it comes to being energy efficient. Servers are on all day, every day and are expected to perform with a speed and reliability that we rarely expect from any other service. As a result, they generate tremendous amounts of heat and consume tremendous amounts of power. However, there are…

  • I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…

    I do not want to post this. But in the spirit of good PR, I have to get out in front of it. :-) This was a home video taken on July 29, 1988 – twenty years ago almost to the day. The story was… it was in Africa, where I lived for a bit…

  • Feed Subscriptions Are So Important

    When I left b5media, I had established a base of over 1300 feed subscribers on this blog. I was proud of that because, let’s face it, if you aren’t a news site breaking news all the time, people are not as inclined to subscribe to a feed. The feed at that time was hosted via…