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Show Your Green Pride
I was reading an article the other day on the Sierra Club website. It was talking bout showing your “Green Pride” Needless to say it caught my eye. Beside the title of the article was a multi-shade of green colored flag. Similar to the rainbow flag that stands for gay pride.
In the article the Sierra [...]
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I met Josh Gray from Perfspot about 2 years ago. Since then, the social networking site he runs has more than tripled in size, mostly, according to Josh, because “we just listen to our users”.
There couldn’t be a better example of what the Internet is quickly becoming: a democratic, self-organized environment, where only the strong [...]
How Many Sailors Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
I was grocery shopping in the Navy Commissary recently (a store for military folks), when I noticed a big sign with a picture of a Compact Fluorescent Light bulb (CFL) that said “Change your light bulb, save the world”. The sign is part of a promotion to raise environmental awareness among military personnel, and I [...]
The Junk Mail Experiment
The genesis of the Privacy Council project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL. Statistics like these have taken hold of me both visually and physically. I have witnessed the stacks [...]
