December 2008

Would Someone Please Check the Price of Bread in Connecticut? Another Zone Pricing Post

Michael Giberson Would someone please check current prices for bread in the towns of Greenwich, Port Chester, and Stamford, Connecticut? A December 23 story in the Greenwich Time notes the arrival, finally, of gasoline prices below $2/gallon in Greenwich, “after weeks of being surrounded by less-than-$2 in gas in municipalities such as Stamford and Port …

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Couple of “Food Miles” Items

Lynne Kiesling One topic that has gotten some attention in 2008 is “food miles”, or the estimate of the environmental impact of the total resource use and transportation required to get food from grower to consumer. One argument for eating more locally-produced food is that it reduces the transportation impact; however, in making that argument …

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The Blagojevich Saga: the Psychology of Power, and Rent-seeking

Lynne Kiesling Two items have kept my attention over the holidays with respect to the Blagojevich fiasco. First, back when the story first broke, our local NPR station interviewed my colleague Adam Galinsky on the psychology of power. Adam’s research is fascinating, and in this interview he communicates very effectively how positions of power affect …

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Merry Christmas, in Oleds!

Lynne Kiesling GE has been making lots of research progress on OLEDs, and they are celebrating the holiday season with a green OLED roll Christmas tree! Sure, it’s a little dorky, but imagine how these low-energy-per-lumen lights can transform our lighting, and our energy use to provide valuable lighting functions and services. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ] Merry happy …

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