Consumer priorities. Evolving attitudes to the environment/interest groups. Product knowledge and labelling. Changing view of luxury and subsequent consumption patterns. How Isolation Damages Youngsters’ Developing Brains | 80beats. Flexible Dwelling That Adapts With Your Changing Lifestyle. International food chain Dunkin’ Donuts has recently announced a multi-year advertising agreement with NBA star LeBron James to endorse its products in China. In addition to the sweet glazed treats, the company will also introduce savory shredded pork donuts to cater to local tastes. Nigel Travis, CEO at Dunkin’ Brands Group, explained that: Donuts are a very flexible product. You can do savory donuts, you can do donuts with shredded pork – that’s in China. We also have a range of other savory products that we have been testing and introducing country by country. Currently, Dunkin’ Donuts has over 150 stores in China and plans to open another 100 stores in the next two to three years.
Dunkin’ Donuts. The Oil Silo Home: A Vision For Post-Petroleum Living. When Eric Tan and his partners in the architecture collective PinkCloud set out to design a sustainable living space, they knew they wanted to avoid new construction. So they started looking for existing structures that could be repurposed. “We set out to find an object that was abundant, large enough to fit a few families, and available for cheap,” says Tan. The result is the Oil Silo Home. According to Tan’s estimate, there are 49,000 spherical oil silos at refineries worldwide. They’re currently used to store liquefied petroleum gas. But if (or, perhaps, when) we shift away from fossil fuels, we may have a sizeable surplus. Each Oil Silo Home is divided into three separate units--one designed for a young couple, another for a family of four, and a “multigenerational” unit for six. PinkCloud designed the Oil Silo Home to create more energy than it uses, with solar panels, natural lighting, and passive heating and cooling.
If the idea seems far-fetched, well, perhaps it is. News Centre. Lloyds takes back £2m of bonuses paid to executives. 20 February 2012Last updated at 14:44 Lloyds is the first UK bank to reduce bonuses following a worse-than-expected performance Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it is cutting £2m from bonuses paid to 13 executives, including the former chief executive Eric Daniels.
Mr Daniels will lose £580,000 after his original £1.45m bonus was cut by 40%. Bonuses for another four directors will be cut by £190,000 to £260,000, while a further eight executives will receive about £100,000 less. They are being penalised for the bank's mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). In theory, PPI covered repayments if borrowers were unable to keep them up, promising help during illness or unemployment, but in many cases, those taking out the policies would not have been eligible to claim on them. Lloyds has been forced to set aside £3.2bn to cover compensation for those customers who were mis-sold PPI. The cut will be made by reducing the amounts already awarded in deferred shares. Results. Most print newspapers in the States have only a five-year life span | Media. Most print newspapers in the United States will be gone in five years according to a new academic study. The report, Is America at a digital turning point? , is due to be released next month by the University of Southern California's Annenberg centre for the digital future.
But the centre's director, Jeffrey Cole, has released its highlights, which are based on 10 years of studies. He says: "Circulation of print newspapers continues to plummet, and we believe that the only print newspapers that will survive will be at the extremes of the medium – the largest and the smallest. " He argues that only four major American dailies will continue in print form: the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Cole says: "The impending death of the American print newspaper continues to raise many questions. Will media organisations survive and thrive when they move exclusively to online availability? That said, Cole's report requires attention. FuturistSpeaker.com – A Study of Future Trends and Predictions by Futurist Thomas Frey. Waste Not: Can One Dog Poop-Powered Lamp Spark a Revolution? Want to save the planet with your dog's doo?
Read on. When Matthew Mazzotta visited a Cambridge, MA, dog park with a friend, he noticed the trash can stuffed with bags of poop. The sight sparked inspiration; Mazzotta, an M.I.T. graduate, had been studying methane digesters for several years. On a trip to India he even watched people fuel methane stoves with dog doo to make chai tea. "With every bag of poop you tie off, you're cutting off its supply of oxygen and thus making a mini methane digester," explains Mazzotta. This revelation led to his Park Spark Project , a gas-burning lamppost powered by the first Dog Park Methane Digester in the United States. Basically, people at the park are prompted to use biodegradable bags supplied on site to pick up their dog's poop and deposit it into a big tank. The small pipe coming off the digester brings the methane to the gas-burning lamppost.
Why Dog Doo is a Big Deal Finding Better Bags Community Matter(s) Composting began in late spring 2009. Want to limit aggression? Practice self-control! Public release date: 8-Mar-2012 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Lucy Hydelhyde@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300Association for Psychological Science Feeling angry and annoyed with others is a daily part of life, but most people don't act on these impulses. What keeps us from punching line-cutters or murdering conniving co-workers? Self-control. Criminologists and sociologists have long believed that people commit violent crimes when an opportunity arises and they're low on self-control.
A psychological scientist can deplete someone's self-control by telling the subject they're not allowed to take one of the cookies sitting in front of them. On the other hand, it's also possible to practice self-control the same way you would practice the piano. "I think, for me, the most interesting findings that have come out of this is that if you give aggressive people the opportunity to improve their self-control, they're less aggressive," Denson says. . [ Print | E-mail.