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Good Advice . . . not just if you are American
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that movement has disappeared.

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The Electric Car Battery War

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U.S. and Asian rivals are rushing to hone lithium-ion technology. Should the feds get involved?
There is little in its spare Manhattan headquarters to suggest that Ener1 (HEV) could someday be an industrial power. The office of Charles A. Gassenheimer, a former hedge fund manager installed as CEO in August to [...]

Google, Other Tech Heavyweights Back Volunteer Community Service All for Good

A coalition of non-profit organizations, technology developers, designers, marketers and others has unveiled the alpha version of a new Web service dubbed All for Good in an effort to build some sort of ‘Craigslist for volunteer services’. The metaphor stands, and not only because Craig Newmark from the popular free classifieds service is one of [...]

`Smart grid’ _ power lines move into digital age

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Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet. More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation’s electricity distribution system, an aging spider web of power lines, is poised to move into the digital age.
The “smart grid” has become the buzz of the electric power industry, at the White [...]

Agenda For a New Economy

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Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, Why Wall Street Can’t Be Fixed and How to Replace It
Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed [...]