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A Tax on Texting from T-Mobile?
T-Mobile is considering charging businesses for each SMS solicitation they send.
Read & DiscussFive iPhone Apps to Fight Poverty
Five impressive iPhone apps that help you donate, volunteer and learn about efforts to fight poverty worldwide.
Read & DiscussHaving Too Much Fun at Work
Chief Fun Officers, Golden Bananas, Ab-Fab receptionists and other zany corporate plans for injecting joy into the workplace.
Read & DiscussOne Week Left to Buy Sex.com
One of the most valuable and disputed domain names in existence, sex.com, is up for sale again.
Read & DiscussMillennium Development Goals: A Primer
So how are we doing on those ambitious Millennium Development Goals? It's a mixed bag.
Read & DiscussHow Videogames Train Your Brain
Looking to sharpen your awareness? Beef up your leadership skills? Become more decisive? Get an Xbox.
Read & DiscussTOMS Shoes Gives Away Its Millionth Pair
After a visit to Argentina while competing on The Amazing Race, Blake Mycoskie was inspired to build a business that helped the shoeless children...
Read & DiscussTaking Responsible Travel Beyond Ecotourism
An old buzzword is getting some new life, and official guidelines. Geotourism is ecotourism combined with sustainable travel and economic...
Read & DiscussIs Composting Going Corporate?
Composting is a growth industry—about 15-25 percent per year. This week, one of the biggest corporate players in garbage disposal made a hefty...
Read & DiscussGas-free Potato Chips
Frito-Lay plans to roll out an all-electric fleet of snack food delivery trucks, starting with a modest five trucks in New York City. If the...
Read & DiscussHow to Spot Greenwashing
Leslie Beck at Triple Pundit offers her two quick and easy ways to spot corporate greenwashing. Even with the tips, it's still mostly "you know...
Read & DiscussLegal Justice via Text Messages
FrontlineSMS:Legal launched last week. It's the latest Frontline application designed for NGOs and grassroots groups to communicate with large...
Read & DiscussWill Big Pharma Hijack Third World Biotech?
Drug companies in the developing world focus on products ignored by American companies: like vaccines that save lives but won't turn a profit in...
Read & DiscussFunding Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurs
Hey, world changers! Echoing Green is launching their search for this year's class of fellows. They're looking for the most promising...
Read & DiscussThe Happy Planet Index
Happy Planet Index (2006 data) - Green is Highest Rating, Brown is Lowest. How should we evaluate the success of our economy? The primary...
Read & DiscussCorporations Love State Schools Now
Big companies now say their favorite colleges for recruiting are the big state schools like Texas A&M and Penn State. Students there give more...
Read & DiscussMicrosoft Lawyers Helping Russia Crack Down on Dissent
Russia is using the pretense of searching for pirated Microsoft products to search computers of local nonprofits who protest against the...
Read & DiscussBill Gates is Having Trouble Wooing Chinese Billionaires
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are heading to China later in the month. But they're having trouble getting dinner dates with China's upper crust,...
Read & DiscussChallenge Contest: Inspire Low-cost Learning Tools
Gray Matters Capital is funding a contest to design low-cost learning tools for affordable private schools in India. The best ideas will become...
Read & DiscussA Humidifier Powered by Your Cat
A design student experimenting in harvesting his cat's kinetic energy has made an air purifier and humidifier that is encased in a kitty toy. It...
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