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Social Funds Outperform the Market
Written by Miranda Marquit   
Monday, 03 November 2008 15:18
The "do-gooder" funds are doing well themselves. One of the more interesting bits of information to come out of the recent turmoil on the stock market is the fact that social funds are actually outperforming.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 14:56
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Alternative Energy Could Face A Tough Battle for Funding
Written by Miranda Marquit   
Monday, 27 October 2008 11:09
As oil prices fall, alternative energy is shunted aside.

Last Updated on Monday, 27 October 2008 20:48
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Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Set to Turn Cow Pies into Electricity
Written by Miranda Marquit   
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:08


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Photo: Skinnyde, Creative Commons, Flickr

In developing countries there are serious challenges to providing cheap and environmentally-friendly sources of electricity and clean drinking water. But Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, wants to try to overcome them. Recently he unveiled two of his latest projects at the Lux Executive Summit: an electricity generator that runs on cow waste and a water filtration system. Green Tech reports on the reasoning behind Kamen's efforts:

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:36
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Listening to Market Predictions: Do Not Get Caught Picking Your Bottom
Written by David Neubert   
Monday, 27 October 2008 10:52
The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn't normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big incentive to call the bottom of the market. The person who randomly picks the bottom will become famous but many who follow the predictions of bottom pickers will get nothing but losses. There is an old Wall Street saying that goes: "Don't pick your nose and don't pick bottoms."

What is the right thing to do?

If you have a 401k:
Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:24
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A Really Bad Way to Control Knotweed
Written by Jeanne Roberts   
Tuesday, 21 October 2008 09:12
In an effort to control one alien invader, the Brits now want to import another.
Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2008 10:04
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