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Posted on 02.22.07 by Emily
So we’re thinking about next big adventure — perhaps Mongolia? Mom wants to know if there are any 5-star yurts. Five stars? You get them ALL! What could be more majestic or luxurious than this? Magnificent. These fine round homes known as yurts in Kyrgyzstan are called gers in Mongolia. And the Mongolian currency is the tögrög. If you’re lusting for a Mongolian ger, canvas or felted yurt in Western Europe, the Yurt Workshop looks like a fine resource.
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Posted on 02.19.07 by Emily
Yay, I heard from Nabaztag/tag today. My rabbit is ready for adoption. In any case, the announcement email is brilliant in that instead of telling me I can purchase a gadget, they make it seem like I’m about to rescue a pet: Adopt A Rabbit and welcome me to the Rabbit Community.
People come to feel love for their robots, but if our experience with relational artifacts is based on a fundamentally deceitful interchange, can it be good for us? Or might it be good for us in the “feel good” sense, but bad for us in our lives as moral beings?
Relationships with robots bring us back to Darwin and his dangerous idea: the challenge to human uniqueness. When we see children and the elderly exchanging tendernesses with robotic pets the most important question is not whether children will love their robotic pets more than their real life pets or even their parents, but rather, what will loving come to mean? I’m willing to bet on abundance… developing love or care for robots expands the total love pie, and can be step towards expanding and expressing love to sentient beings.
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Posted on 02.08.07 by Emily
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Posted on 02.08.07 by Emily
Take a walk with Professor Robert Thurman through the Repatriation Collection of classical Tibetan art from the 12th-20th c on view at Tibet House. (Photos by yours truly.) If you like this, you’ll love the other episodes of the Bob Thurman Podcast. (Disclosure: these are produced by my adorable brother.) The Repatriation Collection is on view through March 2007 at While we’re here, I would also recommend highly the 17th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert - Monday, February 26, 2007, 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall with Laurie Anderson, Ray Davies, Philip Glass, Ben Harper, Deborah Harry, Lou Reed, Sigur RĂłs, Patti Smith & Michael Stipe.
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Posted on 02.06.07 by Emily
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Posted on 02.03.07 by Emily
Small Talk No. 6
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Posted on 02.03.07 by Emily
LIVE from the NYPL
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Posted on 02.03.07 by Emily
Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of Green to Gold Â
Catching the Green Wave:
Creating “Eco-Advantage” that Pays Off for your Business presented by Smith College Club of New York City and the Columbia Business School Club/NY
Event Date: Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 6:00pm
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
6:00- 8:00 p.m.
 “No executive can afford to ignore the green wave sweeping the business world. Esty and Winston show how to make sustainability a core element of strategy—and profit from it.” — Chad Holliday, CEO, DuPont
A rising interest in the environment, a Green Wave is sweeping the business world: rising energy costs, global concern about greenhouse gases and climate change, the world’s biggest companies (like Wal-Mart) pressuring suppliers to go green, big investments in clean technologies, and new “stakeholders” like NGOs and activist shareholders asking very tough questions about how companies handle environmental and social issues.
Trying to figure out what it means for your business, but don’t have the time or tools to do so? Come to this lively talk by Andrew Winston, co-author of the best-selling new book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, and hear practical perspective from panelists representing companies large and small from the NYC area.
The Financial Times calls Green to Gold “a manual on how to turn your company into an eco-success, catching the current wave of consumer and government interest in saving the world from environmental catastrophe.”
Andrew will:
· Lay out the environmental pressures and powerful stakeholders driving the Green Wave;
·Explore the strategies and tools the world's best companies use to profit in this new, environmentally-sensitive world; and
·Share stories of how global leaders of top companies are making environmental stewardship a strategic competitive advantage.
Panelists will then provide perspective on how they are capitalizing upon eco-advantageous opportunities within their own firms.
Panelists include:
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Andrew will:
· Lay out the environmental pressures and powerful stakeholders driving the Green Wave;
·Explore the strategies and tools the world’s best companies use to profit in this new, environmentally-sensitive world; and
·Share stories of how global leaders of top companies are making environmental stewardship a strategic competitive advantage.
Panelists will then provide perspective on how they are capitalizing upon eco-advantageous opportunities within their own firms.
Panelists include:
Bruce Schlein, VP, Environmental Affairs, Citigroup
Mark Tercek, Managing Director, Environment, Goldman Sachs.
Miranda Magagnini, CoCEO, IceStone
Jacquelyn Ottman, author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation, will moderate.
SPEAKER
Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and helps leading companies use environmental thinking to drive growth. His current book Green to Gold highlights what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go "green." Andrew is a nationally recognized expert on green business, and has written for or appeared in Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Forbes, ABC News, National Public Radio, and CNBC's Power Lunch. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. Andrew is a Fellow of the Center for Business and Environment at Yale University. He holds a BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale.”,1] ); //–>Alice LeBlanc, Director of the Office of Environment and Climate Change, AIG
Bruce Schlein, VP, Environmental Affairs, Citigroup
Mark Tercek, Managing Director, Environment, Goldman Sachs.
Miranda Magagnini, CoCEO, IceStone
Jacquelyn Ottman, author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation, will moderate.
SPEAKER
Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and helps leading companies use environmental thinking to drive growth. His current book Green to Gold highlights what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go “green.” Andrew is a nationally recognized expert on green business, and has written for or appeared in Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Forbes, ABC News, National Public Radio, and CNBC’s Power Lunch. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. Andrew is a Fellow of the Center for Business and Environment at Yale University. He holds a BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale.
DATE & TIME
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Reception and networking begin at 6:00 p.m. (includes hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks). Program begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. Please be on time so that you may be seated at 6:30p.m. sharp!
PLACE
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom
4 Times Square Building
Entrance on W. 42nd St. at Broadway
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DATE & TIME
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Reception and networking begin at 6:00 p.m. (includes hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks). Program begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. Please be on time so that you may be seated at 6:30p.m. sharp!
PLACE
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom
4 Times Square Building
Entrance on W. 42nd St. at Broadway
REGISTRATION
Members $20.00: Nonmembers $30.00. Only those who preregister may attend. Seating is very limited.
Click here to buy tickets!!!
EVENT ORGANIZERS
Thanks to Jacquelyn Ottman of the Smith College Club of New York and Geoffrey Southworth of the Columbia Business School Club/NY for organizing this event.
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REGISTRATION
Members $20.00: Nonmembers $30.00. Only those who preregister may attend. Seating is very limited.
Click here to buy tickets!!!
EVENT ORGANIZERS
Thanks to Jacquelyn Ottman of the Smith College Club of New York and Geoffrey Southworth of the Columbia Business School Club/NY for organizing this event.
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