It was just over a year ago that Lehman Brothers collapsed. For many of us, this is a collective memory milestone that also marks the collapse of our investments and retirement accounts. So, as Congress begins the discussion of much-needed regulatory reform, I have a simple request: full disclosure.

Every...

They must be getting pretty desperate over at Fox News HQ. Tonight they posted the following headline: "Records Show Obama Mostly Travels To States He Won." Oh my gosh. "In his first seven months in office, records show three out of every four official trips Obama and his administration have...

I believe we can make a very large impact on our environmental footprint by simply adopting some low cost, common sense changes to our lifestyle. Here's one of those ideas courtesy of my wife's pestering.

Clothes dryers use a lot of energy. A recent article in the New York...

Has anyone noticed how Fox News has turned into a propaganda machine with a single mission of attacking Obama at every turn? It's hard to miss.

For instance, over the last 24-hours Fox has been frothing up its conservative readers over a single incident in a Burlington, New Jersey...

I'm sitting in my Tokyo hotel room, studying the conflict over US health care reform from a comfortable distance. Here in Japan, they don't understand our problem. Here in Japan, there is no health care crisis - even with a rapidly aging population. No one goes bankrupt over medical bills....

I'm flying back from Nairobi. I had the privilege of making a presentation to a group of African sustainable business leaders. There was a passion in this small, but engaged meeting, a passion that makes one think of a positive future, rather than obsessing about AIDS, poverty, war and corruption,...

Business may not be so great these days, but the growing awareness of environmental and social issues is creating opportunities for ecopreneurs and their new products and services. In many cases, new green brands are entering and competing in markets that have been dominated by large multi-nationals for decades. This...

The Dow closed below 6800 today. The last time that happened I was in my forties and still able to ski black diamonds at Mammoth. Aside from an annoying time check, I'm sure this news motivated a lot of bloggers to get blogging, including me. I've just published a book...