At the urging of the nuclear power industry, a one-sentence provision buried deep in the Senate’s recently passed energy bill can essentially make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees. Under current law, the government is only allowed to guarantee a volume ...[Read more]

Currently, Congress is debating, behind closed doors, the adoption of 2 provisions to the 2007 Energy Bill that can greatly impact our ability to make America more energy independent, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution, save consumers money, create jobs and spark economic growth. The first is the Corporate Average ...[Read more]

On October 9th, Steve Miller, Product Manager Google Earth, gave a presentation for Net Tuesday on Google Earth Outreach - a program that enables nonprofits and NGOs to use Google Earth and other geo-spatial applications to tell their stories. Steve highlighted a number of organizations that leveraged Google Earth ...[Read more]

Burning Man, the annual arts festival that takes place in the remote Black Rock Desert, attracts approximately 40,000 participants, and is Nevada's tenth largest city, for one week. As a 4th year Burner, I returned to Burning Man after a hiatus of 3 years, with ...[Read more]

Images from Burning Man 2007 are up. Here are a selection of my favorites. To view more of my photography visit my Flickr profile. [tags]burning man 2007, green man[/tags]

Simplified for Small Business, Green Enterprise, and Nonprofits Google PageRank (PR) is a link analysis algorithm developed by Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the late 1990s. Google PageRank contributes to your search engine ranking on Google search engine results pages (SERPs). Google PageRank is one benchmark for understanding the popularity ...[Read more]

TreeHugger moves one step closer to its mission of greening the mainstream. Last week, Treehugger, the stylish, Webby Award-winning eco-blog, was acquired by Discovery for, rumors say, approximately $10M. Discovery Communications, owners of the Discovery Channel, boasts a large network of online and television properties. Its acquisition of TreeHugger allows ...[Read more]

Last Tuesday, faulty electrical breakers caused a blackout in downtown San Francisco that took down my company's Web site along with some of the Web's hottest Internet properties, like Technorati, Craigslist, Yelp, Six Apart, CNet and Second Life. Technorati looked like this: The culprit was 365 Main, a key data center which ...[Read more]

Pete Kazanjy is a Silicon Valley geek with a mission - reducing consumer waste paper through the strategic placement of stickers reminding us that "These Come from Trees." The idea behind TCFT is that the right message - a helpful, non-threatening reminder - delivered at the right time can meaningfully ...[Read more]

According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). North American advertisers spent $9.4 billion on search engine marketing (SEM) in 2006, a 62 % increase over 2005. SEMPO researchers also estimate SEM spending to double by 2011, at an aggregate spending total of $18.6 billion. However, while only a tiny ...[Read more]