World Growth Innovators is a new venture that I have created and its first set of innovations are aimed at Haiti.

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• Pleasantville The other day, I watched the movie "Pleasantville" (1998, starring Tobey McGuire). Briefly, the story revolves around two 1990's teenagers being "magically" transposed in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world. To me, this film shows two things very well: 1) The implications of......
• Haiti and Social Media There have been many disasters in recent years: Tsunamis, forest fires, floods, hurricanes, but the I was surpried at how much the earthquake in Haiti has generated a flurry of fund raising activities.I came across a blog post which talks about various technologies that can be used in the relief......
• Either way, you are right! Whether you think that 1,849 is the number of projects that I have or that project 1,849 itself contains 1,849 projects, either way, you are right. Project 1849 is about the sharing and the dissemination of ideas, information, knowledge. Over the coming months, I will present a multitude of topics......

• Part II - Getting Your Site Indexed In Google Getting your site listed in Google is easier than ever now since Google offers sitemaps. By using a sitemap, you can make it very easy to get all of your pages indexed by Google. This can help you raise your rankings in Google, as well as help searchers find you.......
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• Are You Utilizing Your Corporate Blog To its Full Potential? If you are running a corporate blog and you feel that you do not have the customer base and the blog is not doing well, you may not be using the blog to its fullest potential. There are a few areas you need to examine to evaluate your blog to......

It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon.

There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development:

• A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a “green” cleaning range.

• A “transversal” strategy: Procter & Gamble targets all mainstream consumers. The company gradually reinforces the “green” dimension of most of its flagship brands. It created “Tide Coldwater”, an “Ultra Downy” softener.

You can read the full article entitled “P & G’s Sustainable Development Strategy“

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• Could Internet Marketers Save the Human Race? Let me put some perspective on things first. Nobody knows how a new technology will lead us. Heck often times, the darn thing is invented without a specific purpose in mind. It just is. When Arthur Fry the Post-It (TM), he had to distribute massive amounts of them to coworkers,......
• Printing your house A very large version of a stereo lithographic printer is being used to "print" large structures such as sculptures or even houses. The printer uses a mixture of sand with a magnesium based glue that binds the sand into rock. The inventor claims that his process is four times faster......
• Sustainable urban planning Abu Dhabi style The Abu Dhabi urban planning council asked helped from the city of Vancouver to help elaborate their their sustainable urban design.  Vancouver's  co-director of planning, is serving as the emirate’s “special adviser. The city of Abu Dhabi has requirements that are quite different, mostly heat and drought related. Among other......

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• Wal-Mart indicating its product's eco-friendliness by Jerry Hart Last week, Wal-Mart started putting labels on products indicating its product's eco-friendliness. Be honest. Buying green items can be down the priority list when we feel unwilling to pay more for environmentally friendly goods. For you...is the green you care about, the green in your pocket right now? Do you......
• Clorox Doing Their Best To Greenwash Themselves. I have written before about how companies are doing their best to become more "green", and the last example that I wrote about was when Clorox bought Burt's Bees for $925 million dollars. Why would Clorox be interested in Burt's Bees? Because Clorox is best known for making a toxic......

From Costa Rica: Producing bio fuel, it is important  to ensure sustainable crop production that is environmentally and socially effective as well optimized. The Costa Rica News

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• Global Warming, getting worse faster. Global warming could lead to a climate catastrophe closer than we think. Last March, in Copenhagen, at a climate conference, a group of scientists presented more than 1,400 studies related to climate change and its impact on the planet. Last month, a 39 page summary entitled "Climate Change - Synthesis......
• GM files for bankrupcy--the end of the car era ? I wrote a little essay on the future of the automobile,"The end of the car era ?"in it, I talk about how the snootiness and myopic visions of American auto manufacturers led to this current situation. I also talk about whether it is a good thing to keep pushing the......
• Sustainable development, corporations and public education A large corporation like Home Depot only adopted sustainable development measures following a public outcry and boycotts over the sale of their lumber products. Seeing a threat to their profits, they adopted more ecological and sustainable business practice in order to impove their public image. But, in order for corporations......

• How To Spot Third Party Verifications Of "Green". How can you know if you are really buying an eco-friendly product? While many everyday things we buy are not rated for their "green-ness", there are tons that are. You just have to know what to look for! I have written in the past about organic labeling and certification, but......
• Green Building Materials Green Construction is the practice of building in a way that increases efficiency of the use of materials like energy, water and other materials and resources while reducing the impact on human health and the environment during the process of building through more efficient design, site selection, construction, operation, maintenance......
• Time To Find Some Environmental News It's difficult to change how we think. It's much easier to go on our lives the easy way, not challenging our thoughts and actions. Real awareness challenges our personal, private thoughts and asks us to look at another way of thinking. It opens our mind to new ideas that......

Indigenous knowledge key to sustainable development:

Scientists should not forget to consider the knowledge of natives when it comes to implementing good environmental practices to certain areas. From a blog post in Just Means.

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• Sustainable development, corporations and public education A large corporation like Home Depot only adopted sustainable development measures following a public outcry and boycotts over the sale of their lumber products. Seeing a threat to their profits, they adopted more ecological and sustainable business practice in order to impove their public image. But, in order for corporations......
• Masdar to be the first zero polluton city The city of Masdar near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirate wl be the first city to produce its energy entirely by way of renewable energy such as solar and wind energy. They wil also recycle all their waste and as such, have a "zero carbon" footprint. Of course,......
• GM files for bankrupcy--the end of the car era ? I wrote a little essay on the future of the automobile,"The end of the car era ?"in it, I talk about how the snootiness and myopic visions of American auto manufacturers led to this current situation. I also talk about whether it is a good thing to keep pushing the......

• Building my Tribe: Part 1 This past weekend the girls over at SITS spoke of how to build up your blog. But the most interesting thing was was how they speak of "tribes". Tribes being a group of blogs that you yourself follow regularly, and in turn, a bunch of people/blogs that follow you regularly. So......
• There Is No Gas In Atlanta This morning, I almost had to call in sick to work.  My car was running on empty and I couldn't find a gas station that actually had gas.  Eventually, after visiting 5 different stations, I eventually found one in an out-of-the-way location that still had gas.  At $4.50 per gallon. ......
• "What Probloggers Don't Tell You..." How to Guest Post For a Problogger How Guest Post on Problogger Blogs Robb at robbsutton.com was kind enough to include one of my posts as a guest post on his blog recently.  We were both pleased with the quality of the comments, and I really appreciated the opportunity to guest post for a 'proglogger'. Robb has......

The Abu Dhabi urban planning council asked helped from the city of Vancouver to help elaborate their their sustainable urban design.  Vancouver’s  co-director of planning, is serving as the emirate’s “special adviser.

The city of Abu Dhabi has requirements that are quite different, mostly heat and drought related.

Among other things, they want to develop more walkable communities.

You can read the full article at “Abu Dhabi Showcases Sustainable Urban Design“.

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• Sustainable development and large corporations It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon. There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development: • A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a......
• Global Warming, getting worse faster. Global warming could lead to a climate catastrophe closer than we think. Last March, in Copenhagen, at a climate conference, a group of scientists presented more than 1,400 studies related to climate change and its impact on the planet. Last month, a 39 page summary entitled "Climate Change - Synthesis......
• China's low carbon and sustainability problems I came across an interesting article about the low carbon emissions and sustainability problems facing China as the country moves increasingly towards urbanization. It is predicted that china will have 75 percent of urbanization by 2050, which means much more energy consumption and green house gas emission. China currently lacks......

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• Donald Trump's Design Approved The Scottish government has decided to approve the plans designed by Donald Trump to take a wild stretch of the Aberdeenshire coastline in the north east part of Scotland, and transform it into a 2.4 billion dollar golf resort. Trump, a billionaire businessman that is world renowned and resides in......
• EarthTalk: Is New Urbanism More Environmentally Friendly? EarthTalk is a weekly installment from E/The Environmental Magazine. Dear EarthTalk: What makes those so-called “new urbanism” housing developments popping up around the U.S. more environmentally friendly than regular old suburban neighborhoods? The husband-and-wife team of town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are typically credited as the founders of......