The Sierra Club and its clean energy allies in Nevada won twin victories when two proposed coal plants in the state were scrapped in the last month. On February 9, a three-year Sierra Club campaign concluded successfully when NV Energy called off plans to construct the Ely En...

I have not heard of or read anything written by one Patricia DeGennaro until an article of hers appeared on my screen-director (here). Turns out her cv states she's a professor, writer, analyst and consultant and currently, serves as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, Senior Research Fel...

energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

Via email from Newt at American Solutions for Winning the Future Today, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, or “Card Check” was introduced in the U.S. Congress. This bill would effectively eliminate our right to vote by private ballot when deciding whether to join a union, and underm...

Everyone who begins the journey of writing a marketing plan usually looks at the Executive Summary section early on in the process. A Marketing Plan Summary is usually 1-3 pages long and the goal is to summarize the entire marketing and possibly sales plan into something digestible by new readers an...

Let me say this: there is no greater human motivation than the need for other relationships. The question is only if we will make the right choices. And that's not only for those who are lonely: it is for those who read James 2 and want to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Wishing others no...

With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective employer what you want to earn. Laurie Ruettimann at Pu...

What if people really cared about people? Let me suggest that if Christians, without giving up one iota or one inflection mark of doctrine, actually loved other people besides their own families, the Japanese would be a lot more interested in replicating faith in Christ rather than building machines...

On Saturday March 14th at 3:30pm Raj Malik and I are conducting a Core Conversation“A Hard Sell? Social Media & Your Boss “ at SXSW in Austin. Raj is one of our resident legal Gurus at Network Solutions for Social Media and I do not tire from telling people that I am the Social Media Swami at Ne...

I swear this isn’t becoming a Wordpress admin blog, but that’s what’s been on my mind lately. If you move a wordpress blog, or update it, or it’s a full moon, sometimes your content disappears. This is more common when you’ve set your permalinks to /%postname%/, meaning...