Evoking the memory of E.F. Schumacher, the German born economist who wrote Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a new service by the name of Uniiverse has launched with the goal of serving as a platform for collaborative living. Schumacher’s vision of local economies moves one step further with Uniiverse, which “is an [...]
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February 8th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Green Economy 
Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Triple Bottom Line, Video 
No Comments »Honeywell Goes After Nest Labs for Patent Infringement
February 7th, 2012 Justin Manger As we have profiled here, Nest Labs has come up with a clean and classy look for their new energy saving and “auto-learning” thermostat. They will now have to come up with a team of lawyers to defend allegations from Honeywell International that Nest infringes on several (seven to be precise) patents that Honeywell has for [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Green Products, Justin Manger, News, Smart Grid Tags: Energy Conservation, Green Product, Green Technology No Comments »Obama Returns to Energy Theme in State of the Union
January 26th, 2012 2nd Green Revolution As he has done previously in talking about the state of America, President Obama had several things to say about energy in Tuesday night’s speech (transcript here). For one, due to a surge in domestic oil production, imports of foreign oil have fallen to the lowest levels in 16 years and “American oil production is the highest that [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Congress, Electricity Generation, Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Washington DC No Comments »Poll: Obama’s State of the Union Speech
January 23rd, 2012 Justin Manger On Tuesday, January 24th President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address from Capitol Hill. How prominently do you think clean energy and the “green” economy will be featured in the speech? Choose from one of the options below:
Secretary Chu Says EV Batteries Will Be 70% Cheaper in 3 Years
January 17th, 2012 Justin Manger At a recent speech in Detroit - a kind of pep rally for the city and its car industry – Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu had some good news about the cost of the batteries that power electric vehicles. In addition to making inroads on new kinds of battery technology, he talked about the likely decreases in [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Green Products, Justin Manger, News, Policy, Transportation Tags: Battery, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Stephen Chu, Washington DC No Comments »How Collaborative Consumption Can Curb Overconsumption
January 9th, 2012 Guest Author Overconsumption not only harms the environment but creates debt, clutter and complexity in our lives. While PhD programs in business continue to strive for production efficiency and cost reductions, the abundance of goods available today provides an opportunity to leverage consumption. Collaborative consumption offers an alternative to ownership-based consumption. It fulfills needs and wants through [...]
Posted in Economics, Guest Authors Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Environment No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Aluminum Recycling
December 30th, 2011 Justin Manger Nashville, Tennessee’s Evermore Recycling is North America’s largest purchaser of used aluminum cans for recycling. It is a joint venture between Novelis and Alcoa. 60 days = time period from when you recycle a can until it reappears on the store shelf 68% = the recycled content in every aluminum can 73% = the amount of aluminum that has ever [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Energy Conservation No Comments »Save Money, Not the Planet
December 4th, 2011 Justin Manger How many times, in how many ways, and with how many examples do we need to say it? The focus on any green agenda should not be carbon reductions or global warming or – dare I say it – saving the planet. The planet will be fine. We may not be, but the earth will [...]
