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Trash To Treasure For Kids

According to the B’more Green blog, PBS is looking for creative kids and young inventors ages 5-19 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this April by participating in the 2010 Trash to Treasure competition. This award-winning series challenges contestants to recycle, reuse, and re-engineer everyday materials into new inventions. Three young innovators will […]

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10 Consumer Trends For 2010

Trendwatching.com has put together a list of 10 consumer trends for the new year. Business As Usual Forget the recession: the societal changes that will dominate 2010 were set in motion way before we temporarily stared into the abyss. Urbany Urban culture is the culture. Extreme urbanization, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and far beyond will

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Why Newspapers Are Failing

photo credit: Matt Callow Bill Wyman: The problem of the daily press in the U.S. is exclusively this: the collapse of its business model. That model used to be, plainly put, making money–a lot of money, oceans of money–delivering advertising on newsprint into peoples’ homes. Subscribers didn’t pay for news. Advertisers did. Remember “shoppers,” the

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Get On Oprah’s Radar

Inc.: Everyone knows the power of Oprah. Her following and influence make her the number one target of publicists, brand managers, and marketers alike. Her authority and persuasiveness is a cultural phenomenon. Everyone wants to be on her radar — from authors and doctors to creators of diets and psychologists — and not many get

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