Campuses Scramble to Go Green--Sustainability Report Cards Rate Them

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.
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College sustainability report cards are coming out faster than we can report on them, with rankings from the Princeton Review, the Sierra Club, and now Green Report Card. They all aim to guide future college students in their quests to choose green campuses. The latest list from Green Report Card, The College Sustainability Report Card, is perhaps the most heartening yet, giving 53% of schools in the U.S. and Canada (176 out of 332 universities) a grade of B- or better. The Sierra Club rankings

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A Plea for More Critical Thinking in Design, Please

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Published Aug. 10, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
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Lately I've been thinking a lot about thinking. For reasons that are difficult for me to identify, it seems that the design industry lacks any real form of critical thinking. By that I mean a careful and deliberate analysis that's intended to identify genuine existing conditions, rather than the conditions that those with vested interests may want us to believe are true. Could be that the design industry isn't large enough to warrant professional critics, or that the market isn't great enough to

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Facebook's Popup Video Ads to Test Site's Ultimate Stickiness

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Published July 14, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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In June, U.S. Web users spent roughly 4.5 hours writing on Facebook walls, flipping through Facebook photos, and stalking total Facebook strangers, according to new data from Nielsen. That's more time than they logged on any other site, including Yahoo! (approx. 3.25 hours), Google (approx. 2.5 hours), and eBay (78 minutes) ... Now, Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are experimenting with an ad-viewer that will surely test this newfound loyalty. In the past, Facebook's video ads have been fixed on the

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Bucks hire Skiles

Published April 21, 2008 at 7:08 p.m.

The Bucks named Scott Skiles as coach, replacing Larry Krystkowiak, who was fired last week.

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Contest in Hot Pursuit of talented musicians

Published June 26, 2008 at 1:49 a.m.


The competition combines listener recommendations and judges evaluations to give emerging artists the mass exposure they want while situating their music in front of the industry labels they need.

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Room to roam

Published Jan. 17, 2008 at 7:51 p.m.

Like so many great things in this world, the inspiration came from a playful pack of puppies.

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