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Posted by geri
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it had developed a new zero-emission
fuel-cell vehicle that has a longer cruising distance than previous
models and can operate in freezing temperatures. Japanese companies have been working to create a viable zero-emission car running on fuel cells, which produce electricity
through a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, leaving water as the only by-product.
Honda plans to begin leasing its hydrogen-powered fuel cell sedan, Clarity, in the United States starting
next month, and is testing a home refueling station for it. MSNBC has a nice page here about the Honda plans and some interactive features, like a comparison of hybrid cars along with a list of greenest 2007 vehicles.
Anthony Eggert, a researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies
at the University of California, Davis, also sees it as promising.
"Home refueling," he says, "is one potentially attractive strategy to
get fuel cell vehicles into the market without wide-scale
infrastructure availability."
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Read more... [Toyota Brings Fuel Cell Dream Closer to Reality]
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Kellogs, McDonald's, Starbucks and Nike are a few of the companies named to the 2008 list of World's Most Ethical Companies. Ethisphere magazine takes its ethics seriously and its annual list of companies, even moreso. The World’s Most Ethical Companies are the ones that "go above and
beyond legal minimums, bring about innovative new ideas to expand the
public well being, work on reducing their carbon footprint, and respond to lawsuits not with a PR campaign, but with real action, such as complete
transparency and significant effort toward fixing the
core problem.
And, apparently it pays to be ethical. Companies on the Most Ethical list consistently outperform the S&P 500. Find the 2008 list and methodology here.
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Posted by ZenBuddha
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 We have been trained at University business schools, by books, and experts to make decisions using strategy, tactics, and technique rather than our own intuition and trust in the process.
This is part two in a series of articles called, Zenning Your Business, presented by the Author of Zentrepreneurism: A Twenty-First Century Guide to the New World of Business. It will be featured as part of our Workplace Wednesday series. Please welcome author and radio host Allan Holender to the Good News Network.
INTUITION
How many times have you gone ahead with a decision in your business that you regretted and in hindsight you say I should have trusted my gut. Your gut talking to you is really a feeling, and more importantly something called intuition. I know researchers say women have it more than men do, but the truth is we all have it. It’s just that men try to think analytically rather than emotionally, so we don’t like to use it in the business world.
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Read more... [Making Business Decisions Zenfully: Intuition and the Human Touch]
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Posted by jmatz
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 Despite challenges in the US economy, American corporations have heard the call and responded to the May earthquake disaster in China with cash donations, needed services and relief supplies like medicines and respiratory masks. Donors range from the largest firms -- Walmart, ExxonMobil and General Motors -- to smaller firms such as Robert A. Kapp & Associates out of Kentucky, a manufacturer of school marching band uniforms and flags. 122 firms are on record as donating and their ongoing work will push the pledge total even higher in the weeks and months ahead.
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Read more... [US Firms Give $76 Million in Aid to China Quake Relief]
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 Best Buy Co. has launched a new electronics recycling program in 117 U.S. stores to help consumers keep their old outdated TV's, VCR's, computers and other electronics out of overflowing landfills.
117 stores in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota began inviting customers to bring in no more than two (2) items per day, per household, for recycling at no charge. Customers can bring items such as televisions and monitors up to 32", computers, phones, cameras, and other electronics devices and peripherals.
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Read more... [Best Buy Tests Free Electronics Recycling Program in 117 Stores]
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