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Toll of the Patent Troll

ByBizMan

The Wall Street Journal has a great article about Patent Trolls and the Toll the cost on an innocent economy. Here’s the excellent WSJ Article: America’s Biggest Filer of Patent Suits Wants You to Know It Invented Shipping Notification, By RUTH SIMON and  LORETTA CHAO, Updated Oct. 27, 2016 1:11 p.m. ET. Small(er) companies are targeted by a non-practicing entity (NPE), sometimes ungraciously referred to as a Patent Troll. IPZine previously discussed Patent Trolls in…

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Energy Efficiency & Renewables… Good signs for both.

ByPiAdmin

In one recent edition of the New York Times, there were two very positive articles on energy efficiency and improving the cost/kwh of renewables.  The Monday, November 24, 2014, issue featured “Good News on Energy,” by Ralph Cavanagh of theNatural Resources Defense Fund, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/opinion/good-news-on-energy.html? and “Solar and Wind energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels,” by Diane Cardwell, http://nyti.ms/1yJq2r0. From Cavanagh, peaked energy use occurred in the US in 2007 and has trended downward since…

The Weed-n-Seed IP Trap
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The Weed-n-Seed IP Trap: GMO Agriculture and the Lock-In Business Model

ByElmer Hall

By Dr. Elmer HallAuthor of Patent Primer 5 and Perpetual Sustainability Introduction: The GMO Patent Trap Hiding in Plain Sight Monsanto’s “weed-n-seed” strategy may be the most profitable and dangerous GMO patent trap ever deployed in global agriculture. This business model doesn’t just involve selling genetically modified seeds—it binds farmers into an escalating cycle of seed contracts, herbicide dependence, and legal control. The result? A systemic agricultural lock-in that’s reshaping how food is grown—and who…

Companies Search For Ways To Mine Uranium Outside Grand Canyon National Park | KRWG

BySustainMe

Companies Search For Ways To Mine Uranium Outside Grand Canyon National Park | KRWG: Uranium and Nuclear power. So very much cleaner than coal. But, we have no plan, even to make a plan, to deal with the radioactive waste. Right now it is all being stored on site like the Fukushima reactor in Japan. They had an entire reactor devoted to waste storage. The best plan that I have ever seen is to take the nuclear…

Innovative Countries — Global Innovation Index
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Innovative Countries — Global Innovation Index

BySustainMe

This is a great summary of innovation by country from Visual Capitalist. See the Global Innovation Index (GII) map here:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-innovative-countries-2022/ First Published on IntellZine.com. Note the sustainability implications from innovation, and the lack of innovation. We, at Strategic Business Planning Company, www.SBP.com, are always interesting in all aspects of innovation. Sometimes we hear from a layperson or an executive that the most innovative country in the work is …   Israel and Ireland were mentioned in…

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Update to Sustainability WikiBook (Using the power of Generative AI)

BySustainMe

It’s been a while since the Perpetual Sustainability(tm) wikibook has been updated. The idea behind the book was that people could link through on each sustainability-related topic and find up-to-date information on the topic as only Wikipedia can provide — the genius of crowdsourcing. We let ChatGPT 4.0 work on an update (and the graphic). What do you think? YOU Q: Please generate an outline improved from the one attached that includes hyperlinks to each…