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In honor of Blog Action Day, the video here is a 15-minute TED talk by Carolyn Steel, author and architect. Among the startling things she says here:
We lose about 47 million acres of rainforest every year. And at the same time, we lose about 50 million acres of farm land to salinization and erosion.
Half the [...]
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I found this on the Huffington Post over the weekend: Top Ten Unconventional Indicators Of The Recession. It’s a slide show, more fun there than here, but in case you’re interested:
Home movie rentals: up during recession. Netflix, Redbox and others are way up over last year. From The Atlantic.
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Urban farming: More people grow their own [...]
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I hope it doesn’t seem like total self promotion — I’ve tried to avoid that as much as possible on this blog — but hey, tomorrow Palo Alto Software is going to give away thousands of copies of Business Plan Pro (and not a light version, the upscale, premier version) for free to Oregonians who [...]
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Graduating from college and looking for a job, this year of all years, is something like entering a busy freeway going the wrong way.
Consider the plight of the kids born mostly in 1988. Struggle through high school, struggle through college, working on the American dream. They were discovering computers during the Internet boom [...]
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Seems to me like the recession has hit bottom and the economy is starting back up.
It’s not just sales at our company which are picking up. It’s also people I know and talk to, like the other 24 investors in my angel investor group which met last week; most of them are business owners. And people at [...]
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I’ve posted before on this blog about The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s powerful book, written before the big downturn, which some say (he wouldn’t) predicted it.
With a beautifully written mix of history, stories, studies, and logic, Taleb shows how the big events are completely unpredictable. And that we kid ourselves, [...]
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Consider these predictions. They’re all based on identifiable trends. Ask yourself how this affects you, your business, and your business future: In 10 years, the number one English-speaking country in the world will be China. By 2011, 90% of all…
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These are unusual times. I’m dismayed and frightened by the venomous divisiveness surrounding presidential politics, attempts at recovery, stimulus, and bailouts. Is it not obvious that the whole world is threatened by an economic catastrophy at a scale suitable for…
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This looks very interesting: Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing, and Kelly Spors of the Wall Street Journal at noon Pacific Time, Thursday March 5, for an online discussion of the Obama stimulus plan…
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