Incorporating sustainability into any company's operations is a hefty issue. But it's also an increasingly popular shift to make. "It's an increasing liability to not do it," says Summer Rayne Oakes, co-founder and CEO of Source4Style , the online fabric marketplace, which is based in New York City
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This post was written by Ellen McGirt and Chuck Salter . 01 / Epocrates > > For creating software that gives doctors and nurses instant information on drug-to-drug interactions, treatment recommendations, and more on their mobile devices or laptops. Coming up: mobile access to electronic health records.
Read More »U.S. State Department to Pay for BBC’s Anti-Jamming Campaign in China, Iran
The U.S. State Department will be funding an anti-jamming program for the BBC World Service in repressive regimes. But statements given before Parliament show that the real target is China's "Great Firewall." The cash-strapped BBC World Service has a new patron: The United States State Department.
Read More »Attention, Ann Coulter: Report to aisle 5 for radiation clean-up
Well, I am impressed how conservative columnist Ann Coulter finds ways to make headlines. The darling of the radical right ventured into science journalism the other day, when during an interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, she said that radiation above the government cutoff is good for you.
Read More »AIGA Launches Design for Good, Asking Members to Donate 5% of Their Time to Social and Civic Causes
Some attendees of SXSW might have wondered what Ric Grefé, the executive director of AIGA , was doing here. After all, the almost 100-year-old organization originally known as the American Institute of Graphic Artists had begun as a club for print designers, and Austin was currently hosting a gathering of thousands of proudly un-ephemerate creatives.
Read More »LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age
Reid Hoffman, angel investor , co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person , took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. “What are we stumbling toward here?” recalling the visions of a shiny future of yester-technology
Read More »Obama’s Privacy Bill of Rights
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
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Read More »Does Potassium Iodide Protect People from Radiation Leaks?
A full meltdown has been avoided so far at Japan's 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Read More »Scared Green: Ideas for Tough-Love Climate Change Campaigns That Get Results
The sustainability movement is stuck in a slump, a stall, a "trough," as moderator Scott Henderson of CauseShift called it on the PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW yesterday. He wanted to give it a kick-start, he said. "How to we get past the idea that someone else is going to take care of it, and start taking action?" Henderson asked his three panelist to present big ideas for how to inspire Americans into action--and these weren't your typical green-is-good approaches
Read More »Gasoline with higher ethanol blend available in U.S. soon
By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gasoline containing up to 15 percent ethanol should be available for the coming summer driving season as the government moves to finalize labeling and other issues for the new motor fuel. [More]
Read More »Driptech Makes a Splash as China Invests $600 Billion in Water Conservation
The Palo Alto-based company is rapidly expanding in India and China with a simple tool to save farmers and governments large amounts of water and cash. China is getting ready to invest over $600 billion in the next ten years in water conservation , as announced in its latest five-year plan . Why?
Read More »China’s Health Care Reform Could Save Consumers $1.5 Billion
China announced wide-sweeping health care reforms this week , focusing on building more hospitals, reducing the price of common drugs, banning smoking from public spaces, and increasing state insurance subsidies. China--despite heavy reliance on government funding for social programs--has developed a curiously excessive reliance on the sales of drugs to fund hospitals, a feature of its health care system that doesn't quite sit right with the nation's overarching philosophy--or with its citizens. "I think that no matter what kind of hospital, you should rely on medical technology and improved services to gain income," said Sun Zhigang , the National Development and Reform Commission's deputy director.
Read More »150 years of diet fads and still no quick fix
As the government prepares to update U.S. dietary guidelines, a look back at what people have tried to lose weight shows what hasn't changed is the quest for an easy fix
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