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Monthly Archives: June 2007

links for 2007-06-08

Amazon.com: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less: Books: Barry Schwartz
(tags: todo.read book buy paradox.of.choice barry.schwartz)

links for 2007-06-07

9W LED Bulb Replaces 70W Incandescent (TreeHugger)
(tags: led cfl lightbulbs conservation products design sustainability science treehugger)

USATODAY.com - Calif. sees sprawl as warming culprit
(tags: planning sprawl urban.planning urban.design sustainability city.planning lawsuit jerry.brown)

Sustainable Industries Journal | Breaking News | FTC halts Whole Foods acquisition
(tags: wholefoods wildoats ftc merger block food)

Electronics Tv
blog about tv-related news, products
(tags: blog television […]

natural step breakfast

I attended a Natural Step breakfast this morning to talk about EPEAT and NEPSI (National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative - http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/clean/nepsi/). The presentation was really good, speakers were excellent. The talk was very timely because Gov. Kulongoski is signing an e-waste bill this morning.

Technorati Tags: epeat, nepsi, naturalstep, sustainability, waste

links for 2007-06-06

Powell’s Books - The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Bk Currents) by Riane Eisler
“problem with our times is bad economics”
(tags: books todo.read riane.eisler economics wealth research theory)

Deltoid: Taking aim at Rachel Carson
nice antidote to the article i read in the nytimes yesterday
(tags: blot deltoid rachel.carson health ddt astroturfing philip.morris)

link dump on interviewing

Been reading up on interviewing. Here’s my most used resources:

Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
On Interviewing Programmers
The Phone Screen
Testing GUI applications

I’ve been interviewing people for maybe seven years. I’ve been through quite a few different interviewing situations - my favorite being the startup ISP that had me reconfigure a live network interface (together, we crashed their […]

extreme croquet

http://www.extremecroquet.org/

Technorati Tags: croquet, sport

color

http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx
really fun little animation picker. no real purpose to it. just cute.
Update:
http://www.colorstrology.com/

Technorati Tags: color, commercial, design, tools

the cost of cutting carbon

Great info-graphic by way of the Economist.
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9217972
Vattenfall, a Swedish power utility, has tried to quantify which ones would be worth undertaking at what price…

Technorati Tags: carbon, design, economist, efficiency, graphicdesign, sustainability, sweden

i’m not naming names…

http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/
Designers are saving rain forests. Fashionistas are clearing toxins from the soil. Architects are rolling back global warming. A new wave of eco-conscious activists is stimulating fresh approaches to environmental challenges. The market is their arena. Organic cotton, bamboo, and certified sustainable woods are their materials. Hybrid engines and solar power are their technologies. Stylish, […]