Day archives: March 27th, 2010

2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies

Ethisphere: “The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action. WME honorees demonstrate real and sustained ethical leadership within their industries, putting into real business practice the Institute’s credo of “Good. Smart. Business. Profit.” There is no set number of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

FDA Transparency Task Force

Resource page: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formed a task force to develop recommendations for making useful and understandable information about FDA activities and decision making more readily available to the public in a timely manner and in a user-friendly format. The Task Force is seeking public opinion on how to make the …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Government Documents

Political Considerations Another Facet of Google's Decision to Exit China

Follow up to Google Discontinues Censored Search in Mainland China and An Interview with David Drummond of Google about the company’s new policies in China, additional perspective as follows: New York Times, Google Searches for a Foreign Policy:”When Google announced last week that it would shut its censored online search service in China, it was …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

2006 Energy Consumption by Manufacturers – Data Tables

2006 Energy Consumption by Manufacturers–Data Tables — Mar 26, 2010: “The Energy Consumed as a Fuel by End Use tables have been incorporated in the current 2006 MECS data tables’ web page. These tables show how manufacturers use the major fuels, including electricity. End-uses shown include boiler fuel, process heat, machine drive, process cooling, and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Environment Yale: The Problem with Plastics

The Problem with Plastics, by Bruce Fellman. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies – Fall 2009 · Vol. 8, No. 2 “The molecules of concern in the plastics story are known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), and the two most-studied sources of EDCs are bisphenol A (BPA), a basic building block of hard, polycarbonate plastics …

Subjects: Knowledge Management