Vowing to be greener can easily fall into that easy-to-talk-about-hard-to-implement category right alongside losing weight, quitting smoking, and managing money better. Nice to contemplate but a bitch to execute.
And even some of the attempts we do make don’t always pan out so well. For instance, I really wonder about all those reusable bags people are [...]

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So, how green are you in the kitchen? The Sierra Club has a 10-question online quiz you can take to find out. LaunchPad Coworking team members scored all over the board with Michael bringing home a 35 out of a possible 100 (keep trying Michael!) and Tina, not surprisingly, with a high score of 80. [...]

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Move over virtual solitaire and online quizzes. Here’s a new time killer we found that should keep you entertained for a good ten minutes or so. It’s the Typealyzer, a web site that promises to analyze your website and determine, in Myers-Briggs fashion what “type” that site is. If you’ve never taken an MB quiz, [...]

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So the new Google voice search app [iTunes link] just became available for iPhones late yesterday and boy are we having fun with it. Sometimes you get what you asked for and sometimes you get something totally wrong. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get something totally wrong that is very funny, relatively speaking, to [...]

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Now that Obama has won, media scrutiny of the president elect has shifted from his campaign to what the future holds for him and his family. Beyond the political stuff — speculating who will fill cabinet positions and wondering how he can possibly keep his sweeping promises — a lot of pieces are showing up [...]

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Cisco, in cahoots with the city of Amsterdam, recently opened a new variation on the ever-morphing coworking theme. This time, a corporation worked together with a city to create the Smart Work Centre, a space that serves both public and private sector workers working independently or in groups.
In a recent press release, Cisco outlined SWC [...]

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Perks — incentives offered to workers and clients by businesses seeking loyalty from both — are hardly new. Anybody remember S&H Green Stamps?. In more recent years, frequent flyer miles, hotel upgrades for regular guests, and credit card associated discounts have been but a few of the ploys enlisted to promote company/brand dedication.
That said, perks [...]

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Over the past twenty-five years or so, since I was a young adult, I’ve often enough found myself not totally on the cutting edge, but still an early-ish adopter of trends. Sometimes, this has given me odd “bragging” rights. To wit: back in the early eighties, I had first a sort of mullety haircut and [...]

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Attention steampunk makers! Today we stumbled upon a place you’d love. Tina and I have been visiting Austin restaurant supply houses in search of new and used goodies for LaunchPad Coworking. This morning we visited AAA Food Equipment. They refurbish and sell all manner of stuff — monster mixers, refrigerators, fryers, popcorn makers, stoves, furniture. [...]

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The latest underground non-networking networking trend just got a little less underground. That’s something you can pretty much bet on when the New York Times uncovers a scene and gives it the nod. Not such a bad thing in the case of likemind, the all-lower-case brainchild of Noah Brier, head strategic planner for the internet [...]

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