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On National Weatherization Day, a New Bunch of Skilled Denver Workers Pioneer National Green Jobs Movement

Jamie Starr | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Labor, Economic Stimulus Package, Green Jobs, Alternative Energy, National Security, Incentives, Jobs, Green Energy, Labor Unions, Denver, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Colorado Green Jobs, Denver News
Jamie Starr

Once rolled out, the training program could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy costs by $3.5 billion per year, and save 500 million barrels of oil annually.

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Confusion in the Senate Regarding Allowance Allocation

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Efficiency, Waxman-Markey Legislation, U.S. Senate, Environmental Politics, Distributional Analysis, Cap-and-Trade, Kerry-Boxer Legislation, Cost-Effectiveness, U.S. House of Representatives, Global Climate Policy, Green News
Robert Stavins

The new debate over climate change is repeating the confusion that was prevalent in the press about the allowance allocation in the Waxman-Markey legislation in the House of Representatives.

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Balanced Life -- 7 Tips If You're Chronically Late

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Work, Lateness, Family, Happiness, The Balanced Life, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

Feeling as though you're always running twenty minutes behind schedule is an unhappy feeling. Having to rush, forgetting things in your haste, dealing with annoyed people when you arrive...it's no fun.

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Flickr's Caterina Fake: 'Hard Work' Can Be Detrimental

Fast Company | Cliff Kuang | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Efficiency, Neuroscience, Daydreaming, Watson and Crick, Caterina Fake, Economy, Four-Hour Work Week, Facebook, Entrepreneurship, Time Wasters, Hard Work, Flickr, Business News

Caterina Fake, who, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, founded Flickr, knows a thing or two about bliztkreig work schedules. But she points out tha...

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13 Tips To Help You Become More By Doing Less

beliefnet.com | Terry Hershey | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Efficiency, Multitasking, Unitasking, The Balanced Life, Work, Health, Work-Life Balance, The Power of Pause, Anxiety, Terry Hershey, Wellness, Productivity, Organization, Living News

We live in a world that urges us to admire and pursue everything that's faster, newer, bigger. But here's the disquieting truth: a life based on urgen...

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Multitasking: 6 Ways Slacking Can Benefit You At Work

cnn.com | Anthony Balderrama | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Unitasking, How to Relax, The Balanced Life, Unitask, Multitask, Relax, Wellness, Slacking, Stress, Multitasking, Career, Workplace, Work, Health, Lazy, Job, Stress Relief, Laziness, Slacker, Slackers, Productivity, Relaxation, Living News

In a culture where we're constantly being told to be better than everyone at everything, slacking off can be the right way to go for your health and y...

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Multitasking Sacrifices Efficiency and Happiness

realsimple.com | A.J Jacobs | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Unitasking, Multitasking, Work, Health, Distraction, Wellness, Performance, Happiness, Living News

Multitasking makes us feel efficient. But it's an insane delusion; it actually just slows our thinking down. Our brains can't handle more than one hig...

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Balanced Life -- Put on Your Shoes

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Efficiency, Daily Life, Clutter, Productivity, Happiness, Gretchen Rubin, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

I know for myself, and judging by my unscientific poll of a lot of people I know, putting on shoes makes you feel ready for action. If you're a shoes-optional freelancer, telecommuter, homemaker, or part-timer, consider wearing your shoes when you're trying to be productive.

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I Oppose Obama's Healthcare Reform (and You Should Too) Because It Does Not Reform Healthcare

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Efficiency, Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Turnover, Health Information Technology, Snake Oil, Nurse Shortages, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News
Deane Waldman

ObamaCare is a boondoggle, plain and simple. It is a political approach coupled with a self-proclaimed solution for a medical problem. It is snake oil, not an evidence-based treatment.

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Balanced Life: Fourteen Tips for Running a Good Meeting

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Happiness Tips, Meetings, Work, Productivity, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

Nothing can drain the happiness from you faster than a long, unproductive meeting. You're bored; you're not getting anything done; emails are piling up while you sit, trapped.

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Big Nuke's Desperate Ohio Reactor Hoax

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Efficiency, Renewables, Areva, Atomic Energy, Nuclear-Renaissance, Nuclear Power, Green-Powered Earth, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, and the scent of a desperate hoax.

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A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Green-Energy-Mass-Transit, Geothermal, Ocean Thermal, Solartopia, Tidal Energy, Green Power, Renewables, Utopia, Solar Power, Ecotopia, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

once we've wiped the Earth clean of fossil and nuclear generators, we could install sufficient renewable resources to run the planet without a blink in the lights.

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Energy COOL: Lighting up the Developing World

A. Siegel | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Efficiency, Poverty, Solar, Black Soot, Renewable Energy, Lighting, Business, Development, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
A. Siegel

Here's a discussion of some companies with Energy COOL business models for getting that efficient lighting into the homes of the world's poor and bringing more people to the web.

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3 Ways To Get Through A Terrible Task

Dumb Little Man | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Getting Things Done, Efficiency, Productivity, Wellness, Living News

However motivated, fired-up and enthusiastic you are about your life and work, there are going to be times when you have to force yourself to do somet...

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Is Health Reform a Job Killer?

Jim Jaffe | Posted 04.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Efficiency, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Orszag, Obama Administration, Hhs, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare, Sebelius, Newt Gingrich, Home News
Jim Jaffe

Reformers interested in making American medicine more efficient should never ignore the story of Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamake...

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It's Electric: US Emissions Drop Further

Dennis Markatos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind, Oil, Efficiency, Solar, Electricity, Carbon Emissions, Coal, Natural Gas, Stimulus Package, Green News
Dennis Markatos

A focus on green jobs in the stimulus package can keep emissions on a downward trajectory throughout the next several years and provide ancillary benefits.

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4 Types of CFL Haters... And What to Tell Them

Hank Green | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Cfl, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Green Living, Green News
Hank Green

How have incandescent lights managed to hold on for so long? I put incandescent buyers into four groups. Here's what to say to them.

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Top Twelve Tips to Saving Time in 2009

Jodi R. R. Smith | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Office Etiquette, Efficiency, Careers, Etiquette, Mannersmith, Messy Desk, Manners, Living News
Jodi R. R. Smith

As you prepare for the new year, here are some tips to help you work smarter, not harder in 2009.

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Negawatts and Negabeds

Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Amory Lovins | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Resources, Energy, Efficiency, Negawatts, Resource Management, Alternative Energy, Health, Negabeds, Hospital Efficiency, Health Care, Green News
Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Amory Lovins

If we want to achieve our ends with fewer resources, then why do we create market structures that link profits directly to volume?

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States Wrestle With Diversifying Energy Portfolios

Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Efficiency, Environmental Policy, Economics, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Emissions Reduction, Energy Economics, Alternative Energy, Green News

State renewable energy targets have an extraordinary number of variations - and sometimes loopholes. Take the example of California, which is workin...

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The Lazy Man's Guide to Getting Things Done

Zen Habits | Jonathan Mead | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Getting Things Done, Balanced Life, Efficiency, Living News

What if I told you that you could be totally lazy and irresponsible, and still accomplish just as much? What if you could slack off, loiter, and essen...

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Looking For Cost Cuts In New Places

Wall Street Journal | Simona Covel | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Efficiency, Economic Downturn, Gps, Economy, Cost Cuts, Money Saving, Business News

Kenneth Bravmann, an operations consultant at Marjam Supply Co., knew the building-supply company was wasting money on gas and losing efficiency when ...

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Talking More About Using Less: The Politics of Efficiency

David Roberts | Posted 11.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Green News
David Roberts

For some reason, the centrality of efficiency to smart energy policy is only understood by a small community of enviros and wonks.

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'Culture of Recession' to a Culture of Abundance

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Architecture Innovator William McDonough, Efficiency, Abundance, Green Living, Faith Popcorn, Solar Power, Green News
Graham Hill

Famed prognosticator Faith Popcorn says we've already been living in a culture of recession for the last few months - and finding "creative, innovativ...

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Six Tips For Enjoying A Vacation

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Life Hacks, Efficiency, Travel, Daily Life, Packing, Happiness, The Balanced Life, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

One of my goals for my Happiness Project is to do a better job of learning from experience. How can I do things better, next time? Also, one of my Twe...

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