Green Leaf Report

Unfortunately, the Exxon Mobil shareholders meeting in Dallas yesterday was unsuccessful in splitting the chairman and CEO roles, achieving only 39.5% of the vote.  Several shareholders groups are angry at Exxon Mobil’s lack of investment in alternative fuels, and think Exxon Mobil is short-sighted in its reliance on oil.  Shareholders - including members of the […]

When I bought my house about four years ago, we took advantage of the interest rate effect on home prices:  when interest rates are low, the monthly mortgage payment will be lower for a more expensive home. While the interest rate effect is established and known, a new factor coming into play is the […]

Recently President Bush mentioned a rise in the Indian middle class as a cause of the increasing food prices in the US.  The responses from India were pretty funny, and true  - how did our culture get to the point where so many people use surgery to remove the signs of overeating?
For instance, Pradeep […]

At a time when traditional technology firms, mortgage companies, home builders and more are laying off employees, wind energy, solar energy, and various alternative fuel companies are actively recruiting.  I see articles repeatedly touting green jobs as a great growth area.  But how do we balance the green industry growth opportunities with the risk […]

Sometimes the small things in life can be the most annoying. For example, when visiting the local cafeteria, why do they serve meals onto Styrofoam clamshell packages instead of onto washable, reusable plates?  A friend of mine asked one day, and was told: “We can’t use these Styrofoam containers in California anymore, so they […]

A coworker recently emailed me with a burning request - I’ve never heard an environmental word from her in all the years we’ve known each other, but it seems that she’s just snapped.  It was a very long email that she sent, but the gist of it was she and her husband are inundated […]

So President  Bush has been out stumping in Saudi Arabia asking them to pump out more of their non-renewable oil resources so that America can have temporarily lowered prices.  I guess if the Saudis complied, that plan would work for lowering prices at least until the Saudis ran out of oil and/or Bush was no […]

HP scientists have just made my electrical engineering degree obsolete with their proof of the existence of Memristors.  Thank goodness I sold my college textbooks long ago- I’m happy to see any breakthrough related to huge reductions in power requirements, though.  In theory, this memristor component holds memory without requiring power:
Building computers with Memristors might […]

 A while back I went to a women’s networking event and at the beginning we were asked our names, businesses and pet peeves. I thought at the time that this was an awfully negative way to start an event, but now I clearly remember some of those women and the things that bother them, so […]