E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

The other day I was at Alterra on Humboldt and was surprised to see them use heating to keep their outside space usable during winter. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the business reason for it, and if anyone else did that I would not give it a second thought. However, Alterra is very emphatic [...]

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In Christianity there is a belief that it was the devil who caused men to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which causes them to be separate from God and seek independently the path of right and wrong. In this video, the same argument is presented from a very different perspective. [...]

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The top wealthiest countries according to IMF in 2008 are:

Rank  
Country  
US$  

1
 Luxembourg
113,044

2
 Norway
95,062

3
 Qatar
93,204

4
 Switzerland
67,385

5
 Denmark
62,626

6
 Ireland
61,810

7
 Iceland
55,462

8
 United Arab Emirates
54,607

9
 Sweden
52,790

10
 Netherlands
52,019

11
 Finland
51,989

12
 Austria
50,098

13
 Australia
47,400

14
 Belgium
47,108

15
 United States
46,859

The list of wealthiest countries reveals a curious insight. All, but United States are monarchies, fairly socialistic, and with the potential exception of couple middle eastern countries, all allow for high degree of personal freedom and capitalistic opportunities.
Since Plato’s Republic and Machiavelli’s Prince, the pattern of movement from anarchy to republic to [...]

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Today, the cover article on NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/science/earth/30degrees.html said that LED is the technology that the most promising technology for energy efficient lighting of the future. They are wrong http://www.neptunlight.com/ has a patent on an inductive light bulb technology that is more efficient, more environmentally friendly,  more cost effective and offers an even longer light bulb life.
Here is [...]

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California is running a huge budget deficit (21 billion as of the last estimate). But actually, per capita, Wisconsin is doing significantly worse.  Wisconsin budget has an almost 6B hole in it, and that’s with population of less than 6M to support it. That is a deficit of close to $1,000 for every breathing human [...]

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