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...waste and the cost of its transportation and treatment, ecologists say. If you don't put waste in water in the first place, then you don't have to spend money to remove it at the back end. The process also leaves a huge carbon footprint, says Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters. In the UK, she says, "the sewage system uses as much energy as what the largest coal fire station in the [country] produces" - about 28.8 million tones of carbon dioxide a year...
...suppressed religion, and the less people practiced or thought about it, the researchers theorize, the less frequently it appeared in schizophrenic delusions. From 1981 and 2000 - as communism crumbled and Slovenians were allowed to find God again - reports of people claiming to be possessed, haunted or tormented by spirits rose...
...financed by cheap money, as Swedish and Finnish banks competed for customers in Europe's fastest growing region. Entrepreneur Lepik recalls firing off an e-mail loan application in 2006 with a "very basic" business plan, and getting approval in less than a week. Private debt across the Baltics rose from nearly zero to Western levels as consumers became hooked on credit. Home buyers and businesses took out mortgages in foreign currencies, which had the effect of worsening already severe current-account deficits. In a peculiarly Estonian twist, companies in the tech-savvy country began offering high-interest short-term...
Kawasaki should know, of course. He has a formidable résumé: author of eight other business books (including the best seller The Art of the Start), entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger who rose to fame at Apple. In his new book, Kawasaki takes the role of mentor and big brother to those in start-up mode or even restart mode. At times he sounds like an irreverent Silicon Valley Emily Post; his highly readable book is an encyclopedia of proper behavior for entrepreneurs. The author eagerly teaches readers "how to suck up to a blogger," "kick butt on a panel...
...don’t look at the world through rose-colored sunocles. We know Chiappini’s not being sustainable whilst destroying countless flowers with the “she loves me, she loves me not†game. [1] So imagine our surprise and delight when Adams Dining Hall introduced tray-less dining. We had always been in favor of reducing things to be more sustainable: paperless notebooks, waterless aqueducts, ice cream-less sundaes. Shit, man, we stopped going to section freshman year to help out Great Mother Gaia...