The iPod’s Inventor: a far better Thermostat?!

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The iPod’s Inventor Strikes Out On His Own, And Invents…A Thermostat?! | Co. Design: Oh, you are gonna like this. Programmable thermostats should, theoretically, save you a ton on your utilities. But you will love this. Only about 6% of programmable thermostates are actually — you guessed it — are actually programmed.:-( So maybe, just possibly, the answer is better training for the users. Nope. That will never do. How about something more intuitive and…

Most Chief Sustainability Officers Close to the Top, Report Finds · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

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Most Chief Sustainability Officers Close to the Top, Report Finds · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader With 35% reporting directly to the CEO and another 55% are no more than 2 degrees removed (C-Level) from the CEO. This is a small sample, but interesting how high in the organizations sustainability lands. Note that only DuPont (in 2004) had a CSO prior to 2007. From the http://www.environmentalleader.com

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Work Shifting – Office in the Cloud… or not?

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Work Shifting – Welcome to Your New Office in the Cloud Ok, let me get this straight: only 29% of small business owners had ever heard of Cloud Computing!:-( And of those, only 26% could describe what Cloud is? If my math is good (29% x 26%) that means that only 7.5% of small business owners know what Cloud is! One of the greatest equalizers of our time, and small business owners don’t know what…

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Transportation: Humor:-) is funnier than the facts:-(

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There’s just a little transportation humor that you need to go with your cup of joe in the morning. (Or you McCoffee or SBUX latte on the way.) Both of these come from Sunday, August 14, 2011. The comics, where all news worth knowing comes from: First is Non-Sequitur (Whiley) on road signs: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/08/14 I think that last panel is what they replaced the “Entering the City Limits of ” sign with. The last one is Dilbert (Adams)…

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EPA is finally going to conduct a big Environmental Study on Gas Fracking

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There has been a painfully slow move to NatGas in the US, even though we appear to have centuries worth of it using new fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques. The one holdup, kinda, is being blamed on the possible environmental impact from gas drilling. (As if it could be worse than oil with its BP Gulf and Exxon Yellowstone spills in the last two years.) So the EPA is conducting a few big studies. With…