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Copenhagen's Business (As Usual) Day

Friday was dubbed "Business Day" here in Copenhagen — a chance for the corporate community to come together to discuss their considerable role in addressing climate change.Significantly, business has...

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Cap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework for Humanity’s Most Serious...

In a few days in Copenhagen, world leaders will debate and, we hope, agree upon aggressive targets for humanity’s greatest challenge to date: to avert devastating man-made climate change by...

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Cap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework..Towards a Serious Climate...

In part I, I made the general case for cap and trade as an unserious policy framework that inserts extraneous elements into pricing carbon that threaten the whole enterprise. I generated general...

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“Transparency Is Not Enough”

At Gov2.0 this week, I gave a talk on the importance of information literacy when addressing transparency of government data:“Transparency is Not Enough”I address everything from registered sex...

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Two Additional Hurdles to Oil Independence: Fear of Inconveniences and Tax...

A couple weeks ago, I sketched out an Oil Independence Plan for the United States that was based on a combined move to more efficient uses of petroleum as well as a much more aggressive move to oil-...

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Is Transparency a Good Thing?

The latest WikiLeaks revelation that much of the American government's secret diplomatic cables read like entries in a mean girls'burn book has got politicians and pundits blathering about how it might...

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Does a National Design Policy Make Sense? Most Activities Are Purely Academic...

The idea of how effective a national design policy is came up a few times this week during casual conversations with my friends in the design world. I am generally unimpressed with these activities...

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Case Study: Data.gov.uk

Guest Post by: Ed ThompsonYesterday I went to a Social Media Week event hosted by the Central Office of Information (COI) that focused on data.gov.uk.Data.gov.uk is a programme that was initiated under...

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California’s Bold Move to Legitimize Sustainable Business

A bill introduced in California’s state Senate last week holds enormous potential to give sustainable business a push by making it — well, legal.Under current law in California and most other states,...

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Government to Search for Brain’s Buy Button?

OK, there’s not really a buy button in the brain waiting to be discovered. But the U.S. government is, in fact, launching a major project to create a detailed map of the human brain.Much like the...

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Copenhagen's Business (As Usual) Day

Friday was dubbed "Business Day" here in Copenhagen — a chance for the corporate community to come together to discuss their considerable role in addressing climate change.Significantly, business has...

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Clik here to view.

Cap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework for Humanity’s Most Serious...

In a few days in Copenhagen, world leaders will debate and, we hope, agree upon aggressive targets for humanity’s greatest challenge to date: to avert devastating man-made climate change by...

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Cap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework..Towards a Serious Climate...

In part I, I made the general case for cap and trade as an unserious policy framework that inserts extraneous elements into pricing carbon that threaten the whole enterprise. I generated general...

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“Transparency Is Not Enough”

At Gov2.0 this week, I gave a talk on the importance of information literacy when addressing transparency of government data:“Transparency is Not Enough”I address everything from registered sex...

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Two Additional Hurdles to Oil Independence: Fear of Inconveniences and Tax...

A couple weeks ago, I sketched out an Oil Independence Plan for the United States that was based on a combined move to more efficient uses of petroleum as well as a much more aggressive move to oil-...

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Is Transparency a Good Thing?

The latest WikiLeaks revelation that much of the American government's secret diplomatic cables read like entries in a mean girls'burn book has got politicians and pundits blathering about how it might...

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Does a National Design Policy Make Sense? Most Activities Are Purely Academic...

The idea of how effective a national design policy is came up a few times this week during casual conversations with my friends in the design world. I am generally unimpressed with these activities...

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Case Study: Data.gov.uk

Guest Post by: Ed ThompsonYesterday I went to a Social Media Week event hosted by the Central Office of Information (COI) that focused on data.gov.uk.Data.gov.uk is a programme that was initiated under...

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California’s Bold Move to Legitimize Sustainable Business

A bill introduced in California’s state Senate last week holds enormous potential to give sustainable business a push by making it — well, legal.Under current law in California and most other states,...

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Government to Search for Brain’s Buy Button?

OK, there’s not really a buy button in the brain waiting to be discovered. But the U.S. government is, in fact, launching a major project to create a detailed map of the human brain.Much like the...

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