Welcome to the World Water Day of 2014: This year’s theme is Water & Energy. By the Way: Earth Day is coming in a month, April 22!!! Look for Seminar information. See the 2011 SustainZine post related to World Water Day. Some info is borrowed here. World Water Day The 44th World Water Day (March 22, 2014): http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/ World Water Day can easily flooded past us without most of us hearing a drop about…
Kickstarter CEO: ‘Veronica Mars’ proves ‘the power of audiences’ | Inside Movies | EW.com: When you go to watch Veronica Mars, if you haven’t already done so… Think about this. It has been the greatest success for any movie launched by crowd funding! Capitalism at work by the masses. Very cool. They blasted through the goal of $2M and raised $5.7M from 91,000+ backers. Here is the YouTube Video teaser that they used to raise…
Pfizer — U.S. court invalidates Celebrex patent; generics loom | Reuters: Ouch!:-( Knocking the block of of the buster. Pfizer is taking a big hit with this court ruling against Celebrex patent. Surprisingly, the stock price, not so much so. Almost not even a jitter as it stays around $32 per share. That’s $3B in annual sales with $2B in the US (relevant to the US court ruling, obviously). IF the company repeats its $51B…
Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage: Great insight on competitive advantage, flexibility, and innovation. Article, but a nice video of Rita as well. Book:McGrath’s most recent book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) ‘via Blog this’
Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter: Pono Music… a project funded at Kickstarter. http://kck.st/1g5xVf3 High resolution music in a world that has gone Digital! Finally, I can put those olde (analog) records back on the shelf! This Kickstarter.com campaign is set to roll over $2M in fund raising today. !Oops, took too long to blog! It is already over $2M! Original goal was only $800k. It is headed…
Is there really a debate as to whether humans are contributing to Global Warming? This will take you some time, so if you are looking for a couple quick sound-bites, skip this entire post, and absolutely, skip the videos. Dr. Patrick Moore was recently pointed out to me as a qualified scientist and a active skeptic of Global Warming. Read about Moore on Wikipedia. He was an active founder of Greenpeace, but left the greenie…
