Several employees at the Quality Pork Processors plant in Austin who were initially denied workerscompensation for a mysterious neurological illness will be paid after all, attorneys said.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and leading expert in economic development, poverty elimination, and environmental sustainability, recently discussed his new book, "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.
A few weeks ago, PSFK attended LVHRD 's second PHTHRD event, a party-slash-competition showcasing the creations and realtime art-making processes of three photographers: Elizabeth Weinberg , Joseph Holmes, and Jonathan Harris . Each photographer was given a polaroid camera, 150
The Guardian music blog brings us an amusing story about the band CSS who have lost a member of their band because of environmental differences. Apparently their bass player, Ira Trevisan has quit because of concerns of her carbon footprint:
Kiva.org , as we've mentioned before , is the world's first peer-to-peer lending platform giving people the opportunity to help small businesses and entrepreneurs in developing companies through microfinancing loans. Now Advanta , the largest credit cart issuer in the
We recently met Raymond Roker of URB magazine when he popped by the PSFK Conference New York. We're big fans of the mag and their Next 100 issue about upcoming underground talent is of particular inspiration for us as we
Irvine-based email security appliance firm Sendio said Tuesday that the firm has added Penn State Hospitality Services, which provides Internet access for on-campus hotels at Penn State University, as a customer. Financial terms of the customer win were not announced.
San Diego-based Nirvanix is targeting current customers of Amazon's storage-as-a-service offering, Amazon S3, saying Tuesday that it will allow users to upload data to its service with no fees for the next 30 days. The company said that it wants
Santa Ana-based Digital Map Products, a provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and software, said Tuesday that it has signed on real estate website Zillow.com as a customer. According to DMP, Zillow.com will use the firm's enhanced parcel boundary
Nanopoint, Inc. has announced its strong network of Asian distributors who include DayMoon Industries of Korea;, DI Biotech LTD of Korea; JC Biotech of Korea; JK Bio of Delhi, India; Joagene BioScience of Korea, Quantum Design China of China; Quantum
As It Is, Inc., recently launched new artificial intelligence (AI)-based online tool TrueThinker.com that learns how members organize info; makes growing knowledge easier and faster. TrueThinker enables the creation of public and private communities to create, organize, and share knowledge.
A letter has just been published in The Open Civil Engineering Journal published by bentham.org -OCIEJ is a mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific engineering journal. This event is significant because the authors, Dr. Steven E. Jones, Dr. Frank M. Legge, Kevin R.
Los Angeles-based American Elements announced today the introduction to its new metal tube product group, a complete line of fully characterized round, oval, rectangular and square seamless tubing in diameters from 0.2 to 6.0 inches and wall thicknesses from 0.003
A new oil pipeline proposed in northern Minnesota is getting resistance from an unusual direction. Opponents say the large pipeline would contribute significantly to global warming -- not so much from the oil itself, but for how the oil is
