| |
|
|
Real Estate News Feeds |
|
Fast Company
|
Where ideas and people meet
|
-
The U.S. Government should tax carbon emissions.
In a speech to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, George David, chairman of United Technologies Corp. said, "we need to say to our world that we are going to have a cost of carbon, whether it's cap-and-trade or a carbon tax.??? He added that the cost of energy will be high for a long time.
-
Fast Talk Question - Should the sale of tobacco in drugstores be banned?
Should the sale of tobacco in drugstores be banned?
-
Can Facebook Really Replace Employment Firms?
-
Will Scrabulous ever return to Facebook?
Will Scrabulous ever return to Facebook?
-
Nuclear power will eventually become our most significant source of green energy.
If John McCain becomes president, he proposes having 45 new nuclear reactors built in the United States by 2030. He doesn't really see renewable energy happening without nuclear power.
-
CEOs of public companies should be obligated to share their health status with investors.
Is health a private matter? Since the release of the new iPhone, Apple shareholders have been asking about Steve Job???s health. He looked gaunt at the announcement, which brought up initial?? concern. Do the shareholders have a right to know the status of his health?
-
Fast Talk Question - Will the China "brand" suffer more or be helped more because of the attention of the Olympics?
Will the China "brand" suffer more or be helped more because of the attention of the Olympics?
-
Twitter will replace blogs as the Web's best social tool.
In Robert Scoble's latest column in Fast Company, "Stream of Consciousness," a few of his tweets from microblogging service, Twitter, were arranged in streams to express the conversations he had with others while using the tool.
In this week-long glance at his tweetstream, Scoble said, "Twitter is the public square. Lots of noise, little signal. Blogs are like a speech. Signal, but little noise ..."
-
Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching
Why study interruption?
I became interested in it from my own personal experience. I moved here from Europe back in 2000. I was stunned by the amount of multitasking that I was doing here in the U.S. and I was wondering if other people were experiencing it as well. Anecdotally, people were reporting they were crushed by all of these different projects. People's lives as information workers involve different kinds of technologies, and they create even more of a force for interruption and different places where we can focus our attention.
-
Individuals can best help the environment by building smaller homes.
In the recent issue of Fast Company, Linda Tischler writes in, "The Eco-Home of Tomorrow," "Forward-thinking architects and real-estate developers are already envisioning the post-bust cycle of home building. And smaller is better."
-
Fast Talk Question - Should the federal government bring back the 55 MPH national speed limit to conserve gasoline?
Should the federal government bring back the 55 MPH national speed limit to conserve gasoline?
-
Within five years, technology will obliterate the need for business travel.
Apart from becoming more and more unpleasant, recently business travel is also becoming far less necessary. With videoconferencing technologies improving and fuel prices rising, more businessmen and women seem to be choosing the option to stay put and use new technology to cut down on travel.
-
The Rise of Corporate Games
Last month, the SimCity box set went on sale. It included five different versions of the popular city-building simulation game, which was first published for PCs in 1989. The Sims games were not only one of the best-selling franchises of the past two decades -- they pioneered an entire category of simulation games that require quicker problem-solving skills than trigger fingers.
-
???When the government buys up empty homes, it???s only helping lenders and speculators, not the people who need help.???
President Bush has continually expressed his opposition to a housing bill that proposes to include $4 billion in grants for local governments to buy and refurbish foreclosed properties.
-
Fast Talk Question - How can independent retailers best survive and thrive against big box competitors in the long term?
How can independent retailers best survive and thrive against big box competitors in the long term?
-
You Can Take That to the Bank...Not!
-
Fast Talk Question - Will the federal government be able to stave off the mortgage crisis?
Will the federal government be able to stave off the mortgage crisis?
-
We can best solve the climate change problem by taxing what we burn, not what we earn.
Nobel laureate and former US vice-president Al Gore recently made a speech advocating that Americans abandon fossil fuels completely over the next ten years. His solution is ???that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what we earn. This is the single most important policy change we can make.
-
Fast Talk Question - Will blockbuster escapist flicks like the Dark Knight see a resurgence as the economy tanks?
Will blockbuster escapist flicks like the Dark Knight see a resurgence as the economy tanks?
-
Unless gas hits $10 a gallon, Americans will continue to buy SUVs in droves.
Although Toyota's Prius has piqued interest, SUVs are still selling. "Surprisingly, there is still a good majority of people buying full-sized pickups and SUVs," Mark Bruschi, general manager at Shore Toyota, told The Press of Atlantic City. "We are off about 15 percent for those vehicles from where we were."
Apart from the incentives offered, Bruschi reports that SUVs are doing well because people have kids, they're going skiing, or to the beach, or towing their trailers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|