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"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.   Read More

 Two companies have teamed up to turn some of the 50 million coconuts that fall every year into reusable packaging. Read More

In a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, one of my colleagues explained why he thinks corporate social responsibility is at best irrelevant and probably socially damaging. Yet when corporations blatantly work to cause government to fail in its task of solving collective problems, how can we not demand CSR? How can we not support environmental activists who work to hold such corporations accountable?   Read More

"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." -- T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 Read More

“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” -- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878. Read More

 U.K. retailer Waitrose has cut is meat packaging in half by removing trays and using plastic bags designed to be eaily opened. Read More

 A life cycle assessment of glass bottles - from raw material extraction to end of life uses - found that using recycled content offset some transportation emissions. Read More

Following on a pilot project tracking how much water the brewer uses to make a liter of beer in the Czech Republic and South Africa, SABMiller has worked with WWF to expand its research into Peru and Tanzania. Read More