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Jul
21
2009

Although Joel Makower's writing could, as always, use some serious editing, there's some good info here about GreenXchange. It's a meeting of two of my favorite ideas: open source and sustainable design!

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  • A small group of companies spearheaded by Nike have partnered with the nonprofit  Creative Commons to try to change that. Their novel initiative, called GreenXchange, aims to allow companies to share intellectual  property for green product design, packaging, manufacturing, and other uses. If  it succeeds, this budding coalition could accelerate innovation across companies  and sectors. At minimum, it stands to rewrite the rules about how companies  share.
Apr
6
2009

A Discover blog response to an article by Kevin Carey in Chronicle of Higher Education about whether the internet is replacing universities.

If anything is killing universities, I'm guessing it will probably be THEMSELVES, not the internet.

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