This category includes topics related to business models, environment, unintended consequences, externalities, and such.
I’ve talked previously about Gearin’ Up Bicycles, an early-stage nonprofit in which I’m a board member. It’s a phenomenal organization that combines a passion for bicycling and sustainable transportation with …
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Rush Hour in Copenhagen, Denmark Coventry League embraces bicycling as a healthy, sustainable form of transportation, so reading about bicycles’ outselling new cars in practically every European country is encouraging. …
Who doesn’t want to strive to be a bit more sustainable nowadays? Some of the most respectable companies that have growth and profitability as goals also factor in externalities (costs …
Codd-neck Bottles In the days of yore, a team member worked in corporate finance at a company that recycled scrap metal from vehicles, appliances, and whatnot. The end products created, …
Amsterdam’s popular mode of transportation In today’s blog post titled “California Wakes Up To Another Record High Gas Price,” Zero Hedge writes that “gas stations across the country are seeing …
Wikipedia: Small is Beautiful, 1973. I read Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher a couple of years after college. As for much of what …
Land area used for GM crops by country (’96-’09) Form your own opinion regarding the reasoning behind why some companies prefer transparency in food labeling and others do not. Selected …
