"I will be mighty surprised if this is not a big scam," said Dennis out loud to this friends, in a voice that he made as hoarse as possible for effect. "What is not, Den?" asked Melissa his co-worker. This was not the first time Den thought something was a scam; in...

Another rejection. A politely worded one - unlike many brusque and sometimes even insensitive ones earlier - but a rejection all the same. Bruce was not the one to give up easily. In fact, his family, friends and his professors at college had nicknamed him NSD Bruce -...

Salim had always considered himself as belonging to the innovator end in the spectrum that management consultants reverently referred to as the Laggard Innovator Spectrum of Adoption - or LISA as someone with a short memory had had mnemonicised it. A man buys...

One man's fame is another man's toil. You can ask Morgan, or Engineer Morgan as he always referred himself to. An energy efficiency project is proposed to a large engineering company that requires installing new machinery and equipment that can bring down energy use...

The earth is - almost - round, and it spins. There is little any of us can anything about these, unless we happen to belong to the family of Elon Musk. A multinational business process company with operations across the world claims that they run a 24/7 operation...

Sheila Marcos was one of the most famous names in Philippines. And not because she had one of the most prominent names that the country knew - though she never mentioned, unless really pushed that she had nothing to do with the erstwhile First Family. A movie...

A city administration, based on a pitch by one of the scientists, decides to capture every bit of energy from their roads and highways.  To this end, they put up wind turbines, noise to energy and heat to energy conversion equipment on all sides of roads to capture...

Lewis found it difficult to call it a promotion. Lewis, a capable bureaucrat in a country, is posted in the renewable energy department, and he does so exceedingly well that the country’s renewable energy penetration increases from 2% to 20% within two years. The...

It almost never pays foe a rich country to have a poor neighbour. A study shows that the CO2 emissions in a country are not evenly spread. The top 10% wealthy of the country emitted 90% of all emissions by individuals. In order to correct this imbalance, the finance...

"Say that again," said Stan Ackney, Dean of the Anthropology Department at Stanford University. "Hadzabe," said Dan Miller, the fast rising faculty in the department. "So this is a tribe that has not been yet touched by civilization?" "Civilization as we define it,"...