petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 28 days ago | politics, news, environment, technology, business, innovation, energyVery well put ...
Quoted: Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 21 2007 | news, technology, business, politics
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petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2007 | video, international, movies, documentaries, reuse, design, ideas, entrepreneurship, business
click to playI love this documentary about the life of a flip-flop in Kenya.
Quoted: This beautifully photographed, charming documentary traces the fantastic journey of Africa's most popular shoes: the flip-flop. Easily bought, quickly discarded, for Westerners the flip-flop stands as a symbol of the summer holiday. But in its African homeland, it has a unique life cycle and their story reveals much about Africa¹s economy and culture.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2007 | news, development, business, cities, environment, sustainability, planning, international, world, architecture, ideas
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 06 2007 | books, sustainability, development, economics, business, environment, ideas
Stuart Hart heads the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell. In this book, he provides analysis and recommendations on sustainable business practices based on his experience consulting for international businesses and nonprofits. The forward is written by Al Gore.
Quoted: In this book, readers will learn how to identify sustainable products and technologies that can drive new growth while also helping to solve today' s most crucial social and environmental problems.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | news, people, music, business
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | news, economics, business, development, international, globalization
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | news, international, development, politics, business, economics
Quoted: India has long had an affirmative action program for federal government jobs, setting aside 23 percent of positions for the most oppressed castes. Now activists are campaigning to open the private sector to them as well, whether the employer is Indian or multinational. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently said he favors that goal.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2007 | news, development, people, business, inspiration, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, international
The inspiring work of Tapan Parikh, who is using cell phone technology to help develop small businesses in rural India.
Quoted: relatively simple improvements in information and communication technologies can have a dramatic effect on the way businesses and markets work. That idea is central to the work of Tapan Parikh, a doctoral student...
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