This evening Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore delivered a keynote speech on the subject of innovation at the Fairmont San Jose. The occasion was the annual meeting of the $28 billion CPA firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu where about 300 of the most senior partners gather together from all over the world [...]

Africa, vast and varied, is on the
verge of extraordinary development.

Editor’s Note: China’s breathtaking transformation of their own country over the past couple of decades is accompanied by robust new Chinese enterprises all over the world. In this report on China’s activities in Africa, the Chinese are seen to be involved in infrastructure projects [...]

In Madagascar lives a creature that looks so bizarre it is no wonder that the local Malagasy and Sakalava people believe it to be a symbol of death. The menacing omen comes in the shape of an aye-aye: Its piercing orange eyes, bony fingers, large incisors and bat-like ears definitely give this nocturnal primate a [...]

Few would dispute the benefits unions have brought to society, especially through about the middle of the last century. But the inspirational work of leaders from Mary Harris Jones to Cesar Chavez is used to obscure the reality in the 21st century – that in most states in America, unions in the public sector [...]

What if a wind turbine didn’t have a gearbox and electric generator in the nacelle, but instead a highly efficient air pump that sent compressed air down a pipe and into a storage network? That is the vision of General Compression, a privately held Massachussetts company that raised $8.1 million from 70 investors in [...]